The Camelot Journal

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from February 11, 1996:

We have a two-part question. First, why Hatonn has been overshadowing our group and why Carla felt the need to challenge Hatonn a few sessions ago, and, secondly, could you give us the principle why the seniority of incarnation by vibration is in effect? It rewards those who have done spiritual work successfully but makes it more difficult for those who have not been successful. Even that which they have is taken away, and the lessons become more difficult. If you can’t do the first set of lessons well then it seems unlikely that more difficult lessons will be done well either. When we feel eager to grow and yet there are restrictions around us does that mean blockages from other lives or is that the nature of this illusion to have restrictions around one even when ready and eager to grow?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle of Q’uo. We greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. It is a privilege and a blessing, as always, to move among the harmonizing energies of your circle and to share with you in the desire to seek the truth. We happily share our opinions with you with the one request that each keep the powers of personal discrimination sharp and allow only those of our thoughts which find an answering recognition in your hearts to stay with you and to allow the rest to float away on the wind.

We shall deal with these several questions in part separately. We shall speak concerning the instrument’s question about those known to you as Hatonn. The principle which speaks through this instrument, as each knows, is a created collaboration between those of the social memory complex known to you as Ra and that known to you as Latwii. This combined fifth and sixth-density vibration was that which was called to your group at the time of this instrument’s reception of our signal. However, as the one known as B made a decision to establish the residence in order to be a part of this group, week by week, there was a call for the compassion and loving attention which the ones of Hatonn so beautifully personify.

This is the adjusted balance which we feel shall be the appropriate mixing of information and that which you have no real word for in your language that we can find, but that this instrument would call the emotional tone. The call for the one known as Hatonn had been such that it was always, shall we say, aware of these transmissions, for it has a long established contact with this group. However, we have been pleased with the way the new blending of energies matches the call of your particular group as it is made up at this time. The portion of this collaboration which speaks through this instrument is the voice of Latwii. However, both those of Hatonn and those of Ra are able to share in the process of creating that which we offer this instrument.

The perception that this instrument has had of the ones known as Hatonn is, in our opinion, a sign of this instrument’s fastidiousness. We are pleased that this instrument is careful and does challenge those energies and essences which she perceives, whether or not she grasps the reason for their approaching your circle of seeking. We would commend this instrument for its care in attempting to retain a precise tuning. This is greatly appreciated by us.

There were two questions for this session, and the first one was: “First, why Hatonn has been overshadowing our group and why Carla felt the need to challenge Hatonn a few sessions ago?” Q’uo began by saying that Hatonn was a contact that had been channeled by Carla for many years, but that it was those of the fifth density of Latwii that served as the voice for Q’uo and the sixth density of Ra that were the principle of Q’uo. They also said that when B moved to this area and became a member of this meditation group it was his appreciation of the loving nature of Hatonn that called for Hatonn to be present in these sessions. Then Q’uo said that they appreciated Carla’s challenging of the ones of Hatonn as they joined this group at this session, for such fastidiousness in sensing their presence was always helpful.

As an aside to this question and answer I would like to share my experience in working with the Q’uo channelings, that began in January of 1986, and so far I have gotten to the end of 1995, where there has never been a clear statement of which social memory complexes were part of the principle of Q’uo, and in this session all three social memory complexes of Hatonn, Latwii, and Ra are mentioned, but Hatonn is only referred to as an occasional portion of Q’uo. However, on November 28, 2004, Hatonn, Latwii, and Ra are all mentioned as the three social memory complexes that created the principle of Q’uo from Q’uo’s beginning:

T1: We know that Q’uo is composed of three entities in the Confederation, and I would like to know if there is a major speaker, speaking. Thank you.

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. We are composed, as you said, of three groups, one of fourth density, one of fifth density, and one of sixth density, in this instrument’s and our way of describing our relative position and experience. This particular principle was created because this particular instrument has a certain way of tuning and preparing for contact with the Confederation entities. She prays for contact with the highest and best contact that she may handle in a stable and conscious manner. It is a very precise request. The entity whom she tended to receive upon making this prayer, prior to her contact with those of the Ra group, was the Latwii group, and she had received those of Latwii fairly consistently for several years before experiencing the trance contact with those of the Ra group.

As each within this circle is aware, the contact with those of Ra was a very narrow-band contact which was only possible during that window of opportunity when the ones known as Don, Jim, and Carla were all in the circle, and when the one known as Don passed from this third-density experience, the possibility of further contact with this particular entity was ended.

However, this instrument continued to tune and pray in the same manner, and those of Latwii and others within the Confederation, including those of Hatonn, and those of Ra, felt that perhaps the creation of a principle would best respond to this instrument’s very real desire for the highest and best contact of which she was capable. Since those of Ra could not speak with this instrument in a conscious and stable manner, there was no possibility for that social memory complex being the speaker. However, both those of Hatonn and those of Latwii had previously enjoyed sharing the thoughts of those of Ra in a teach/learning circle, and the three groups decided that they would blend into one principle, with the ones known as Hatonn being responsible simply for projecting a vibration of love, of which I feel sure that each of you is aware as we speak. The ones known as Latwii took the responsibility for speaking to this instrument, and the ones known as Ra were part of the process of defining just how to respond to the question that was presented to the principle of Q’uo. So, as those of Q’uo speak, it is those of Latwii who are creating the concepts which this instrument receives and translates into words.

So, my best guess is that perhaps it took between 10 and 18 years for those of Hatonn, Latwii, and Ra to decide to work together as the principle of Q’uo, but that seems like much too long of a time for this kind of a decision to be made by these three social memory complexes.

This instrument requests that we move on to the other topics at this time, and so we shall. The subject of seniority by vibration is a concept which is easily misperceived by one who is attempting to think upon it in a logical manner. This is due to the improper emphasis which your culture places upon the direction of catalytic energy. The principle of seniority of incarnation by vibration is simply that as an entity takes hold of those gifts, talents, and resources with which it entered the incarnational experience and works to maximize the giving of those gifts through the manner of living the efforts and intentions to serve and to offer the perceived gifts as fully as possible, it creates a rhythm of learning, changing, consolidating, and preparing for more learning. This cycle, once perceived by an entity, can be cooperated with by that entity, thereby doubling and redoubling the polarity of the incarnational experience and the efficiency of processing the catalyst received.

This process has virtually nothing to do with the Earthly values. That is, the lessons given for which the gifts are prepared are lessons in loving, in becoming more able to accept love, in the patience that is love’s steely center, and so forth. These are Earthly gifts, but in spiritual terms they move towards the metaphysical processes of spiritual evolution so that the entity which gazes at the world scene and attempts to make sense of the gifts that it has been given with regard to the world scene will surely be confused and stymied, for those things which are accomplished in the career, the working of the daily job, and so forth, are those actions which take place upon the surface of the illusion, whereas the spiritual work is being done through these everyday experiences but tending towards the building not of a worldly success but of the what the one known as B called the discipline of the personality.

So, one who has gained seniority by vibration is one who has taken those gifts that it was given and has attempted wholeheartedly to use them in order to work upon those inner lessons of love, patience, mercy, and compassion. These are the actual riches to be gleaned from the Earthly illusion. The purifying of emotion, the cleansing of the processes of perception—these are the work that tends towards seniority by vibration. These gifts may seem to express in many manifestations, many fruits of labor, many accomplishments, yet the actual vibration of the entity experiencing these processes is the thing at question.

For instance, the one known as B pointed out that while inwardly this entity is experiencing a fairly rapid expansion of the array of tools consciously realized and recognized, its outer experience has been one of needing to be the youngest, the least experienced, and so forth. In Earthly terms the atmosphere of work conducted under these restrictions seems completely against the rhythm of the expansion of consciousness, and yet it is in working with the guise of humility while remaining able to keep the expanded viewpoint that shall make a difference in the entity’s vibration, not any success of an outer nature that could change that vibration, but rather the work done while the outer illusion dances merrily by. This is the heart of the work.

So, gazing upon the outer circumstances and making judgments is guaranteed to be an exercise in folly, metaphysically speaking, for the illusion is designed specifically to confuse and trap the intellect in such a way that eventually it must give up the attempt to make sense of the illusion. We are aware that this group is desirous of serving to the very, very best of its capacity, and we feel that this is the intention to be encouraged, that the attempt personally and the attempt as a group to share in love and service is the heart of that which shall indeed speed the processes of the spiritual evolution of each. For when there is the group that gathers together there is the additional energy generated by the combination of the entities which, as each in this group is already aware, is an energy that is doubled and redoubled far beyond simply the addition of one entity to another.

We are pleased with this group that offers itself in service at this time in terms of its sincere and honest attempt to be the best it can be. We can assure each that the world scene offers a story that has its most helpful points fairly well hidden in the folds of many and various details. It is almost impossible to dwell within the dream and know what lies beyond that dream. This is your situation at this time. This is not a situation we encourage you to escape. This is your appropriate position, not to know or to understand why destiny has offered this lesson or that but rather to gaze at that moment that is the present and to look with complete attention at the wonder, the depth, the infinity of that moment. Love lies within each and every moment of this infinite creation. If the seeking soul can keep its eyes upon that love, if the fainting heart and the overtired brain can remember that love, then the work which will encourage seniority is being done to the best of your capacity.

We encourage each to love, respect and enjoy the dream life that is the incarnation in the shadow world of Earthly life, yet not to expect it necessarily to make sense. We suggest that each not be fooled by what the world view may think in terms of the station you hold in life or what is actually going on. We encourage instead that living desire to seek, to love, to serve. Taste the keenness of hope. Rest in the fullness of faith, and keep the eyes upon the goal, and that goal is the realization of love.

Then Q’uo said that the incarnation by seniority of vibration was using the gifts of the pre-incarnative plan for learning lessons within the incarnation as a means of creating a rhythm of living and serving, that doubles and redoubles the polarizing of its consciousness by using its catalyst. Q’uo continued by saying that these lessons were focused on learning to give and receive love which aids spiritual evolution by using the daily catalyst in a deeper sense and is called the discipline of the personality. Then Q’uo said that the seniority by vibration is increased as one is able to purify their emotions and cleanse their experiences which allows the expanding of the viewpoint spiritually while remaining humble as the outer illusion dances merrily by, and this is the heart of the great work. Q’uo went on to say that attempting to make judgements by looking at the outer experiences was useless in the metaphysical sense because the illusion is designed to confuse the seeker, so they recommended that seekers join together in groups so that each could aid each other in a manner that doubles and redoubles the effectiveness of the seeking process. Q’uo said that it is necessary for us to accept the fact that we cannot know or understand why destiny has brought the variety of situations for us to learn from, so we need to look for love that rests in the infinity of the present moment and to keep the faith that finding that love and being of service to others is the goal of our spiritual journey. On March 7, 2020, Q’uo spoke of the value of faith in pursuing our spiritual journey:

The faith that all shall work out fine is that which is the foundation stone upon which each seeker may build the spiritual journey, for there are no mistakes for any spiritual seeker. Each seeker grows and changes according to an individual rhythm of expression of intelligent energy or the light of the One Creator. Each seeker has the opportunity and the ability to accelerate this path or type of movement along the spiritual journey as it becomes more aware of how faith and will can use the moment to grow. Each moment is pregnant with possibilities. Each moment has a variety of layers of opportunity that can be utilized, if the will of the seeker is strong enough to investigate beyond previous investigations.

If the desire, the will, and the faith are utilized by the seeker in a conscious fashion (so that there is the potential for greater growth, and is seen by the seeker to be a potential that resides within its own being), then the seeker can take this faith, this desire, this will, and apply it to any present moment. So, the fruits of the moment may be more evident to the seeker, and the seeker will not only be fed physically in a manner which propels the body forward, but can be fed spiritually, mentally, and emotionally in a similar fashion, so that there is food aplenty for each portion of the seeker’s spiritual anatomy, shall we say. Thus, the seeker itself can determine the rate of progress in its own spiritual journey, according to how it applies its desire and its will, encompassed within the larger facility of faith.

We would at this time continue this transmission through the one known as Jim. We leave this instrument with thanks in the love and the light. We are Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and in light through this instrument. At this time, as is our custom with this group, we would offer ourselves to those who may yet have a query for us. Is there a query at this time?

Carla: At the meeting last week I experienced great flows of energy which just went storming up my spine and falling like cascades of water off my head, my fingers, and toes. It went on for most of the night, and it was delightful. I couldn’t actually do anything with it, and I felt it was coming from B. I feel better when he is around. Could you say anything about it? Is there something you can say as to why it occurs? How can we offer it in a balanced way?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We have some difficulty in speaking directly to this query, for there is the experience which is unusual that has a significance for the growth of at least one entity within this circle of seeking. The experience of the energy moving through your physical vehicle is the experience that has been made available both by the receptivity of your vehicle, its ability to respond to the desire you have shown for a new beginning, and the energies in this circle that have been opened to you through this desire.

There has been the choice upon your part to restrict certain activities and to adopt a new attitude. You, by this choice, have made available the opportunity for assistance, shall we say, from in your estimation any source which offers itself in service. Thus, the one known as B has been available for adding his own energies to this circle of seeking by his own choice, and, through this mutual making of choices, has come the opportunity for each to be available for the further energizing of this group’s seeking in these meditations, each choosing to give and receive that which is most appropriate for each at this time.

We find that beyond this point of our speaking lies information which must at this time remain unspoken due to our desire to maintain the free will of all.

Is there any further query to which we may speak, my sister?

Carla: Yes. I’ll ask Aaron about previous lifetimes, and I imagine that he will be glad to speak about that. I had some feelings that I probably, if this was a balanced energy exchange, then B was probably getting energy also, but it was of a different type, and this was probably the inspirational kind of energy—or “new motherboard,” as he called it—being set up. Am I thinking along balanced lines here?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. As we spoke previously there is interesting information available which is of somewhat the nature you have mentioned and does include the feeling of the one known as B that there is a new foundation, shall we say, upon which to build the remaining incarnation, and this new beginning has aided in your own energizing as well. Beyond this point we find a difficulty in speaking further for the aforementioned reasons.

Carla: Yes, let me ask in a slightly different way and see if I can get an answer. Are we doing everything that we can to offer this energy clearly and in a balanced manner?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We feel that you have been most conscientious in attempting to balance and use these newfound energies, and will find further refinements available.

Is there any further query, my sister?

Carla: No, I am done. Thank you very much.

I am Q’uo, and again we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

B: I am curious about Hatonn’s calling to this particular group. I am curious as to the origination of the call. Was it a call resulting from the blending of the energies of this particular group?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. The call was the addition of your presence to this circle in a more, shall we say, stabilized manner. It is those of Hatonn’s estimation that the compassion that they have to offer by their very nature is a quality which would be helpful to your own beingness. Thus, they have responded with their presence.

Is there any further query, my brother?

B: No, not at this time. Thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you, my brother. Is there another query?

R: Was it the same when I joined the circle? I am curious.

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. It is the case, my brother, that when entities who seek the ability to give and receive that quality of love that is most closely aligned with compassion that the entities of Hatonn respond, for it is their hallmark that is able to meet most sufficiently the desire of a new member to feel the inspiration and the compassion together in the kind and quality of messages offered by Confederation contacts in this group, this call which was indeed offered by your presence in this circle some time previously and which those of Hatonn were happy to offer.

Is there a further query, my brother?

R: No. Thank you. I greet the brothers and sisters of Hatonn.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you as well, my brother. Is there another query at this time?

[Side one of tape ends.]

B: [Question not recorded.]

I am Q’uo, and we are gratified, my brother, that you have found a home within this circle of seeking, for we and those of Hatonn value beyond measure each entity which chooses to work in a conscious fashion in a group such as this one, for it is by such combined efforts that each progresses most rapidly in the gaining of the service-to-others polarity. Thus, we join you in the feeling of gratitude.

Is there any further query at this time?

B: No, not from me. Thank you.

I am Q’uo. In closing, then, we would thank each entity present for blending their vibrations into this circle of seeking, for the energies of each present, though at this circle somewhat lower than usual, are yet a glorious sight to behold from our point of view. Such energies may be seen for their variety, their intensity, and their brilliance.

At this time we shall take our leave of this instrument and this group, leaving each, as always, in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I went outside and spread the eight bales of pine straw on two sides of the Wuthering Heights Mound, the three Azalea bushes by the sidewalk in front of the house, around the Snowball Hydrangeas in front of the house, and around the azaleas that surround the back deck on two sides in back of the house.

This afternoon I blew the leaves from the Tulip Poplar tree behind the bird feeder and the Sycamore tree in the Moss Garden in the back yard into a pile and put them in five garbage cans for yard waste pickup.

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

September 4

The Deep Ache For Love

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

The branches of intellect seem to many to be those holding the most fruit. And, indeed, that vine of connected thoughts grows sturdily and well in the environment of the everyday world. Yet the Spirit of Love is most often found within the homelier, seemingly mundane details of work and play.

How do you apprehend the Love of the living God? With your thoughts? With your heart? Or with an ache so profound that it can be said to come from the roots of being? In this deep ache lies the yearning of Love for Love, for each of you is divine, the son or daughter of the living God. May you seek well and without pride for words or deeds but with that divine growing hunger of Love for itself.

We leave you in changeless 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 February 4, 1996:

The question this week has to do with the possibility that it might be as hard for service-to-others oriented people to accept the love offerings of others as it is to give love in service to others. In fact, many of us have the feeling that we like to be able to reciprocate in kind as soon as possible when somebody helps us out and gives us a helping hand because we want to be sure that we give more than we receive, that what we really want to do is to give. So, we would like to have some comments from Q’uo or anyone from the Confederation on giving and receiving and the importance of each, the difficulties of each, the advantages and anything you would care to say.

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo and we greet you warmly after a winter’s holiday. We have enjoyed gazing at the scene among your peoples as the gift-giving and resolution-making of your culture’s ways had their merry rhythms and rippled outward through the deep mind of your, shall we say, racial and planetary minds, creating light and space and leavening the whole with good vibrations. Your peoples are capable of the greatest degree of love and kindness and we rejoice in seeing that in that season when those things are hoped for, they also occur.

As we come to you, we bring many thanks, as always, for your careful asking of us. The opportunity to share our opinions with you is an enormously profitable one for us, for we are able to be of service to you and we truly do give that service with a whole heart and an unreserved love for each of you and for the light that each comes to and yet brings within him or her to this circle of seeking. We ask you only one thing and that is not to take our advice as gospel, for it is only the thoughts of your neighbors, and we are glad to share them, but we must tell you that we often err, and when in error we do not know it, else we would have not done it. So, take those thoughts from us that ring with the peculiar inner ring of recognition that is reserved for your own personal truth and leave the rest behind.

This instrument just told me that she felt like W. C. Fields in getting a drink from her inside jacket pocket. We thought that was worthy, so we passed it on. This instrument is saying to us, “Hello, Laitos,” and we say, “Hello, dear one.” We also say from Hatonn, “Hello, dear ones.”

Now to your topic of the day, which is receiving the love offerings of others. Ah, my children, how you will laugh when you rise from the safe confusion in which you now play and amuse yourselves and look back upon the giving and the receiving that you have done within this Earth world that you call your home. It will surprise you to some extent, but perhaps not, for perhaps you already suspect that things are not as they seem.

We invoke the one known as Don’s “180-degree rule.” Receiving the love offerings of others is the greatest gift you can give and is won by giving in service to others. When you reach the point at which there is no difference between receiving and giving absolute and unreserved love, then shall you be ready to learn the ways of wisdom. Until then, you must learn these lessons that seem so opposite: how to serve others, how to accept service from others. Yet are you not looking in a mirror when you gaze upon another? Is that entity not looking at the Creator when he gazes back at you? Is this not the essence of your being?

Now, let us look at the values of your culture. The emphasis is always upon that which carries what this instrument calls the green energy of money. Some have more; some have less. Needless to say, this is an illusion, for all things belong to the one infinite Creator, and as you give and as you receive, you are simply moving the energy around.

This instrument is fond of saying, “Keep the energy flowing; don’t resist.” This is an excellent piece of advice. When it is time to accept love, learn, my children, to say, “thank you” with an open heart and a clear mind. The reciprocity is in accepting love without reservation or any evasion that would create an invulnerability between you and the other self.

Similarly, when you give, give wholeheartedly, and you shall experience that event as if you were being fed by heavenly food. You see, it is not money, or places, or times, or any event, or object, or any occurrence whatever that is given or received, for what is actually occurring is you are a thought. That thought is Love unreserved, complete, utter, and whole. This Love chose to manifest itself and created Light. That Light in all of its rotations and degrees has built the universe in its infinity, and all that you see and all that you are is Light. All manifestation is Light in heavier and heavier outer garments.

Yes, but always each iota carries the signature of the one original Thought, which is Love. All you give is Love. All you receive is Love. The rest is masks, symbols and placeholders. So, gird your loins to accept with joy when it is time to accept and to give with equal joy when it is time to give and know that what you give, you give to yourself and what you receive is what you have given away. All is balanced in the one infinite moment which is all that there is in reality.

So, we would like to have some comments from Q’uo or anyone from the Confederation on giving and receiving and the importance of each, the difficulties of each, the advantages and anything you would care to say. Q’uo began by saying that giving love and receiving love are basically the same because when we receive love, we are giving the gift of receiving it from the one who gives it since the Creator is within each one of us, and is both giving and receiving at the same time. They said that when we are ready to accept love that we should accept it with a whole heart and a clear mind so that we keep the energy open between us and the giver. Likewise, they said that when we give, we should do so with a whole heart that would feel like we were being fed heavenly food because we are actually a thought, and: “That thought is Love unreserved, complete, utter, and whole. This Love chose to manifest itself and created Light. That Light in all of its rotations and degrees has built the universe in its infinity, and all that you see and all that you are is Light.” Then Q’uo said that all that we give and receive is also Love, so when it is time to give, we should give with joy, and when it is time to receive, we should receive with joy so that all would be balanced in the present moment of infinity. On September 27, 1981, Hatonn said that giving and receiving were the same thing:

My friends, there is no way that you can refrain from accepting service and being of service. You are interlocked and meshed in the tapestry of giving and receiving, and it takes a great deal of effort to refrain from the realization of all that you receive and all that you may give. We are sad to report that among your peoples it is not uncommon for people to realize that they are receiving gifts from others, but it is very common for people to refrain from the realization that they have many gifts to give and that they are giving those gifts without effort, without trying, with their very existence.

For each of you, my friends, like a flower is beautiful, and radiant, and perfect, and although you may not see yourself in this light, there are those who do, and who find in each of you an inspiration of thought, of feeling that that person needs and realizes, although you have no consciousness of being of service.

My friends, the beginning of service comes before you are even aware of the process, as each of you is inevitably of service to others in your behavior, in your actions, in your thoughts. Thus, perhaps, before you try so very hard to learn the ways of service, it may be a good beginning to give thanks to the love that is within you, that unifies you with all that there is and that creates in you a heart that receives and gives back that love in so many ways, with so many devices, that your life is a flowing tapestry of the giving and the receiving of service. Never, my friends, are you out of touch with the life of service. In your most selfish or secluded moment, you are but pausing and learning, adding your sums wrongly and thinking again, for the essence of your life is love, and it is out of your hands. You, like the flower, will glow, according to your nature and those about you will realize the love within you, without effort, without trying, without pain.

Because this instrument has somewhat low energy due to inconveniences of the physical type, we would at this time terminate this part of the working and request perhaps two or three short queries that the energy not drop too low. We thank this instrument as we leave it in love and in light. We are those of Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and in light through this instrument. We would at this time offer ourselves for those queries that may be present upon your minds. May we begin with a query?

Carla: I would like to ask if you have any advice to give me as I go into a mode which is not my natural mode, for I don’t want to use my right hand for absolutely anything. I’m having real problems with that.

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. The choice which you have made to have the surgical procedure upon the right hand is one which has the hoped-for result of aiding the further functioning of this appendage, and it is quite understandable that the desire to serve and to function as a servant would continue even though the hand would be incapacitated, and wisdom lies on the side of its rest rather than any use. So, our first suggestion is that you see yourself and your response as one of normalcy.

Secondly, we would suggest that you provide for yourself a reminder that this hand is to remain inactive. Perhaps you could carry a pencil in this hand and let that pencil remind you, upon any attempted use of this appendage, that it is to remain at rest. Any reminder would be helpful; one that you carry with you continually would be most helpful.

Is there any further query?

Carla: [Inaudible]

We are Q’uo, and we again thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

Questioner: I just noticed that you sound a little different today. The image that came to me usually feels like a brother or sister in the circle, and today it was more like an old, kind uncle sitting next to the fireplace with kids around it, with a beard, speaking, and I wonder if it is my perception or it there is some different energy mixed into it.

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. We of Q’uo offer our vibrations as a blending of your own, so that each in the circle adds to that which is the shared vibration of our work as all entities change and move. As their own seasons change and move there is a blend between us that, though familiar from session to session, also has alternating characteristics, if you will, so that that which we experience is a function of the totality of ourselves. This being, as all beings, changes and grows according to its own rhythms. There are times when each within the circle is perhaps more sensitive to these changes, to the basic nature of the sharing that we undertake, each with the other at these workings.

Thus, the experience of this session of working is likened to a microcosmic view of that which is the larger experience of the incarnation. Each incarnation has its own rhythms and is affected by all that one experiences. Each entity will have the opportunity to open itself to new experiences of itself experiencing all experience. Thus, upon the river of consciousness each of us rides and shares that which is uniquely ours to give and to receive that which is uniquely another’s. We are always honored to partake in this sharing.

Is there a final query at this time?

Questioner: I have expressed to the members of this circle of seeking how I feel that this is an entirely new life, my coming up here and the way I feel within myself and what I experience, etc. I feel that I have been given a great gift, if you will, almost as if I’m starting all over in thinking. And I was wondering if you’d care to comment on that, or if you have any advice?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. It is said among your peoples that each day is a new beginning. And, indeed, this is so, yet some beginnings are larger than others, for as we spoke previously, each entity has cycles and seasons of growth, of harvest, of quiet time, of renewal, of beginning again this great cycle of experiencing the one Creator in many forms and yet seeing how all dissolves to one concept or quality called love.

As you begin this, which for you has been an obvious new beginning, our only suggestion is the suggestion which we would make to all entities at all times—that is to give praise and thanksgiving, for that which is all seasons and all cycles, all experience, whether that which you call good or that which you call bad, difficult or easy, happy or sad, will pass away. And yet all will dissolve into this quality of love. And it is this unifying energy of love which seeks to express itself at all times and in all guises.

Thus, for one who begins a new journey, there is love. For one who ends a long journey, there is love. For one who feels confusion in the midst of what seems like a difficult journey, there is love. To be able to accept that which is in one’s incarnation at the time of the experience is love revealed.

May we speak in any further way, my brother?

Questioner: [Inaudible]

I am Q’uo, and we are most honored and filled with joy at the opportunity of talking with you and welcoming you in this circle of seeking, for we are always glad to welcome what may seem to be a new friend and yet what may be an old friend to our common circle of seeking.

At this time we will take our leave of this group and of this instrument, for we do not wish to overextend the one known as Carla, leaving each, as always, in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I added the Pondfix solution to my fishpond to aid in achieving water clarity. Then I changed out the sugar syrup in my three hummingbird feeders and in my neighbor across the street’s two feeders. Then I spread the two bags of topsoil next to the bird bath in the back yard and place the fossils and geodes on the fresh topsoil.  Then I made an errand run with my first stop being the Post Office to mail a birthday gift to a friend of mine. My second stop was at Feeder’s Supply to buy some cat food and kitty litter for Bosco. My last stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought some food for myself and seven bales of pine straw. When I got home I continued weeding my gardens by hand and was able to complete the Yellow Creeping Jenny garden in the back yard, the gardens around the fishpond, and the Wuthering Heights Garden in the front yard.

This afternoon I transplanted the Sun Patiens and a few of the Begonias that I bought yesterday into the Snapdragon Garden next to the Flower Fall Mound in the front yard. Then I transplanted the second tray of Begonias in the flower garden in the middle of the Moss Garden.

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

September 3

The Gift Of Peace

I am the most sacred Spirit of the consciousness of Jesus the Christ, and I join you in the consciousness of divine Love.

This instrument has prayed, “Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace.” The early morning brings a sunrise; the noonday, great light; the evening, the myriad colored rainbows of sunset, and at midnight, a carpet of stars is sprinkled upon the great ground of the sky. In all of these conditions there is peace.

In all conditions of the life that you experience now there is peace. Seek first, in the sunrises, the noons, the sunsets and the midnights of your heart, to feel the sweetly wrapped gift of peace given silently.

This present dwells within each of you. The varieties of life, light, and experience merely embrace the various environments, the diverse parties with which you may share such a precious gift through smiles and laughter and gentle silences with those who greet you.

We leave you in peace, both now and evermore. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from January 14, 1996:

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo. We greet each of you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. It is a great privilege to be called to your group, and we thank each for seeking the truth and for being willing to allow us to share some thoughts with you at this time.

We are not those who speak with perfect authority. We are souls such as yourself. We make mistakes and still are learning and truly know very little. But that which we have thought and learned we gladly offer to you with the understanding that you use your discrimination. Accept those thoughts which ring true to you and leave the rest behind.

As you have given us permission to speak in any way we choose, we turn towards the heart of that which we have come to share with your people. We come to encourage each who seeks the truth to open the doors of your attention, to behold the present moment. It is our opinion that the physical body which you now enjoy and the world which you now live in is a passing thing. In time it was created, and in time it shall disappear, changed into that which was not. Yet there is that which was before the worlds were made and which shall be long after your sun has gone nova.

There are many words among your peoples to describe this basic inalterable reality from which all things spring. Among those words we choose love. The Love of the one infinite Creator is a vibration, a Logos, if you will, and that pure Love has generated that which you call Light in order to create a manifested world. You are made of Light which has been regularized and built upon. Within your essence, unchanged and unchangeable, resides this vibration, this Logos. This is your true self. That true self peeks up into the passing days like the tip of a great iceberg, barely clearing the water, yet being a mighty mass below the surface. Indeed, all that your people’s tend to think of as their identity, all were created and will cease to be.

When we say open to the present moment, we speak of that present moment which is eternal. Within time the attempt to grasp the present moment is constantly doomed to failure for your mind—that is, your earthly intelligence—and the illusion itself were created so that things would occur in an order. In the eternal present moment, all things exist simultaneously. That which is, is, and in this fullness of being resides the peace that is so eagerly sought by those who are weary of the passing scene.

How can one find this present moment? We suggest often the practice of regular contemplation or meditation, for within silence there is that key which unlocks the doors of attention. And into that sanctum sanctorum of the open heart, silent and listening, there resides the Creator whose name is Love.

We encourage each to form the habit of silence on a regular basis, for that voice which speaks in silence is that which gives life and peace. We do not say that it gives wisdom. Rather, we suggest that it works little by little to open the heart and the awareness to the presence of Love. There are other ways to find Love. If you gaze into another’s eyes, truly looking into those remarkable depths, you may see the Creator. Even if you look within the mirror at your own eyes and look into them, you shall see that which you do not know or recognize as personal, for you carry within you a consciousness which is Love. It is a matter of uncovering and recognizing that which has always been there, that presence which is closer than your breathing, more intimate than your hands and your feet. It is that which abides. And if you may find that center for just a moment in each day, the passing scene changes in its appearance, for the heart has changed, and so the eyes change.

For this session Q’uo was given the opportunity to speak on whatever topic they chose, so they began by saying that everything within the present moment of the physical body and the world that all live upon will eventually disappear, but the Love of the Creator existed before all worlds were made, and will exist after our sun goes nova. They went on to say that this Love, or Logos, has created Light which has in turn created the manifested world and is our very essence, our true eternal self, and what most people see as their identity will eventually cease to be. Then Q’uo suggested that we should open ourselves to the present moment which is eternal, for all things exist simultaneously which is a concept that is beyond the reach of the mind but exists in the peace of those who are weary of the mundane world and can let their cares and concerns fall away. Q’uo said that we could access the present moment by using meditation, and the key of silence, to enter the sanctuary of our open heart and feel the Love of the Creator; or we could also seek the Creator within each person that we meet; or we could find it by looking into the mirror because everyone carries the consciousness of Love, and we will be transformed by this experience. On October 12, 1986, Q’uo described the nature and purpose of the present moment:

However, as you well know, my brother, the present moment is also that which is complete within itself, and in this light needs no addition from the past or from the future. The present moment may become, if it is one’s desire, a finely focused experience of all that one is, and all that one can be, and all that one has been. In this focus of experience, the full potential of one’s being is brought to bear upon one’s thinking, and the boundaries or limitations of one’s thinking or one’s beliefs are offered the opportunity to expand. As one begins to create a space in experience in the present moment, which is undiluted by the past or the future, one then harvests potential. In this harvest one may become inspired, shall we say, by that which is and that which exists within one’s being. In such present moment experiences, one may fully appreciate the completeness which is the foundation of any entity’s being.

Of course, my brother, you are aware that the meditative state is that state which offers the easiest access to such present moment experiences, for such experiences of the power of the present moment and the perfection of one’s being are those which become available to an entity when there is no coloration of past or future or thought of any kind to form a filter through which the present moment must be perceived.

Thus, within the present moment experience one may, in a manner of speaking, not only recharge the battery of one’s personal energy, but may discover that that battery is fully charged at all times, and in this discovery and from this discovery one may then move into the daily round of activities inspired and ennobled, shall we say, so that the ability to utilize what has been learned is enhanced, and the ability to gather further lessons available in each present moment is also enhanced.

We are here within your inner planes at this time because there is a time of harvest approaching. Indeed, this harvest has begun. There is a time when entities may choose how to continue in fellowship with each other. Your creation is expanding and changing as your entire solar system moves into a new area of space and time. Your scientists have begun to study many new subatomic particles which are native to this new area of space. Within the instreamings of light into this particular portion of the infinite creation, the physical illusion which you enjoy as your life, your incarnation, will change. The physical vehicle will become lighter. The experience of dwelling in a physical reality will be quite a bit easier, for within these new vibrations there lies the opportunity for sharing of thoughts and experiences which is now, within your illusion, not possible.

Not all entities, however, will move into this new vibration because some there are who do not find themselves at all weary of the present world scene. Those who are pleased with this present world scene shall continue to work on the lessons of love that your illusion provides so generously. Those who wish to accelerate the process of their spiritual evolution will find that they wish to make a fundamental choice. This choice is the choice of how to manifest that love. The two paths of manifesting love we have often called “service to others” and “service to self,” for if one looks into another’s eyes and sees the Creator, if one can gaze in the mirror and see the Creator, then to serve the self is to serve the Creator and to serve others is to serve the Creator. We are those who have chosen the service-to-others path. This is what we know and what we share.

We encourage each to spend some time contemplating the implications of service to others and service to self, for in one path there is the giving up of the energy of the self to others. In the other path there is the attracting and magnetic pulling of others’ energies so that they may serve you. The ability to chose is the hallmark of the Creator. This Creator loves each spark that It has flung from Itself. You are loved in a way far deeper than you can imagine, and whatever path you chose, the Creator abides with you. There is no time limit upon this process of evolution, so we encourage you to rest and gain confidence and from the practicing of that centering presence, you may find at any moment the door opening to the present moment. And we are with you as you go.

Then Q’uo said that as the fourth density experience was drawing closer Earth’s population was being offered the chance to choose its polarity as the physical illusion of our solar system was moving into a new location, and the fourth density bodies would contain more light and communication would be telepathic. Q’uo went on to say that there were many entities who would not be harvested as they were still learning the lessons of love, but there were some entities who were conscious of the need to choose to be either service-to-others or service-to-self, and that each path is of service to the Creator and can be made at any time within the present moment experience. In 16.50, Ra described what conditions were like in the fourth density:

Questioner: Thank you. Is it possible for you to give a small description of the conditions [in] fourth density?

Ra: I am Ra. We ask you to consider as we speak that there are no words for positively describing fourth density. We can only explain what is not and approximate what is. Beyond fourth density our ability grows more limited still until we become without words.

That which fourth density is not: it is not of words, unless chosen. It is not of heavy chemical vehicles for body complex activities. It is not of disharmony within self. It is not of disharmony within peoples. It is not within limits of possibility to cause disharmony in any way.

Approximations of positive statements: it is a plane of a type of bipedal vehicle which is much denser and more full of life; it is a plane wherein one is aware of the thoughts of other-selves; it is a plane where one is aware of the vibrations of other-selves; it is a plane of compassion and understanding of the sorrows of third density; it is a plane striving towards wisdom or light; it is a plane wherein individual differences are pronounced although automatically harmonized by group consensus.

We would at this time transfer this contact to the one known as Jim. We thank this instrument and leave it in love and in light. We are those of Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and in light through this instrument. At this time it is our privilege to ask if there may be further queries to which we may speak. Is there a query at this time?

Carla: I’m going into the hospital in about a week and a half, and I wondered if you could comment on anything I might do to prepare for that experience that would enhance it.

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We can only recommend that you see yourself and those about you as the Creator that is experiencing Itself and enter into this work upon your wrist area with the quiet confidence that the plan of the One is being worked out well, and that you shall again be available for service to those who request your assistance.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you, Q’uo.

I am Q’uo, and again we thank you, my sister. Is there another query?

Questioner: I have a question, Q’uo. I have noticed that my meditations have changed. I seem to be having reluctance to continue meditating the way I have been. I wonder if you could speak to the ebb and flow of finding the moment of silence. If you can generalize about how it works, I’d appreciate it.

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. Each seeker of truth will find that the path it travels is one which has those places which are wide and through which passage is easy and those places which are more narrow, making passage difficult. When you find your practice of seeking in the way of meditation beginning to flag, you may be aware that the faith and will, which are the rod and staff of each seeker, may need reinforcing, for there is much to distract an entity from completing the practices that it has set for itself, and these distractions are also a part of your journey. As you are able to see afield and redirect the changing energies of your own commitment, your own faith, and your will to persevere in the face of distractions and difficulties, you will be learning the kind of perseverance that will give you that peace which passes understanding at some point in your seeking, for if the journey were always easy then the pearl of great price would be much devalued and easily acquired by all.

The continuing beyond confusion, beyond distraction, beyond the difficulties, is much likened to the tempering of the metal in a tool that gives it strength, burnishing it that it might shine brightly and continue in its service with a renewed strength because of the difficulty, confusion and so forth. Thus, as you see the difficulty in motivating yourself to complete your meditations, this in itself is likened to a meditation where the focus falters and moves from the one point so that it must again be returned to with patience and love to that one point. As you continue to accept the difficult portions of your journey and of your practices you will find that there is an underlying strength that you build. To persevere, and persevere, and persevere is perhaps the most common and at times difficult portion of any seeker’s journey, yet to be aware that such is occurring within your own experience is an illustration of your own dedication upon another level. Thus, we can only recommend that you continue as you are with faith, with forgiveness, with acceptance.

Is there a further query, my brother?

Questioner: No, thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you. Is there another query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Q’uo, and as it appears that we have exhausted those queries which you have for us, we shall again take this opportunity to thank those present for inviting our presence in your circle of seeking this day. We are always overjoyed at the opportunity to blend our vibrations with yours and to walk but a few steps upon your journey with you. You are not alone, my friends, even when you may feel great isolation, for there are those such as ourselves and many, many others who walk with you and rejoice at your every step of seeking the light, the love, and the truth of the one Creator.

At this time, we shall take our leave of this group and this instrument, leaving each, as always, in the love and in the light of the one Creator. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning Anna and I synchronized our computers and listened to Carla channel Ra in Session #48 while we could also see the words on the screen of our computers. After we completed our session I went outside and weeded the Ruins Mound, the flower garden in the middle of the Moss Garden, the Lariope Garden, and the Astilbe Garden by hand since we got two inches of rain Saturday evening which made it much easier to pull weeds out roots and all.

This afternoon I went on an errand run with my first stop being at The Home Depot where I bought more Sun Patiens and two flats of Begonias. Then I stopped at Walgreen’s and bought more Choc-Zero chocolates.

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

September 2

Love Has Work For You

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

Love is the giver, the sustainer and the protector of the tender, young spiritual consciousness. It is the strengthener and sustainer of those whose veil has slipped from the eye, those who are smitten by circumstance.

It is the stripper and remover of pretense, for forgiveness takes away the necessity for defense. Love enables each portion of the creation to sing and move in rhythm, one unified rhythm of continuous co-creation.

Do not expect Love to come to you today. Rather, expect yourself to use whatever discipline is necessary to become aware of the Love that is deep, and fine, and strong within you now: within you, around you, and in all that you may apprehend. Go forth in Love and listen, for Love has work for you to do, work of being, work of becoming.

We leave you in the eternal liveness of the consciousness of Love and in 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 December 17, 1995:

Group question: We’re talking about grace and where it might come from: the Holy Spirit, the Creator, the intelligent energy that enters through our feet and base chakras, to guides, spiritual teachers, etc. And we are wondering if the expression of grace is some means of communication from the metaphysical life that we live to the physical life that we live? Is this a way by which we are given a gift? Is this something that is with us always? Is it with us only at particular moments? How can we interpret the experiences of grace that come our way? Is there any way to use grace consciously in our spiritual lives? Is there a way of responding to it appropriately, or is it something that we are simply caught up in?

(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. It is our distinct privilege to be called to your group, and we greet and bless each who sits in this circle of seeking. We greet you as your fellow pilgrims who have traveled your path and who are still traveling, seeking still the one Mystery Who created us, in whom we have our being, and to whom we now return, step by step by step. We ask only that you regard us as your brothers and sisters rather than as authorities. We gladly share our opinions with you. We do not claim them to be infallible. And so, we ask that you use your discrimination, choosing those thoughts that you would further consider and leaving the rest behind.

You have asked for us to speak on the concept of grace. We find often when presented with a topic that much of the energy connected with the topic is baffled or biased because the words of your language are imprecise. One person means one thing by such a word as grace. Another person has another related but somewhat different idea. And, consequently, there is some difficulty in speaking to the heart of this concept. Perhaps we may discover a more precise way of describing what we see as the concept of grace.

We see grace as a state of mind, a state of mind that is natural to the self-conscious entity who is in balance, whose energies are moving freely and in a balanced manner. This state is a kind of level which is natural to each entity. For each entity, then, grace is a vibratory level which reflects a lack of movement in attitude away from that state of nature with which the entity is blessed. On a computer, then, grace would become the default setting for being in good form. Now, the mind of the self-conscious entity tends to cause this state to become unavailable because the mind has the tendency to leave its natural balance because it is not aware of a natural state and instead is seeking something which is outside of and not controlled by the self. To sound the archetypal roots of grace we could say that the state of grace can equal that Garden of Eden or that ideal state of nature into which humankind is naturally born.

The training of the young entity in your culture tends to develop a state of mind or an attitude which is geared towards the accomplishment of mental and physical goals and the attempting to fit into the various ways of thinking, acting, and being which are regarded as appropriate by your culture. The young child is taught to be civil, to share, to obey the direction of authority, and on and on. And as the young child grows, virtue is seen and taught to be coming into accord or compliance with an ever-growing set of standards to be met, of behaviors to pay attention to and to offer when appropriate.

And consequently, the growing entity does not have a way to come into the concept of that state of mind or attitude which is that entity’s natural gift. Rather, the entity tends to drift further and further away from a feeling of wholeness and appropriateness which comes from the heart outward. And most entities move through the incarnative experience only becoming aware of that state of grace in which the universe is kindly, and in which all things which are needed appear from time to time. Thusly, most entities see grace as that which occurs episodically, now here, now there, and then again elsewhere.

In actuality, these times when grace seems to come near and touch the entity are those times when the individual has been able involuntarily or consciously to allow the self to be completely natural, to rest in the center of being and to allow the natural flow of energy. It is as though the self were a receiver that only intermittently worked. In simplistic terms, then, the way towards maximizing the experience of grace in the incarnative experience is to attempt to come to a feeling within of balance. We would encourage seekers to think upon and ponder the concept of self with regard to the nature of the basic attitude that is given as a natural gift by the Creator to each entity, for the maximizing of the experience of grace can be accomplished by increasing the allowing of the self to rest in the natural balance.

This requires that the entity gradually uncover within itself an awareness and a growing familiarity with a kind of trust in the self and in that part of self that goes beyond self and connects with all that there is that is not commonly taught among your peoples. The young child is repeatedly taught what it must do to obtain the approval and the satisfaction of those whom it wishes to please and of the self, for each entity talks to the self and communicates with the deeper self as if it were another person. Thusly, when one talks with another person one is talking to the projection of the self.

The group question for this session was: “We’re talking about grace and where it might come from: the Holy Spirit, the Creator, the intelligent energy that enters through our feet and base chakras, to guides, spiritual teachers, etc. And we are wondering if the expression of grace is some means of communication from the metaphysical life that we live to the physical life that we live?” Q’uo began by saying that grace has different meanings to different people, and they said that they see grace as a natural state of mind into which each person is born and whose energies are moving freely in a balanced manner, but the self-conscious entity is unaware of this natural state and tends to seek something that is outside of the self and not controlled by the self. Then Q’uo said that the young entity is trained to comply with cultural expectations that grow in number as it gets older and slowly moves away from the natural state of grace that was its gift so that it eventually sees only occasional glimpses of what grace is. Q’uo went on to say that these intermittent times of grace occur when the entity is able, consciously or subconsciously, to allow the self to relax into a natural state of balance. Q’uo said that this can occur when one is able to develop a trust of itself so that it is able to communicate with the deeper nature of the self as if it were another person, and, paradoxically, when it is talking to another person it is also talking to itself. On April 23, 1989, Yom described how communication with the deeper self can allow the conscious seeker to move in an harmonious way with those about it:

Thus, as the conscious seeker becomes aware of those programs within the deeper self that it itself has placed there, and begins to untangle the riddle of the self and its purpose, the seeker gains a mastery of the self that allows it not only to move the self as a result of conscious choice, but to move the self in an harmonious fashion with entities about it and with the environment about it as well. For there is an harmonic resonance that the seeker may become aware of that proceeds outward from each portion of the creation and which may be utilized in a fashion which is likened unto singing with harmony with another being, so that those songs which are sung then become the means by which the further evolution of the self may be accomplished.

Many things will attempt to unbalance the natural poise of a seeker throughout the daily round of activity. There is the constant ebb and flow of the personal and individual rhythms of self, and we are not suggesting that it is easy to become aware of the deep and unchanging portion of the self that is perhaps best described in emotional terms, or rather in terms of emotion. Emotions are given short shrift by your peoples. Those who are emotional or considered to be emotional are those who seem unbalanced and out of control, whereas from our point of view we would say that those who feel emotion are moving into truth as they begin to purify and refine those emotions. The entity who becomes able through the discipline of the life and the personality to express and manifest pure emotions is the one who shall be closer to balance and nearer to the constant awareness of that state of grace which abides for each entity below the level of confusion which clutters the surface of life and of the mind of each seeker.

Grace, then, is seen by your people as a visitation that occurs from time to time. It is seen in various cultures as coming from various outside agencies: angels that come into the life pattern as messengers of grace, personal guides, entities such as we, many, many different ways of thinking about the experience of coming into a state of balance and harmony with the outworking of personal destiny. And this is as it should be, for within each culture there are somewhat different ways of perceiving the same states of mind, but we would ask you to consider the vagaries of language, the limited nature of words, and the deeply illusory environment in which third density finds itself living, for this is a concept that, more than most, asks the entity to open up the mind and to empty it of concept. Grace is that which is beneath the superstructures of conscious thought, and indeed all the structure of metaphysical thought may be seen to be structure of a mechanical nature in which logical connections are made which enable people to think about spiritual things.

We are part of a logical structure by which you as a conscious individual attempt to address the deeper metaphysical questions. Are we real? Do we come from a physical planet to you? Are we a portion of this instrument’s deeper mind? Are all things outside this instrument’s mind illusions? All of these questions can be answered positively. It is difficult for your minds to grasp. Nevertheless, it is deeply true, in our opinion, that all spiritual circumstance is simply aimed at by word and concept. The truth, the reality, of who we are, who you are, and what your basic nature is, is beyond mental acquisition. Those who seek the truth of being are those who are destined to follow a mystery, and much is gained by the entity who simply decides to trust that mystery, to trust the basic nature of the self, and to ask not to become something he is not, but rather to become that which he most truly is, for each of you has the pure and perfect light within. Each of you dwells in a state of grace at a very deep level at all times in all places whatsoever.

Can you by thought or conscious action increase the experiences of grace? We find this a difficult question to answer, for each entity will have its own way of dealing with deep illusion. Each entity has a unique natural balance, and each has an unique nature which causes the experiences of grace to be gotten to or arrived at in a unique way. Meditation is always helpful, but we might suggest also the conscious attempt to experience thanksgiving when all is going unexceptionally, for this is that blessed state that is so often missed by the spiritual seeker, the state of doing and being that flows throughout a normal day. Within this quiet flow of energy dwells tremendous power, joy, and deep emotion.

Always these rivers run through the depths of being. When the conscious mind turns and gives thanksgiving for this normality, this normal day, this thankful, grateful opening of the heart causes the balance within to strengthen and to normalize. Beyond this practice of thanksgiving we cannot say that there is a way reliably to achieve the awareness of the state of grace, for the illusion in which you dwell was designed not to give one the experience of balance but rather to give one the feeling of imbalance, bafflement, and confusion so that the self has material against which to push and from which to learn.

Now Q’uo said that the daily round of activities of the seeker can cause its natural rhythms to go out of balance so that it becomes unaware of its deeper emotions, which are seldom considered important by society, but if it can purify and refine those emotions this discipline of the personality can allow it to feel more of the constant state of grace which resides below the surface of confusion which clutters the conscious mind of each seeker. Then they said that different cultures see grace coming from various outside sources such as angels and guides which allow the seeker to come into a state of balance and harmony that will reveal the personal destiny. They went on to say that grace is below the level of conscious thought, and it could be described as metaphysical thought that provides the seeker with a logical structure that may speak of spiritual principles. Q’uo said that they were part of a logical structure that the seeker can utilize to address deep spiritual questions which cannot be described by words or concepts, and that spiritual seekers are seeking a mystery which is the basic nature of the self which is a pure and perfect light within which is the true state of grace. Then Q’uo said that each seeker had an unique way to experience grace, but meditation was always helpful as was the giving of praise and thanksgiving for the normal rhythms that contain great power, joy, and deep emotion. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that our third-density illusion does not provide the balance that can be seen as grace because confusion creates the material that allows one to learn its lessons. On September 5, 1993, Q’uo described the state of grace:

The quality of consciousness which you would call grace is that quality that is nurtured in each seeker, as the seeker is able to open itself to the awareness of the perfection of all creation. Thus, it is also a process of realization. You may, in a moment of great desire, fling all predetermined expectations to the wind and become as hollow as the pipe through which the water moves, and this water for you is grace. The movement of the Spirit aligning with your open heart causes the feeling of perfection, purpose, place, and identity with all to occur, so that your experience is the perfect reflection of the one Creator smiling through your face.

This instrument is suggesting to us that we allow more time than usual for questions and answers, and so at this time we would transfer this contact to the one known as Jim, thanking this instrument and leaving it in love and in light. We are those of Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

We are those of Q’uo, and we greet each again in love and in light through this instrument. At this time it is our privilege to offer ourselves to the possibility of speaking to further queries. Is there a query with which we may begin?

L: I would ask first of all, the state of grace existed in us prior to our incarnation and was not enough in times past to make a choice to serve others or to serve ourselves because in this state of grace we were feeling oneness with the Creator, and this caused us not to do work? Is this correct?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. We would complement the clarity, for this is a perception which is quite correct.

Is there a further query, my brother?

L: I am interested in the origination of souls. How did our souls first originate and what is your view of them?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. The origination of souls is the story of the evolutionary process whereby the one Creator has utilized the beginning or basic densities of this octave of creation to bring about that which you call the mind, that which you call the body, and that which you call the spirit, that together these complexes will form that which may be called the soul, the essence of the entity which has become individualized enough from the one Creator to be able to pursue what would seem to be a quite individualized path of spiritual evolution.

The mind portion is formed in the large extent within the first-density experience where the awareness, the very simple awareness of all being, is the salient feature associated with earth, wind, fire and water.

As this process of spiraling light leading upward continues, the second density offers the mind complex a more individualized focus in the form of second-density creatures of the plant and then the animal nature. This provides a more individualized experience as the consciousness that is moving forward moves towards the light ever more certainly in the grouping known in second density as the flocks of birds, the schools of fish, the swarms of bees, and so forth.

As the line of light continues to move upward, the spirit complex is added to those individualized portions of the one Creator which have been able to give and receive the concept that you know of as love in sufficient degree to so individualize the entity that it is ready to add the spirit complex and thus have the completion of complexes available for the free will choice of third density as to the positive or negative—so-called—paths of continued evolution. At this point within third density, in most cases, the soul then comes into being in its fullness.

Is there a further query, my brother?

L: So, you are saying then that the soul does not come out as a living, conscious, thinking entity from the Creator, that it has to develop through the processes of the densities in order to become an actual soul?

I am Q’uo, and this is basically correct, my brother, for the process begins with total unity, moves into seeming separation to the point of seeming complete separation in the third density and then begins the movement back into the unity of all things.

Is there a further query?

L: Yes. Then the soul is a type of consciousness? Is it a type of spiritual material would you [say] that separates from the one Creator and then becomes available for the densities’ experience? Just what is that nature that first comes out of the one Creator?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, but aware of no sure means of describing the nature of the soul with words that can be understood, for the nature of each soul is the essence of each soul is the essence of the one Creator and this essence at its heart is mystery. There is energy. There is intelligence. There is infinity. There is unity. All these are a portion of this soul essence.

Is there a further query?

L: One more. In thinking of evolution and the development of third-density bodies on this planet from the second-density prototypes, I am wondering why every third-density body developed the same, with the same features. This is universal on our planet. How did it happen that all third-density bodies developed the same?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother, and again we must remind each that the answer to most queries with depth such as this query is mystery. Why the one Creator chose the bipedal, opposable thumb, ape-like creature to enspirit is truly a mystery, but we can surmise that the one Creator felt that in this instance this form was the most liable to allow the expression of those energies of third density that would lead to the continued evolution of this consciousness. This form is universal upon this planetary sphere and upon a number of others as well, yet within the One Creation, to our knowledge, it is but one of many forms chosen.

Is there a further query, my brother?

L: Just a quick one. Do we have extraterrestrials who helped to engineer the human form in our distant past to help create what we know it as today?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother, and must respond in the affirmative for there have been in distant and ancient times of your species’ evolution such involvement by entities who were seeking to aid in the evolutionary process of the species with whom they felt responsibility.

Is there a further query, my brother?

L: No. Thank you. P, you had some.

P: As we were sitting here and listening to you I noticed activity in the child that I am carrying. I just wondered if this activity is random or if the child is responding to the energy of the group? I have noticed this at other times when I thought it was responding to my thoughts, but I could not say whether this was random or is really a response. Could you comment on this?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We would respond by suggesting that this young entity is one which is sensitive to the vibratory frequencies of the environment which surrounds it, not only the immediate environment of your physical vehicle but the environment of what we would call the feeling-tone or, less accurately, the emotional environment of this circle of seeking.

Is there a further query, my sister?

P: Thank you. That was reassuring. My questions concern the history of Islam. Would you be able to comment on the origin of the Koran?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We are working with this instrument to give it the image of the answer, shall we say. The means of transmission and point of origin of this holy work is the inspiration that the one known as Mohammed was able to open itself to receive at various times during its life experience which it had offered to the one Creator as a gift or glorification, for this entity had many experiences of the unity of all things and was desirous in a great extent to bring back this inspiration that those of its peoples might also be blessed as it was blessed.

Thus, the information that has been gathered in this holy work was that which was divinely inspired and though difficult to describe in the languages of the time, yet this entity set itself to this purpose and was single-minded in its pursuit of this mission, shall we say.

Is there a further query, my sister?

P: Yes. In the book itself it says Mohammed was inspired and that the message came through Gabriel, that the work itself is the word of God Itself and was absolute and had no flaw. Could you tell me the density of Gabriel and the identity of Gabriel? And what do they mean really when they say this is the word of God and is absolute?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We will attempt to respond. The entity, Gabriel, was one of a number of entities that assisted in this transmission, being the focus of the effort, was one which worked with the entity known as Mohammed as this entity had dedicated its life purpose previous to the incarnation to working with those of its own kind, shall we say. Thus, the effort was put forth by those of the density of love and light in balance, that being six, working with those of the same vibratory level who had taken incarnation for the purpose of such a mission.

Is there a further query, my sister?

P: When you say those of the same vibratory level do you mean then that Mohammed was a sixth-density entity who incarnated as a third-density entity?

I am Q’uo, and this is correct, my sister.

Is there a further query?

P: Could you comment on the amount of negative or Orion influence in the book itself?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. As with all such efforts of light and service to others the power of the polarity puts forth an attraction and is, shall we say, noticed by those in the vicinity. There is often notice by those of the so-called Orion Empire that they be able to utilize the balancing efforts of this planet’s quarantine system to offer some form of their own information wherever possible and to make this offering to appear as the same as that which first attracted their notice.

Thus, with all such efforts there is some infiltration of the signal with other information at odd moments or targets of opportunity that exist in all entities that are mortal. Thus, all such inspirational information has this feature whereby there is attracted to it the balancing efforts by those of the so-called loyal opposition.

Is there a further query, my sister?

P: I wonder where in the Koran it says that the book is the absolute truth and should be followed absolutely instead of giving a way for self-transcendence to the work. I wonder if that part particularly is Orion work?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. But with this query we find that the response lies beyond the Law of Confusion, for it is at this point that all entities must look at that which is offered and choose for the self that which is at the heart of the work.

Is there a further query, my sister?

P: After Mohammed received the inspirations and came to be of service and delivered the Koran and left the work and left the incarnation would you be able to estimate the balance in the struggle between light forces and the dark, shall we say? In the history of the development of Islam is there a way of saying which force had the upper hand or currently would it be possible for you to estimate the power of the two forces? Which is stronger?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. And again we find a difficulty in a specific response for this points to the heart of the matter of discrimination and we can only suggest that when even the most holy and pure work of divine inspiration falls to the mortals below there will be human error entered at some point, whether it be by chance or by design, as the various levels of relationship and interrelationship work to bring entities with personal incarnational lessons into touch with that which is divine. Thus, there is opportunity for distortion and the use of the inspiration for purposes other than the original intentions. As the cycles of human reincarnation occur from time to time and culture to culture there are overriding issues of relationships of groups and their purpose for incarnation. Thus, there is always the opportunity for interpretation.

Is there a further query, my sister?

P: If an entity wants to be of service helping those in Islamic cultures and has to deal with such fixed influence such as the Koran and its history which has been crystallized in the society as a set structure, and one wants to offer a way for people to realize or live the truth, freedom and happiness and joy in that way, what is the best way to go about working in such a society where you cannot challenge the authority of a work such as the Koran? What is the best way to deal with the distortions and keep one’s own clarity and be of service?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We would recommend the path that moves to the heart of the matter. Look to that which is the integrity of the work. The one known as Jesus replaced the many laws of Moses with but two: to love the Lord, the God, with all the heart, the mind and the soul, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself. This entity moved to the heart of the work and gave itself in completeness in this effort and allowed itself to be used as a vessel or an instrument—not its will, but the will of the Father, the one Creator.

If you will give yourself in such dedication and move to the heart of all creation and to the work which you revere, then you will be moving in harmony with all that is and will offer yourself as purely as possible.

Is there a further query, my sister?

P: You see moving to the heart of the matter, and I see that as coming from the heart and Jesus’ statement is one which comes from the heart. There also needs to be a balance in working from the heart and working from the mind as well. Could you comment on the balance between working from the heart and from the mind? I guess it’s really a balance between wisdom and compassion.

I am Q’uo, and an aware of your query, my sister. We would again recommend that you begin in the heart and end in the heart. That is, do all that you do because you love. Consider with your mind how you shall do, what you shall do, when you shall do, with whom you shall do. Make those plans. Do what you can. Then give over any dedication to an outcome by the surrendering of your will to the will of the One and receive that which comes with as much joy as you would any other gift.

Is there any further query, my sister?

P: I think I have two. From what I understood from what you just said that the way of the heart is the way that we are traveling, and the mind seems to be an instrument much like the stick that the Fool in the Tarot carries to distinguish. Is this analogy correct?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, and would suggest that the analogy is a good analogy, for the mind in its intellectual capabilities is able to refine the great outpouring of love from the heart in a manner which may be more effective in serving others as it takes into account that which they ask.

Is there a further query, my sister?

P: The next question has to do with the earlier concept of grace. The first state of grace is like the Garden of Eden, you said. I had the image of the Tarot card, the Sun, where the male and female entity are facing each other in a circle and holding hands. Is there a relation between this card and the concept of grace being much like the Garden of Eden?

I am Q’uo, and this is so, my sister. We would suggest that you have found a correlation that is of significance in precisely the manner described.

Is there another question, my sister?

P: Thank you so much, and thanks to the group for all the inspiration, help and clarity.

I am Q’uo, and we would echo your gratitude for the very same reasons. The aid that you and each in the circle give us by asking those queries which are heavy or important upon the heart and the mind is a gift for which we are most grateful.

At this time we would ask if there is a final query for this session?

L: One thing about fourth density. When Ra says that in the fourth density we are every experience and every feeling, everything, if we are everything and every thought why would it be necessary to form a social memory complex …

[Tape ends.]

This morning I went outside and pumped a quarter of the water out of the fishpond, and then I cleaned the filters for the fountain. While the pond was refilling with fresh water, I fertilized the water lilys, and then I went upstairs and cleaned Benny’s apartment by using the carpet sweeper to clean the hall runner. I swept up the kitty litter in the room where she stays most often in the cat tower. Then I used the dust mop in all three rooms and in the hall. Then I ran some errands with my first stop being The Home Depot where I bought some Sun Patiens and two bags of topsoil. My second stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought some food for myself. My last stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store where I bought some Kleenexes, a case of bottled water, and some hair thickener. I also stopped in at their pharmacy to let them know that I had three prescriptions that I needed but was unable to get their automated voice to take over the phone.

This afternoon I transplanted the Sun Patiens into the areas in the Snapdragon garden that had died out. Then I went across the street to my neighbor’s yard and weeded her flower garden.

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

September 1

When The Mind Relaxes

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

We come to this instrument although this instrument has no words of her own. We find, indeed, that it is when the human mind relaxes and affirms its unknowingness that we may speak most clearly.

Those who seek to know Love dwell upon their lacks and limitations, frustrated that they cannot become closer to the source for which they yearn. Yet to the soul who says merely, “Here am I,” we may come with unfettered footstep and breathe life eternal into things temporal.

Fear not when you confess to yourself that you know not of ultimate things but only surrender that lack of knowledge and open to the information of Light of which it is known you have need.

We leave you in sufficiency, in peace and in trust, 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 comes from December 10, 1995:

Group question: For the group question this week we are taking pot luck and will be glad to listen to whatever words of inspiration Q’uo has to offer.

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle of Q’uo. We greet you in the light, the clarity, and the love of the one infinite Creator. We are pleased indeed that you have chosen to call us to your circle this evening, and we are most grateful for the privilege of sharing our thoughts. As always, we ask that you evaluate these thoughts as you would any other person’s thoughts, taking what you feel is worth your attention and leaving the rest behind, for we are not infallible but seekers like yourself.

As we merge with your vibrations at this time, we can feel much of the yearning of all of those present for the light that is so absent from your days as the planet you now enjoy moves towards its farthest from the sun. These dark days that weigh upon the spirit are challenges for all who enjoy your density of existence. Those who have distortions towards physical weakness find it harder to shake off those difficulties and enjoy life. Those who have sorrows find the sorrow is greater as the days grow shorter. The physical instrument which you call your body is carefully aligned and attuned to light, and just as do plants, the spirit needs the light for its health.

There is also a spiritual difficulty as the days grow short, and that is that when one is less comfortable, huddled in upon the self, and responding to the increased darkness, one is also apt to become hungry for the food of spirit, for the light that appears as love itself, warmth within the heart, secure openness to the being. These things are more difficult to achieve. The balance is more difficult to find. And as we paint this picture, we are hoping that you can see yourself in this picture and see in better context those concerns which you have brought to this circle. When spirit is turned in upon itself as darkness urges you to do, there is within the self that turning to the shadows of uncertainty and hesitation. Those energies which create the shadow that always follows faith, that shadow is inextinguishable, for the light that casts that shadow is consciousness itself, and that sun does not go down. And yet in dark days it feels as though the inner sun itself has set.

In this atmosphere it is easy indeed to wonder, “Who am I,” and, “Where am I going?” Hopes and dreams seem somehow frivolous, for the energies are heavy and quiet. All this is as it should be, and we do not intend to suggest that the questions of identity and the path of the future are questions that have any negative import, for these are the questions into which you took incarnation to address. Indeed, all the knowledge of self was deliberately laid aside by you before the beginning of this incarnation, for you wished to be affected by the light and the dark. You desired to come among the people of this planet as one of them to experience all that you could and to ask yourself those things which sprang up in the course of the daily life. You had hopes of this bold venture called incarnation. You hoped to serve in the name of love. You hoped to learn those lessons of love which you felt were worth refining and emphasizing in your deep personality. You wished to form relationships with those with whom you have worked before to enjoy companionship with them, to learn with them, to share catalyst together. And each of you is doing all those things.

So, from the standpoint of the work of the spirit all is well. The doubts and inner discords are not only acceptable but also of value. Only the self can dig so deeply into the substrata of a busy and complex personality. Only the self can ask the self these questions with such desire to know. This is, then, a positive and a necessary portion of the rhythm of living an incarnation: the questioning and probing, the lifting up and gazing and putting down again and then lifting and looking from another angle. These things are well. This is good work.

There was no group question for this session, so those of Q’uo decided that the topic that they would speak upon was the dimming of the light in the winter months that made life more difficult in that any weakness of the body, sorrow of the mind, and less light for the spirit seemed to be increased. Then Q’uo said that the increasing darkness of the season created a spiritual problem in that the spiritual seeker craved the food for its soul in the form of the light and love to warm the heart, but these qualities are harder to find in winter and cause uncertainty and hesitation. Q’uo went on to say that actually that shadow that the seeker perceives is cast by its consciousness which does not go down, but to the seeker it seems that the inner sun has set. Q’uo continued by saying that in these dark times it is easy for the seeker to forget who it is, but then Q’uo said that these types of feelings represent the lessons that the seeker chose to learn during its incarnation: to love and to join with fellow seekers, and share catalyst together. Then Q’uo said that this was truly the work of the spirit: to dig deep within the personality to question the nature of the self as it could be seen from a variety of perspectives and to discover the rhythm of living the life, and they said that this is the good work. On September 26, 2006, Q’uo described the nature of the self:

Now, let us look at that word, self. This instrument has been reading a book entitled New World by Ekhart Tolle. This material, which she and the one known as Jim have been reading in their Morning Offering sessions, centers upon the nature of the self. It is synchronistic that your query happens to involve this concept deeply.

My brother, you are aware that in our way of thinking all things are one. The Creator and you are the same. Yourself, therefore, at the deepest level, is the self of the Creator. Your I is the I AM of the Godhead principle.

Moving a bit closer to consensus reality, moving down from an infinite Creator who is a complete mystery to the half-revealed mystery of that expression of unconditional Love that this instrument calls Jesus the Christ, it may be seen that you are one with the unconditional Love and Compassion which Jesus the Christ carried upon his human shoulders as the regal robe of kingship that was His. You also, my brother, are royal. Every soul in the infinite reaches of the creation is heir-apparent to creatorship.

Perhaps you hear our reserve in saying this. Yes, there is also another side to be considered in this issue. And that is that the Creator has placed humankind within the paradox that affects the deep personality, and that is that the self sees the process of learning about the self as one of delving into and clarifying what the self really thinks and feels, thereby adding unto the beingness a higher degree of self-knowledge, while at the same time the Creator has so arranged the processes of learning so that the path to self-knowledge is actually the path of turning the gaze beyond the self and being able to allow the falling away of self. And in spiritual terms this losing of self is also a positive and wise effort to enjoy.

It is not logical that the way to self-knowledge is the allowing of that which may fall away. Yet that entity who knows itself most deeply is the entity who has given much of the personality away. We do not suggest a solution to this paradox of addition and subtraction. The self remains unlimited, being part of all, positive and negative, existing before time and space and existing within time and space so that there is wisdom in working upon the self by addition, by naming the characteristics of the self. And when the rhythm of life is such that the mood is one of peace and relaxation of the personality, that work also is good.

We would ask you to think about who the self is in relation to the teacher known to you as Jesus. This entity’s sense of self was such that when the entity was but a child it studied and learned from its teachers and by the time it was a teenager, as this instrument would say, it was already considered a teacher. This entity had a sense of self that enabled it simply to do what it must, even when those about Him did not understand. That sense of self carried this entity through a wandering ministry that was remarkable for the purity of its teaching. And yet when the one known as Jesus was asked to describe the self, He said that “He who sees me sees not me but the Father.” This entity had learned subtraction as well as addition and He was content to be impersonal and to relinquish much of the Earthly personality. Yet there can be no more sure-footed identity than that attitude which the one known as Jesus had.

We would perhaps encourage more than working one way or another. Rather, encourage the seeker to flow freely and gladly along with those currents and rhythms of life which put one in a certain mood or state of receptivity. We encourage each to trust the intuition of self, that feeling that says, “go here,” or “go there.” We would encourage the sense of proportion, the sense of humor so that one takes oneself seriously but also finds the light touch. The entity that each is, is the one infinite Creation and the one Creator. Due to the illusions of time and space those fields of energy which comprise each entity vibrate, not perfectly in tune with the vibration of that one great original Thought, but rather in some distorted fashion; that is, distorted from perfection. This is as it should be. However, if we were to discuss our own idea of who the entity truly is we simply would look at the vibration, for each self has a vibratory complex which is as distinctive as your fingerprint. You are, before you can think about who you are. You are not inventing yourself, but you are asking yourself to become more than you were. And it is right and good to seek to progress.

Now Q’uo said that they wanted to share another aspect of the nature of the self as the Creator has placed humanity within a paradox which goes beyond what the seeker gains as the knowledge of its deeper self, and then the Creator has arranged the path to self-knowledge as a path of actually a falling away of what the seeker has gained as knowledge of itself, and spiritually this is a positive effort. Q’uo went on to say that in the giving away of what the seeker has found itself to be, it is still infinite and existing before time and space, and that it is still wise to name the various aspects of the self and find peace and a relaxed rhythm of life, and by so doing the seeker has done good work. Then Q’uo used Jesus as an example of how this type of subtraction of one’s nature was accomplished as Jesus felt that He was not a personal identity that others saw when they looked upon Him, but it was His Father that they saw. Q’uo completed their thoughts by saying that the seeker should use its intuition to move in either or both directions of seeing the self with a light touch and sense of humor, and when it could realize itself as a portion of the one great original Thought the seeker will have its own unique way of distorting that Thought and to simply become more than what it was on each step of its spiritual journey. On December 16, 1990, Q’uo suggested that a sense of humor was a valuable part of our spiritual path:

That which your peoples call the sense of humor is, indeed, most helpful to any entity, no matter the position upon the path, or the placement within the life pattern. We see that which you call the sense of humor as being a sense of proportion where an entity is able to gain enough experience within the life that one may see a broader view. One stands upon a somewhat more elevated position, building experience upon experience, until that which you call wisdom is begun.

There is much in every entity’s life pattern and daily round of activities which lends itself to humor, nothing so much as the entity itself as it attempts to make a sense of and to form a cohesion from many disparate parts of the life which seem not to be held together well at all. There are innumerable instances in every entity’s life during which the entity will find itself playing the complete fool. This, in your mundane way of seeing things, often lends to the feeling of insecurity, doubt, and wondering if there will ever be a time where the entity will have control of itself and be able to do that which it wishes, when it wishes, and in the manner it wishes. We would utilize your sense of humor at moments such as this, if we were in your position, in order that we might be reminded that each of us contains those elements which are less than ideal, but are completely acceptable as portions of a personality that one attempts to discipline as one would the wayward child, in order that the lessons set before one might be learned with more efficiency.

However, when those portions of the self, or activities of the self, seem to go awry, it is more nourishing to the small entity that always resides within, much as the child in each entity, to reinforce the concept of wholeness and acceptability, for the divisions and definitions of acceptable or unacceptable behaviors are man-made, and it is always a whole and acceptable entity that places any foot upon the path, whether that foot is solidly placed or not.

Thus, we highly recommend the utilization of your humor, that you may gain a degree of mirth from your foibles, and those of your fellow seekers as well, for in some sense each of you is always exactly where you need to be at each moment, and in another sense each of you is dancing a dance which you do not understand, and which has steps that may puzzle, trip, and fell you. Yet it is all a dance of one piece, and in this dance you move as the whirling dervish, the child which is set upon the careful exploration, the kitten which tumbles with its sibling across the floor, bursts out of the room and runs smack into the radiator. This is all a part of your dance; this is all a part of your learning; and you are whole and acceptable beings that partake in it.

We hope that we can aid in some small way as each goes through that eternal cycle of questioning and resting in faith, moving, and being still that yields to you a life well-lived and service well done. We would continue through the instrument known as Jim. We leave this instrument in love and in light. We are those of Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again through this instrument in the love and the light of the one Creator. At this time we would ask if we may speak to any other queries that are present among those in this circle?

Carla: I sensed some kind of sadness in the contact, Q’uo. Could you speak to that?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. The topic itself, which deals with the condition of entities upon your planet, is one which feels to be somewhat heavy in that it speaks of beings of light lost, it would seem, in the darkness of the illusion and the confusion that this illusion generates. And this particular aspect of existence is one which has resonance, shall we say, with each in this circle of seeking and therefore there is the feeling/tone of what you would call a certain sadness.

Is there another query, my sister?

Carla: No. Thank you. I was just curious about that.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you again, my sister. Is there another query?

R: I just wanted to say that you are helping me much with your words of inspiration and for others I am sure, too. Knowing that you are there somewhere in the background when things are bearing down heavily is also a comfort to me as a seeker. So, I just wanted to say thanks.

I am Q’uo, and we receive your kind words with a great joy in our hearts, for these words are a confirmation to us that we have made an effort which has borne fruit, and for this we are grateful.

Is there any further query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Q’uo, and as it appears that we have exhausted the queries for this time of working together we would again express our great appreciation for the invitation that is so freely and consistently offered to us to blend our vibrations with yours and to walk for the moment with you upon your journey of seeking. This is always an opportunity and occasion of great happiness and joy for us, for it gives us the opportunity to exercise our great desire to serve and to work with those such as yourselves whose desire to serve is also great. We cannot begin to thank you enough for this privilege, and our humble words and thoughts are mere tokens of the great and bounteous appreciation which exists within our being and resonates with the harmony in this circle of seeking at each working.

We would take our leave at this time of this instrument and this group, and yet we do not truly leave, for all who are of like mind and heart in the seeking and the service of the One are always together in that seeking and in that service. Thus, we only leave in an apparent fashion, and in that leaving we leave in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I took off the green sheets and pillow cases from my bed and replaced them with blue ones. Then I washed and dried the green ones and ironed the flat sheet and the pillow cases. At 11 this morning I was part of the prayer for peace that was offered by Anika in Chicago.

This afternoon I answered an email from a seeker in China that had many questions about healing and how it could be utilized in his spiritual path.  

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

August 31

The House Of God

I am of the principle which animated Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of Love.

The basilica of your holy temple is most lofty and grand; the chancel of your cathedral most capacious and elegant, built by man as if to invite hosts of angels to dwell therein. Yet we say to you that those lofty spaces arching far above the head of the seeker are created of an instinct concerning the inner light of humankind, not the boarding needs of angels.

Let your thoughts and prayers be those which are uplifting and soaring above the common run of human thought, and know that if you be not in those houses dedicated to the Lord God, yet still have you a lofty arch into which you may throw your heaving joy and groaning sorrow, for the great circle of human consciousness reaches to the very heart of the Creator regardless of your position in the world.

May your prayers be seen as having wings, not only in the house of God but in the greater house of God which is the world. May all places be holy to you this day.

We leave you in utter sanctity and 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 November 12, 1995:

We are taking potluck today.

(Carla channeling)

We greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Thank you for calling us to your meeting on this day. It is a great privilege to have offered to us the opportunity to share our views with you. As always, we ask that you use your discrimination, for we are fallible creatures as are you.

The vibrations that this group has, in its melding together, are heavy with the weariness that is of the spirit rather than of the body, although each here also has some degree of physical weariness as well. And this being the case in a group which is often very high in energy we would take some time to work with the concept of having the lower spiritual and emotional energies, for as in all conditions or estates of living such a situation has much to offer in the way of learning and in increasing the capacity for personal compassion.

Energy is the most fundamental of ideated structures within your physical illusion. The shapes and forms of manifestation are illusory; they are instead fields of energy. Even your physical body can usefully be viewed as a field of energy which contains multiple energy fields which work in cooperation with each other within the structure of the shell energy of the physical body. So that when the seeker experiences low energy it is experiencing a symptom which points deeply into the structure of the manifested being. If the energy of the field becomes untenably weak the physical vehicle simply ceases to function. A breath is expelled, and another is not taken. Even if there is nothing physically wrong with the physical vehicle it is possible to cease viability strictly because of the disintegration of the energy field.

This is quite rare among your peoples as a cause of death, but it can be seen to occur in the case of the entity who has lost a mate after having a long and mutually beneficial experience together. When one leaves the physical plane the remaining mate not infrequently chooses to turn the whole being towards the day when he or she may be reunited with the loved partner, and this affects the energy levels within the physical vehicle to the point where any illness which is encountered is embraced and used to affect the ending of the experience which is desired.

When the kind of weariness that a seeker feels is spiritual in nature it often signifies a time in which the experience of incarnative life will seem very difficult. Small matters seem to take on a larger aspect, and therefore any small change or unexpected occurrence triggers catalyst far in excess of what the seeker would usually expect of itself. It is a condition of vulnerability because weariness sensitizes the perceptive web which alters the level of information given to the physical mind and to the consciousness within. Small efforts seem to become major. The mind turns from tasks that normally would be accomplished easily, for it sees these tasks with the jaundiced eye and the discontented heart of the weary seeker. The sense of self is disturbed and the level of comfort of mind drops. Into this weakened web of perception can come extremely helpful—this instrument is not able to find a word for the essences that are available within the deeper mind. But the state of low energy, because it increases sensitivity, offers the opportunity to go more deeply within the self, reaching towards those essences that can be called archetypical, those essences which this instrument would call hope, faith, and charity.

So, we ask each to gaze upon the weakened self, not with impatience but with, as far as possible, an undismayed peace of mind, for you have come into this illusion to be affected by it. Yours is not the path of evenness and spiritual perfection. Yours is a path that is full of dimness, confusion, and perceived difficulty and suffering. Above all things we would ask you to retain the concept of what is fundamental, spiritually speaking, in this experience. That which is fundamental is the one original Thought which is Love. In a weakened state one has difficulty in reaching out to others in love, reaching to the self in love, and reaching to the Creator in love. However, in this weakened state one is more able to allow the self to be ministered unto by these essences which dwell, irregardless of the surface consciousness within, deeply seated within the unconscious mind.

There was no group question for this session, so Q’uo chose to take potluck and speak upon this concept: “The concept of having the lower spiritual and emotional energies, for as in all conditions or estates of living such a situation has much to offer in the way of learning and in increasing the capacity for personal compassion.” Q’uo began to speak on this topic by saying that energy is the most basic form of created structures within the third-density illusion, and it becomes a field of energy which contains many kinds of energy that work together in the energy shell of the physical body. They went on to say that if the energy field becomes too weak the physical body will die, and, although it is rare, this can occur in situations such as where one’s mate has died, and the mated relationship was so greatly cherished that the surviving mate will use any future disease as a means of reuniting with its mate. Then Q’uo said that if the seeker experiences spiritual weariness, then small tasks will seem larger than usual, and they will create a great deal of catalyst so that the mind and consciousness perceive a jaundiced view of the situation, and the seeker becomes weaker which causes this low energy to go more deeply within the self into those archetypical essences of hope, faith, and charity. So, Q’uo suggested that the seeker should look upon these lower energies with a peaceful mind because the seeker has incarnated to experience difficulty, confusion, and suffering, and this weakened state of energy will allow the seeker to be ministered to by the concept of the Love of the Creator offered by others to the self, by the Creator to the self, and by the self to the self because these essences of Love are seated deeply within the unconscious mind. On July 5, 1981, Hatonn described the Love of the Creator:

My sister, we would answer you by saying that to seek the Love of the infinite Creator in each moment of your life is the greatest service and the greatest learning that can be accomplished upon your plane, for it is the lesson of this dimension to discover the Love of the Creator within all that is experienced within the self, within the life, within the family, within the community, within each activity, each experience and there is, shall we say, an infinite amount of time to discover this Love.

The instinct sometimes is to thrash about mentally attempting to affect the energy state, to bring it into what is seen as a more advanced or acceptable state. Insofar as you can be aware of this tendency, we encourage you to say to the self, “Peace, be still and stay where you are. Abide. Rest. Release the effort to better or improve your situation,” and allow the deep self to open into the consciousness. Allow that essence that is the Creator, that is Love itself, to minister unto you. There is no need to thrash or wrestle. There is no need to give sermons to the self. There is no need, in fact, to alter the state you experience. The need is simply to remember Love, for all things shall pass but Love. Moods shall come and go. Incarnations bloom, wither, and die. Love remains.

Those who strive each day, each moment, walk a razor’s edge. On the one side of such intentional living lies a golden land of ideals and promises, dreams, and heartfelt emotion. Your garden of Eden, your Elysium, and your heaven lie within those broad expanses of psychic energy. On the other side of the razor lies the bleakness of despair, the darkness of midnight and the hopelessness of those lost within the sea of confusion, rudderless, suffering, questioning, and doubting. Is it any wonder with two such contrasting experiences available moment by moment that an even, steady life is difficult to arrange? And yet we ask you to gaze at your ups and downs and see that you did not come here to walk the razor without falling, but rather to see that balance and aim towards it.

Give it your best effort and when you perceive yourself falling off of that evenness into rosy idealism or bleak despair allow those emotions and know that all states of mind alike have as their basis, Love. See the self, the consciousness that dwells deep within as a kind of tree of life. Or perhaps we should give it as a vine, for the vine itself, root and branch, is the Creator, and you, each, is a branch off of that vine. By your own free will you choose to graft various other plants, shall we say, other kinds of vine onto that vine and so your experience is a kind of hybrid.

Some grafts take the self towards the ideal and seem most fair and beautiful. Some grafts do not take well at all, and the vine that issues from that graft is sour and bitter and difficult to digest when that fruit is plucked. And when the mouth is bitter with the taste of despair it is difficult to remember that the basic vine is Love, and that one needs only to travel back down to the roots to ground the self in the Creator. In times of difficulty, goading oneself towards enthusiasm and inspiration is not our suggestion. We indeed would suggest that you avoid pushing the self around except when it is deemed absolutely necessary. Rather, attempt to come into a relationship with the momentary self in which that self that is suffering is seen as a child, a child that you can take within the embrace of your own heart and rock and comfort and strengthen.

You can take that child and open the doors of your attention to Love and let that Love dwell, beaming, radiating that one great original Thought until that child within is permeated and completely saturated with that Love that dwells so perfectly at the center of your being.

As you learn to work with your own moods without judgment, without reproach, but with love and patience, so you shall begin to learn peace, for peace is not the removal of all that is not peaceful. Peace within is a fruit of regular, repeated, consistent, and thoroughgoing willingness to experience the self as the self and to regard it with love, for all things in their time shall certainly occur within you. The best and the hardest of experiences alike shall come to you and flow through you and recede at last. And so, the surface shall always be confused to some extent, but it is in the grounds of your being that the work you wish to do shall be done. Be patient in that work. Be quiet when you try to judge. Remember, and refrain. And as you find charity for yourself, so shall you be able to be part of the good in other people’s experience. The peace begins within.

Then Q’uo said that when we are in this weakened state of energies it is often that we will fight against this state and try to control it so that it will go away, but Q’uo recommended that the better response would be to rest, be at peace, and let the deep self open to the Love of the Creator to minister to us. Q’uo went on to say that in our life of conscious seeking we will walk what they called the “razor’s edge”, and on one side of this path will be a beautiful land of promises, dreams, and heartfelt emotions, and on the other side of the razor lies darkness, despair, and being lost in the illusion with no hope for the future. Q’uo suggested that we see each of these paths as being that which have Love as their basis, and we should see this Love as a portion of the vine of the Creator which we have grafted our own unique experiences onto whether that graft is sweet and tasty or bitter and full of despair. Then Q’uo reminded us that both the sweet and bitter grafts have the Love of the Creator as their roots, and in the bitter times we can travel back down to the roots of the Creator and see that suffering self as a child that we can comfort and embrace as we open the door to the Love of the Creator until our child self is saturated with this Love. Q’uo completed their response by saying that we should not judge ourselves for the bad times or congratulate ourselves for the good times because they are all a part of our confusing experience within this illusion, and the best response to both would be the response of love, patience, and peace because it is within the ground of our being that our work is done, and then we can become part of the good in other people’s experience. On January 25, 1987, Q’uo said that the Love of the Creator could be experienced in good times and bad times:

And we would suggest that it be remembered at all times that one moves within the limitless Love of the Creator within this illusion in order that through your experience the Creator might become aware of the possibilities for Love to be placed in situations that will require an increased experience of Itself in order to uncover that Love which has been carefully hidden. Thus does the Creator find Its beingness expressed in your experience in manners vivid and pure as a result of the constant effort to uncover Its own face through your efforts.

Thus does the Creator move within the tiniest, the grandest, the most joyful and the most difficult of circumstances in order to enable each seeker at every portion of its journey to both become aware of the ever-present sustenance of the Love of the Creator when appropriate and also to find those times within the experience of an incarnation when the price, shall we say, for such joyful discovery is far greater in order that that discovery might be imbedded more deeply and securely within the seeker’s total being. Thus, one may see a relationship evolve in which the more difficult seeking provides the opportunity for the more deeply experienced and securely seated revelation of love and unity which ever underlie all experience. Thus, that which is cheaply bought is easily forgotten; that which bears the greater price is that which remains as sure foundation stones upon further experience and service of the One is possible.

We would at this time transfer this contact to the one known as Jim, thanking this instrument and leaving it in love and in light. We are those of Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet you again in the love and in the light through this instrument. At this time we would offer ourselves to any further queries which those gathered here may have to offer us. Is there another query at this time?

K: I would like to ask about the original Thought. This is a product of the Logos that created the universe? How do we experience this one original Thought at this time?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. The one great original Thought that has set all into motion is the creation itself, that which you experience at this time and that which is beyond your current ability to perceive but which shall become more and more available to you as you progress in your own evolutionary journey. To say that the one great original Thought is the Logos is to somewhat misapply the term “Logos,” for the one Thought of the Creator was the thought that It would know Itself. This is the concept of Free Will as you know it.

The means by which the Creator decided to know Itself was to employ the great creative energy and power of infinite numbers of Logoi so that each Logos is as a star or sun body and is an entity of completeness with all densities represented within it. Each Logos has within its care some form of planetary system that also offers the opportunity for what you know as life to be created and supported therein and to move upon the evolutionary path utilizing the Free Will embedded within all creation by the Creator in Its one great original Thought.

Is there another query, my brother?

K: How were you able to perceive the nature of the one great original Thought if it was in the mind of the Creator or within the Creator?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. As we all are a portion of this one Creator, cells within the one great body of Being, each may, through the process of meditation, retire in a single-pointed fashion to that sacred room within and in those special moments of illumination become aware of the nature of the self, and the nature of the Creator, and the nature of the creation as being One.

Is there a further query, my brother?

K: You speak of yourself as the principle of Q’uo. Are you not a collection of unified souls—what I would call souls—in your present state?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. As a principle, in our particular experience, we are a blending of two of what you would call social memory complexes that have united their efforts to be of service by offering our contact to this group. Thus, the blending is as a principle.

Is there a further query, my brother?

K: I would like to clarify. Was there a single Logos that created the multiple Logoi of which you speak to make the Big Bang theory of the universe? Is the Big Bang theory correct, and what the Creator used to make the creation?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. We would suggest that this one Logos was indeed the one Creator who then created the infinite number of Logoi that you may see in your night sky as a representation of infinity. Each Logos, then, has a various strength or capacity for creation, some having created a solar system, others having created an entire galaxy, each being one of an infinite number of Logoi.

Is there a further query, my brother?

K: Some spirits say that they can travel by thought between galaxies. Is there a medium required to travel between galaxies by thought, or is this a consciousness or mind that would allow that?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. We would call this a discipline of the personality that would reflect what you would call the level of one’s spiritual understanding that would allow entities to move throughout the one Creation in thought and in what you would call zero time. Most entities of the third and the fourth density vibrations move with the aid of mechanical devices that allow the physical vehicle to be transported in time through space. As these entities continue upon the evolutionary journey and improve their means by which they seek union with the one Creator then are opened to them the disciplines of the personality that allow movement without the necessity of mechanical devices.

Is there a further query, my brother?

K: What happened in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? Was there one flying saucer in Soccoro, New Mexico, or were there two? Were they from the psychic dimension, fourth density?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. And though we find this is an area of great interest, especially at this time, among many of your peoples, we must refrain from working this riddle, for it is of importance to many to find this answer for the self, and we would not take from them the fruits of this endeavor.

Is there any other query?

K: No, thank you, Q’uo.

I am Q’uo, and again we thank you, my brother. Is there any other query at this time?

R: No question, but could you say “Hi” for us to Hatonn?

I am Q’uo, and we are pleased to report that those of Hatonn are always with this group in spirit and lend their aid and love to each.

Is there a final query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Q’uo, and we are greatly filled with joy at the opportunity of joining our vibrations with this group once again. At this time we shall take our leave of this entity and this group, leaving each in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I had an appointment at Louisville Orthopedics to speak with Dr. Sweet, who has replaced the surgeon that performed my hip replacement surgery in October of 2022. This was the last visit necessary as a way for them to be sure that my hip is still doing well. When I got back home I vacuumed the first floor of the house.

This afternoon I went outside and used my trimmer to trim weeds in various gardens around the yard. I noticed that since we have not gotten the forecast rain that I needed to put the sprinkler in various places around the back yard. Then I got a call from Metropolitan Veterinary Specialists that told me Bosco was ready to come home, so I was so glad to go out and get him into his pet carrier and bring him back home.

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

August 30

If Your Soul Is Exhausted

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

How woefully inadequate is the being who shuts off the flood gate of spiritual information! How quickly will that soul, in its attempt to serve, find itself empty and exhausted!

When Jesus Christ left Its Earthly incarnation, there was no leaving of the Spirit of Love which this entity brought into manifestation from the Father. This inexhaustible source of energy and Love vibrates as we speak through this instrument and may vibrate as well to all who ask.

If you are weary, if your soul is exhausted in service, turn to the consciousness of Love and bask in the sea of joy and peace that awaits you. Open your channel to the water of infinite Love, that as you serve, you may not weary and as you love, you may not tire.

For there is a peace beyond weariness and tiredness. And it is in that holy peace we leave you.

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 November 5, 1995:

We are wondering how change and new growth seem to come from confusion, pain, anger, and all sorts of negative emotions frequently. How can we open ourselves up to such difficult circumstances to aid positive change?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the limitless light of the one infinite Creator. It is a great privilege to be called to your circle of seeking at this time, and we wish to extend to each of you our thanks and our blessing. As we share our thoughts with you we would ask each to remain very able to discriminate in those thoughts which you wish to take and those you wish to leave behind, for we are fallible and are not those who speak with great authority, but rather those who care deeply to be of service to those of your planet who would wish to know what we have to say at this time. We trust you to use that discrimination which is your unshakable gift.

Your third-density Earth experience could be said to be of a certain nature or kind. Basic to that nature is duality. Your illusion is rich and redundant in its dualities and opposites. This two-sidedness is the result of the very kind of illusion which has been prepared for you. It was prepared thusly for a purpose. That purpose is the using of individual free will to make choices concerning how each wishes to progress along the lines of spiritual evolution. As each comes into the incarnative experience upon this Earth plane…

We apologize for this instrument who says she has a frog in her throat. We do not find any such creature to be inhabiting this part of her anatomy. However, if you will bear with us we will bear with her.

Even the infant begins to differentiate and choose who shall best supply its needs. And as that young spirit becomes familiarized with the illusion, and as the veil of forgetting drops, that infant soul prepares for what we might call a long school year, for your incarnative experience takes place in a beautiful and plenteous classroom, that orb upon which you dwell. At the heart of the new experiences lies a consciousness. This consciousness has many parts. There is a great range of awareness to which each of you is privy and the number of choices that is made by you in even one hour of your existence is vast, for as each dwells in this moment, for example, the senses are being bombarded by the noises the ear can hear, by that light or darkness and the images which the eye can see. There are several different sorts of odors which make up that which can be smelled or sniffed in the domicile which each now enjoys. There are literally unlimited numbers of impressions which enter into the nexus of your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual being all the time, and far below the threshold of consciousness about ninety percent of that which is taken in does not come into the consciousness mind.

The young soul upon your planet works upon the surface of experience. This surface experience fills the being completely, for everything is new. But very quickly the choices begin being made, and by the time the youngster has become even a young adult the choices have become solidified into a structure of personality and character which preordains or biases the way sense impressions are taken into the being and used. Along the way in this continuing learning process the experiences of love and of fear have gone deep, penetrating the surface of the personality, penetrating eventually even the deeper character traits. Those experiences when one has experienced love have provided each with times of transcendent joy, and this is the gift of love that, when experienced purely, brings with it a freedom and a lightness that is ineffable, and that is precious, and to be trusted as a real experience.

Those experiences wherein one has sounded the depths of fear have also shaped the life experience. This experiencing of fear is what we would look at at this time, for it serves a great and useful purpose, and yet it is also that which solidifies and weighs experience with what we would term unnecessary poundage. Now, when one looks at fear one first needs to express that there is an appropriate reaction to many hazards which can be called fear. Fear is not always the boogie man or the villain. Often fear is wisdom, but also quite often the action of fear is counterproductive. So let us gaze at the way fear works.

The child touches the stove and receives a burn. Thereafter the child sees the stove and still finds it attractive, but the mind and the emotions contract about that seeing and keep the child from hurting itself. However good fear can be, it also is that dark side of the self in its more subtle expressions and as that shadow self it serves the seeker ill. Now, we would not ask you to extirpate this fear. We do not suggest that you become full of fearlessness, ignoring the environment in which you find yourselves. We do, however, encourage each to spend the time each day to reflect upon those times when you have felt that contracting which fear invokes, for often that reaction of fear, that contracting, creates a knot, a tangle of the beingness so that the consciousness is narrowed and straightened and limited unnecessarily. It is good, then, we think, to reflect upon whether you have used fear well in the day or whether in the events of the day fear has used you, for what you were describing in your question was the way fears create pain.

The group question for this session was: “We are wondering how change and new growth seem to come from confusion, pain, anger, and all sorts of negative emotions frequently. How can we open ourselves up to such difficult circumstances to aid positive change?” Q’uo began by saying that our third-density experience has the basic nature of duality, and this gives us the opportunity to make choices which Q’uo said begins when the infant first comes into its incarnation and begins to use its senses of the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual being to gather information within its consciousness, but 90 percent of what it senses registers only in its subconscious mind. Then Q’uo said that the young soul works only upon the surface of experience which eventually causes its choice-making ability to be biased in a way that determines how the sense impressions will be used so that the concepts of love and fear move deeply within the being to become a gift of love that manifests as joy, freedom, and lightness. But then Q’uo said that fear had two sides: one was the wisdom of avoiding dangerous situations such as touching a hot stove, and the other was the dark side of fear that does not serve the seeker well when it unnecessarily limits the consciousness, so Q’uo suggested that time should be spent each day in contemplation of how fear may have caused the consciousness to be contracted in a way that caused pain. On March 23, 2024, Q’uo described one way that we may deal with our fears:

The fear that is so prevalent within your third-density illusion at this time can be dealt with by those who are aware of the nature of reality, being Love. And within the meditative state may see any person, thing, quality, or place where fear resides and send it the Love of the Creator through your hearts that you may surround and engulf that quality of fear wherever it exists with the Love that will call to the heart of fear, which is Love that has been distorted. In your sending of Love to fear, you help to undistort the quality of fear, so that there might be a more clear feeling and perception of Love within the world about one.

This is a means of planetary healing that many may use at this time. As there is so much fear that is holding sway within various entities, nations, and portions of your planet. The fear that exists in so many places, then, may be healed by many of those such as yourself, who can use their meditative state to send the Love and the Light of the Creator to all places that have such fear that the call to the heart of fear be made to Love, and that Love will respond and heal, what once was fear into Love.

Now, the basic nature of your illusion, that duality of which we spoke, is as it is in order to provide a structure within which the student of truth may work upon itself in the refining and the disciplining of the personality. Basically, you are attempting, through the choices you make, to become more aware of who you really are and what your personal truth consists of. When you are moving from an attitude that is free and relaxed you have the capacity to be more aware in a conscious way of the rhythm of life than when you are contracted through various kinds of fear. When one is unsure, uncertain, tentative, and holding back cautiously these contracting feelings create a friction, and this friction makes the seeking so vastly uncomfortable. And since there are so many ways in which a sensitive consciousness can be hurt it is no wonder that the experiences of living seem to have much pain in them.

But you see, as you came into this incarnational experience you were looking forward to the opportunity to enter into the transforming of the self alchemically with great enthusiasm and gusto, for the veil of forgetting was not yet in place, and you saw the incredible opportunity to learn and to serve in the name of love. And like all those who are not in the thick of things you thought it would be easier than it turned out to be, and this is inevitable, for does any of us have the strength of imagination that is capable of becoming fully aware of a situation never experienced? And so, it seems that the times of suffering are those times which give us the gifts of learning. Now, the amount of pain and suffering, emotionally speaking, that a seeker must carry is entirely up to that seeker, for that seeker has set for itself, and this is true of each, certain goals. Each came into this incarnation determined to learn certain lessons. These lessons were chosen uniquely by you and address those areas in which you felt you could become clearer, purer, and finer, and you wished to work upon the consciousness. And you chose to come here not only to help this dear planet as its consciousness is transformed, but you came also for your own agenda. And this agenda is always to do with love, for you see this is not the density of wisdom. This is the density of love. And you seek, when you think you are seeking wisdom, confusedly.

We must share with you that it is our perception that one within your density will not become wise, for the illusion was created specifically to confound wisdom. Perhaps we may say that your journey is the journey from the head to the heart, from reason to feeling, from rigid structure to rhythmic and flowing structure, from holding to letting go. And, paradoxically, as you allow each strand you hold so tightly to be released you do become more wise as you release fear, release undue concern about those things which are to come.

One can feel a victim very easily as one seeks to live spiritually. One can feel the weight of all that has been given up. One can drown in the hopes that have not happened. One can be deafened by one’s doubts. And we say to you that all this is satisfactory. All this is acceptable. For truly you did not come here to be happy. You did not come here to be satisfied. But, rather, you came here to work, and to learn, and to serve.

So we encourage you to go on, day by day, and hour by hour, not asking yourself to be wise, but asking yourself to be loving to yourself, to the world around you, and to your other selves which are the very essence of your being. We ask you to allow yourself to be foolish. We ask you to get to know yourself in all of your impulses and little eccentric ways, to have a childlike feeling of exploration as you find yourself responding to the catalyst that the world brings to your senses. We ask you to put your arms around yourself within and to give love and support to that pilgrim soul which sails the seas of life, seeking hungrily, yearningly, constantly for that which beckons, that which calls.

Your heart is already full of all that you seek. All that you wish is possible, and yet it shall always come unexpectedly, sideways, as you have not prefigured it. And it shall come in uncomfortable ways, for when anything changes there is the adjustment to be made, and this, perhaps, is the heart of what we wish to say, that it is your desire in coming here to change, and change means movement. And if you have ever attempted to stop something that has momentum you know that there must be force applied in order to make that momentum cease and another vector begin.

This is what you have asked of yourself: to change. Each wishes to accelerate the rate of her own spiritual evolution, and this involves change. And the natural reaction to this change is contraction and resistance, and this friction hurts. Can you learn to allow change without contraction and concern? Perhaps, on a good day. Not on a bad day. And this is acceptable. The less you worry about how foolishly you worry the less you condemn yourself for fearing that which turns out not to be scary, the less in the end you shall have suffered.

We encourage each to be patient with the self. It is not a characteristic of your illusion that things be clear, and yet there lies within each a heart that is full, and fair, and perfect. And there is a door into that holy place that is within. We encourage each to knock upon that door each day and say, “Good morning. Today I am with the infinite Creator. Today I am Love made visible. Today I am. I am. I am.”

Now Q’uo said that the dual nature of our reality gives us the opportunity to use disciplines of the personality to discover who we really are, and this is done more effectively when we are relaxed and comfortable rather than feeling the contraction of fear that makes learning our lessons painful. Then Q’uo said that we planned our lessons before moving through the veil of forgetting, so after we begin our lessons we find more difficulties in learning them that actually help us to move more into the concept of love so that we can learn our lessons to become more clear and pure as our work in consciousness, and part of that work was that we also wanted to help to lighten the vibrations of our planet. Then Q’uo reminded us that if we seek wisdom, we will become confused because this is the density of love where we make the journey from the head to the heart, and, paradoxically, if we are successful in this journey we will actually become wiser. Then Q’uo said that living the spiritual life can make us feel like we are victims because so many hopes do not come true, and there are too many doubts, but this is as it should be because we have come here to work, to learn, and to serve. So Q’uo encouraged us to be gentle and loving with ourselves and with others, to become like a child, and explore our eccentric ways as we work with the catalyst of our everyday lives. Then Q’uo said that our hearts already contain that which we seek, and it will come unexpectedly and be uncomfortable because what we are seeking is change that will accelerate our spiritual evolution, and our natural reaction to change is resistance and contraction because change is painful. So, Q’uo encouraged us to be patient with ourselves, and each day we should knock on the door to our heart that will open to a holy place where we can say: “Good morning. Today I am with the infinite Creator. Today I am Love made visible. Today I am. I am. I am.” On April 25, 1993, Q’uo described the purpose and process of change:

Eventually, within your total beingness, it is necessary that you understand each change so that the total spectrum of your experiences will have meaning and integrity. However, at this time, as you are in a midst of such change, it is not as important that you know the specific nature of the change as it is that you prepare yourself for change by opening your attitude and your heart to that which is being born within you. You welcome a new being. This kind of change is that which occurs a number of times during the seeker’s life experience. The conscious seeker will be more prepared to endure the rigors of change than the entity who is as yet still seeking in an unconscious or automatic fashion. Thus, it is important at this time to simply open the self in love and acceptance of all those difficulties you face, whether they are generated from without your being or from within your being, for in truth all that you perceive you personalize in a fashion which blends perceiver and perceived.

Thus, your experiences become a part of you, and as you progress in your journey of seeking you will find that this blending of experience occurs most easily when there is as little resistance and as great vulnerability to it as you can stably withstand and accept within your being. It is not easy to place oneself within the swirling waters of change, for it is easy to believe that one may drown or be washed ashore in a distant location unfamiliar to the present self. However, we can assure each of you that you have placed within your incarnational patterns these opportunities for rebirth of this child-like self that laughs with glee at all catalyst that it perceives, looking at the world as a place in which there is endless opportunity for experience and excitement.

We would at this time transfer this contact to the one known as Jim. We thank this instrument and leave it in love and in light.

[Tape ends.]

This morning I went back upstairs and continued to make the new recording studio a place where sound will be deadened by the stapling of blankets to all of the surfaces within it. This morning I finished that work by stapling a blanket to the inside of the door and a small piece of a blanket onto an area of one of the walls that was bare. Then I spread a blanket on the floor and secured it with staples as well. Then I put the chair in the room that I will sit in and added the two small tables that will hold the computer and two computer screens. I also put the power cord into the room that is plugged into a wall socket outside of the room, and I plugged a lamp into it.

This afternoon I went out to visit Bosco at the Metropolitan Veterinary Specialists, and while I was there they let me know that a Freestyle Libre glucose monitor had been purchased at Walgreen’s Drug Store in Middletown, so when I completed my visit with Bosco I drove to Walgreen’s, picked up the glucose monitor, and took it back to the Metropolitan Veterinary Specialists.

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

August 29

Peace In Cycles Of Change

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

As you gaze upon this day you may see the growing signs of harvest time: the yellowed leaf, the cooler sun, the shortened time of light, the beginning of the end of summer, and the rolling change into autumn.

So are the rhythms of the interior life as well, moving in spiral fashion towards an ever higher goal of love and unity. Should the tree cling to its yellow leaf, then as further change unrolled there would be no room for the green leaf of spring. Should you cling to those fashions and fruits of your manifestation before this moment, you may be keeping yourself from experiencing the rhythm of change.

In that rhythm is rightness and the breaking through into new life experiences. May you embrace the cycles of your moods, your activities, your thoughts, and your body itself as it experiences the cycles of change, each of which gives to seeking souls the unending opportunity to experience the mind of Christ which offers peace in suffering, peace in change, and peace over all things.

In this ineffable peace we leave you now and ever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from October 29, 1995:

Our question today deals with the foundation self that we attempt to know, to build a path to, to solidify with faith throughout our lives. It seems that catalyst either peels away layers of our being so that we get closer to this foundation self or an adding unto the various experiences and personalities that we have so that we approximate this ideal or core self, whether it is faith or soul essence that comes with us from incarnation to incarnation. We would like information about how we work to know this core of self, how we balance various aspects of this self that seem at odds with each other, how we get to know mysterious parts of this self that make themselves known from time to time, how we find messages from that core self in our dreams that come in archetypical images.

(Carla channeling)

Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo, and may we say what a privilege and blessing it is for us to share in your meditation and in your seeking for your own truth. We are within your planetary sphere specifically to aid those who would wish to ask us for our thoughts, and we only ask that you evaluate our opinions using your own discrimination, for each seeker has an unique path to the one infinite Creator, and, therefore, each has an unique point of view which creates personal truths that you hear and resonate to. Keep those that resonate within your own being and leave the rest behind. This favor allows us to share our humble and often incorrect opinions with you without infringing upon your free will, and we appreciate your understanding this, for we do not come to teach, but rather to share. We are those upon that same path of seeking as you but a few steps further on. We know not the mystery. We yearn for it as do you.

As we gaze at the subject of the core being and how within incarnation to find access to it to know the self, we ponder which tack to take in discussing this seminal and interesting question, for in one sense the core being of all that exists is the one great original Thought, that unit vibration, shall we say, known as Love. Indeed, this Love is your essential self. Due to the Creator’s adopting free will, the original Thought created that which you know as Light and those photons, as you call them, which are the particles, shall we say, of Light have built all that you are aware of and all that exists in manifestation, either in the inner or time/space planes of existence, or the outer or space/time planes of existence.

To be transparent is the most apt skill that can be created within your practice in terms of becoming aware of the ultimate essence of who you are. This transparency is, shall we say, not a state of being which is primary on the agenda of lessons learned within your density. However, those who seek the one infinite Mystery often yearn to be transparent to the surrounding illusion and wish mightily to experience that lightness in transparency of being which is associated with being pure spirit. The most calm and the most busy of times alike offer moments or windows of opportunity wherein suddenly the illusion crystallizes and shimmers, and the transparency of being can be felt. When these moments occur, find time to give praise and thanks for these experiences of a truth that lies within you.

We, however, would not choose this level of core beingness to discuss primarily with you at this working because it is our opinion that each density has its purpose. Now, we would preface this line of thinking by pointing out that the seeming progression of densities is an artifact of time and space and is not the deepest truth of the cosmos and its makeup. In a deeper reality, or shall we say, a more shallow illusion, all time and space is one and as an entity, therefore, each seeker is working simultaneously upon all densities and sub-densities. However, within incarnation there is time; there is space; and there is progression. Therefore, we use the concept of densities to indicate which lessons are learned first, which lessons are the foundation for further lessons.

In first density the lesson is simply consciousness. In second density the lesson involves the turning to the light, the beginning of choices. In third density, which you now enjoy, the lesson is in learning how to love and how to accept love. These lessons are two sides of the one coin of love. You have entered into this incarnative experience because you felt that there was room for improvement in your understanding of love. Now, there are other reasons which cause you to wish to come at this time having to do with service to this planet and its peoples in this time of transformation on a planetary scale. But each also has lessons to learn, and so we would focus upon the core beingness of the self as it can in a stable manner be experienced helpfully within incarnation.

You have heard us speak of meditation, not once—except for the one known as J—but again and again. We use this term meditation because it is what this instrument is used to calling it, but often in meditation people visualize, pray, and contemplate. However, the core of being within incarnation, we feel, can perhaps most purely be sought within the concept of listening. Each is aware when someone physical speaks, and the sound vibrations carry to the physical ear. Even if the language is foreign the entity knows that communication is being attempted. There is within each seeker an instinct for hearing within. However, this instinct is latent in most entities within incarnation, and it needs to be encouraged over time on a regular basis.

Your holy work known as the Bible talks of the “still, small voice.” We would characterize this voice as that of what this instrument would call Christ consciousness, or the Spirit within. Within each entity there lies a country that is a holy high place. You spoke earlier of geography of the self, and we would say that this high place exists within a dark continent of the subconscious mind. Into this place comes the seeker who opens the inner ear and in this place dwells the Creator in fullness and in mystery, and the silent speech of this mystery is food and drink to the eternal self within. Each condemns the self for not meditating well and yet we say to you that the attempt is all. Each experiences usually the subjective feeling that a meditation could have been purer or less cluttered with the errant thoughts of a foolish and shallow personality that seem to drift and rush through the calm and silent chamber within with undue rudeness and haste. Yet we ask you to be very patient and compassionate when looking at the performance of meditation or silent listening.

The question for this session was: “We would like information about how we work to know this core of self, how we balance various aspects of this self that seem at odds with each other, how we get to know mysterious parts of this self that make themselves known from time to time, how we find messages from that core self in our dreams that come in archetypical images?” Q’uo began by saying that basically all that exists is the core being of the one great Thought of Love and is our essential self that is created out of Light. Q’uo went on to say that to be transparent is the way to become aware of the core self, but in this illusion it is only when one seeks the Mystery of being that there may be windows of opportunity when the creation crystallizes, and the illusion becomes transparent, that one can experience its pure spirit. But then Q’uo said that even though in the deepest reality all time and space is one, and each seeker is working simultaneously upon all densities and sub-densities, they would prefer to discuss the nature of the core being as that which occurs through a progression of densities. They said that the first density lesson is consciousness; in second density the lesson involves turning to the light and the beginning of choices; third density is learning how to love and how to accept love. Then Q’uo said that in the third density the core of being can be most purely sought through listening within the state of meditation for that holy place where the “still, small voice” of the Creator dwells within in fullness and mystery. They went on to say that this silence is like food and drink to the eternal self, and the seeker should be patient with themselves for any perceived shortcomings in their meditation because it is the intention to meditate that is most important. On March 27, 1994, Hatonn spoke of the value of meditation to listen to the “still, small voice” within:

We suggest to each what you might call silent prayer or meditation. Now, there is much good in prayers of thanksgiving, praise and intercession. There is much good in speaking to the infinite One, to having a relationship with this infinite intelligence. Yet does not a part of any relationship depend upon listening? Just so, we suggest that each seeker spend some time each day, if it be only a few moments, actively practicing the listening to that still, small voice which your Bible speaks of. For the Creator speaks not with thunder or disaster or great noise but rather the Creator speaks in silence. For there are no words which may carry the energy of the infinite One. Therefore, the infinite One’s relationship to you is one of being, is one of presence. We encourage each to spend a few moments each day practicing the presence of the infinite Creator, simply allowing the self to realize that the ground upon which he sits is holy ground, for the Creator is everywhere and all things come within that holy orbit.

You see, within incarnation, within the progression of youth to age and day-to-day, each has learned to value performance and production. Each has the internal checklist of things to do and there is an uncanny delight in crossing off those never-ending things to do, and yet your beingness depends not one whit upon your crossing off the items on your list. Rather, your value depends upon your vibration. If you are in love with life, if you embrace the present moment, then your core vibration is expressing at its best, shall we say, at its most harmonious, at its clearest and most lucid. And this is what people receive from you louder and more impressively often than what you are doing at the time. This nexus of vibratory patterns is that which you came to share with this planet so beloved to each of you. This is the gift you have to give to your fellow beings at this time—yourself.

Are you thinking that you are not good enough? Let us square away and tackle that thought, for the self-judgment, while useful in Earthly pursuits, is peculiarly disadvantageous to one who seeks to give the self in love. There is a sense of proportion that comes to one who has touched that core being which is tabernacling with the one infinite Creator. Beyond words, beyond actions, this essence is your gift, and it is worthy. How beaten down each entity is when he attempts to judge the self against the yardsticks so eagerly accepted. Now, we are not suggesting that good behavior is not appropriate. Indeed, each action and each thought can be examined, and each can profitably learn about the self as she contemplates the actions of the day and sees ways to do things more as she would wish to have done them. This learning is legitimate and is part of why you are here. But in judging one’s own value it is very easy to spend time tearing the self down, which could better be spent in holding that dear human self in the arms of the love within and comforting and being with that dear child of Earth that tries so hard and fails so often. It is appropriate for each of you to fail often, to fall down and to pick the self up.

This is why you came into such a heavy, chemical illusion. You wanted to fall down and go boom, as this instrument would say. You wanted to be a baby and to learn in the illusion, of the illusion, for the illusion because within this thick illusion the forgetting of who the true self is can take place so that each entity feels alone and each entity has the chance using nothing but free will and faith to choose to come face to face with that core self you all seek, and to, within that self, make the decision of how to serve the infinite Creator. Each within this room has chosen to serve along the path of service to others. And so, you seek by will and faith alone to make choices that place you, to the best of your judgment and ability, increasingly in mental and physical states where you are dwelling within the love of the moment and are able to serve others.

Were you not dwelling behind this veil of forgetting these choices would be easily made. Within this illusion, however, the choice to give, the choice to make expressions of love, especially in the face of a perceived not-love is precious, for choices made in the darkness, in the absence of knowledge, go very deep. You are working upon that core vibration more efficiently, shall we say, within this illusion than you ever will in all of the illusions that follow, for once you have graduated from this third density the veil of forgetting shall be lifted, and you will know that you are one with the infinite One but that all others are one with that infinite One and with you, and there will be the strength of the group who together seek that shall aid greatly in the basic awareness of a more solid illusion, shall we say, one more filled with light.

Never again shall you build the foundation of all that is to come. This is a short and intense experience during which you have marvelous opportunities to transform the self. These chances shall come in a cyclical fashion. Just as you have learned one lesson and are feeling secure, as the one known as B was speaking earlier, the next lesson shall come forward, and all shall be out of kilter again, and in the initiation into that next level of the lesson of the incarnation much will seem disjointed and difficult. And then the lesson begins to be learned. The experience smoothes out, perhaps, for a time and then another time of learning begins.

Each portion of this cycle is equally useful, and we encourage each to appreciate the easy times and the difficult ones, for in each state of mind there are many, many lessons that can be worked upon. It, for instance, is easier to work on thanksgiving when all seems to be rosy. However, there is equal work in thanksgiving when things seem difficult. This is a chance you worked hard for, this chance to dwell in dimness of perception and challenge the self to find the light. When you are listening, know that you are at your most precious time, that listening within is as the key that unlocks the door to that holy ground which is, in truth, in all places, in all times, and in all things.

Now Q’uo said that as we grow older and perform the daily round of activities, and accomplish a great deal of work, this does not affect the nature of the core self in any way, for it is the love of life and the experience of the joy of any present moment when our core vibration is at its best and is what we have come to share with others. Then Q’uo said that it was not a good idea for us to judge ourselves because this makes it difficult for us to give ourselves in love to others, and we should spend time comforting and loving that child self within us that fails so often because we have come into this illusion to fail time and again so that we can continue to use our will and faith to make choices to face our core self and decide how we wish to serve the infinite Creator. Q’uo went on to say that if we were not in this heavy illusion these choices would be easily made, but they would not carry the weight or value of those choices that we make within this illusion. Then Q’uo said that when we are able to be graduated into the fourth density, we would join with others who have also done so, and each shall be one with the infinite One, and the group will become part of a density of greater light. Then Q’uo reminded us that this illusion offers us the opportunity to transform ourselves by learning lessons that repeat in a cyclical fashion so that the intensity increases with each repetition of lessons. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that we should be grateful for the lessons that are easy and those that are difficult, and that the key to all learning was to listen within to unlock the door to that holy ground that is in all places, times, and things. On June 18, 1989, Q’uo said that we should listen within to allow the Creator’s Love to flow through us:

So, our focus, perhaps, to you this evening would be to suggest that a time be set aside, and, if possible, a special place where one may go to listen within one’s heart, having opened the door behind which stands the consciousness of Christhood, the consciousness of Love. This consciousness is infinite, and one who trusts it and has faith in it is able to tap into that overflowing, beautiful and ineffable stream of the Creator’s Love. You tap into it, it flows through you, and you are not weary or disappointed or saddened, for you have done your best; you have done your work; you have prepared yourself; you have challenged each spirit and found that spirit to be true to your own beliefs.

We would at this time transfer this contact to the one known as Jim. We would thank this instrument and leave it in love and in light. We are known to you as those of Q’uo.

[Tape ends.]

This morning I set the sprinkler in three locations around the fishpond and in the front yard to water the gardens as we are still in a very hot and dry spell. I went upstairs to continue work on what will be a new recording studio because the one in the basement—where I have recorded all of L/L Research’s audio books—is just a few feet from the sump pumps which have been running for the last three and one half weeks due to a four inch rain on August 3, and I can’t shut them off because the basement would flood. So I decided the closet on the second floor in what used to be Carla’s office would be the perfect place to create a new recording studio. I have taken the three pieces of furniture up there, and this morning I took the blankets off the wall of the old recording studio and stapled them onto the walls, the ceiling, and the floor to deaden any sounds.

This afternoon I used the water wand to water the area around the fire pit and the Forsythia bushes on the north border of my property. Then  I took Bosco’s insulin and some more food to the Metro Veterinary Specialist center and dropped them off for use later today and tomorrow. The vet wants to get another glucose meter to put on Bosco, but there won’t be any available until tomorrow, so Bosco will have to stay another day at the vet’s. However, I did get to spend about half an hour with him, and I am looking forward to bringing him home tomorrow. 

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

August 28

The Secret Is To Remember

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

Whatever you have been doing, stop now. For a moment, experience the Creator within. Let this habit become more and more pronounced in the many moments of the daily round when the mind is otherwise under-occupied or unoccupied.

In training the self to seek the Creator within, again and yet again and even yet again, in unending succession of moments, so does each seeker begin to glow from within with the consciousness of unconditional Love which communion with the one infinite Creator does provide.

As a human you cannot love any without condition. Yet when you acknowledge the unconditional Love that is the Christ self, the Creator self within, you may tap into an infinite source of energy, strength, power and joy.

And you may share that consciousness without even trying. The secret is to remember to remember the Creator. May you fare well in training the mind to bow to infinite Love and Compassion.

We leave you in the Love 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 October 22, 1995:

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and light through this instrument. At this time it is our privilege to offer ourselves in the attempt to speak to any other query which those present may have for us. Is there another query?

B: My question concerns Bosnia-Herzegovina. What are the karmic patterns of the groups involved?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother, and we would begin by offering our great gratitude and thanks to you for allowing us to speak our thoughts to you. We also feel great joy at this privilege. We feel that it is appropriate…

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

We shall continue. We feel it appropriate to speak in a general fashion about the entities of which you speak but are not able to give specific information about their particular development and the forces which have them as they are, for in truth, my brother, all peoples of this planet–and indeed all entities within this creation–share the formative powers of Love. These creative forces have made these entities individualized as they are, for these forces have included not only the Love of the Creator and the Light of the creation but the free will of entities working as races, as groups of entities that have for many incarnative episodes chosen to move along a certain path that would make them unique, that would give them identity, that would give them purpose, that would give them direction, that would give them inspiration to continue upon this infinite journey of seeking, of learning, and of sharing that all portions of the Creator have chosen as means whereby each portion shall glorify the Creator by that which it is, by that which it becomes.

Thus, each race, each culture, each religion offers to the entities that are grouped within it an identification that makes them who they are and what they are. In order to become individualized from the larger realms of creation and of consciousness more and more specific choices are made, much as the sculptor removes a portion of stone in such and such a fashion so that in the end there remains that which began in the eye of the artist. And this which remains is only that which remains and no other. That it is so identified gives a certain strength, a pride, a power and purpose to the entities. This enlivens the group as a whole and each individual as a portion of this group, so that it is helpful in the individuation process for such choices to be made, for the choices to be vivid, colorful, much likened to the peacock’s tail when spread, revealing colors that are very, very bright and individualized.

However, this great strength can also become like unto a weakness when those who are within the particular grouping are unable, for a portion of experience, to move beyond these boundaries and see a larger identity that is shared with others who in the smaller identification seem quite separate and perhaps even at odds with the original grouping. There are, however, within each culture, each religion, each philosophy, those far-seeing individuals who are like unto the hero in any journey or story, that can open up new possibilities to the people by their far-seeing vision.

Thus, within each grouping is seeded the potential for the expansion of the vision that includes a larger definition of the identity so that the evolutionary process may continue upon a new level of experience and understanding. It is the struggle of each culture and grouping to break free of that which makes them what they are or what they were and to become more than that. It is like unto the chick inside the egg pecking at the shell that it might break free and become a greater being. This is often a painful process in terms of your third-density illusion as this breaking free and breaking through the shell of identity occurs. Thus, there is much opportunity for reconciliation, for forgiveness, for mercy and indeed for compassion.

The great healing power of Love, then, is that which aids all in this process and those which are far-seeing in each grouping will become aware of that healing power, for all spring from it. Some see it and feel it and experience it before others, and these are the way-showers.

B’s question was: “My question concerns Bosnia-Herzegovina. What are the karmic patterns of the groups involved?” Q’uo began by saying that they could only speak in general terms, for all entities are created by the power of Love which then can become more individualized by the free will of each race or group of people that moves through many incarnations. They went on to say that this would make these groups unique and would give them their purpose, direction, and their learning that all groups of the Creator have chosen to glorify the Creator by that which they are and by that which they become. Then Q’uo said that each race, group, or religion would go through a process of individualization by adopting certain beliefs, choices, and behaviors that gave them a certain strength or power that would make them unique and proud of who they were. And then Q’uo said that these strengths could become a weakness when they were seen as points of separation and even difficulties accepting the different beliefs of other groups, but at some point, there would be far-seeing heroes in these groups that could see the larger view of the similarities between the groups that could help to resolve the difficulties and aid the evolutionary process. Q’uo went on to say that this often was a great source of difficulty within the third density for such groups to break free of their former identities and become more than what they were, and it would be necessary for the concepts of compassion, forgiveness, and reconciliation to resolve these conflicts. Q’uo completed their thoughts by saying that it was the way-showers in each group that would help the groups to discover the healing powers of Love. On August 16, 1979, Hatonn spoke how we can use the healing power of love to resolve difficulties:

We ask only one thing. Instead of becoming bitter as the lessons of life hurt you and pain you, physically, emotionally, and mentally—remain open to the healing power of love, which is best done, as we have always said to you, my friends, through daily meditation. It does not matter what type of meditation that you use—you may pray; you may read scripture or other holy works and contemplate the truth of what you read; you may sit in silence in passive meditation; you may engage in magical rituals, such as your so-called holy communion, and by that imagery find peace. But however, my friends, that you can become close to the one original Thought that created all of us, to the one Creator that is Love, that is what you should do daily; for you cannot be a loving person by yourself.

Humanity is very limited in its ability to love, for they have not, through the centuries as a planetary consciousness, spent a great deal of time in concentrating upon love but rather in concentrating upon other things, such as the acquisition of goods, the acquisition of geographical territories, the acquisition of peoples, and the disruption of human life in order to gain these goals. Thus, your planetary consciousness does not have love as its strongest suit.

To get into contact with the infinite source of Love that may be compared to the star body that is your sun, you must meditate and find within yourself that small part of yourself, which is your real self, and which is part of the original Thought of Love.

Once you have found this, you can always deal with situations in such a way as to never betray that within you which is your best. However, my friends, if you fail, do not reproach yourself but go on and try again, for it is expected of a student of life that he will not be perfect in all of his examinations. Thus, encourage yourselves to seek again and yet again the peace of the presence of Love.

Is there another query, my brother?

B: Not at this time, thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you, my brother. Is there another query?

P: To follow up, is the emergence of a new identity a portion of the fighting that is going on in the Balkan states?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. It is our opinion, and we offer it as opinion, that the emergence of a new identity is most important for all cultures of this planet at this time, for it is the divisions between entities that fuels the animosity that one grouping feels for another as one grouping holds its religion, its philosophy, its history, its experience against another which it has opposed for a great portion of time. When entities can move beyond the boundaries of previous identity and see themselves similar to others in a larger grouping, then the lines which divide are removed and the environment which all inhabit is seen as home to all.

Is there another query, my sister?

P: Many groups do not wish to share histories or experiences. Do entities reincarnate within the same groups?

I am Q’uo, and we speak now in generalities as there are always exceptions to each rule and situation. But in the main, we may agree that entities tend to remain with those whose beginnings they share, for there are families or clans or groups who have had shared origins upon other planetary influences with experiences that are distinct from those who have reached your particular planetary influence from yet another planetary influence, and these energies are appropriate to be worked out together so that the evolution of each individual entity aids the evolution of the group, and the evolution of the group aids the evolution of the individual. Thus is the great plan of evolution undertaken as a means whereby these groups may evolve and aid the evolution of others as well.

[Tape ends.]

This morning I took Bosco to my vet to have an X-ray done to see if he was needing help to get the stool out since it has been quite a while since I have seen any evidence of this in his litter box. The X-ray showed that he needed an enema to clear the accumulated stool out of his body. It also showed that he had fluid around his heart and lungs, so it was recommended that I take him out to the Metro Veterinary Services where he had the cancerous growth removed from his mouth a couple of weeks ago. After looking at the X-rays they decided to keep run more tests to see if there was any procedure that could help him to live longer, so they will keep him overnight and let me know tomorrow what procedures they have done.

This afternoon I went outside and put the Pondfix in the fishpond to aid in water clarity. Then I put fresh sugar syrup in my three hummingbird feeders, and then I went across the street to do the same with my neighbor’s two hummingbird feeders. While I was there I weeded her flower garden.

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

August 27

The Singular Way

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

Only the fool sets about examining the life of the builder of all things, thinking that by this man and by that man shall come forth lessons of wisdom which may be picked and chosen among for the benefit of the self.

The wise man sees the singular way, the way of commitment, trust, and belief. We of the Spirit of the Love of Jesus the Christ cannot say to anyone, “Follow the Son of God. Become Sons and Daughters of God.” For that would be presumptuous. For not all are ready to make such a decision. Yet if you follow Jesus the Christ, follow Him not as an inspired teacher among others but as the Son of the living God. For the riches of the Love of Jesus the Christ open themselves like precious jewels in the heart of him who trusts and believes.

Such are the ways of love and peace, and in that peace we leave you, both 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 October 22, 1995:

We have been talking about two concepts, the pre-incarnative programming that allows us to learn the lessons we have chosen and the free will of the incarnation that blends with the supposed predestination of the pre-incarnative choices. The other question concerns the blending of the planet’s religions, cultures, and philosophies, and we wonder how these can be reconciled to achieve peace. We would like Q’uo’s comments on whatever seems to be of value to our evolution in these areas.

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo. We greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are most pleased and happy to be with you this day and we greet and bless each of you. We thank you for calling us to your circle. It is our privilege to serve by offering you our thoughts, and we ask only that you take the thoughts that ring true to you and leave the rest behind, for each has his own path to follow, and each path is correct for the one person that is following it, and each has discrimination and knows what is true and right for him. If you will do that we then feel free to offer our honest opinions. They are not infallible; we ask you to realize that. We are the Brothers and Sisters of Sorrow. We come when there is a call. Your planet has a great call at this time. We feel that we have good news, and we share it with you with a whole heart and a humble spirit.

Your queries this day are most interesting. We shall attempt to speak on this subject to some extent, but we ask you to realize that this is a large subject and one which can be explored certainly further than we will this day. Perhaps we shall begin by looking at the way that entities come into being in your density. Your density is the culmination of the first two densities, those being the density of elemental awareness known by your rocks and earth, your sea and sky, and the second density of animal and vegetable growth with its turning to the light and feeding from the light. In your third density you come into third density fresh from the creation of the Father as a flower or a tree or an animal. Consciousness is one, both the consciousness of the species and the consciousness of the place and the creation and the nature of creation. There is an intimate and instinctual awareness of the Creator, yet there is no awareness of the self.

The second-density entity gradually becomes aware of love because of human energy invested in the second-density creatures such as your pets. The awareness of self and the inward-turning gaze are the hallmarks of third density. As each density has its lessons, so the lesson of third density is that lesson of finding ways to love and to be loved, not only in relationships of one person to another but also in relationship of groups of people to other groups. Yours is a density that begins with primitive, small and scattered communities and by the end of the cycle becomes an environment of great, clearly defined and very conscious groups of entities.

The energies that are being worked on in third density are potentially all energies from the basic red-ray or sexual energy center through that rainbow of energies. However, it is the function of third density to complete work on that orange ray of personal relationships and to study and attempt to absorb ways of learning to love within the yellow-ray energy center, that ray which is involved when group-oriented energies are shared between individuals. The instinct to gather together in groups is deep. The instinct to include some and exclude others is very deep. And it is extremely easy for the seeker to become quite lost in the sea of confusion in which all of these energies are experienced, for your world is indeed a sea of confusion.

Now, if it is understood that the primary work of third density is in tuning and balancing those lower three energy centers of red, orange and yellow and then of opening and finding ways to maintain an openness and fullness of the heart, then it may be seen that those energies are not instinctual. The refinement has begun, for you stand as a third-density entity as a kind of rough diamond with unpolished edges and without sparkling facets, and through lifetime after lifetime within your third-density experience the self that is inherent within, that crystalline entity that you truly are, begins to become visible as the friction of everyday living works to smooth and refine that crystalline self.

Certainly, some of the abrasive and cleansing experiences of your illusion seem unlucky and unfortunate, yet it is precisely that friction that does the work of exposing the crystal that sparkles within, and the work that is done by the seeker is work upon the self. The seeker wishes to balance red ray, for that is the basic and very important beginning of energies, and that which is not freed and flowing within that root energy center constitutes a primal blockage that will slow and distort the pure light energy which you are receiving from the Creator.

Then it is that you work upon the relationship chakra by working within the self to come into more awareness of what you are feeling and thinking concerning the self in relationship to the self and to other selves. Often it is that an entity that truly does not wish to advance or finds it too painful to advance further will turn from yellow-ray work and move back into orange-ray work, that which is strictly between one entity and another or between the self and the self, in order to be more comfortable.

However, at this end time of your present third-density cycle it is entirely appropriate that each sets the self the task of finding new ways of coming into harmony with other cultures, other races, and other structures of thought, logic, and being. The end result of this planetary effort to come into spiritual convergence shall be that social memory complex that is the basic structure for fourth-density work. You are attempting to learn how to be one people, sharing each other’s thoughts, hopes, and fears, carrying each other’s burdens as naturally as breathing, sharing each other’s joys as if they are your own.

The group questions for this session began with: “The pre-incarnative programming that allows us to learn the lessons we have chosen and the free will of the incarnation that blends with the supposed predestination of the pre-incarnative choices.” And then: “The blending of the planet’s religions, cultures, and philosophies, and we wonder how these can be reconciled to achieve peace.” Q’uo began by saying that entities come into the third density from the first density of the elemental awareness of sky, water, earth, and rock and then move into the second density of animals and plants that turn toward the light, and both the first and second density beings have the consciousness of the Creator, but they do not have self-consciousness. Then Q’uo said that often second-density pets become invested with love and become aware of the self which is the nature of the third density where the learning of love is the primary lesson so that small third-density communities are formed which become clearly defined groups by the end of the third density. They went on to say that all of the energy centers are potentially able to be activated in the third density, but the main work is on tuning and balancing the lower three centers and then opening the fullness of the heart which requires a conscious choice rather than being instinctual in order for the seeker to be the equivalent of a rough-hewn diamond. Then Q’uo said that after many incarnations one may become a crystalline entity capable of using the catalyst of everyday living to smooth and refine that crystalline self which would begin with the basic nature of the red ray of survival. Then the orange ray of personal relations and the yellow ray of group consciousness would provide new ways of coming into harmony with various other groups, cultures, and races, and the end result of this spiritual convergence would be the forming of a social memory complex where all people: “are attempting to learn how to be one people, sharing each other’s thoughts, hopes, and fears, carrying each other’s burdens as naturally as breathing, sharing each other’s joys as if they are your own.” In 11.17, Ra spoke of the nature of the social memory complex:

Questioner: At what stage does a planet achieve social memory?

Ra: I am Ra. A mind/body/spirit social complex becomes a social memory complex when its entire group of entities are of one orientation or seeking. The group memory lost to the individuals in the roots of the tree of mind then becomes known to the social complex, thus creating a social memory complex. The advantages of this complex are the relative lack of distortion in understanding the social beingness and the relative lack of distortion in pursuing the direction of seeking, for all understanding/distortions are available to the entities of the society.

There is much work in fourth density, but once one has become able to be able to be part of a social memory complex one is no longer veiled from that which is most true. Each of you, then, is in the situation of coming close to the ability to merge with all other people. And so, there is a yearning and a desire to go further, to become more spirit than flesh, to cease striving after the way of third density. Yet the fact that you are within incarnation is sufficient to justify the opinion that this is precisely where you think you should be, for places within your world for incarnation are very rare compared to the number of entities who wish to come into the Earth plane at this time in order to aid in the transformation of your planetary sphere.

You are the one who chose this foggy, barren landscape, metaphysically speaking. It was your desire to place the self within this thick and dim illusion that is the Earth world in order that you might forget that which you know instinctively, for one cannot learn as one does in third density unless there is the physical stimulus, the emotional battering and so forth that constitutes catalyst for the individual as it goes through its daily round. So, no matter how difficult things may seem, it is our opinion that the situation remains perfect, for it is the outworking of the self’s plan for this incarnation that is being experienced.

Let us look at this plan. The entity who gets the opportunity to incarnate within your density upon your sphere first goes through the process of creating the scenario or the screenplay, shall we say, for your personal movie of life. You choose the cast. You choose who shall play mother, father, spouse, lover, friend, enemy, and so forth. You make agreements with these entities, not within the Earth plane, but within the finer world which this instrument calls the inner planes. No matter how difficult the relationships seem or how much pain has been experienced, this was part of your own choice. It may be difficult to believe or to understand how you would wish to choose to ask yourself to suffer, yet we can only say that when one is outside of the illusion that you now enjoy it seems like child’s play, and a good kind of playing at that, to plunge into the sea of confusion and to swim about in its waters.

Perhaps you have had the experience of thinking something was going to be fun until you have done it, and discovered that that was not fun, that it was horrible, scary, or some other negative feeling. This is the situation of man on Earth. He cannot believe that he has done it to himself. Yet, my friends, you have. You have asked for personal lessons, and you have asked for the chance to serve. Perhaps it may aid you in dealing with these difficulties simply to remind yourself that this is a part of the play, or as this instrument would say, the situation comedy of life. If you can find faith within yourself, faith that believes and knows that no matter what occurs that you are on track and the deeper goals are being met, perhaps that may alleviate and soften the harshness of lessons.

As your third density further draws towards its conclusion you shall experience more and more of the yellow-ray or group-to-group catalyst. That solar plexus chakra comes in for much use and abuse in working with these lessons. This is the time when one discovers what it feels like to be pulled at emotionally, mentally and spiritually. These are the times when you find out how to cut the cord that develops between two people or two groups that limits their freedom. If you can approach dealing with groups with faith, then we feel it is not so long away until you can observe the dynamics of the various groups of entities upon your planet and see all peoples as one.

One thing that greatly disturbs and puzzles seekers is the persistent friction betwixt races and peoples. This is not a reflection upon any civilizations’ or individual’s integrity, maturity or honor. The reasons for this instinctively felt friction lie in the fact that there is more than one race of entities populating your sphere. Your planet in this third-density cycle has been a place which has accepted many other planetary third-density entities who graduated into third density or were in third density yet were not able to dwell upon their home planet.

Now, each civilization or race throughout your galaxy, shall we say, has a slightly different archetypical consciousness, for it is the work of each sun or Logos to add the details to the basic plan of the one infinite Creator. When an entity or a people move from the heart, then, they are moving from an archetypical environment that is other than that archetypical environment enjoyed by those who have come here from places other than the one you have come from. Because of the thick illusion it seems that one way of experiencing or perceiving incoming sense data must drive out another way of seeing or perceiving sense data. As the times roll on and as each entity gains maturity these differences in the archetypal mind will begin not to repel but to fascinate entities. And as they lose fear, having become more secure in their own individual self, they will be able more and more to embrace those distinctly unlike themselves in appearance, in manner and in thinking.

Mostly to be remembered in this regard is one simple rule: you are here to learn to love. Find within the self at any time where the love is, where it can shine. Open the self to that opportunity, and you shall have acted well indeed, for each is a spark of the one infinite Creator, capable of healing, forgiving, embracing, and transforming each other. The one known to you as Jesus said to you, “Love one another.” As you love one another you are loving the one infinite Creator, for this spark is the basic essence of all conscious entities. You are love. There is just a very heavy coat of flesh upon that lightening Spirit born of Love that is you.

As you have your daily periods of meditation and contemplation, spend a moment reaching out to embrace all of the self’s catalyst, all that the world has to offer, both war and peace, both heat and cold in so many ways. Be or practice to be unafraid of trouble. Find ways to be serene while you are not understanding, for this lack of understanding will continue and is irrelevant to the process of spiritual evolution. When the heart is opening a tremendous strength fills the spirit. Whenever this is not felt and you become aware that the heart is closed, we ask that you touch in to your own faith, to the guidance that surrounds you, to the love that overshadows you, the mystery that made you, and claims you for its own, and rise refreshed and peaceful.

You have much to learn. You will make mistakes, but they are not metaphysical mistakes. The mistakes are part of your learning, part of the illusion, part of being human. Forgive yourself, for in forgiving the self you become able to forgive all and the redemption in the eyes of a peaceful person is a blessing indeed to those who behold it, and to the planet in general, for love lightens the planetary vibrations. This love does not come from you. We would not ask you to attempt to develop such a thing as infinite Love. We ask only that you open the self, allow pain to hollow you out and make you a beautiful and transparent instrument through which infinite Love can flow. You are a vessel, a precious, precious vessel. What shall you hold? What shall you offer?

Now Q’uo said that the fourth density beyond the veil was close, and many desired to be more of the spirit than of flesh, but the fact that third density was still in effect was a sign that entities needed to deal with the difficulties of third density until they had learned the lessons they incarnated to learn. Q’uo said that each had chosen these lessons which would be learned with many other actors upon the stage that would play the roles that would provide the difficult catalyst which would give each actor the opportunity to learn their lessons, and they suggested that as hard as these lessons were it was important for each to have the faith that all is well and then their deeper goals would be met. They went on to say that as the end of third density draws closer there would be more difficulties between groups and races because many different groups had come here from different Logoi and had unique archetypical characteristics which could cause separation and attacks between races that, as time went on and each group became more secure in their own identities, these differences would become more of an interesting aspect that would bring different races together. Then Q’uo said that each person is a spark of the Creator and is here to learn how to love, forgive, heal, and transform each other, and that it would be helpful to use daily meditation to look at all catalyst in a balanced way such as war and peace, heat and cold, and to practice the ability to be unafraid of any difficulties, keeping the heart open and the faith strong that the mystery that made us all may bring us the peace that passes understanding. They completed their thoughts by saying that we should forgive ourselves for any errors and let any pain hollow us out, and then we could become a beautiful and transparent instrument that infinite Love can flow through. On August 29, 1976, Hatonn said that we should use meditation to keep our hearts open to let love to flow through us:

Now, my friends, to show love is simply to act as a kind of open channel through which those healing waters of love can flow—through you, not from you, to all that you touch. And how to come in contact with the spring of those waters of love? It is for the reason of coming in contact with love that we so often urge you, my friends, to meditate. As we have said many times before, the Creator is everywhere that you may go. If you go down to the doors of what you call Hell, the Creator is there. There is no thing that you can do which the Creator is not your companion while doing. You cannot close your eyes, or your fingers, or your minds, and rid yourself of the Creator. Love is within you and all about you. If you do not recognize it, yet it is still there. It has been said in your holy works, “The light shined in the darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not.” Yet, my friends, if you become still, and if you open your inner eye in the darkness, it is absolutely inevitable that you will see that light and feel that love.

We would at this time transfer to the one known as Jim. We thank this instrument and leave it in love and light.

This morning I used the sprinkler to water the gardens around the fishpond, the Flower Fall Garden, and the Wuthering Heights Garden in the front yard. Then I ran some errands with my first stop being at AT&T in Middletown to get a new case for my cell phone. My second stop was at Walmart’s to get come Choc-Zero chocolates. The third stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market to get some food for myself. My fourth stop was at the Speedway Gas Station to fill Stanley’s gas tank with gas. The last stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store to buy a birthday card for a friend.

This afternoon I cleaned Benny’s apartment upstairs by using the carpet sweeper on the rug in the hall, and then sweeping up all of the kitty litter from both of her litter boxes in the room where she stays most of the time. Then I used the dustmop in all three rooms and the hall.

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

August 26

The Surrender Beyond Thought

I am of the principle of the love of Jesus the Christ. I greet you in the full consciousness of that perfect Love.

Your thoughts this day busily consider what actions you shall take for the improvement and the straightening of your life’s many details. Yet there is a great difference between that thought which is manipulation and that surrender beyond thought which invites the Spirit of the living God into action and creates transformation.

We ask you to dedicate your lives first to resting within the power of the Spirit. If enough souls turned first to the Spirit and only then to the world, the face of the Earth itself would be transformed!

And in the little round of one life the dedication of the self to the fiery, fertile essence of Spirit produces a purity and wholeness in the life experience which takes a soul from detail to a consciousness of glory. For you are not insignificant compilers of detail if you open the doors of your desire to the Spirit.

We leave you in the surrender which is perfect peace and perfect power, 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.