The Camelot Journal

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from October 15, 1995:

We were talking about changes that occur through synchronistic events. Is there a way to prepare oneself for such synchronistic events, or is one wildly and wonderfully taken by it and at its mercy when it comes? And the other thing we were talking about was how our growth seems to be enhanced when we gather together in groups, whether just to talk, or to meditate, or worship, and we are wondering how that works, its value, etc.

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo. We greet you in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator. It is distinctly our privilege and our blessing to be sharing in your circle of seeking and in your communal vibration. We are so thankful and appreciative that you wish to consider our thoughts on these interesting matters. We ask only one thing of you as we speak and that is to realize that we are not final authorities, for we make many errors. Therefore, we ask you to take those thoughts which ring a bell—as this instrument would say—with you and to leave the rest behind without a second thought, for each person has a path that is unique as the person is unique, and upon each unique path there is a line of logic that can be called personal truth. This truth is unique. Some personal truths are long-lasting, through many lifetimes and densities. Others are less permanent, but each has its place in your unique path.

Thusly, to best cooperate with the destiny you have set for yourself it is very helpful to use the feelings associated with hearing that which is instinctively known from the heart to be true and keeping that truth special. This way will encourage a speedier process of change and transformation. The discrimination is all in this wise. So, we greatly thank each for using his and her own personal discrimination, for each has the knowledge within, and when it resonates the effect is unmistakable. Wait for that resonance and take no authority without question. If you would do this for us, then we are free to serve with the best of our humble ability.

We must remark before going further at the beauty of your combined vibrations. This is truly a good group, and we are most happy to be here. We greet each who has not been with this group in the flesh, shall we say, before with especial delight. But each brings to us a special delight, new and old alike. Indeed, the harmonies within this circle are very beautiful, which brings us to your questions concerning synchronicity, and change, and groups such as this one.

Let us begin by setting a few basic suppositions. One supposition which we use is the feeling that the incarnation, the experience of having a life in your density even though the illusion is very thick, is a magical experience. This magical depth or side of incarnative life is for many among your peoples unknown. It is as though they were asleep too deeply to be aware of this potential. What awakens entities to this magic is in one form or another the awakening of awareness that the deeper self is not what it seems to be, but rather than being a creature of flesh, blood, sinew, and limitation is instead a creature of infinity, eternity, and unity with all that there is. This can be a dim sense at first, but it is that sense of being other than in the illusion, of having a reality that cannot be seen, that is the key factor in awakening the magical potential of life even within the best and most thick illusion.

As entities stretch and yawn their spirit selves awake within incarnation there is within your culture a decided bias towards discouraging further awareness of the magical type. This is not deliberate but is rather an artifact of the sustaining strength of the illusion and of those whose sleep has been undisturbed and who wish all things to remain as they are. Many of these entities are perhaps in your religious groups, yet the magical side does not open because such entities are focused upon absolute truth, absolute faith, absolute adherence, whereas the creation which lives beyond this illusion is various, indeed, infinite in its potentials and its possibilities.

To the world of humankind these considerations are null for they cannot be tracked, measured, or reproduced, and so many so-called religious groups do not experience the intensifying of magic. On the other hand, to be anthropomorphic, many of your spiritually oriented groups are aware of the delicious and pervasive magicalness that can be experienced within this illusion. And it is within groups such as yours and many others that entities can come together and more surely seek, more lovingly find, more intensely knock at the door of further—we look for a word—further development, we shall say. Yet it is more of a flowering, a blooming that takes place when entities of like mind seek together, for within such groups each is a mirror which shows the Creator to the self and the self to the self. Each face that is seen has the wonderful capacity to surprise us with a side of truth that we had not guessed before.

As we gaze into each other’s eyes, as we touch each other’s hearts, whether we are in incarnation as are you or are speaking from other levels of manifestation as are we, we bloom together and that blossom is taken away by all, strength added to strength, weakness shared with weakness, and love in all things found and felt in ways that do not harm, but rather support. These gifts you can hardly help giving around such a circle such as this, and this is a gift that you give yourself, to come together.

The reason that synchronicity seems to occur more in groups is simply that as more and more entities who are spiritually awake come together each individual’s path being synchronous with its own destiny, when the group joins and shares its thoughts and experiences the commonality of synchronicities becomes remarkable. The strength of a group as opposed to an individual or a couple who work together is that the group universalizes each entity’s unique path so that instead of being caught within the biases created by the long path which has lead the individual to this moment, each individual remains free of the limitations of self and of the dynamic betwixt one and another of a couple, so that each has wisdom that becomes available to all, and in this atmosphere each can somehow gain light and strength. This is a completely natural and highly-to-be-encouraged event or process, and we do feel strongly that the awareness of each is nurtured by regular dwelling within a group of those like-minded. Blessed indeed is the entity whose path has brought her to a place where this option is available.

Now, the individual who does not have the luxury of a spiritually oriented supporting group may still accelerate the pace of his own advancement upon the path of spiritual evolution, but may we say that companions make the way merrier and the stones smaller and certainly the smiles more frequent, for that exhaustion which each may feel within the self over issues which it has been working upon for as long as it can remember does not have these biases where other’s troubles are concerned. The fresh ear, the new perspective is what can be expected from a group. This is most helpful.

The first question for this session was: “We were talking about changes that occur through synchronistic events. Is there a way to prepare oneself for such synchronistic events, or is one wildly and wonderfully taken by it and at its mercy when it comes?” And the second question was: “How our growth seems to be enhanced when we gather together in groups, whether just to talk, or to meditate, or worship, and we are wondering how that works, its value?” Q’uo began their reply by saying that most people are unaware of the truly magical nature of their lives, but within their deeper selves there is magic in that each is a being of infinity, and the feeling that one is other than in the illusion is the key that awakens one to this magical potential. Q’uo went on to say that as entities begin to awaken spiritually there is a bias against this magical potential existing within them because they may belong to a religion that believes only in absolute truths, and they wish for their beliefs to remain as they are rather than see that the creation that exists beyond this illusion is infinite in its potential. Then Q’uo said that many spiritual groups were aware of the magical nature that can be experienced in this illusion because seekers of like mind can become mirrors that show the Creator to the self. They said that groups such as this group are more likely to experience synchronicities because each has experienced these synchronicities within its own destiny so that the group makes these synchronicities and their wisdom available to everyone in the group, and each within the group of like-minded souls can gain in light and strength from this sharing. On October 2, 1983, Hatonn spoke of the value of like-minded people working together:

It is impossible, perhaps, for you to know the magnitude of the work that you create by your offering of your being seated in this circle with like-minded people. You make an offering that would indeed stagger you by its magnitude. For you, as you multiply your wills together and send your desire towards the stars asking for truth and seeking a light, you are such a source of planetary healing that we are aware as you might be aware of lights as you came into an airport and gazed at the city about you. Perhaps it would be a small airport, and the sources of light would be few. Perhaps it would be large city, and you would see many, many lights.

Perhaps the most important thing which the individual does, in our humble opinion, is to become completely aware of itself being itself. This essence of self is your gift, moment by moment to the infinite Creator, and are you not most yourself when among those who see you and care for you as yourself? When those whose lives have become spiritually based arrive at a common meeting place the one thing that is so isolating is not present. That isolating factor in terms of the general environment of your culture is that many entities are asleep to the true nature of their own consciousness. In a group such as this each is aware of the common basis of spirituality or metaphysical reality and each gives that a credence without thinking or concerning the self with such thoughts. It is taken, shall we say, for granted that the basis of the living is the spirit, and the basis for striving is to know that great truth that is the one great original Thought which is the Logos which is Love.

So, each comes to this group dwelling in love, seeking tools and resources that will help us learn how to love, how to accept love, and each wishes to learn these intangible and inexpressible skills: loving and being loved. You see how the environment becomes charged and magical simply by the unspoken assumptions or biases which each brings to this circle.

We come to share one simple, basic thought; that thought is love. We are not terribly clever, but we simply use instruments such as this one to find within each instrument’s nexus of thoughts, experiences and emotions those things which we can use to say in a slightly different way that all is love. The ramifications of that simple statement, as far as we know, are infinite. We do not see the end of our path. So, there is no reason for us to tell you that there is an end or a place of achievement to your path. But we can say that in our opinion as one strives to become more of that mystery that cannot be expressed it is well to choose your companions with care, for these companions will help you to suffer that which you have wished to suffer in a more acceptable, comfortable, and pleasant way.

The illusion promises the suffering, and we feel that those who are attempting to block out, or repress, or run from the suffering are missing the point. You did not work so hard to gain this incarnative experience in order to become all spirit. You came into this opportunity in order to be refined, and that refining or purifying or distilling of the essence of self is necessarily a rough business from time to time as all change is difficult and goes against the second-density instincts of your physical and mental vehicles. So, in this group or in any group spiritually oriented you have the capacity to embrace transformation more easily, more comfortably, and more pleasantly while still doing the work on the refining of the self’s personality that you have wishes to complete.

Now, the reason that each came to this particular planetary sphere is for service to that sphere at this time of transition. But you also each did come with a personal agenda, so we encourage each to relish the process of suffering and to know that it is this very seemingly difficult experience that you so wished before in order to make vivid to the self those lessons of love which you felt you could learn better. When it comes to the service each came to perform, this service is one simple to speak of but very difficult to make sense of, for each who came to this particular place at this particular time came to aid in lightening the consciousness of your planet.

You do this by being here, not by doing any service such as healing or channeling as this instrument is doing but rather by living. Being is your great gift and your first occupation. It is the hardest job you shall have within your incarnational experience, and again the group together aids each in that process of individuation. Here are hearts that wish for you to be who you most deeply are. Here is where there is a lack of fear for the you that may emerge as transformations occur. Here is a home which one needs not to be at in order to feel at home. The spirit of a spiritual group is enormously powerful, metaphysically speaking, and each senses this. As this instrument has often said, no individual is the reason that a light group such as this offers a magical place, a metaphysical home that works and functions, but rather the faith of all who have come to such a place, the knowledge within those that come that this is a safe place. This is what makes the power of such a light center.

The entities who dwell here simply keep the doors open. Each of you has brought the magic with you, and each shall find solutions, tools, and resources here because you have already known about the magic of this place. It is a mystery as faith is always a mystery. How did faith in something called L/L Research begin? How has it grown? Person by person by person by person, a net of gold, that gold being love, faith, the desire for that which is higher and more lovely. The open heart of each has given this particular center its character, person by person by person. And each has then gone out into the larger world and has touched person by person by person and so the net spreads and other centers hear about this center and communicate, and another link has been established.

This process of what many call networking is radically changing the basic consciousness of your planet. We are happy to see this take place, for it has been our concern that the transition this planet is already moving through would be far more difficult than it is being. We can only thank each individual whom we have the pleasure of meeting, as we have met each of you, for the love and care you give to the cause of love. Remember as you touch each other’s lives and as you go forth and continue this process, that the magic of life is much more obvious when each finds the groups or the new people that have a commonality of attitude and interest in the metaphysical. Be able to reach out in faith to those who are new…

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Carla channeling)

…for this is truly a path in which companions are the most help and the least difficulty.

Then Q’uo said that the true essence of each entity is their gift to the Creator, and each entity is more truly themselves when they are in a group which supports them being themselves so that all within the group can seek to know that one great original Thought of the Logos which is Love. Q’uo continued by saying that each within the group aids each other in loving and in being love as love is all that there is, so as each seeks to become more of that mystery of Love it is well to choose one’s companions carefully because they will aid you in experiencing the transformational nature of suffering in a more acceptable way of purifying the self. Q’uo said that each has come to this planet at this time to go through personal suffering in order to learn the lessons of love and lighten the vibrations of this planet as it makes its transition into the fourth density. They said that the most important thing each in the group has to offer each other is their being, and each in the group aids each other in the process of individualization and transformation, and it is the faith of each in the group that makes a light center such a magical, safe, and powerful place.  Q’uo went on to say that the magic of L/L Research was created by the open hearts of love of each seeker that came through its doors and added to the magic that was already at L/L Research, and then they went out into the world and shared the magic of their open-hearted love with other spiritual groups and individuals that they met who then became a part of that golden net of love that will aid the transition of the planet into the fourth density. In 106.7, Ra said that the house that was to become L/L Research as we moved back to Louisville from Cumming, Georgia was angelically blessed:

Questioner: How about the metaphysical quality of the house? Could Ra appraise that please?

Ra: I am Ra. This location is greatly distorted. We find an acceptable description of this location’s quality to elude us without recourse to hackneyed words. Forgive our limitations of expression. The domicile and its rear aspect, especially, is blessèd and angelic presences have been invoked for some of your time past.

And I would like to say that over the 40 years that I have lived in this blessed home that thousands of open-hearted people have come here to be part of our public channeling circles, workshops, and Homecoming Gatherings and have continued to bless this living entity with their love.

This instrument is telling us that we have once again spoken too long, and we are not sorry, but we should be, so we shall muzzle ourselves to transfer this contact to the one known as Jim. We are those of Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and in light through this instrument. It is our privilege at this time to offer ourselves in the attempt to speak to any further queries which those present may have for us. May we ask if there is a query with which we may begin?

K: I really enjoy being here again. Over the past several months I have encountered several sources of information coming onto the planet. It’s all helping. There seem to be several different sources. This group, to my knowledge, primarily receives information from the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator. I have also gotten information from a source called the Essansani channeled to us from an entity known as Bashar, from that relatively small group of Pleaidians channeled through Barbara Marciniak and through an entity known as the Kyron. The Essansani state that they are part of a group called the Association of Worlds. It is very clear to me that all of these are positively oriented entities who have answered the call of those requesting help with the transition. I am curious if all of these work together. Do those of the Confederation work with those of the Association or others, or are these various groups doing their own thing in answering the calls of those needing help?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. And may we say that we are most grateful to be able to share your vibrations once again, my sister, though we can assure you that we are always available to you upon your request as we have been numerous times.

The many sources of information are in truth one, and from that truth we begin. Each source, entity, or group has the desire to be of service to others, to serve the one Creator in many or any of Its manifestations. Thus is the path of all made clear by the heart of the desire of each. And many times do these paths intertwine with each other so that there is not so much a need to consciously coordinate the giving of information, the serving of the Creator in all, as it is what you may call, as you did before this group began, a celestial synchronicity of service.

We have passed the way of service many times, meeting others upon this path, finding that as the threads of this group have woven a beautiful and loving tapestry, just so is such a tapestry woven by all those who seek to serve the one Creator. If one could see the metaphysical reality of these paths of service, planets such as yours would seem to be bathed in light as many tracings and trails of light converge at this point that you call Earth. We and our brothers and sisters of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the One Creator feel the kinship in our hearts with all others who serve as do we and those who serve in ways which may not be easily comprehensible by those who observe, yet there are many who are enriched and nourished by service which is as unique as each entity which seeks. Thus, the fabric of creation is one and is traveled by each portion of the one Creator, from density to density, from home to home.

Is there another query, my sister?

K: That’s all for now, and I want to say that I have been aware of your presence many times and have appreciated it.

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

B: It has been my dream to sit here in a session for many years, and I offer my gratitude for being here. Many do not have the luxury of seeking in such a group, and how might such an individual continue his advancement in awareness by one’s self even though we are all one?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother, and we are as gratified and humbled to be in your presence as you are to be in ours. We share with you the great joy of the blending of our vibrations, and we can assure you that all seekers of truth are able to pursue the path that their desire opens for them, for it is always the case that an entity will find about it that which it seeks and that which it needs for the next step on this infinite journey of seeking. It may take some effort of recognition, some facing of inner truths, yet when a seeker utilizes the daily round of activities as a focus for thought, prayer, or contemplation, then this entity opens wider the door of opportunity, of possibility before it that the teacher, the fellow seeker which it needs will be presented to it whether in a physical form such as a person, a book, a program, a thought, an experience, a coincidence of events.

Just so, each seeker will find that the day which it has lived is fruitful in the catalyst presented for possible growth. The simple desire to seek, the opening of the self to new experience, is all that is necessary. Groups such as this, of course, aid that process by providing the support necessary to encourage continual seeking, and the mirroring effect where entities may speak in terms understood by fellow seekers to be helpful as means of seeing the self in new ways. But all who seek shall find, for what is sought is a deeper, greater portion of the self within [each] seeker [inaudible] the outer or personality self with as much desire as the small self which seeks the One.

Is there a further query, my brother?

B: Not at this time. Thank you.

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

P: Today is an election in Iraq, and the population there has one choice to choose from. I wonder about the social structure of our societies in the face of a major transition from this reality to a larger one, from the third to the fourth. How much would it help in the direction of social liberation to raise awareness in consciousness in such a milieu?

I am Q’uo, and believe that we are aware of your query, my sister. We would suggest that the events within this third-density illusion are meant to serve as a kind of catalyst, a kind of motivator so that entities may begin to think and be in terms greater than this third-density illusion. There is, of course, a path of service through each level of experience, including the social awareness, the political rights, the democratic freedoms, and many there are who serve with shining brilliance in these areas doing that which they feel strongly is their part in this dance together with the One.

However, we have also suggested previously that those who are most helpful in any regard or manifestation are those who seek first to love and to give in that attitude of love that which is theirs to give, seeing beyond the illusion of limits and the seeming prison that many upon your planet inhabit in systems of governing that do not allow certain freedoms. These boundaries can serve as the cell within the prison that causes the entity to move within itself even more deeply that true freedom might be found as the shackles of the mind are dropped one by one, the thought for such being the seeming chains surrounding the entity everywhere.

Is there a further query, my sister?

P: Yes, but I will need time to develop them. Thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you, my sister. We would ask if there is a final query at this time, for we know that we have spoken for a great portion of your time and do not wish to overtire.

V: For several years I wished to get here to this group, and it is difficult for me to express my gratitude at being here. My understanding is that as we move closer to fourth density there will be a higher frequency of visual and personal or physical contact with extraterrestrial entities, and I myself have searched the skies almost nightly and daily to recognize some visual contact with those of Q’uo or any other extraterrestrial entity. Will the frequency increase with contact with humans on this planet and will you be part of that contact in the near or distant future?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We would suggest that this enhancement of the frequency of contacts with those of your planet has been in effect for some of your time as you measure it, and this may be expected to continue apace, yet perhaps in a manner that is less obvious than the actual sighting of one of our physical craft, for each seeker is approached in a manner which is most comfortable to that entity, many occurring in a meditative or the sleep and dreaming stages, to be remembered at a future time, much as the laying of a trail or the signaling of the lights as the one known as R spoke of previous to this session’s beginning.

We do not deny that there may indeed be further extensive sightings of craft in your skies and messages delivered through instruments such as this one, but would also suggest that the contacts which are most helpful to entities will be less visibly noticed and will have their effect upon the level of the soul, shall we say, so that those who have prepared themselves for service to others and the growth that this implies on a physical level will find the avenues of their expression of this service and growth to be enhanced in ways that are touched by, shall we say, unseen hands. There shall indeed be a greater and greater contact, and it shall be from heart to heart.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: She wanted to know if you were going to be one of those who will show themselves on this Earth physically.

I am Q’uo, and we are aware of this portion of this query and when replying as we did implied that we would be those who speak as we do. We are not those who move about at this time in a craft in your skies, though that may become a possibility, though it is a contact of hearts that is of paramount importance to us at this time.

We are those of Q’uo, and would again thank those present for inviting our presence in your circle of seeking. We are greatly filled with joy at this opportunity and cannot begin to express our great gratitude, for by inviting our opinions and thoughts upon your queries we are able to respond in a fashion which gives us beingness in your illusion and the opportunity to experience yet another facet of the jewel of the one Creator.

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

This morning I drove to Nashville to visit with Anna and catch up on the happenings in our lives before we listened to Carla channel Ra in Session #46 where Don was concerned about Gandalf having a cancerous growth removed by the vet because he had become angry at the new cats in his environment, and then there was also a general discussion about the cause of cancer for positive and negative entities. Then we went out to lunch at the Graze Restaurant that served vegan meals.

In the afternoon we listened to Carla channel Ra in Session #47 where the primary information that was channeled by Ra concerned each of our bodies, red through violet and the function.

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

August 25

The Ocean Of Love

I am of the true consciousness, the clear Christ-consciousness, of Love which is the continuing manifestation of Jesus the Christ.

We continue, yet we are one in time and space as waves which lap upon the shore and then lap upon the shore again are yet one body of water. So, time is to the Spirit: ceaseless in essence yet progressive in manifestation.

Know that you are dwelling within an ocean of Love. You may stand upon the shore and be conscious of time and let Love lap at your feet; let the consciousness of Love touch your feet. Or you may move into Love and leave time behind, bathed in the essence of the transforming Love of Jesus the Christ.

One thing more we ask of you and that is: be clear in the mind that negative experience will come when one turns the back upon the shore of Love and walks willingly into the desert where Love has dried up. The negative choices that separate you from the waters of love are sometimes subtle. Seek the ocean, for Love awaits.

We leave you in peace, now and ever.

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 1, 1995:

We would like to know how to balance having the light touch with ourselves with being a serious student in using our catalyst. What quality is there in laughter that is healing and helpful in the metaphysical sense?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo. Greetings to you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We find our dear gathered group in the country this day with the birds and trees and stream running wild and yet moving along in the routine of their ways. We are most happy to speak with you concerning the question of the light touch, and as we speak we would ask that each of you realize that we are your neighbors and your friends, but we are not infallible. So, although we are sharing with you our heartfelt opinion, we ask that you realize that it is just that, and that you take what resonates to you and leave the rest behind. We thank you for this privilege of sharing these thoughts. It means a lot to us to be able to offer this service, and we humbly thank you.

In the life of one who is seeking to live a spiritually directed life the opportunities to move from the periphery of a life lived in the spirit more towards the center of that desire are many. Indeed, each diurnal period is bursting with windows of opportunity for the experience of resonating with the heart of all things. This is because the universe is the Creator as well as the creation, and whether one’s milieu is that of people and relationship, or that of nature and those relationships, all of these experiences of relating beyond the inner self are as glimpses in a changeable mirror. For one who does not pay the attention the mirror simply reflects a flat image. For the one who by a lucky or careful coincidence is paying attention that mirror of otherness can become that through which one sees the Creator. And so, in the life of a seeker there is always the pressure to remember, to focus, and to center the self upon that firm rock of deity, that mystery which we call the one great original Thought of Love.

This being so, it is no wonder that the seeker can become so absorbed in improving his ability to center the self upon the Creator that he may lose sight of the fact that this center that is sought is not only within the small self but is echoed and iterated redundantly throughout all of the experiences of your illusion. Because so much of the creation is perceived as otherness the tendency within the illusion is to stay firmly within one’s own self. This tendency is that which is instinctual to the second-density creature which functions as your physical vehicle. The physical vehicle wishes at all times to establish and maintain boundaries within which lie safety and comfort. This agenda works upon the seeker in an unconscious or subconscious manner, and that seeking for safety and comfort quite often adds to the tendency of the seeker to turn more and more inward.

As this occurs—and it is, we repeat, a natural occurrence—the seeker finds itself within a trap of its own making, for it has used that instinctual tendency to create a zone of safety to think about the spiritual and to act upon those thoughts. Consequently, even though the seeker knows it is doing spiritual work, yet still the seeker considers this the kind of work which entails labor, time, and intensity.

Now, let us look at the way a student begins to learn the craft that contains the infinite. Let us, for instance, gaze at the student who begins to learn how to play the piano. The beginning student must focus and concentrate intensely in order to begin to master the fundamentals of piano playing. The beginner does the scales and does them over and over and over. This is effortful, heavy work to all but the very gifted, yet it is necessary in order to make the unfamiliar into the familiar and the impossible into the possible.

As the piano student moves through the years of apprenticeship of its craft it gradually begins to get a sense of what lies beyond the finite notes that it has been reading off the page of the music score. The student begins to hear in a different way, a way which has an expanded awareness of the whole. Armed with this hard-won resource the student at last opens the door to mastery of its craft, for the true instrumentalist plays not the notes but the music. Even the best must play the scales to warm up, but there is that moment when the instrumentalist realizes the shape of its craft and sees how it may serve as an instrument to pour forth the heart of the composer. Then the instrument knows how to make music.

Now, the seeker has a craft to learn and there are the scales that must be played again and again and again. There are scales which teach the notes of patience. There are scales which teach the notes of devotion. There are other exercises that teach the spareness and the reserve of true service. And these exercises must be repeated, and certainly for the seeker to become inward and inwardly focused and moving in a small circle is completely understandable and acceptable. And we say to those who feel they are indeed too serious, too solemn, too earnest, we say that this is the stage that the student does the basic work to learn its craft, for seekers are artisans and artists of a certain kind. The closest perhaps we might come to expressing the nature of this craft is that of aesthetics, for in the philosophical tradition known as aesthetics the goal is to discover what true beauty is and what the seeker wishes to discover is what the deepest and truest beauty, truth and love is, for it wishes to clothe itself in that armor, and then it wishes to sally forth in service and in love.

So we ask that you think of the earnest self as a lovable, respectable, acceptable self and to see that there is a stage in spiritual seeking where effort is made, and it seems heavy, lonely, and sometimes empty. And we say that this naturally will yield in time as the seeker himself begins to hear that which silence tells so well and begins to sense the shape of things, the form of that undergirding reality, the true nature of Love, and once this occurs the universe changes. And it begins to spark into a life that was hitherto unseen, for the soul and the heart are expanding and the center is not only that place in the heart of the self where one has opened the door to love but also is expanded to make a center of the whole creation, with all included and nothing omitted, nothing irrelevant, nothing wrong, but all, all one shade or shadow or another of infinite Love.

The group question for this session was: “We would like to know how to balance having the light touch with ourselves with being a serious student in using our catalyst. What quality is there in laughter that is healing and helpful in the metaphysical sense?” Q’uo began by saying that there are many opportunities for the seeker to move from the periphery of its spiritual life more to the heart of the creation, and as it looks upon others around it, it may see the Creator reflected back to it, so then there is the pressure to focus the attention upon the nature of this mystery of the great Thought of Love. Q’uo continued by saying that this experience was also true with the seeker being able to see the Creator in all of its experiences within the third-density illusion, but since so much of the illusion is perceived as other than the self the second-density body seeks to create boundaries of safety between it and others. So Q’uo said that even though the seeker is working upon its spiritual journey these boundaries act upon the seeker in an unconscious way so that this work seems to take a lot of time and effort. Then Q’uo used an analogy for this process as being that of the student learning how to play the piano by playing the scales over and over and going through years of apprenticeship and eventually begins to master its craft and not only plays the notes but is able to play the music that the notes create. Then Q’uo said that through years of learning patience, devotion, and true service it is easy for the seeker to become too serious, solemn, and earnest, so Q’uo suggested that the seeker begin to see the self as loveable, respectable, and acceptable. They went on to say that in time the silence of meditation will reveal the true nature of Love to the seeker, and its life changes so that it is able to see the heart of the self as the center of the universe, and everything is a part of infinite Love. On March 22, 2008, Q’uo described how one may benefit from finding the heart of the self:

It is not that there is no truth or that there is nothing to seek. Quite the contrary, my friends. However, that which is sought is the heart of the self. The journey towards truth seems as though it is an outer journey, a seeking out there, a winnowing through the harvest of other people’s seeking to find one’s truth. And yet, in the end, it is as though various things begin to fall away in the seeker’s mind, and in the seeker’s heart, and in the seeker’s experience until gradually the truth itself rises to the surface of consciousness and realization occurs. That realization that it is a perfect world, it is a perfect environment for unlocking the gate that leads to unknowing.

Within third density, beyond all the things that you come to know and believe, there lies the glory of that final awareness that nothing can be known, and that all speaks of the one infinite Creator. Paradox after paradox, mystery and mystery flow and create patterns around one. And powerful and glorious ideas and images move through the awareness, and at the end the seeker has become transparent to himself as he finds at the very heart of himself the consciousness of unconditional Love: that Love that created him, that Love that created the universe, that Love with which he and all about him, seen and unseen, are one.

Now, while the student is playing the scales of daily meditation, daily contemplation, while the student is seeking earnestly, it may if it chooses open a window to larger awareness. How may that occur? That occurs when the student drops whatever is upon the mind and asks the self, as this instrument is fond of saying, “Will this matter in ten thousand years?” There are things within your incarnations that will matter, no matter how many millennia pass. These things are precious. These things do not comprise a large percentage of what is in the perceived sea of confusion within which all of you paddle about at this time. It is most likely that when the student is tightest, and most weary, and most disturbed the issues will not matter in ten millennia and this is the key that unlocks that corset of tightness and allows the weary student to expand its consciousness beyond the perceived, opening simply to enjoy the breeze, expanding as a flower in sunlight, turning to the sun.

It does take, for most entities, a conscious decision to choose the larger perspective. But we say to you that it is worth the effort it takes when one perceives that one has become straightened, closed, and narrowed simply to affirm the enormous breadth and depth of the possibilities of any and all situations. The energy that is moving when there is laughter, when there is the light touch, is a mixture of the green-ray energy center being full and open, the blue-ray energy center working within its center at self-expression and communication and the lower three energy centers agreeing to lessen or cease their demands.

This is not something which one should do to the denigration of the lower energy centers. It is always important to affirm, to trust, and to do all one can to balance these all-important energy centers. But within these three energy centers there does not exist a light touch. It takes a mixture of the agreement of the lower centers to rest and allow the heart to open and allow the self to communicate with the creation, with the mystery which is the one Creator, and with that Creator within the self.

There are some who have a gift for the light touch. These are the entities you will find saying just the right thing to break the ice to make people laugh and find comfort in each other’s company. But for most this skill of asking the self to stop and open to a larger view must be learned as any habit must be learned. Now you “oof” and “grunt” and try, and find it hard to do, but we say to you simply continue to “oof” and “grunt.” This is good work. At some point, your own self will begin to yearn for and to seek the stoppage of that earnestness and will begin to hunger for the music behind the notes of the devotional life. Trust yourself through these practice periods, for cyclically, as lessons are learned, each seeker will go through learning periods which seem quite adverse. One cannot gain a certain amount of wisdom and then coast for the rest of the incarnation, for the Creator and your higher self hope to learn as many depths and resonances of the lessons you came to learn as time permits. So, you will find seemingly the same material coming in again to cramp your style and make life hard and earnest, yet you are not repeating but rather learning at another level of subtlety and profundity.

We hope you can take the perpendicular route out of that little circle walked by the earnest soul and that you choose to take time out for a laugh or a smile, with all compassion for the self, for that earnest toiler who truly wishes to learn and to be better, wiser and more loving than before. Yet these things are reflections of something within that are so precious that there are no words to express the gemlike quality of this crystalline heart of self that is the Creator.

So know that the human experience is driven by instinct and at the same time there are opportunities every instant to grow into a spiritual body and a spiritual instinct and when this begins to occur you shall find meditation and contemplation flowing easily and quietly in natural ways throughout the life pattern, and the muscles of spirit will have learned these notes so that now they can work subconsciously, naturally, so that one does not have to think about the process but can enjoy the music of spiritual consciousness and can turn that consciousness upon a world that is all too short on love and laughter. Each of you can be of service to others in this respect, of lightening other’s loads, of offering that light and caring touch, sharing that laugh, and spending time together easing each other’s burdens.

Now Q’uo said that as the student practices daily meditation and continues earnestly seeking, it can open a door to a larger awareness and ask itself if what is occurring in its life will be of value in ten thousand years, and since so little in its life has this value the weary seeker may relax and enjoy the simple things in life like the sun, the breeze, and the earth. Then Q’uo said that the student may choose to take the larger perspective and consider the potential breadth and depth of all experiences and then find the laughter of the green ray, the blue ray of communication, and the lower three centers lessening their demands.  They said that it was important for the lower energy centers to rest and allow the heart to open so that the seeker may communicate with the Creator within the creation and within the self. Q’uo went on to say that some seekers have a gift for the light touch and experiencing the larger point of view, but most need to continue the hard work of developing them within their experiences to stop the earnestness and begin the devotional life, especially when times are tough as this is the way the higher self and the Creator learn various levels of the same lessons. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that the seeker should take time to laugh and have compassion for itself as it seeks to be wiser and more loving since these qualities are reflections of the heart of the Creator within so that love and laughter can flow easily through one’s being to lighten each other’s loads and to help seekers share their burdens. On September 5, 2010, Q’uo said that love and laughter will allow one to meet the present moment with and open heart:

Meet this moment with an open heart. This is your greatest gift to your self, to your loved ones, and to the planet. Now, that shows up in a different guise for everyone. It is not that you mean to wear the mask, or to don the costume, but it is impossible to express your true self, which is unconditional love. Each of you has ways of presenting the self to the selves about you, that you have learned—sometimes painfully—work for you. That’s all right. You do not have to change your behavior. If you change your thoughts to those of love and laughter, acceptance, compassion, and understanding, your behavior will take care of itself.

We would at this time transfer this contact to the one known as Jim. We are those of Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and in light. We are, again, privileged to be able to utilize both of these instruments this day and would thank all gathered for inviting us to speak our thoughts and opinions. We would ask if we may speak to any further queries at this time?

P: When you are dealing with intense bodily catalyst life seems to overtake the entity. How can she keep the light touch and remember the spiritual path that she is walking while everything else seems to be consumed with just the maintenance of the body?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. And being aware as we are of the situation in which you find yourself, that is where your physical vehicle prepares to bring forth new life, we are well aware that the catalyst which you face is much more intense than that which is normally faced, for the experience that your physical vehicle and, indeed, the intellectual and emotional aspects as well, now undergoes is one which is more challenging in that the affirmations that could normally affect an entity are now less able to have sway, for the changes in your body’s functioning are so basic to its nature and fundamentally overpowering that you will find that there is great difficulty in programming an alteration from this experience.

There is much of metaphysical value in attempting to do so, however. Much catalyst of this illusion is of that nature, although most within this circle do not experience it as a day-to-day experience. There are those experiences within your illusion such as this one which you now encounter that will require the simple persistence of the exercise of your will and your faith on a daily basis. The one known as Carla has had many of these experiences as its physical vehicle was malfunctioning. Your vehicle is not malfunctioning, but is functioning in a manner that is so far deviated from the normal functioning that you experience much of the same difficulties as the one known as Carla has experienced in her past.

And we would recommend, as in the case of the one known as Carla, that you find those small pleasures that feed you in any way that you find helpful, whether these are certain foods, certain music, inspirational readings, the company of certain entities or whatever means is available to you, that you utilize them to feed yourself that which is nourishing on whatever level you may find nourishment. And remember always that this process is one which is holy. Give praise and thanksgiving for it and find within each of your days a means whereby you may give this praise and thanksgiving so that it might build a kind of momentum in your life experience and begin to have an effect upon the mental, emotional and physical aspects of this process which your body now is undergoing.

May we speak in any further way, my sister?

P: Should one entertain moments of depression, or should one try to fight against it?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We would recommend that all such moments, whether up or down, be experienced as spontaneously as is possible for the length of the emotion if this is possible, for to battle against the feelings of depression, the feelings of hopelessness, the feelings of loneliness and the feelings of despair is to deny another portion of your experience which has value to you, for it deepens your ability to experience in general. It is as though a deep hole or well is dug even deeper, yet when this is dug by the emotions there is made within you both the ability to experience that which is difficult and that which is joyous. All of this together shall create the tapestry of this particular experience. The difficult, the joyous, the hard, the soft, the light, the heavy, the bright, the dark—these experiences may be difficult, some of them, in what you may call the short run, the moment…

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and am again with this instrument. May we speak in any further way?

P: No. Thank you.

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

Carla: I have a comment. I would have answered P’s question differently. I would have talked about faith, and I was surprised when the channeling went as it did. Why did you not say more about the faculty of faith and its perspective?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query within the comment, my sister. As we spoke of the quality of perseverance we were beginning that avenue of which you speak, that being of faith, though not clearly stated. You are quite correct about the quality of faith. The quality of faith is that which when joined with the quality of will are the two most helpful aspects of the attitude that a student may exercise at any point within this illusion, for all that you see before you and all that you see about you is born of mystery, much in the pain of birth and much must be taken on faith, for there is no other quality which may sustain one through the difficulties which any seeker will encounter within the incarnation, and we thank you, my sister, for clarifying the necessity for relying upon faith, for indeed it is a great ally for any seeker.

Is there another query?

Carla: I wondered whether the reason you did not go that route is that it is easy for people to feel that they do not have faith or do not believe in a system that includes faith. Was that the reason that you did not go into faith?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We would simply claim an omission. This instrument does not always pick up that which is given. Is there another query?

Carla: No, thank you.

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

R: Just a comment. I enjoyed your view of the subject. As I read through the channelings from Yadda and Latwii, [they] always bring forth a light touch on a serious subject for me and I just want to thank you all for that.

I am Q’uo, and we appreciate your comments and are grateful that we and our friends of Yadda have been able to add a certain light touch.

Is there a final query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Q’uo, and we are aware that we have spoken to those queries which are available at this time, and we are grateful for each, my friends. We listen to the sounds of the wind in the trees through this instrument’s ears, and this sound gives us a great feeling of peace, for the revolutions of your planet about the sun body move in a cyclical fashion, and as your Earth revolves those entities upon its surface are subject to the movement of the planet, of the seasons, of the sun, and of the quality of compassion and love that is evident in the one Creator Who makes all move in this motion that is as a dance for those of us who are witnessing the experience of the one Creator moving in all.

The wind, as it moves freely through the leaves, through the field, and through the hair upon the head of those upon the planet, is a reminder of the freedom of movement of thought, the movement of thought of the One as It moves ceaselessly throughout the one creation. We are thankful that we are able to share this with you.

We would at this time take our leave of this group, moving about you as the wind, leaving each 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 I placed the sprinkler in different garden locations around the yard to complete the watering process that I began last evening since it has been some time since we have gotten any rain, and none is forecast until next Tuesday night. I also went into the garage and used the air compressor to fill all four of the tires on Stanley to at least the 32-psi suggested in preparation for my trip to visit Anna in Nashville tomorrow.

This afternoon I used my backpack blower to blow the leaves and acorns from the Red Oak tree in my neighbors’ yard across the street that have landed in the street, my parking area, and my next-door neighbors’ driveway into a pile so that I could shovel them into a garbage can for yard waste pickup next week.

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

August 24

Ponder Death

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

I see that your minds this morning dwell upon death, the death of those grown old in experience and frail; the death that is but the time for the self within to move to larger life and greater light.

Ponder death, holding in the attention the principle of perfect Love, and know that death is only a transformation. For perfect Love does not destroy but only transforms and changes.

Gaze with respect upon the frail bodies of the old and with even greater respect at the experience and the work in love which has been done by each who is aged in your world of days and years.

Know, too, that those transformations of mind which have taken place in the lives of those now leaving this world and this form shall be sifted, the dross removed, and the fruit harvested.

We leave you in the peace of every changing eternity, 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 September 24, 1995:

The question this afternoon concerns the topic discussed this afternoon. Many religions and philosophies have as one of the basic tenets the dropping of all desires, because the desire is seen as that which ties us to this world, and if we wish to transcend this world and go to the next, better world, or a better state of mind, then we need to drop the desires that are tying us here.

Don said many times that it was a good idea to release the dedication to an outcome for any action we were undertaking, to simply do whatever it was we wish to do or thought best to do but to not be dedicated to however it came out except whatever it was that was the result, without great joy or sorrow.

Ra speaks of balancing distortions or desires, so that you allow them their spontaneous action; you do everything that is a natural part of the situation, and then later on, without imposing anything on the situation, you attempt to balance the situation so that you have a full range of experience. Many of the Confederation have said over the years that is a good idea to accept that which is, to accept those failings in ourselves and others and the world around us and to attempt to give love, compassion, and forgiveness and mercy instead. Yet, if we continue to accept everything that is we would be accepting what would seem to be a lot of injustices and difficulties that are putting people at a disadvantage… disease, and a lot of difficulty.

So, we would like for Q’uo to comment about this entire range of dropping desire, reducing the dedication to an outcome, or loving, accepting and yet working for a change so that we continue to strive for an ideal, and to improve, to grow in mind, body and spirit… and if that’s too long Q’uo, you can just pick any question you want.

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle of Q’uo, and we greet you in love and in light in the name of the one infinite Creator. As always, we express a great appreciation to those who diligently seek from day to day, from week to week, from year to year, walking the way one foot at a time in front of the other, steadily, faithfully, hewing to that which is held in the heart the way that truth lives. We share those footsteps with you, and as we speak with you concerning desire we assure you that our desire to serve is both deep and pure. The opportunity your desire for truth gives us is a great treasure for us…

[Carla asks for a drink.]

We are those of Q’uo, and we apologize for the pause while this instrument wets her whistle.

Gazing at the nature of your density we may safely remark that desire is the fuel that runs the engine of your illusion, both the portion which is shadow and that portion which is form. That is to say, that desire is intrinsic to the awareness of being individuated. Desire is inherent in a consciousness of the self and the not-self. Whether it be wise or foolish, profitable or unfortunate to desire, those enjoying incarnation within your density will experience the proceeding and issuing forth of desires. One desires, for instance, oxygen, because that is the food for the blood that gives life to your organism. Not to desire oxygen is from the bodily point of view nearly unthinkable and certainly were one to achieve the cessation of a desire to breathe that entity’s life as a non-desiring being would be short. It is not, then, unwise to desire food for the physical vehicle, or the mental, emotional, spiritual vehicles, all of which bodies have natural functions and desires.

However, hidden from the first glance amongst rightful desires lies the exercise of what we have sometimes called the will. Each surely has experienced that energy of willing something to be so or not to be so. The personal will can take a part in desire which distorts desire from natural and even functioning into skewed values and incorrect or incorrectly perceived ways of thinking and processing information. Now, we say that we have called the faculty the will or the self-will. We might also call such distortion in natural desires the function—we correct this instrument—the action of prideful will or simple pride, for pride over and above the natural feelings connected with desire is that—we search this instrument’s mind for an appropriate word—and find none. Therefore, we shall begin again. Pride as it interacts with natural desires is as the cancer which takes over natural cells and begins multiplying them without stint. Growth is considered an excellent thing, but prideful growth in the form of the cancerous tumor can kill the organism which experiences it. So, we would say that perhaps it might be useful to think of the desires that one has, asking oneself whether the pride is stirred up in the expressing of this desire, whichever one that the seeker is considering.

This is subtle work, but as each desire comes forward the mind may entertain it, gazing at it to find those places where prideful will has puffed up the importance of obtaining that which one desires. To desire to be in the presence of the one infinite Creator is in our opinion the most basic and true of desires. Nor would we suggest that any discourages the hunger and thirst for the life-giving presence of love. We would not suggest that any relinquish the desire to be of service, for the purity of that desire is what works to accentuate the polarity of the seeker and that which will give the seeker continuing and helpful catalyst which acts to feed back support into that desire to be united with the infinite One.

The basic question for this session was: “So, we would like for Q’uo to comment about this entire range of dropping desire, reducing the dedication to an outcome, or loving, accepting, and yet working for a change so that we continue to strive for an ideal, and to improve, to grow in mind, body, and spirit.” Q’uo began by saying that desire is a basic quality of our awareness of our being that is individuated in our third density because we need oxygen and food for the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies. Q’uo went on to say that there was a prideful will that could distort our desires into incorrect ways of thinking and processing information, and then they gave the analogy of pride interacting with natural desires is similar to the cancer which takes over natural cells and begins multiplying them. Then Q’uo said it was also natural and acceptable to have desires such as experiencing the presence of the Creator, to have love in one’s life, to be of service to others, and to increase one’s polarity. On September 5, 2004, Q’uo spoke of the natural desires:

A desire can come from many different levels of being. There are natural desires that stem from the kind of physical vehicle which you now enjoy. The instincts of the physical body are perfectly natural and perfectly understandable. The desire for the life itself, the desire for survival, the desire for sexual expression: these things are at the very heart of the driving power of incarnation. Consequently, it cannot be said in any way that those instinctual desires, including the sexual desires, are lesser than any other level of desire. And yet certainly the instinctual desires are not the ending of desire at all but the beginning, that which allows the light to proceed and sets the stage for much more subtle and complex forms of desire to arise. In a way, there is no moment without desire. It cannot be gotten rid of because the very physical vehicle that you enjoy has a constant desire to survive, and every breath that you take is as the result of a desire for a continuation of that existence. Every pulse of the heart is an affirmative vote for the desire to live. It is impossible, in this body that you enjoy, that pulses and breathes and has many cycles of natural need, to avoid desire. The mind of your body, not even looking into that spiritual organ which is the consciousness, is in a constant state of desire. It is in a constant state of looking for the next thing and thinking about the last thing. It is in constant motion. The spiritual vehicle, as well, while not restless and desiring in that way, is resting in a steady heartbeat of creative and, what this instrument would call, Godly, sacred desire to progress in its journey back towards its Source and the ceasing of motion. You dwell in a sea which can be described as desire. It is the choice of what you desire and the level at which you desire that crafts the difference between empty and fulfilling, spiritually healthy, creative desire.

As we look over the many instances that you mentioned in your query where various religious and philosophical systems have encouraged the cessation of desire as being wise, we can certainly understand the feelings which prompt such wise advice, for truly to relinquish desire is to relinquish discomfort. There is a valid path towards the Creator, following this simple advice. However, the choice of path does not stop with this, shall we say, simplistic a solution to the question of desire. While this relinquishing of desires seems all one, there are an infinity of alternate paths, paths which are more complex, but which do lead to the same one original and central Logos. Within third density the likelihood is that one within the cultural nexus within which this group finds itself will not find the path of self-effacement to be as helpful or available as paths in which desire is not shunned but rather dealt with in a way which enables the seeker to strip from desire that pride of self which would puff up. Each is seeking, as it were, to refine those things which are natural.

The skin, for example, is cleansed and the lotion placed on it to alleviate dryness; the desire for friends and companionship is refined and subjected to enough examination and to the journey towards finding the ways to refine that need for company so that the desire is not for the company that feeds the self but rather the desire becomes purely the hope to serve a beloved other self. To the increasingly quiet mind from which pride is systematically being discouraged, little by little the pride becomes easier to spot. The emotions associated with impure desire become more transparent to the eye and to the ear and to the heart.

It is very likely, we feel, that which you call desire is implicit within the process which the Creator is engaged in this present moment. That sensing of the self which is the Creator’s relationship with all of its parts is a relationship full of desire. The desire to know the self is that which launched the universe in all of its infinity. Without this freely chosen desire on the part of the Creator there would be all that there is but there would be no awareness of it. The Creator Itself, then, is expressing desire—else we, you, and all would not exist. Every tiny mote of consciousness in the infinite creation is loved, desired, and manifested because of that desire.

Now, we cannot say that all those systems are wrong to encourage the removal of desire, for truly much of life as you experience it, as it responds to unconscious and deep desires runs directly counter to one’s conscious desires. The instinct of the seeker is often to fight against the way the experience is going, to desire a change, whereas the deeper desire of the self may well be to experience loss, limitation, or some difficulty. We would ask you then to think of your desires as those things which are natural and good in their essence.

However, because the illusion is thick, and because there is the veil drawn between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind, many times it seems impossible to embrace that which is occurring, even though the deep mind does indeed embrace this seemingly negative situation. The task of the seeker is simply to place the self within the fire and allow the catalyst to burn away that pride of self which suggests that the desirerer knows the way to purify desire. You have within you the capacity for great faith, and we may suggest that one way to exercise this capacity and so enlarge it is to reflect, when faced with that which one does not desire, with the quiet mind which is willing to open the hand and say “Here is all I feel. Teach me what is the pure desire and what is the husk and chaff of pride.”

Now let us step back and gaze at the unity of creation and know the sweetness of perfect harmony, harmony that is not still but which carries desire in its arms, but in a rhythmic and graceful fashion. To desire love and light is an instinct in the human blooming just as it is instinct which turns flower to the sun. There are words that aid in the gradual working away at that pride which says, “I know better.” Words such as “surrender,” “allow,” “accept.” These are words of health when used carefully. We suggest that a great tool to use in working with pride is kindness towards the self. You are within an illusion which insists that you begin with impure and cluttered emotions.

All the wisdom and passion that there is lies within, yet because the spiritual child is young it is clumsy and awkward. It feels so much love and yearning and wishes so much to be more comfortable, more light, and spirit-filled. Yet we say to you that the path that is appropriate for each, no matter how wise, who comes into incarnation is the path of impure and confusing desires, and it is within this puzzling atmosphere of emotion and thought within which each is intended to do the work and find the learning within the incarnation. The Creator to be found is found here, within that sea of confusion and prideful desire that masks the rightful and pure emotion that is hunger and thirst for truth, love, and for beauty.

This is not an easy topic to discuss, for as you pointed out in your discussion earlier, even the desire not to have desires is a desire. So we say to you—desire! Go ahead with that emotion but subject that emotion to self-examination, seeking always to prick the puffed up pride of self that insists it is the holder of the keys to righteousness. And meanwhile, expend time comforting and supporting that spiritual child within, whose yearnings are the breath of life itself for the evolving spirit. Comfort, succor and cherish this being within that is stirring and growing and beginning to see within this illusion through your eyes, that spiritual self, the one child each shall have regardless of the sex or the age. Love and support that evolving self and look for ways to purify the emotions that drive and teach and give opportunity for learning within this life, this incarnational experience which you now so briefly enjoy. There is peace in purified emotion, there is comfort at least, and the home within the clear and lucid desire.

Then Q’uo said that they understood why many religions advised the dropping of desires as being wise because it reduces the amount of discomfort, and it is a simple and valid path to the Creator. But then they said that there were alternate paths to the original Logos that were more complex as they helped the seeker to strip pride from their desire, and over a period of time it would be easier to see the pride that causes one to seek company for the benefit of the self and, instead, seek company in order to be of service to a beloved other self. Q’uo continued by saying that the desire of the Creator to know Itself is the basic reason that all entities within the creation exist, and if we can become aware of our deep desires to learn from loss and difficulties then they are a natural way for us to grow. Q’uo went on to say that because the veil of forgetting is thick it is often difficult for the seeker to accept the desire of the deep mind to learn these difficult lessons, so it is necessary for the seeker to place the self within the catalyst of the fire, and let it burn away the pride of the self and purify one’s desire by having the faith that all is well. Then Q’uo said that we should remember the unity and harmony of the creation and be kind to ourselves as we strip away our pride of impure and cluttered emotions and replace them with thoughts such as accept, surrender, and allow. They said: “Yet we say to you that the path that is appropriate for each, no matter how wise, who comes into incarnation is the path of impure and confusing desires, and it is within this puzzling atmosphere of emotion and thought within which each is intended to do the work and find the learning within the incarnation.” They said that we can find the Creator here because of our pure emotions and our thirst for seeking truth, love, and beauty. Q’uo completed their thoughts by saying that we should subject our desires to self-examination to remove any pride, and that we should support our spiritual child within by using our purified emotions that give us the opportunity to learn our lessons within this incarnation by using our clear and lucid desires. On January 2, 2000, Q’uo described the nature and use of our purified emotions:

So, we certainly suggest that you make use of those faculties of intelligence and reason that help you to analyze what is happening to you, help you to keep yourself in a self-understood order, but, more than this, we would encourage the cultivation of purified emotions. Those emotions being faith, and hope, and charity. Encourage yourself to be faithful in meeting each moment with hope and gratitude, praise and thanksgiving. And, insofar as it is possible, we encourage each to find ways of strengthening these habits of mind so that, little by little, it becomes habitual to greet the moment with hope, to greet the situation with faith, to greet the relationship with gratitude, humility, patience, and love. Where the intellect loses energy and is no more these deeper emotions become more and more and then oceans of energy offering infinite power and infinite grace to those who persist in seeking them. May we suggest to each of you the great benefits of disciplining your personality so that the first thought when engaged in a new situation is that thought of praise and thanksgiving. For when you stand upon that thought all that your outer circumstances can give to you will be grist for the mill, fodder to be chewed, experiences to be analyzed, to be loved, to be accepted, and to be forgiven.

We would at this time transfer the contact to the one 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 in love and in light through this instrument. We would ask at this time if there may be any further queries to which we may speak for the service of those in this circle?

Questioner: I have a question. I have been experiencing difficulties in my relationship with an acquaintance who is trying to serve the Creator with me. I find it difficult to deal with her because she is not reasonable, and I wonder if there are thoughts that you could give me to work with as I try to be part of the good in her life while retaining my own peace of mind.

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my sister. We scan your mind in order to get a fuller background on this situation and are aware that you are desirous of being of service of not only the Creator and to this entity but to the many who will be served by you and by this entity, and we feel this is most important point: that is that you desire to serve without imposing your will on any, even though another or others may attempt to do that to you.

It is a difficult situation for those who wish to serve to see that there are others whose desire to serve may be as strong and yet these may find that their desires are overlaid by personal concerns and the details of the day that are seen as paramount at the moment. We can only recommend that you hew to the higher road, if you will, and maintain the desire to serve the Creator as the first and strongest desire within you. Seek to the best of your ability to give love and understanding to those who demonstrate the need for such in their own difficulties and wrangling. It is often the case that work of an important nature can be done in such situations where one who seeks to serve gives of the self without knowing any particular outcome, casts the self-bread upon the water, as it is stated in your holy works, knowing that the heart is full of love and gives this love freely…

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and am again with this instrument. Is there another query?

Questioner: Q’uo, I have a question. You spoke of pride early on, through the other instrument. Is it possible to say pride is the same thing as ego, and do you distinguish it?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister, and we would agree that these two terms are basically interchangeable, for each is an illustration of an entity who wishes to impose its own will or desires on those about it in some fashion, not seeing that there is a larger picture, if you will, into which the entity fits as a much needed portion yet a portion which is not to be placed everywhere, for there must be room made for others within the thinking of entities who truly wish to be of service, and to serve in whatever way is asked without judging whether the means is dignified enough, important enough, interesting enough, or any quality enough to fit one as important as the self.

The focus upon the self in the means of balancing distortions and looking for ways to understand more of what is occurring within the self is an activity that may seem to some to be full of pride and ego, yet we would suggest that such a concentration of an entity’s attention upon its own self in that manner is a means by which a seeker grows, for it needs to be aware of the activity of intellect, of emotion, and of the spirit that moves within one’s own being. Yet that information is used only to temper the steel, shall we say, the character of the entity, and not to impose this character upon another.

Is there another query, my sister?

Questioner: Yes, another concept from an earlier channeling was the difference between a smaller self, the personality, and the deeper or what is called the higher self. You spoke of a deeper desire of the self, the unconscious desire. My understanding is that perhaps one way that a seeker should be aware of is the distinction between the smaller self and the higher self, try to follow the voice of the higher self. Am I right in this concept?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We would suggest that you have a correct appraisal of the relationship between that personality which inhabits one particular incarnation and the deeper portion of the self that is often called the higher self, the oversoul, shall we say, that oversees each incarnation and sends into each incarnation a portion of itself which develops its own personality for its own purpose of learning and serving.

Is there another question?

Questioner: Well, my next question is rather personal, and if you cannot comment on it, I understand. I wonder if you would be able to say anything about a friend of mine who just left his physical body, incarnation, this morning. Would it be possible for you to tell me if this person fulfilled its life’s purpose, in this lifetime. Had he suffered a premature death?

I am Q’uo, and we are aware of your query, my sister. Though we are desirous of aiding you by giving you the information which you seek we have a difficulty in the type of instrument we use and its access to information of this kind. However, we shall attempt to give something of that which we perceive.

In this entity’s case, as in the case of a great majority of those who pass through the doors of what you see as death from this life, there are indeed no mistakes or premature leavings of the incarnation, though it may seem so to those who remain behind, as it were. This entity has striven to meet the pre-incarnational choices and has done so in a manner which is to the design of the entity, in that those challenges desired were met with the kind of attitude that was hoped for before the incarnation began, for it was the choice of this entity to balance certain aspects of its overall identity or soul-self that it felt were somewhat lacking and in the incarnation just completed was able to achieve the kind of response to life, if you will, that was planned.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Questioner: No, thank you.

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

Questioner: I have one query Q’uo. I am working with the desire for companionship, and I wonder if you could suggest some thoughts for me to work with, as I try to strip the ego out of the desire and see with more clarity.

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. This instrument has difficulty speaking the first line, however we shall give it again… we know a nice little Jewish girl…

[Laughter]

We are Q’uo, and wish to speak seriously now…

[More laughter]

We are glad that we can partake in your mirth, and we would recommend that this kind of attitude, that which takes the self lightly, is that which is most helpful in such an endeavor, for the feeling that you have in your heart and in your mind, that is, one of lightness, is a feeling which is seen and felt by all about you, and when there is the opportunity for the meeting of those who may fulfill your desire the perception of yourself as the one who takes the life in a lighter sense and can find humor in many situations is a vibration or attitude that is most attractive to those who you would desire to share your time and energies with.

Thus, our only suggestion to you is that which sees the self as whole and perfect and attempts to expand upon that perception with the experiences such as you are undertaking at this time, those which expand your range of activities and the people possible to meet, and to do this with the light and gladsome heart.

Is there another query, my brother?

Questioner: No, thank you, Q’uo, that is a nice answer.

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

Questioner: I do have a question. Actually, I am not sure if it is appropriate to ask. I’d like to ask about catalyst that I am experiencing with my parents. Would it be possible for you to offer any insights, suggestions, comments on what would be the best way for me to approach the situation, on the desire of a person who seeks to live the truth, to seek truth, and what would be the best way for me to approach such a situation?

I am Q’uo, and we are aware of your query, my sister. We shall comment in the following way. We would suggest that it is well not to plan or scheme in a manner in which one would hope would be successful in winning over the approval and support of those who you call your parents or friends but to speak that which is true for you and to speak it with a strength that is built upon love, to give freely of your thoughts and your self in a manner which speaks as close to the heart of this experience as you can. If you build upon truth and love then your foundation is strong, and it will be apparent to those about you.

Is there any further query, my sister?

Questioner: That was a very good answer, Q’uo. I really appreciate it. Thank you.

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

[Pause]

I am Q’uo, and we would take this opportunity to thank those present for allowing us to join with you on this day in which you seek the One within the beauty, and joy, and love in the One all about you, for we are aware that your seasons change now, and that the light becomes bright, and the days grow short. The desire to seek burns strongly, and all about each are challenges that await. We walk with you as you meet each challenge and are happy to lend our conditioning vibration of love to you whether you are meditating or mediating, shall we say.

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

This morning I vacuumed the first floor of the house, and then I ran some errands with my first stop being at Absolutely Nails where Bethany gave me a haircut. My next stop was at Kroger’s where I bought some shredded cheese and trash bags. My last stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought more food for myself.

This afternoon I walked around the yard and picked up small tree limbs and put them in a garbage can for yard waste pickup next week.

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

August 23

It Is A New Day!

I am of the Spirit of Jesus the Christ. May the perfect Love of the Father enfold you this day.

Our great tidings are ever new, as are your minds and your hearts. Whether in life or death, whatever process you are experiencing in the valley of the shadow of death, yet still, despite any condition or process of body or mind, in your soul, in your heart, and in your truth are you new.

Do not carry around with you the great burden of self-perceived error. For you only need to say, “Forgive me.” It is healing to say those words to one with whom you have had a disagreement.

You are healing still to say, “I have judged you wrongly.” For fear and judgment are the causes of humans offering the opportunity for much agony to each other. It is equally important that you say to yourself, “Forgive me. I have judged in error.”

Rejoice! It is a new day! May you feel the Love that loves you now, wholly and completely. May you feel the peace that lies in the memory that Love is here. And when you drop away from your physical body, there, in spirit, shall Love be even more visible.

We leave you in that love and peace, now and forever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from September 17, 1995:

What part does wisdom play in our lives as seekers of truth attempting to learn compassion, forgiveness, and mercy? Is there anything that we can do to inform our actions with wisdom? What is wisdom in this density?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo, and we greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. It is such a blessing for us to be called to address your circle. We thank you and assure you that the honor is much prized and appreciated by us. We have come to feel a kinship with those of this group and this privilege rests in our hearts.

As we speak, as always, we ask that each recall that our truth is opinion, not fact, and though we offer those truths which we have learned carefully, yet these may not be those truths of your heart which you must lay claim upon. Each thought that we offer is as a gift. Place those aside that you do not respond to with recognition and a feeling of remembrance, and take those that may fit you and your circumstances. We thank you for reserving your own powers of discrimination. This enables us to speak freely and share with you those opinions which we have earned.

We might begin by saying that there is a sense in which wisdom is a term describing an illusion within your density, for the concept of wisdom implies that there is a right or correct way of thinking or acting. And while in things of your third-density illusion there are a nearly endlessly supply of right or correct answers, within the spiritual search, within that world which is walked within the heart, and within the mind by those who seek to accelerate the rate of their spiritual evolution, there is often no correct solution to a perceived situation or difficulty. As this instrument was saying earlier, the tendency of the rational mind to search for a correct solution and to think in terms of solutions can sometimes lead the seeker astray.

Let us look, if you will, at the wisdom of your world. Its structure, through your recorded history, has been that logical structure which so arranges and subdivides the multitudinous phenomena absorbable in daily life in such a way that the mind may contain a working picture, if you will, of the contents of the environment around the thinker. Wisdom is seen to be a structure of logic and thought into which one may place the various learnings and systems of learning that comprise the well-rounded mental atmosphere. One might almost think of wisdom as the housekeeper of the house of light, each kind of thought and area of endeavor having its own room, shelf, or closet. The wise man can be seen to be one whose house stands before the blast of random circumstances, able to take new information and fit that within that logical structure which has these thoughts in that room, those thoughts in the other.

In the eyes of your world, then, the wiser man is he who, when faced with new and challenging information, is able to restructure or, shall we say, remodel the house of thought so that the new furniture fits with the old. It is, however, the case that wise as the wisdom of your world is, it reaches to the limits of the spiritual walk and not beyond them. We wish, however, to make a point of saying that. A seeker whose worldly house of logic and thought is untended and unkempt shall have unnecessary difficulties in the spiritual seeking. Perhaps the wisdom of the world is greatly limited, but the physical being that carries your consciousness around is well served by one who takes the time and energy to develop that worldly kind of wisdom which is mostly the application of logical analysis to the constant stream of in-coming sense impressions that gives that hungry mind fodder to eat.

The seeker whose house is in order, then, has the inner sense of freedom to address that spiritual walk which is so dear and so necessary to those who have awakened to that hunger for truth that marks the seeker in a metaphysical sense. We see the sadness and the reluctance that this instrument feels when it gazes upon the turning of the season from warmth to cold, and we would compare the wisdom of the world to the experience of the physical vehicle in summer. The world invades and encroaches upon the self. It curls about one. There is a feeling of abundance and richness, and as this instrument would say, “the living is easy.” Hard as the decisions the world asks of you are in a worldly sense, they are of great comfort and ease compared to the often chilly choices and challenges facing the metaphysical seeker, for in the world of spirit there is a far colder kind of wisdom. It is the wisdom of one who gazes upon illusion and is able to see through the illusion to the mystery.

Thusly, the spiritual wise man is first the world’s fool. That ability to gaze at the richness and fullness of life and see its vanity is infinite is that ability which reaches into the beginnings of spiritual wisdom. Perhaps each is familiar with the concept of the sight which sees that which is becoming that which is not and, finally, becoming again that which is yet known more fully, and will be able to move up a step or two; each time the realization turns itself inside out and then reverts once again.

The group question for this session was: “What part does wisdom play in our lives as seekers of truth attempting to learn compassion, forgiveness, and mercy? Is there anything that we can do to inform our actions with wisdom? What is wisdom in this density?” Q’uo began by saying that within our third- density illusion there was the concept of there being a right and a wrong way of thinking and acting using the rational mind, but for those who move upon the spiritual journey by using their hearts and minds there was often no simple solution to a difficult situation. They went on to say that the history of our worldly wisdom forms a logical structure much like a house with many rooms for each area of study for the rational mind so that the wise man is able to place any new information in the proper room of the house so that the new information fits in with the old information. Then Q’uo said that the seeker whose house does not have this kind orderly storing of information will have some difficulty when it embarks upon the spiritual journey because our physical vehicle needs this kind of logical analysis of the wisdom of the world in order to be fed in a way which nourishes it, but the spiritual seeker who has its house in order has that inner sense of freedom that will allow it to begin that spiritual walk that hungers for metaphysical truth. Q’uo continued by saying that the spiritual wise man is first considered a fool because it sees the riches of the world as infinite vanity. Then they said that spiritual wisdom could move forward in steps as the spiritual seeker sees that which is not transforming into that which is known, and then seeing that which is known as reverting again to that which is not, and so the spiritual wisdom moves forward. On May 17, 1992, Q’uo spoke of the nature of spiritual wisdom:

When information has been reached for lovingly and received with respect and molded to the self’s person, or spirit, or character it may then have a strength which is not simply your own but which contains higher octaves of spiritual wisdom, so that as you are able to manifest the blossoms and fruits of the subconscious these retain a quality of infinity and are able to refresh and renew not simply the self but other selves as well, and this without tiring in any way the conscious self.

The more the conscious mind becomes impatient for knowledge, the more knowledge will recede from the spiritual seeker. The instructions are to desire greatly the wisdom of the heart, yet one is not rewarded for translating great desire into eager and impatient great desire. In this kind of desiring we ask each to consider the value of feeling the beauty and purity of this desire, appreciating it in and of itself, seeing its virtue and knowing that no matter how long it may seem that the search goes on before results occur, this desire, this stance, this way of being is in itself a witness to a life lived in the heart, for is it not a value of the heart to wait patiently upon wisdom, knowing that it cannot come at an appointed time but must always surprise the seeker? Dwell peacefully with the desire without taking away the intensity, so peacefully and intently await the impregnation of the heart by your desire. Seek and ye shall find. These words of your holy book are true. The time factor is not mentioned.

Let us look at the reflection of the wisdom of the Spirit. One reflection is the activity chosen by the seeker known as inner listening, practicing the presence of the one infinite Creator, meditation, or prayer. One may see that an entity has laid claim to wisdom as that one surrenders the mind that is so capable in the worldly sense and takes up instead the silent mystery that speaks the one great original Thought. There is a reflection of wisdom in one who opens the hand and releases some necessity, some urgency, letting it go, releasing worry and concern, placing the feet solidly in the mid-air of faith alone.

One may see the reflection of wisdom in the one who leaves the presence of good times and good company in order to be of service to one who is lost and has asked for aid. One may see the reflection of wisdom shining from the face of one who is laying hold of some infinite virtue, who stands unafraid and submits to whatever the world wishes to do regardless of the inconvenience of the outcome. One may see the reflection of wisdom in one who lays down the life for the cause of another. The key to spiritual wisdom is a kind of seeing.

Now, the physical sight is beautifully created and gives to a seeker windows upon an incredible and amazing physical universe, full of beauty and rhythms and perfect harmony. Each seeker has nascent, often inchoate inner vision as well. One may think of this faculty as the eyes of the spiritual body. These eyes, too, are wonderfully created, yet they lie dormant within the physical illusion until the seeker awakes to that clarion call of the spiritual walk. Then it is as if the worldly self has birthed the spirit within and as with all infants that eyesight of the inner spiritual entity is unfocused, untaught and very, very limited in its ability to see.

As the seeker begins to gain experience it discovers that the worldly sight, excellent as it is for the things of the physical universe, can tell lies if the physical sight is taken to equal spiritual sight as well. The spiritual self will look at the situation where all the things of the world are had in plenty and be able to see those imbalances, lacks and hungers that lie just below the surface of the illusion and that greatly change the truth that is seen. The spiritual self sees the riches of the world as poverty and sees the naked and vulnerable spirit in all its poverty as riches. To the spiritual eye the concepts such as death, limitation, emergency, catastrophe, fear and terror are not necessarily bad things. The riches for the spiritual self lie in every circumstance, those perceived as negative perhaps more than those perceived as positive by the physical self.

Strictly speaking, wisdom is a null word within third density. If it is striven for the result is a greater and greater ability to see the truth of the physical existence. That is, the man counted as wise is the one who seems to see most clearly, yet we say to you that the utmost clarity of awareness of an entity’s true motives and so forth is still that which contain great distortion.

In a non-relative sense we may say that wisdom is to be embodied rather than contained within the mind. A great amount of work is done within the density of wisdom to improve the spiritual eyesight. Foreshadowings of this density of wisdom fall across the seeker’s path in third density daily, and the seeker does well to give a good effort to striving to attain a measure of wisdom even though that effort is doomed to certain failure, because the desire to seek wisdom in itself contains the wisdom of third density. If you burn to be truly wise then focus upon that burning, that yearning desire. Seek to penetrate the mystery. Ache and reach for the heart of truth. The result is that to the extent you have purified that desire you have embodied wisdom such as it can be in your present illusion. The prelude to spiritual wisdom is surrender.

When we greet you in love and in light, we greet you in love or compassion and light or wisdom. Wisdom is concerned with the structure that tells its story within your awareness in such a way that you are best equipped to consider the mystery in all its stunning totality. If you seek to be spiritually wise then know that love and light, compassion and wisdom, are the substance and form of the Creator and the Creator’s universe. Wisdom builds the house of thought within which one may think upon the mystery. Love is the only solitary quality that can fill that form and create out of emptiness all that there is in its rejoicing, exulting splendor.

This is a stunning universe. This is an amazing mystery. We cannot express our excitement and our joy at the simple contemplation of the Creator. And beyond all seeking for light and knowledge there lies the golden, living, powerful and ever-penetrating fact of Love. Your form is spun of Light, your nature of Love.

Now Q’uo said that one reflection of the wisdom of the Spirit was to feel the presence and the mystery of the infinite Creator through meditation or prayer, and the key to spiritual wisdom was the kind of seeing where one leaves the good life and serves others in their needs, even being willing to give up their life for another. Q’uo continued by saying that just as the physical eyes can see and appreciate the beauty of the natural world, the seeker has an inner vision that could be called the eyes of the spiritual body which are dormant until the seeker becomes conscious of its desire to begin its spiritual walk. They said that the eyesight of the inner spiritual entity sees poorly at first, but as it gains in experience the conscious seeker begins to see below the surface appearance of the world around it and sees the riches of the world as poverty and the many difficulties of life as opportunities for spiritual growth. Q’uo suggested that the seeker should attempt to gain wisdom on a daily basis even though this effort is likely to fail, but the burning desire to be truly wise, and penetrate the mystery, and find the heart of truth will allow the seeker to embody wisdom as much as is possible within the third density. Q’uo said that: “If you seek to be spiritually wise then know that love and light, compassion and wisdom, are the substance and form of the Creator and the Creator’s universe.” Q’uo completed their thought by saying that beyond all seeking for the light of wisdom our form is made of Light, and our nature is Love. On January 20, 2005, Q’uo said that our nature is Love:

This is a key word, and it is almost meaningless when said because it has been so abused. But the very nature of each entity in creation is Love. The very nature of the Creator is Love. All the energy, no matter what it looks like in creation, is some form of Love. When the one known as J has found this hunger and has asked this question, rather than being a being standing outside his own heart he will be in that sacred space of his own heart. And it is from that place that life and love open up. We do not mean to be cryptic, but if one’s nature is Love, and if the question has to do with Love, and if the place inside the heart is described as unconditional Love, then perhaps we have offered you the help that we can offer you here.

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

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and in light through this instrument. At this time we would ask if we may speak to any further queries which those present may have for us?

R: [Inaudible]

I am Q’uo, and, my brother, we grasp that your query is clear, yet we would suggest that there are mysteries aplenty and that each entity will find the appropriate response to all catalyst.

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and am again with this instrument. Is there any further query, my brother?

R: No, Q’uo. Thank you.

I am Q’uo, and it is our great honor and privilege to share with you the catalyst of words, of thoughts, of desires and of the path of the seeker.

Is there another query at this time?

P: [Inaudible]

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query. The one known as Chocolate Bar, as all things in this illusion, has utilized its catalyst well and now approaches the removing of the garment of this incarnational experience, the physical vehicle which begins to deteriorate and to indicate to all who observe the ending of the incarnation. The giving of love to this entity and the rejoicing in its presence is that which is always most helpful, whether the entity chooses to remain or to go further upon its path.

Is there any further query?

P: [Inaudible]

I am Q’uo, and we are aware of your query, my sister, and may speak in the affirmative in that this entity has through its many years of devotion to those about it been able to gain that ability, to give and to receive love in a manner which will allow it to choose whether it shall go forward into the third-density experience or whether it shall return once again as a second-density being so that it might dwell with those with whom it now shares its incarnational experience.

Is there a further query, my sister?

P: No, thank you.

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

Carla: Is it possible to answer whether Chocolate Bar is the reincarnation of Jim’s dog, Trixie, from his childhood?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We find that it is best, in our opinion, to leave this possibility as a possibility.

Is there any further query, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you.

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

[Pause]

I am Q’uo, and we feel that we have spoken to those concerns which those present have offered to us and we are most grateful for this opportunity to be with each of you, and we further affirm to each that we are with you at any time at which you request our presence. We walk with light and gladsome feet and move where we are called, rejoicing at each calling and each journey of movement, and we thank those present for offering us the possibility of service. Though we are never certain of service, we are always certain of the desire to serve, and it is with a whole heart that we answer your call. At this time we shall take our leave of this instrument and this group, rejoicing in the presence of each, feeling great joy for the One who shines forth in all. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I went into the garage and checked the oil in Stanley to be sure that it was full for my upcoming trip to visit Anna in Nashville this Sunday. I discovered after my first trip to visit her and her husband in July that Stanley didn’t have the proper amount of oil, and I didn’t want to make that mistake again. And I discovered that it needed a quart of oil. I also discovered that the Coolant container looked empty. Then I weeded the garden between the garage and the fire pit by hand and then did the same with the weeds between Little Locust Creek and the Spirea Bushes Garden on the west side of the fishpond. Then I drove down to AutoZone to buy more oil and some coolant.

This afternoon I put the coolant in Stanley and then vacuumed the front seats and floor with the vacuum cleaner. Then I went back into the house and watched the Monte Kiffin Celebration of Life on my computer which one of my baseball teammates back in Lexington, Nebraska just sent me. Monte was my baseball coach who led us to the Class A State Championship in 1963. This celebration of Monte’s life was filmed at the Baptist Church in Tampa, Florida where Monte was a member performed various services for others in the church. A number of his family, friends, former coaches, and teammates gave short talks about his love of coaching, supporting his players, and helping them to do the best at their positions. Everyone mentioned how Monte had a great sense of humor and saw everyone that he met as equals whether they were the head coach, politician, stranger at the gas station, or one of his fans. I consider it a great honor to have been one of the first athletes that he coached in a career in coaching that lasted over 60 years. Just before he passed into larger life he was inducted into the National Football League Hall of Fame.

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

August 22

Do All In Joy

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

Throw off the shackles of sleep and sloth and embrace the day! Nothing is in it that cannot be done with joy and rest in the doing, for the Holy Spirit goes before you to prepare the most blessed way and to offer the most creative counsel.

Seek within, in the silence of a peaceful heart, to see what needs to be done and to find the heart and strength to do it gladly, cheerfully and with confidence. There is always enough time for that which is necessary. Release that which is not necessary, for if there is not time there is not necessity, in the situation for which you have wished, on the level of your being which leads you to pastures of peace.

See the moving of the Spirit in that which cannot be done as well as that which is done, for though the human mind wishes to do all, yet the Spirit guides in the selection of the work of Love.

May you go in peace, this day 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 September 10, 1995:

We would like to know more about worry and fear in their relation to faith. Can one create faith, or must one wait for a gift of faith, like grace? Does worry or fear ever help us by giving us the motivation to protect ourselves from injury?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. May we say what a blessing it is to be with you at this time, to share our thoughts with you and to blend our vibrations with your own. That which you ask this day is a question of much substance, for in learning the lessons of love the development of the faculty of faith plays a central role. The worry and fear which move through the awareness of those who seek is not so much that which is a mistake or error as that which reacts rather than responds and in developing the faculty called faith the lesson learned of responding rather than reacting is key.

You also ask if there are any positive aspects to worry, and we say that, of course, that which is loosely termed worry can be foolish and mean nothing, but it can also be wisdom or intuition which senses the need for concern. The entity who worries that the house has not been shut properly before leaving will turn off the light, will check the locks, will secure the dwelling in as many ways as is necessary. Worry gets the bad name because entities do not always focus upon the central question of whether there is in the concern any area or portion of that concern which lies within the purview or control of the one who is concerned. When there is no avenue open for action which can address a concern, the worry has no function within the physical illusion. Its function in the inner life then becomes that of moving the entity off center, removing the peace which lies within the one whose heart is clear, and sets up catalyst. This function is useful. It is a way by which the mind focuses itself upon that point of inner distress. Over this inner universe, unlike the outer manifestation, the seeker does have resources to which he may turn.

The question was asked during your study period—this instrument needs a moment to deepen the tuning and we pause that this may be done.

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We are again with this instrument. The question that was asked earlier was what is there to choose to do instead of worrying, and we suggest to you that worry is disorganized and random prayer. The deepest inner dialogue is with the great Self that overarches and undergirds all that is. Worries and fears not only stew and seethe within the mind, they also register with the infinite One as cries of distress. However, the energy used in worrying is tangled and mazed, and the Creator, although reaching within always to comfort, simply cannot move through that tangle that has stopped the inner hearing, the inner vision, the inner sensing, of that peaceful, creative and wise self. Thusly, when the seeker sees itself in a muddle, worrying and fretting, we suggest that one resource that may aid is the memory, the remembrance of the fact that one who worries may also be one who prays and enters into conversation with the infinite Creator, that greater Self of which each is an ineffable and unique portion.

The group question for this session was: “We would like to know more about worry and fear in their relation to faith, and were there any positive aspects to worry?” Q’uo began by saying that in learning the lessons of love that worry and fear cause one to react to situations without thinking whereas faith allows one to respond to them consciously, and that worry can be helpful if one’s intuition feels that there is a reason for concern. However, they said that if there is no way that one may deal with the concern then worry has no function in the physical illusion, but in the inner or spiritual life its function is to move the seeker off its center of its clear heart and provide catalyst which the seeker has inner resources that may be used to deal with the worry and fear such as by praying and entering into an inner dialogue with the infinite Creator that one is a part of. On September 28, 2019, Q’uo spoke of how prayer can allow us to make contact with the One Creator:

Prayer is that facility that rises from within the heart of one’s being to make contact with the One Creator in order to become more fully aware of the One Creator; to be able to then express the heartfelt beingness of the seeker of truth to the One Creator in order that the will of the One Creator may move in some fashion through the seeker of truth, not only at the moment of praying, but more importantly, in the daily round of activities, so that in some way, the one who prays becomes an instrument of the One Creator through which the Will of the One Creator moves and has an effect upon some portion of the one who prays, or the environment about the one who prays, or some other entity that the one who prays is knowledgeable of and wishes to be of service to. Thus, the praying is that which seeks to make a contact of a universal nature with the One Who Exists in All, that some portion of that entirety of Allness or beingness may be enhanced by a greater appreciation of the One Creator who resides within all beings.

Now, each knows within the heart that worry founded or unfounded is only effective when there is an option open, something that can be adjusted or controlled. The one thing over which the seeker has constant control is the will, and it is the function of the will to aid in the establishment of a life in faith, for worry may be contractive to faith. So, we come to the question of what can be done to increase faith.

Now, the faith, when taken hold of by the seeker, creates an area of control in all situations within this or your illusion, indeed, within any that we know of. How to lay hold upon that natural function? How to encourage it? We have often said that faith, when first chosen as a way of living, is nothing more than a leap into space. Faith creates itself in the mid-air, when the will of the seeker has been surrendered. That first so-called leap of faith is a beginning. It could be nothing more than the conscious decision, the promise to the self, “I will live by faith.” This is a good beginning.

The will is invoked by such an affirmation. Each time the seeker subsequently finds itself mired in useless and cyclical worry the affirmation may be repeated, “I will live by faith.” Sooner or later there comes a moment when the repetition has bred a new and positive habit of mind and in that moment the seeker finds that she has skipped the usual habit of worry and been inspired spontaneously to affirm, “I will live by faith.” That moment of peace is as precious as your rare metals and should be stored carefully in a special part of the memory, that memory that lies just behind the surface of things.

Now, the faculty called faith stems from an infinite sureness, a knowledge of self that rests deep within the roots of mind. All that the seeker does when invoking faith is to reach towards the root of mind where that faculty lies waiting to be encouraged to grow. Eventually, faith does become a habit, and during periods of the incarnation when an entity is experiencing those things which are perceived as pleasant, she may rest and experience the peace which passes understanding. Yet there shall, in the natural cycle of light and dark that is your illusion, be times when there is no comfort. There is no spontaneous feeling of faith. And then it is that the wise seeker is content to live upon the bare memory of those winsome, glad times when the spirit is high, and the faith flowed like water. These memories are true, and they are as the talisman that protects the entity suffering through change and transformation even though no sense of faith remains.

Faith is indeed a gift in that some entities have a clearer line or connection with their own unconscious mind. Faith is also a built-in, inherent, and native portion of the deep mind and thusly it can be developed and pulled up into the conscious existence by one who works to form the habit of turning to faith and faith’s ability to give one the opportunity to create that area of control which changes the fear and fret of daily worry into an occasion to invoke faith. Once that feeling has been experienced of the support given by faith, then it becomes more and more natural to turn from the small circle of worry to the upreaching of prayer, intercession, praise, and thanksgiving.

Those things which aid in connecting the faith deep within to the conscious mind include first of all the regular meditation, for in the silence of meditation connections from within the deep mind are being made and information is flowing. Also, we suggest the encouragement within the self of praise and thanksgiving for all, large and small, or the ephemeral world that may meet the senses. Prayer, praise and thanksgiving are three resources that add and strengthen the connection to faith.

Now Q’uo said that the seeker has the ability to control the use of the will to establish a life in faith and to deal with worrying which can cause faith to contract, so then they said that in order to increase faith that the seeker should set its intention to live by faith and to store this intention within its deep mind. Then Q’uo said that its use becomes habitual in the good times when the seeker experiences the peace that passes understanding, but when the dark times of transformation come it is available to call upon as the seeker remembers how it flowed so abundantly in the good times. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that faith is a natural portion of the deep mind, and it can be used to deal with worry when the seeker makes a habit of calling it into the conscious mind to invoke faith to deal with worries through praise, prayer, and thanksgiving for all things as this was a good way to strengthen the connection to faith. On February 6, 2000, Q’uo described the value of calling upon faith:

Indeed, each seeker must call upon the quality of faith again and again within the life pattern. This calling upon faith is that type of seeking which builds upon itself a kind of metaphysical momentum, shall we say. As one moves at first, the movement tends to be hesitant, not quite sure, timid, yet desirous of building the faith necessary to continue to move. And so, the movement in faith does just this. The metaphysical muscles are built as are the physical muscles, with exercise.

We feel that this is a good beginning upon this interesting subject and would ask at this time for any questions that you may have. Is there a query at this time?

R: This instrument has a new computer. Is there something that the instrument can do to make sure that the computer keeps working, or is there some effect she has on it that we should know about?

We are those of Q’uo. We feel that the instrument and the instrument are compatible. The energy which creates disturbance within sound-producing equipment does not produce the same distortion with the computer. Indeed, the instrument has, shall we say, a beneficial effect upon the computer.

Is there another query?

R: To be sure, then, the computer would not have any deleterious effect upon the instrument as far as using hands is concerned?

We are those of Q’uo, and if we grasped your query correctly it is the instrument’s choice to martyr the self in some degree that lies prior to any handling of any equipment that requires fine motor motion.

May we respond further, my brother?

R: To restate: might the computer emit any harmful energy fields for the instrument, since she is sensitive?

We are those of Q’uo, and we grasp your query now. We do not see a deleterious effect upon the instrument from the electromagnetic field of the computer.

Is there another query?

P: Two. First is a personal question. I am having a child, and I want to know how the development of this child affects the energy centers of the mother?

We are those of Q’uo. As a woman accepts within the physical body the new physical entity she finds the energies within the self to be moving into harmony with the nascent and developing energies of the child within. This creates, at first, a dimming or lessening throughout the energy centers of the mother as the system adapts to and balances with the incoming entity’s energies. Because of the fundamental nature of conception and gestation the mother will often find the red or root ray energy center becoming stronger. During this strengthening it is easy to experience imbalance within that center because of the relative rapidity with which this process affects both child and mother.

So, the energies involved in living, breathing, eating, sleeping: those creature comforts, those natural sexual functions, may seem to be very strong but confused or muddied. Likewise, the green ray energy center tends to run very hot, shall we say, for the natural faculties within the mother are opened as a flower to the sun by the process of nurturing and creating the life and all that that great opportunity brings with it. The remaining energy centers have a tendency to be dim and not particularly well balanced due to the immense amount of energy which is being devoted on the red ray and green ray levels by the mother.

Therefore, it is helpful in attempting to balance the energy centers to use the visualization of that more balanced and even flow of energy, visualizing this, even speaking of it aloud to the self in affirmative sentences may do much to even out those energies and create more vitality and sense of comfort to the mother.

May we answer you further?

P: When do the energy centers of the child develop?

I am Q’uo: The energy centers of the child are already developed. The energy centers of the physical vehicle are in an inchoate state until the entity decides to come into the physical vehicle. When that melding of spirit and flesh takes place the physical body then takes on the basic energy balances of the entity taking advantage of the incarnational opportunity. As the entity settles into the physical vehicle the physical energy centers are invested with the entity’s energies which are as a complex of vibrations expressing the self and its personality. The resulting harmonies of spirit and physical vehicle create the energy centers in the configuration which the child begins the incarnation with.

We may say also that the child whose mother consciously seeks cooperation and balance between her energies and the incoming spirit’s energies creates the better atmosphere for the child to be in. The function of the thinking about or brooding about the child to come is that it creates a more and more comfortable pathway for the child as it is welcomed into physical existence.

May we answer further?

P: You spoke of the melding of spirit and body. A certain time?

I am Q’uo: The incoming spirit chooses its unique moment to enter. It may be very early in the pregnancy. It may be almost identical to the moment of birth. Some life paths need to begin with catalyst within the womb and some therefore choose to dwell within that environment and experience suffering. Others may choose to come in early because there is a tremendous attraction between mother and child. And such a child experiences great communion and unconditional love during this time so that an entity begins life perhaps already burdened with sorrow or with unreasoning optimism and joy. These are very individual choices and there is not one selected moment for all but, rather, each chooses for the self.

Is there another query?

P: Is there a sign or indication that the mother would know when the spirit begins to interact?

I am Q’uo. Often there is indeed that moment of recognition, that moment when the mother knows the child within. The more tuned into the self and its true feelings the mother is the more sensitive and vulnerable to such contact that person is. We would suggest that it will always have a beneficial effect on the child when the mother communicates with that entity; whether that is talking out loud to it, or simply thinking to it, such efforts at sharing and communicating are often rewarded.

Further queries?

P: Would you be able to suggest any method of meditation for the mother that is helpful to the child? Thinking and talking are good. Should she refrain from certain activities that may be harmful to the child?

We are those of Q’uo. To the entity coming into incarnation the world is at first a disorienting place. It picks up and takes as its own any strong emotion or state which is the mother’s. If the mother’s life is that which creates a deep unhappiness this has a tremendous effect upon the child within. Similarly, the child will drink in joy, and peace, and love to the fullest extent, finding this gift as natural as the mother’s blood which flows through its veins. As the physical fetus develops the child begins to have independent feelings, but this is not marked until after the birth.

May we answer you further?

P: No, thanks.

I am Q’uo. My sister, we thank you also. We do find that the instrument is tiring and so we would at this time leave our blessing, our love, and our faith with you, and take leave of this instrument and this group. We leave you in the love and in the light of the One Who is All. We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo. Go forth with joy. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I went outside and used the watering wand to water the flowers along the parking area in front of the house. Then I watered the azaleas and hydrangea in front of the house. Then I went into the back yard and watered the forsythia on the south border beside the bird feeder. Then I used my trimmer and was able to do all the trimming on the side of the house around the fishpond, in front of the house, and then made a small start on the back yard around the bird feeder.

This afternoon I went back outside and finished the trimming in the back yard. Then I made an errand run to pick up some appetite stimulant for Bosco at the Metro Vet Specialists. My second stop was at Feeder’s Supply to pick up some cat food for Benny. My third stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market to pick up some food for myself. My last stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store to pick up some Tylenol, some Pepsi Zero, and some non-food items.

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

August 21

Self-Consciousness

We are of that continuous and lucid vibration which is the Love of Jesus the Christ. We greet you in the full consciousness of Love.

There is a Spirit which comforts all things. Yet this same Spirit demands and encourages activity upon the part of each entity. When those of your planet were walking about in deep forest and jungle, clad only in what they could skin and eating as they hunted, they were full of the Spirit, these humble and primitive self-conscious beings. Their lives were focused with discipline and intention in order to create the skills needed for survival. So, the Spirit was to them that which enabled them to walk in harmony with their environment.

You who sit in meditation this morning have developed self-consciousness to a high degree. You too seek comfort, the comfort of the emotions and the comfort of the Spirit. And so, you have comfort, by asking and expecting it.

Yet remember that it is yours to labor, with a hearty and cheerful heart, to bring into your consciousness that emotional, mental and spiritual food which we have offered you the tools to believe are possible. We are partners and our efforts shine together in transformative harmony.

May peace be yours this day and evermore.

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 September 3, 1995:

We would like to know if when we try to be of service to others are we doing anything other than working on ourselves? Are we really being of service to others? Is there any way of being of service to others other than by providing catalyst that could be provided to that person almost in any way. That person is going to go through that catalyst with or without us. So, what is our role other than working on ourselves?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle of Q’uo, and we greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. May we say how happy we are to speak to this group this day. It has been some time since we have spoken with you and your presence delights us. We thank you for the privilege of being a part of this circle. We bear greetings also from those of Hatonn and those of Oxal, for they wish, as well as we, to thank each who has asked us to meditate with them in the period during which there were no formal meetings held. This also is a great privilege for us, and we count it as a substantial part of that service which we have come here to offer you.

This day you ask us whether teaching has any value other than that of working upon the self. You will notice here the paradox that is endless. How can one serve another since all that one does to serve another serves the self? This paradox is only apparent. It is not authentic or genuine, yet it is to be noted that paradox seems an essential and necessary part of any spiritual question or line of questioning. And when one runs head on into a paradox, an enigma, a riddle, one has a kind of sign that, yes, this is spiritual work. There is nothing more baffling or more complete than the mystery that is the Creator.

The difficulty with teaching among your peoples is that difficulty which one finds in the use of words. Were teachers silent, were there no concepts traded from one to another, yet still the teacher would teach, and that teaching slowly absorbed would be that which hewed closer to truth. We point this out because it is apart from the main thrust of what we wish to say. However, it is a problem that weighs heavily upon both teacher and student, this relationship both have to the words they speak and the words they hear.

We would turn to the main thrust of this query with the statement that we are here as a kind of obvious symbol of our own opinion that teaching is possible, and that one is doing more than teaching the self. Wise is the teacher who waits for the student to ask to indicate interest in a subject, a concept or a train of thought, for what the teacher essentially is for the student is a kind of catalyst that bears a weight, a heaviness, a bottom which balances and makes stable for that student the point of delivery for the catalyst given. All are teaching each other. Sometimes intentionally. Often unintentionally. But when the entity teaching is not self-perceived as a teacher the teaching that comes to the other is interpreted for the most part by the other as having no weight. It is not a kind of teaching that attracts because it is completely random, each person responding to the other and each teaching each.

When the student perceives that an entity is a teacher; when the student then gives weight and respect to and for that teacher’s opinions; then there has been made a stable connection. The student becomes ready to open. The teacher, likewise, becomes ready to share, and that which is offered is offered in a stable and careful manner. This is the advantage of intending to teach. The disadvantage of intending to teach is that there are expectations upon the part of the teacher and upon the part of the student, and these expectations, while benign for the most part, sometimes block the student or the teacher from paying attention, or being completely aware of all that is transpiring, and all that is being communicated. Directions can be missed by teacher and by student.

Perhaps we would say that the ideal between teacher and student is a union wherein each shares what each has brought, and the other listens in a way that does not distort, and together there is the plaiting of one strand of thought with another, and another, and another in a rope or string of new connections and new facets to the subject that both are focused upon. This is the kind of teaching which gives both new strength and a new awareness and a continuing desire for more. At the same time, we need to look at the fact that is so well known to this instrument and to each of you, and that is that there is only one self. There is only one Creator and insofar as the deepest levels of truth that we know may go, the basic truth is that all centers of consciousness alike work upon the self, for what is not the self?

The question for this session was: “We would like to know if when we try to be of service to others are we doing anything other than working on ourselves?” Q’uo began their reply by saying that it wasn’t possible to be of service to others without being of service to the self which was a seeming paradox, and a paradox signified the spiritual nature of the question. Then Q’uo said that using words in the process of teaching was not as effective as teaching would be if the teacher were silent. Q’uo said that when the teacher and student are aware of their respective roles then there is a connection established between them which has the advantage of intending to teach, but the disadvantage of this connection is that each may have expectations that could keep them from being totally aware of what is being communicated. Q’uo went on to say that the ideal relationship between the teacher and the student is the type of communication in which each speaks and listens to the other in a way which creates a tapestry of thoughts on the topic of their communication that enlarges each one’s understanding of the topic, and it also creates a desire for more information on that topic. Then Q’uo reminded us that there is only one self, the Creator, and that all conscious seekers work upon the self because there is no one that is not the self. On December 16, 1984, Latwii said that we all are one:

So, my brother, you need not worry about the expense or the time required to seek the truth. If you have the desire to seek the truth, you may do so each moment of your existence as you see yourself in each entity that you meet, as you see yourself as the Creator in each situation in which you find yourself. There is no end to the opportunities for seeking the truth, the Creator, and your self, for all are one thing. You live in that one thing as that one thing.

Let us turn back now to the teacher for a moment. Let us gaze at this structure, this place or position and the ramifications of it. What does the teacher teach? Within third density it is popularly and generally perceived that the teacher teaches a subject. “What do you teach?” is the response to discovering that an entity is a teacher. However, students are well aware, whether teachers are or not, that a great deal, sometimes a majority, of what a teacher brings to teaching is not on the subject that is being taught, for teachers teach first of all by who they are and how they allow entities to come within their gates of acceptance. Those whose teachings affect students most are those who allow the students to learn the teacher as a being as well as the teaching, for each is a teacher in that each presents a certain complex of vibrations to the world. And those fundamental vibrations are as clearly perceived by a student as are the words spoken. So that the teacher who has truly been called to be a teacher has a store of being that it is willing to share. This beingness, this way of living and of presenting the self is a catalyst to the student on a deeper level, shall we say, than the actual subject matter which has been discussed. And this is each entity’s gift to give to the world, this way of living that allows the world to see into the self. This is a way of each teaching each that is unparalleled in its ability to transform and rejuvenate those who receive such unspoken instructions.

Within third density talking, communicating, expressing the self, and even the arguing, the disputes, the dynamics of difference are the meat and drink of those who wish to learn and those who wish to seek the truth. We encourage each to know within the self that the way of being, the way of living, is a great offering, we feel, the greatest offering and the first job, shall we say, of those who wish to serve. Everything springs from your beingness, so the first career of any seeker is that career of one who seeks to live devotionally throughout a lifetime. In terms of students and teachers this dedication to a life of devotion and faith makes one the eternal student and the eternal teacher. Again, the paradox.

In the end there is not a great deal of activity that does not teach and certainly that which is worthwhile, that which is worthy of being taught, has many, many witnesses and needs many, many more. The condition of mortality is one which encourages some illusions more than others. One illusion that being within incarnation does create well is that sense of beginning and ending which is exemplified by each birth and each death of a being that comes into incarnation and then leaves it again. In this context it is easy to question the value of teachers that are teaching that which will not put bread upon the table, give the worker the job, or present to the society one who is capable of fulfilling the mundane requirements of one position or another. Yet that kind of teaching which looks to a life well lived rather than a job well done is the teaching that will open for the student the greater amount of life and give the teacher’s eyes to the student on a deeper level.

Before we leave this instrument we would like to say again how pleased we are that this group continues and seeks new life, new learning, new catalyst for contemplation. We feel that truth is new every day, and that there is always the way that has not been found that waits for the one who wishes to sing a new song. Truth is never exhausted, and teachers shall never be unemployed.

Then Q’uo discussed the question of what the teacher teaches, and they said that students are aware that a teacher is more than the subject it teaches because the teacher relates to students by how their complex of vibrations are presented to the students. They said this provides the student the opportunity to see into the teacher in a way that presents catalyst to the deeper levels of the student that transforms and rejuvenates each without the spoken words. Q’uo said that within the third density it is important to know who we are, the true nature of our being that will help us to be of service, and to dedicate ourselves to a life of devotion and faith that will make us an eternal teacher and an eternal student: another paradox. Q’uo completed their thoughts by saying that within the third density illusion it is important to teach that which may not fulfill the mundane requirements of earning money and paying bills, but it was living a spiritually oriented life and giving the eyes of the teacher to the student on a deeper level of its being so that it could see that the nature of truth is new every day. On September 18, 1983, Latwii described the nature of truth as the seeker going through transformations, becoming the one Creator which it has sought and then to look upon a new creation:

I am Latwii, and we shall be most happy to attempt clarification of this point, which may at first seem quite contradictory and confusing to those who have long sought the nature of truth, shall we say. The seeker is one who is conscious of the process of evolution. Though each person learns as the one Creator, many do so in a manner which you may consider unconscious. To use our brothers and sisters of Hatonn’s analogy, there is the stumbling into the spotlight, the falling into the orchestra pit, and eventually the entity begins to write the script, which is another way of saying begins to seek in a conscious manner the keys which shall unlock door after door within the inner self, and reveal those treasures of being that await such seeking.

At some point in this process there is another transformation which occurs. This is the transformation in which the seeker not only knows intellectually with the conscious mind that it and all it observes are the one Creator, but experiences more and more the being of the one Creator within its own being. The one Creator is found within, and the entity is found everywhere within the one Creator. As this process becomes more apparent and becomes that which is experienced more and more within the incarnation, the seeker discovers that it is that which it seeks.

This is more than semantics, my friends. To seek is to suggest that the one who seeks spends the efforts looking for that which it is not, yet wishes to become. To know that the self is that which is sought, is the one Creator, is to de-emphasize the seeking and to be that which was previously sought. In this transformation the entity looks upon a new creation. The entity looks upon itself as it surveys that which it is, and which formerly would have been seen as that in which it existed. In this transformation there is a greater responsibility assumed by the one which formerly focused its efforts upon seeking. Now this entity, our former sturdy seeker, is that which it sought, and shoulders the responsibility of being all that is.

This student and teacher reminds us that we need to be aware of time, and so we would transfer to the one known as Jim at this time, feeling that we have made a beginning on this interesting question. 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. Again, may we say that we are full of gratitude to be able to utilize each of these instruments this day and would ask those gathered about if there might be any further queries at this time?

Carla: There was something that you were offering me that I didn’t quite get at one point, and it had to do with the students teaching and the teachers learning. If you can comment on this, I would appreciate it.

I am Q’uo, and we are aware of your query but are not quite certain as to the portion which you did not understand so we shall attempt to speak thusly.

The student, when considering instructions of the teacher, takes that which is the self which it is at its heart with it upon a journey that the teacher offers by presenting the concepts and considerations which are just beyond the student’s current level of understanding and integration within its [inaudible]. As the student walks with the teacher on this mutual journey of teaching and learning the teacher becomes aware of the student’s response according to its own observation of the student’s feedback and the intuition that develops in any relationship that involves energy exchange. Thus, the teacher is being taught how to teach as the student learns what is given. The teacher finds new areas [inaudible] so that there is no possibility of teaching without learning or learning without teaching for those engaged in this process of changing the self. All change is learning. All learning is change.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: No, I think I hear what you are saying…

[Rest of recording is inaudible.]

This morning I began watering the flower gardens around the house with the sprinkler. Then I pumped a quarter of the water out of the fishpond and used it to water the gardens around the fishpond. Then I cleaned the filters and fertilized the water lilies. Then I put the hose in the fishpond to fill it with fresh water, and while the pond was being refilled, I emptied the old sugar syrup out of my three hummingbird feeders and refilled them with fresh sugar syrup. I went across the street to my neighbor’s yard and did the same with her two hummingbird feeders. Then I made an errand run to pick up some meds for Bosco at the vet’s. On the way home I stopped in at Absolutely Nails Salon and made an appointment to get my hair cut. My last stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought more canned chicken for Bosco.

This afternoon I used my trimmer to weed the Moss Garden. Then I used Venus to cut the grass.

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

August 20

Judgment

I am of the principle of perfect Love, and I greet you in that principle of perfect Love which is the essence and being of Jesus the Christ.

This instrument has allowed the mind to become most clouded with judgment this day, not of the self but of others. It is a condition which leads to death and exhaustion of the emotions and spirit and which leaves the physical body a walking grave.

The Spirit of Love does not contain judgment. Rather than disciplining in the face of difficult opinion, it attempts to expand the object of judgment and the mind of the judger until all may be seen to be the outworking of natural processes.

Remember that each entity struggles to find the Spirit of Love, and most are faulty in their pursuit of that great pearl.

Remember that nothing is as it seems to be, and that Love is expressed in many distorted ways. Release judgment, asking for the Spirit to fill the mind with an expanded vision and a more tolerant view. For so Christ’s Love would have Love between all peoples as a direct corollary and manifestation of perfect Love.

We leave you in peace, now and always. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from July 6, 1995:

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet you once again in love and in light. We are pleased to have been able to make contact with this instrument and would at this time ask if we may be of further service to this group this evening by attempting to answer queries which those present may find value in the asking. May we begin with a query?

Carla: Q’uo, you feel like a fifth density contact. Are you?

I am Q’uo, and this correct, my sister. May we answer further?

Carla: Not unless you have anything that you wish to say about yourself—or yourselves.

I am Q’uo, and we have little to offer as biographical information, as you would term it, for we are as you are, that which is and that which seeks the one Creator.

May we answer another query?

L: What can you tell me about an event in our history known as the French Revolution?

I am Q’uo, and we would need to move with this instrument to deeper levels of its consciousness in order to speak in any detailed fashion concerning the event that you have called the French Revolution, for we are not historians and do not study this facet of your planet’s history, as you call it, and in order to move beyond our abilities and desires to be of service in those ways which are ours to offer, we would need to be able to transmit information which was totally unfamiliar to this instrument.

That which is of the philosophical distortion, shall we say, is that which we are most able to offer, for the philosophy of one’s existence and the attitude concerning the meaning in one’s life pattern and life in general is that common factor which binds all who seek what you have called the truth. Therefore, we may speak upon this topic with far less difficulty than we would encounter should we move beyond these limits.

Is there some particular aspect of this event which you have called the French Revolution that we may speak upon, for as you are aware, it is an event with many, many facets and to speak in even the most general terms would be a great distortion of any one facet.

L: I think at this time I would prefer to withdraw the question. Thank you very much.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you, my brother, for your understanding and acceptance of our obvious limitations.

May we attempt any other query?

Carla: I would like to take up L’s question and work with it a little bit because I think that there may be something of substance that you could answer. So, what I’ll do is guess at the direction that he was going, supply you with some background, and then ask a question that is philosophical, if that is acceptable to you?

I am Q’uo. We are quite pleased to attempt our service in this manner.

Carla: About the middle of the eighteenth century, Europe rather exploded with revolutions having to do with freedom. Middle European nations and—I suppose England actually started it all in 1660 to 1680 with a civil revolution that didn’t work out, but it started things off. In the later 1700’s America declared its independence and its freedom, and the idea of liberty and freedom really took hold in people’s hearts. And when this came to France, it was in the 1790’s and it was a rather bloody rendition of revolt, as I suppose revolutions tend to be, but there was a particularly nasty cast to this one—people got beheaded instead of merely having to go back to the old country. Nevertheless, the goals were liberty, equality, fraternity, and it has often been surmised, and has been stated by some Confederation members, that some within the American revolutionary movement were very, very wise souls who had no home contact with Earth. This was not their home planet. They came here as wanderers.

Jefferson, for instance, was one who was a wanderer, and who came here in order to aid the entities of this particular part of the planet in affecting a transformation of thought. The same could be said—the same could be surmised—of some entities within the French revolutionary movement, and certainly the goals were laudable. The philosophical question is: there seems to be an interweaving of souls not of this planet who come to share an increased radiance of spirit with those who may still be sleeping and who will waken to a brighter beacon. I feel that wanderers have a far more organic tie with their adopted planets than is usually thought, in other words, that wanderers to this planet take from it as well as give to it. And I wondered if you would like to comment upon the intertwining of energies of wanderers and those who are native or at least have spent many, many incarnations on this particular planet which we call Earth.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you for the opportunity to speak upon this topic, for it is one which is central to the lessons and purposes which each entity upon your planet’s surface has incarnated to learn and to offer. The population of this planetary influence, being a third-density population, is one which attempts to learn the lessons of what may in general be called love. There is no better word in your language, yet it falls short. This lesson, as it makes itself apparent to those attempting to learn it, manifests in differing degrees and through various stages that one may liken to the growth of the tree which produces a fruit, and may also be likened within each human entity to the movement of light to higher and higher centers of energy within the mind/body/spirit complex.

Thus, there is a season when the gardener, shall we say, may do its work, and a season when the natural evolution of the tree may take its course. Those you have called wanderers, then, have incarnated in various periods of your planet’s historical past in order to aid the overall growth of the tree of mind, or of your planet’s population, as it has proceeded through those stages of growth which precede that aspect of love which may be seen as manifesting in the form of the ideals of liberty and freedom and equality.

We must pause.

We shall continue. This instrument was concerned that its contact with the one known as Carla was incomplete. To continue. As the entities which comprise your population have moved through the understanding of a racial …

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and we shall continue.

As then, your planetary population has moved through the identification with groups and the giving and taking of energies between groups, and has evolved in the individual sense, as well to the appreciation of the ability to express one’s own thoughts and actions without restriction, then this becomes the signal to those that you have called wanderers that there is the need and the call for assistance in aiding those who have begun to appreciate the individual expression and who now are in need of finding within their being the ability to allow that expression within others as well.

As the energies of the light move through the lower three energy centers and begin to approach the heart energy center or chakra, and that which is known as love or compassion begins to be activated within the individual and group consciousness, the ideals of liberty and equality then become paramount in a form which begins in a distorted fashion, for those who have long labored under the bonds of some form of slavery or have found themselves in a service to others which was not chosen but which was, shall we say, dictated to them, the desire for freedom and equality bursts forth in a fashion which first is quite gross and unrefined in its nature, thus the various tendencies towards retribution in the form of revolution begin to develop, and within this framework of transformational change that is somewhat of a chaotic nature, then those gardeners, or shepherds, shall we say, that you have called the wanderers move in order to lend their assistance in a fashion which does not infringe upon the free will of those whom they have come to serve.

Thus, the incarnational entrance into your illusion is chosen in order that only the bias to serve be remembered, and thus the service is offered as an equal to those who call for it. Thus, the concepts of liberty and equality are born in a season that is the result of a great span of experience of both the individual and collected consciousnesses of the peoples of your planet.

Carla wanted Q’uo to comment on the relationship of the revolutions in England, France, and America and the participation of wanderers in these attempts to achieve freedom and liberty. Q’uo began their response by saying that each person on Earth has incarnated to learn the lessons of love which correspond to the movement from the lower three energy centers into the heart, and wanderers have incarnated in order to participate in the light moving higher in the collective consciousness of the population of Earth in the attempt to obtain the concepts of liberty, freedom, and equality. Q’uo went on to say that the obtaining of these concepts often begins in a distorted and chaotic way of revolutions to obtain freedom from a kind of slavery, and wanderers incarnate to aid this effort in a way which does not infringe upon the free will of the collective consciousness of the people of the planet. On March 27, 1983, Latwii spoke of wanderers incarnating on Earth to assist people in gaining the concept of freedom:

Many of those which you now know as the so-called founding fathers of this culture were indeed wanderers who had incarnated in what you may call a great wave of incarnations that they might offer together the concept of freedom and the freedom of choice to entities upon your planet. Most wanderers who return to planets such as your own come from those densities of five, that of wisdom, and six, that of unity. Few come from the density of love, the fourth density, for there is required for any such wandering entity a great deal of the strength of will and what you might call foolhardiness.

May we answer in any further way, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you.

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

Carla: I’ll ask one more and then shut up. What is the nature of infatuation compared especially with love? And what is its function?

I am Q’uo. We find that this concept which you have called infatuation is the mental and emotional analog to the natural attraction of oppositely polarized biological sexes. This may be likened unto the magnet and the iron filing. There is no thinking required to bring the two together, thus when an entity notices an attraction to one of the opposite biological sexual nature, the entity may seek further contact in order that the attraction may be explored. When further contact reinforces the initial attraction, then the mind and the emotions begin the processing of this catalyst and the beginning of what may later develop into that which you recognize as love is at hand.

The so-called infatuation period, then, serves the purpose of drawing entities of similar vibratory complexes together in order that they may proceed upon the evolutionary path in a manner which is efficient and appropriate to each, that is, in the utilizing of the daily round of activities as catalyst, that when pondered to a sufficient degree allows experience to be born and recorded within the significant portions of the self. Thus does the infatuation propel or, more correctly, provide the potential for the entities to propel themselves further along the path which each has chosen before the incarnation.

May we answer further, my sister?

Carla: The portion of the question left unanswered, perhaps deliberately, was, “What is its relationship emotionally to the human emotion that we call love?” although I understand that the creative principle, Love, is not what we mean by the kind of love that people have in their eyes on their fiftieth anniversary: that’s the emotion that I’m talking about.

I am Q’uo, and we see here a paradox, my sister, for in one way of looking upon infatuation, it is a pure form of love, for it accepts totally another without condition. The other, at this point in the relationship, is so desirable that the one feeling the infatuation will, shall we way, go to any length to please the one with whom the infatuation is felt. All of the self and the attention of the self is given without reservation in order that the feeling of infatuation may continue. Thus, in this sense, the period of infatuation is a pure form of love, pure, however, in the sense that it has not been tested. It, as yet, lacks the depth of experience.

When the two who have become infatuated continue the relationship and begin the processing of the catalyst which is inevitable within any life pattern, the opportunities then arise for the love to gain in strength and depth and richness and purity, for there will be many, many times in the processing of catalyst that one or the other or both entities will feel less than acceptance for the other and will need to find within the self the ability to accept that which was previously not acceptable; to forgive that within self and other self that which was unforgivable; to have compassion for that which held little interest or perhaps even dislike.

Thus, the lessons of love and acceptance make themselves known within the relationship born of infatuation and with the faith that the relationship will endure and that meaning may be found for both within it and the will to persevere in finding that meaning and growth. Thus does each entity grow in acceptance and in love, and thus does the relationship do likewise, and thus is love strengthened by testing through catalyst that each brings to the relationship. Thus, the love which results is a love which has greater strength and depth and variety of experience, shall we say.

May we answer further, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you very much.

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

Questioner: Yes. You’ve basically covered this, so please answer briefly, but you seemingly place more importance upon the broader definition of love, which is compassion, as I understand that as acceptance of people and situations and self as they are, allowing them room to grow in their own way. So, for an entity who is attempting to develop love as we know it, probably the most expeditious way for them to do this would be for them to work on acceptance of others and themselves, and this is . . . I know this is something that I believe I know, but a simple yes or no would suffice.

I am Q’uo. This is basically correct, my brother, for within your illusion of seeming separateness and limitation there is much which offers the challenge to be accepted, much which seems traumatic, tragic, and filled with sorrow, distaste horror, anger, jealousy, and so forth. Yet, each entity and event is the Creator, knowing Itself in a way mysterious to most. Yet, each in any portion of the experience may increase its evolutionary progress by finding the joy, the love, and the light of the Creator within that person, that moment, that event, that thought. When this can be done in a relationship, then the relationship has served as the means by which the continuing ability to expand the point of view and the acceptance, the love, and the compassion for that which falls within the point of view then is also increased and the entity has moved itself further along its chosen path of evolution.

May we answer further, my brother?

Questioner: No, thank you. That was quite sufficient. Thank you.

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

[Pause]

I am Q’uo, and we find that we have exhausted those queries which have been offered to us this evening, and for each query we are most grateful, for in our attempt to answer your heartfelt questions, we find further ways to know and to serve the Creator in all. We are humbly grateful for this opportunity, and we would remind each present that we are those who seek as you seek, fallible in many ways. Take those words and thoughts which have meaning to you and leave those which do not. Thus, would we offer that which we have found helpful in our seeking to you in your seeking. We shall take our leave of this group at this time, thanking each again for allowing our presence. We leave you in the love and in the light of the one Creator. We are known to you as Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I went outside and transplanted some flowers that I bought yesterday evening at The Home Depot. First, I transplanted a tray of Yellow Creeping Jennys to the Yellow Creeping Jenny Garden in the back yard. Then I transplanted a tray of Begonias to the area of the Ruins Mound where the Celosias have fallen over from rains that caused their flowers to absorb weight that they could not bear. Then I transplanted another tray of Begonias to the Double Impatiens Garden at the end of the sidewalk in the front yard. Then I used my backpack blower to blow the many downed leaves and acorns in the parking area in front of the house into a pile and put them in three garbage cans for yard waste pickup next Thursday.

This afternoon I went on an errand run with my first stop being at the Speedway Gas Station to fill Stanley with gas. Then I stopped in at Paul’s Fruit Market to get some food for myself and some canned tuna, chicken, and salmon for Bosco.

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

August 19

The Roof Of The Heart

I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ and send greetings in the full consciousness of Love.

Your ears are filled this morning with the sounds of construction as a neighboring domicile receives a new roof for protection from those elements which rot and decay the dwelling below it. So each of you too must needs gaze at the roof of the heart and mind and learn objectively of those openings in the protective cover of light which allow thoughts which decay and cause harm to the heart and mind.

Build your roof anew each day with shingles of trust and faith, affirmation and right desire. For these hopes and affirmations are the spirit’s protection against an often stormy experiential universe.

Aid too in building those roofs of those whom you wish to enfold either in love or in atonement, for it is well to cherish and protect the jewels which your treasure-house contains.

We leave you in the prosperous peace of those who dwell in the Spirit of Love, 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 July 6, 1995:

(Carla channeling)

I am Q’uo, and I greet you in the love and in the light of our infinite Creator. May we thank and bless each of you for inviting us to share in your combined life streams at this time. To be so invited to share our thoughts is a very great privilege, for it is by attempting to be of service to you that we gain in polarity and advance along our own path. We ask that you remember as always when hearing any opinion whatever that the truth is already seated in your own spirit, and if you do not recognize it in our words, it is well for you to release it from your consciousness, for we would not be a stumbling block before you to retard you in your spiritual growth. Indeed, that is far from our purpose.

We find the consciousness of those present this evening to be much aware of the day you celebrate in what you call your nation as the birth date of your nation’s independence and each his own personal freedom. We find the phrase, “All men are created equal,” to be written large upon your hearts and your pride at this time. Thus, we would speak to you about how love, and wisdom, to a lesser extent, function through illusion to facilitate and offer tools for the facilitation of individual spiritual growth.

Each knows that the phrase, “All men are created equal”—men, of course, meaning humankind, men and women alike—to be not only an ideal but truth, for all have the same birthright, own the same Godhead in potentiation and possess all that there is within themselves. We would in no way argue with this truism, and, indeed, wish to underscore its accuracy in the sense that each of you is the Creator. And thus do you each function as each other’s catalyst, for each of you is a mirror in likeness, not similar, but same, so that your other selves may gaze within your glass and see what they need to see about themselves. Indeed, it is often among your peoples that you see things in other people, not realizing that you are seeing the reflection of yourself.

However, this evening we would stress that in the illusion, which is your so-called third-density reality, all men are manifestly created unequal. In the illusion of personality, each entity is unique. This illusion is a deep illusion which will continue to hold sway through several densities of existence and many millions of your years and far, far into your spiritual development and your journey back to the one original Thought. It is an important illusion. Why, indeed, does it seem so clear that in this illusion of personality, each is unique and obviously different and therefore unequal to and from each other?

Let us consider one individual spirit. There are two basic influences which shall govern what occurs within the life experience of this individual, the first, shall we say, the “law of finished beginnings.” This is not a law, but an influence. We use the term “law” advisedly and ask that you understand it as a pervasive influence rather than an unshakable law. Your vocabulary does not have such a nice word, so we must use the closest in meaning. This pervasive influence is that which indicates that that which has been previously unfinished in an entity’s experience in other lifetimes shall be once again brought before the attention of the entity in order that the entity may work, consider, meditate, and do whatever seems to be advisable with these pervasive influences which are familiar.

Many difficult relationships are the results of previous unfinished beginnings, and the difficulty of the relationship is much like the difficulty of a person that receives that which seems to be fresh from the grocery but which when taken home, though sweet and fresh to every physical sense, yet seems still somehow aging and putrefying. There is something ancient, something one cannot put one’s finger upon, something which smacks sometimes of déja vu. This is that with which you deal as lovingly, compassionately, and may we say, dispassionately with in this life experience in order to finish that which has been begun, that all may be balanced with that particular relationship, or in regard to that particular point, that the entity has been attempting to learn and has yet not completely gotten, shall we say, under the belt.

As each is familiar with the so-called karmic influence, we need not dwell upon this influence, but would note only that it is well to take such influences seriously in that each entity give such challenges careful and persistent consideration, but also that the entity employ the light touch, the laughter, the seeking of joy, the discovery of love within each difficulty and each challenge.

Q’uo began this session by saying: “We would speak to you about how love, and wisdom to a lesser extent, function through illusion and offer tools for the facilitation of individual spiritual growth.” Q’uo began by saying that the holiday of July 4 was the day when the phrase, “All men are created equal” was true in that all people are the Creator, and they provide catalyst for each other through the mirroring effect of seeing themselves in their other selves. They went on to say that in this third- density illusion all entities are not the same because each is unique, and this illusion will continue through many densities and millions of years as all return into unity with the one original Thought. They said that each person is unique in the law of “finished beginnings” that were begun many lifetimes ago and remain unfinished so that they may be begun again in this lifetime and considered in meditation and work in consciousness. Q’uo used the example of difficult relationships in the present life that have carried over from previous lifetimes as unfinished beginnings that should be seen lovingly as opportunities for learning and growth in this lifetime. Then Q’uo said that it was important to consider that karma is involved in these lessons and take them seriously, but it was also important to use the light touch of laughter, the seeking of joy, and the discovery of love within each challenging relationship. On December 29, 1995, Q’uo described the value of the discovery of love in difficult situations:

To love and to find love is an easy thing when there is no barrier to perceiving love. Within your illusion, there is a great deal of darkness, shall we say, spiritually speaking. So that it carries far more weight in the mind/body/spirit totality that you call the spirit or soul to find love and light in an incarnation in which there is great difficulty, great darkness, great challenge. Each entity which incarnates within this illusion enters into the undertaking of this challenge and will gain in the spiritual awareness and power, shall we say, by being able to accomplish the discovery of love where it is most difficult to find.

And the other influence, although equally pervasive, is not an influence that is much noticed. However, it is equally important to your development and to your understanding of the process of development. You understand already that that which you seek will come to you. This follows the basic law of finishing the beginning. However, there is a balancing influence and that is the influence of finding that which has least been sought. Each of you will repeatedly during your incarnation have a new experience, an experience to which you come as a virgin comes to her first love. You will have no previous experience to guide you within the incarnation or within your memory, for what is occurring is a balancing process. If you have sought and sought and sought again that which is good and perfect, it is a just balance, and one with which the Creator is generous, that that which is painful shall occur to you, not because you deserve it, but because the way to transformation is the way of balancing. And for every familiar line of thought which you work upon in order to progress spiritually, there will be a brand new circumstance which has been not called for which shall occur to you also and for which you have no previously molded personal tools. This offers you the chance of assimilating new catalyst without incurring what you would call karmic responsibility or debt.

If there are very difficult lessons in your life and one thing after another has been a half-remembered nightmare through which you wearily but determinedly move in order to stop forever the wheel, as you would say, of karma, or as we would put it, to finish that which has been begun, then it is that something utterly, unexpectedly marvelous and wonderful shall occur. Not because you deserve it, but because a balance needs to be brought. And so the Creator has gifts for you to aid in transformation, to surprise you and to offer you the opportunity to teach yourself that which you have begun to learn but have not yet finished and that incalculable something which the balancing law offers as a teaching but which has been rarely spoken of and even less rarely grasped, and that is that there is such a thing as grace. There is that which rains when there is drought, and which shines to brighten an interior dim landscape. There is an inborn keel which shall manifest itself within your life experience—not when you expect it, but always as a gift. And whether these occurrences are happy or unhappy, you may find within yourself the blessing of lessons which are more simply learned because you have been learning their opposite.

When you do not recognize in a situation or relationship any half memory of any past association, when you have no personal feeling of attachment to a challenge, then it is perhaps well to consider whether or not this may or could be a gift from the Creator, that which you already have the tools to understand, if we may use a term that is incorrect in your density. Each of you has this balancing influence on hand at this time and we encourage each of you to look to such lessons with gratitude for grace which offers the easy lessons once in a while and with determination, for even though these lessons are easy, because they come as gifts, it is easy to waste them.

Therefore, be meticulous in acknowledging each gift, in seeing the balance which is internal to your own development and no one else’s. Thus, shall you use the illusion which makes you seem unequal, one to another. We encourage you to rejoice in this seeming inequality, for the Creator so rejoices. You are the glory which the Creator could only realize by reflection, you are the manifest of that which is and always shall be unmanifest. And while you are manifest, you are not only Creator and co-Creator, but also creation, and the Creator finds you lovely.

We ask you, my friends, to allow all those concepts which you may be learning to become seated in your consciousness by the process and discipline of regular meditation. We encourage the daily meditation, for seeking within without words is analogous to returning once again to the truth that all men are created equal, for you move into that portion of your being which is co-equal not only with your brothers and sisters, but with the Creator. And it is in this portion of your being that learning shall be seated, or it shall be lost. That which skips along the top of the water does not influence the deep. Let that which you are learning sink, as the stone shall do when it ceases its headlong flight along the top of the waves.

Then Q’uo said that what we seek will come to us and will follow the law of finishing the beginning, but it will be a new experience for which we have no way of dealing with because it is part of a balancing process in which we have sought that which is good and perfect, and it must be balanced with that which is painful. Q’uo continued by saying that transformation is the way of balancing while giving us the opportunity of processing new catalyst without assuming karmic debt. They went on to say that if we have difficult unfinished lessons to learn in our life that repeat in order for us to stop the wheel of karma, the Creator has a gift for us to help us teach ourselves that which we have begun to learn but have not yet finished, and that is the balancing law which offers us a teaching which is the gift of grace. They said that whether these lessons are happy or sad they are more simply learned because we have been learning their opposite. Q’uo went on to say that if we encounter experiences with no memory of their being a part of our past that this could be a gift from the Creator that we have the tools to understand, and we should be grateful for the grace of having easy lessons once in a while.  Then Q’uo said that we should always be grateful for these gifts that are unique to us, and we should rejoice in this uniqueness as does the Creator, for we are the Creator and the creation, and the Creator finds us lovely. Q’uo completed their thoughts by saying that we should use daily meditation to allow these concepts, of our being equal to all our brothers and sisters and to the Creator, to be seated into the depths of our being, or they shall be lost.  On September 23, 1990, Q’uo spoke of the Creator’s gift of grace:

Thus, we do not see the query as one which needs to make a choice between being and doing, but that which seeks an attitude of being filled with the presence of the one Creator, so that the moment is sufficient unto itself, and that as you exist in that moment that is ever-present, that which is appropriate for you to be or do will present itself to you without question. This attitude is that gift of grace which all seekers seek and revere, yet achieve not so much by ritual, by action, by prayer, or by any activity. It is rather that which is born in its own time through the persistent exercise of desire to know the truth.

This path of the pilgrim is the path which all walk. There is much effort expended physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as the table is prepared for the guest of great honor. No one knows when that guest shall walk through one’s door. Thus, it is well to be prepared at all times as best as one can be.

I am Q’uo. We would like to experiment with moving this channel in order that we may answer some questions, if there be any this evening. Therefore, we shall transfer this contact at this time, thanking each of you again for requesting this particular vibration and thanking this instrument for its service. We shall transfer. I am Q’uo.

This morning I ran a couple of errands with my first stop being at Walgreen’s Drug Store where I picked up a couple prescriptions for myself along with some Pepsi Zero and some paper plates. Then I stopped in at Walmart’s to buy some Choc-Zero chocolate.

This afternoon I went upstairs and cleaned Benny’s apartment by using the carpet sweeper to clean the carpet in the hall. Then I used the broom and dustpan to sweep up all the kitty litter in her main room with two litter boxes. My last job was to use the dust mop in all three rooms and in the hall.

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

August 18

Contentment

I am the principle of that force behind creation, the Love of Jesus the Christ. I greet you in the full consciousness which is the consciousness of Love.

This instrument is not prepared for what we are to say this morning. For this instrument thought we were speaking upon the subject of contentment. No matter how active the mind of mankind, the Spirit is ever more active in its capacity to surprise, for we speak of a higher contentment, the contentment of vulnerability and seeming lack; the contentment of babes unclothed and people hungry; the contentment that becomes a fire within to clothe the naked and feed the hungry; that contentment which makes all creatures children of a meaningful and life-giving God and all God’s creatures meaningful and life-giving people.

Look in contentment at the world of strife and need and respond with a full heart, praying ever the invitation to the Spirit of the living Christ to enter into every seeming lack, in meditation, and multiply plenty. Your consciousness is a gift and a responsibility. May you be content to love others as you love yourself.

We leave you in the growing peace of the realization of infinite Love, now and ever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from May 28, 1995:

We would like to know how learning actually takes place for humans, especially how it can happen in a positive manner for a seeker of truth. Can it be aided by paying attention to it?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle known to you as those of Q’uo. We greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. As always, it is a great blessing to us to be called to your group, and we thank you for this kindness and for your desire to seek the truth, for in answering this call you give us a way to be of service and a way to learn, and we thank you for both of these as well as for the simple joy of blending our vibrations with your own and for enjoying through your senses that physical illusion that is so beautiful and dear.

Your question this day is a broad one, and in order to speak words of sense we find we need to establish a concept first. That concept is the nature of your being, for the being who learns, by its very nature will require certain kinds of learning. Now, this being that you are is like a two-story building with many basements, shall we say. The top story is something we would call consciousness. The first floor is something we call mind or brain. The basements, and there are several of them, belong some to the brain, and some to consciousness, and all to the blending of consciousness with the living brain so that into the incarnational experience of that consciousness, which is using the brain, there may come material that is useful not only to the brain or mind but also to the consciousness that overarches, and undergirds, and permeates your Earthly mind.

Consciousness learns in a different way than the human mind. Let us look first at the way the mind learns. We ask you to remember that these are our opinions and to choose those thoughts that seem good to you and leave the rest behind. When a spirit or consciousness fragment chooses to come into incarnation, among the things that it chooses is the acuity and ability of the physical mind. For those who are within this circle that choice has been to use a very intelligent mind and to allow that mind its prerogative of enjoying its environment. So, we shall look at those whose minds are normally capable or are more intelligent than normal and more capable than normal.

These choices are made always for good reasons. However, it cannot be known by each entity what these reasons are. For some the lesson lies in the use of the mind as a skillful and precise instrument. For others the lesson is quite the opposite, and that is experienced as the entity whose mind is excellent and whose decisions are logical but whose life is constantly being overset by those things which are illogical. For the one, the strong use of mind brings more balance to an entity who has great intuition. For others the lesson is in having an excellent mind but yielding that mind to the growing awareness that that which is to be learned in life is not to be learned through the brain. Therefore, each entity must decide for itself as to the lessons of an incarnation.

Now, the way this mind works is by accretion of detail. When the entity first touches the hot stove, it learns before the recoil has finished not to touch a stove when it is hot. The mind learns by repetition. The same fact told over and over and over eventually becomes a part of muscle memory, shall we say. The mind learns by sequence. First one, then two, then three and so forth. These are logical, structural ways that the mind accretes and prioritizes that which it has learned.

As these logical processes go on, another type of learning takes place within the mind which is not particularly logical, but which has to do with the emotional and emotionally related portions of the mind. The emotions experienced in the course of learning about any subject affect the way that this learning is seated in the mind. Further, the bias which is gained thusly predisposes the mind to giving that subject the same priority as has been assigned to it previously. Therefore, if one has a prejudice, one is predisposed to increasing the strength of that bias. Thusly are the priorities set up by the mind.

It avoids pain and seeks comfort. It attempts to create sense or order out of randomness or disorder, and it attempts to assign importance or value to each thing that it learns. This process begins immediately as the incarnation begins and the infant comes mewling from its mother’s womb with prejudices in place, prejudices gained from the time within the womb. Thusly, that innocent child that breathed the air for the first time in the incarnation has already been removed from its paradise, even before that first breath.

The whole process of learning within incarnation is heavily biased, then, and is heavily subjective. Now, we speak not so much of the learning that is by memory and by rote as we are speaking of the mind’s ability to configure and assign meaning to experience as it occurs. The mind was made and has been honed to make choices. And thusly the mind tends to attempt to structure things in such a way that a choice can be made, and movement can be felt. When there is no good choice, when there is no way of knowing enough to assign sense or assign priority to incoming data, the mind simply rebels much as a computer will stop all action when that which does not compute at all has been fed into it. And much of that which goes on under the threshold of consciousness, as far as the physical brain is concerned, has to do with the emotional reactions to being frustrated in the desire to be certain concerning choices and so forth.

This creates a kind of chatter betwixt subconscious and conscious mind, and a good deal of that which is not useful in the dreaming is the conversation which the physical vehicle’s mind is carrying on with itself concerning things that do not make sense, things which do not resolve into a clear choice, things that defy logic.

The group question for this session was: “We would like to know how learning actually takes place for humans, especially how it can happen in a positive manner for a seeker of truth. Can it be aided by paying attention to it?” Q’uo began by saying that they needed to describe a concept that would help in their discussion of the group question, and the concept was that the nature of one’s being is to learn, and it will learn in a number of ways. They went on to say that we are like a two-story building with many basements, and the top story was consciousness; the first story was the mind; and there were many basements with some related to the consciousness, some related to the mind, and some related to both the mind and the consciousness, and the consciousness overarches, undergirds, and permeates the Earthly mind. Then Q’uo said that the mind learns in a different way than consciousness does, so when the spirit, which is a portion of consciousness, incarnates it chooses the level of intelligence that it will utilize to enjoy its life. Q’uo said that each person chooses its lessons that are manifested in the mind as logical and illogical, skillful, balanced by intuition, or the kind of mind that discovers that the brain does not partake in the learning of lessons but learns by repetition, muscle memory, and logic. Q’uo went on to say that as these logical processes were utilized there were also emotional responses to previous situations that caused an entity to become prejudiced so that the priorities of the mind are created such as seeking comfort, avoiding pain, and making sense out of nonsense. Q’uo said that this process begins in infancy, and as time goes on the learning becomes heavily biased and subjective as the entity assigns meaning to its experiences so that choices can be made, and movement forward can be accomplished. However, Q’uo said that when there was not enough information available to assign priority to incoming data and make choices, that there was a subconscious rebellion and emotional frustration. Q’uo said that this caused a good deal of conversation between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind about experiences that don’t make sense and which defy logic. On September 10, 1989, Latwii spoke of the conversation between the conscious and subconscious mind to question all experiences that don’t make sense:

This bears directly upon our comment at the beginning of our speaking through this instrument, which, in effect, suggests that the interplay betwixt the conscious and subconscious minds of each seeker is often that which is overly complex. If there were absolute honesty spoken betwixt the self that is conscious and the self that is beneath the conscious level of awareness, there would be a simplified communication that would be clear and succinct. However, because each of you dwells in a third-density illusion that contains a veil betwixt your conscious and subconscious minds, there is the need upon the part of the conscious mind to question, to question all experiences, to question, oftentimes, to the point of absurdity. When this occurs, it is well for the seeker to retire to the meditative state and to allow that jumble of thought to resolve itself by what we might call a kind of “sedimentation” so that that which is extraneous falls from conscious awareness, leaving only that which has importance or significance in the current efforts of seeking.

Now, while all this activity is going on there is at the same time and using the same physical vehicle a consciousness which was not assigned the job of making choices but rather the job of being. This consciousness is an absolute. It is eternal. It is infinite. It is all that there is. And it resides and rests in all that is. Your consciousness is a microcosm of the creation. And a macrocosm in relation to Love, that still point that defies all emotion and into which all that moves yearns to go.

This consciousness learns within incarnation through harvesting the net results of the processes that the mind moves through. Within consciousness there reside what can be called archetypes of meaning. Each is familiar with the concept of the archetypical mind. This archetypical mind has two levels for the benefit of this particular consideration, the two levels being that portion of the physical mind into which memories go and that portion of the unconscious to which the larger memories of universal value go, so that there is that deep resource of the mind which holds racial memory and that deep resource of consciousness which may be approximated dimly by consideration of archetypes.

This portion of consciousness learns through the harvest of emotion and insight which has become purified or refined by the fire of experience. Usually, it takes a great deal of experience to affect consciousness. There are considerations which can be taken up, which can improve the mind’s use of the resources of consciousness. These techniques involve becoming aware that consciousness has a structure; that is, as the consciousness has interacted within the racial memory it has created archetypical programs, shall we say, considering the physical mind as a computer. It has created programs which when applied to conscious experience create new connections and promote the balancing and healing of distortion. These programs are archetypical. Shadows of these archetypical systems may be found within some religions, some mythologies, some philosophies.

Each entity’s experiences and previous choices create an unique situation. There is no one way for minds to work. However, consciousness itself remains a constant value. However, each entity will access the great programs, or should we say, metaprograms of consciousness according to that way in which that entity alone has become used to doing. So, the learning of how to make it more possible to invite these metaprograms and their wisdom is somewhat different for each person who seeks, even though the truth, the mystery of consciousness is single. One might consider consciousness itself the elephant which many people touch but cannot see. To one who touches the trunk it is a long and snaky thing. To one who touches the ear it is a big flapping thing. To one who touches the foot it is a tree trunk, and so forth. There is only one elephant, but there are many places to touch the elephant. So, it is with these metaprograms.

Now, we always recommend meditation. Among the reasons that we recommend this practice is the fact that when the desire to remain silent has been potentiated by action, and the effort is physically made to become silent within, a metaprogram immediately and automatically starts. A connection is made with a source outside the capabilities of the mind. There is a connection made with those archetypical metaprograms. This instrument has recently experienced the computer’s e-mail and internet, and we would say that it is something like being able to access the internet from one’s own computer and thus be in instant touch with global resources. This is the kind of power and potential that consciousness has for that spark of consciousness that is within incarnation. The mind is local. Consciousness is universal.

Thusly, each time one goes into meditation or prayer or simply sits letting the silence be, one has automatically accessed universal mind, racial memory, archetypical structures. Suddenly there is no end to the resources available. We suggest daily meditation, and we think that each entity shall, though always feeling that their meditations are no good, yet still experience that balancing and lengthening of the point of view which occurs when one has the universal perspective as opposed to the local perspective.

This entity was earlier pondering what the one known as N asked concerning passive learning. Meditation is passive learning. Tabernacling with the one infinite Creator is passive learning. It is the learning from listening to the voice one cannot hear which answers questions which one cannot ask. The process cannot be known and cannot come into consciousness in local sense, yet the learning is there. And the strength of spirit and will which comes from this learning is helpful.

Now Q’uo said that there is a portion of our consciousness that is not responsible for making choices, but for being, and it is a microcosm of creation and a small portion of the consciousness of the Love that is eternal. Q’uo said that this consciousness has two aspects:  the deep resource of mind of the racial memory and the deep resource of memory that is described by archetypes. Then Q’uo said that consciousness learns by the experience of emotions, and there are ways that the resources of the mind can be enhanced such as realizing that consciousness has interacted with the racial memory to form archetypical programs that create new connections and promote the balancing and healing of distortion. They went on to say that the mind of each entity functions in a unique way, but consciousness is constant in its function, and each entity will access these great programs of consciousness in a unique way. Q’uo recommended meditation as a means of accessing these metaprograms of consciousness as meditation allows one access to the Consciousness that is universal and could also be seen as the universal mind, racial memory, or archetypical structures. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that tabernacling with the Creator was passive learning and listening to a voice you cannot hear which answers questions one cannot ask, but this learning strengthens the spirit and the will. On June 22, 1980, Latwii described how a metaprogram functions:

The brain is a type of computer with various stages of programming. The deepest programs which have been termed metaprograms by some of your authors are those involving your survival, the reproduction of your species, your social position, and other items that are very big on the agenda of third-density living.

The mind is a function of the spirit which is an amalgam of the effects that a wealth of experiences in various incarnations have had upon the basic spiritual personality. This mind is a collection of biases, emotions, and feelings. Depending upon the uses to which the mind has been put in prior incarnations, it may consist of a large intellectual factor or little intellect. It is, however, a mind function rather than a brain function. However, standing between mind and brain is that which you call the will. If a person does not use the faculty of his will there will go into effect an automatic metaprogram which will cause that person’s mind to become linked to his brain in a fashion predetermined by his circumstances.

Thus, native intellect, native biases, native emotions, which are brought in from the immortal spirit may be completely buried in the personality of the brain due to lack of will. However, in some instances the faculty of will is developed in the individual and in those cases the mind is able to impress its own metaprogramming much more carefully over the basic metaprogramming of third-density survival mechanisms. Any changes in metaprogramming will be developed and successfully completed by the use of the will.

We feel that we have given enough information for one lecture, shall we say, and would at this time open the meeting to further questions. We would, however, like to transfer this contact from this instrument to the one known as Jim that we may also exercise this instrument. Thusly, we transfer now to the one known as Jim, in love and light.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We would at this time ask if we may speak to any further queries which may be offered to us?

Carla: I was a little puzzled by the picture I was getting of how the racial memory was partially of the mind and partially of the consciousness. Could you talk a little bit about that?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. The mind is that portion of the complex of an entity which affects its evolution and adds to it through the process of learning and remembering; that is, to reconstruct from the memory experiences previously had. The consciousness of a race of beings has also within it the given, shall we say, that is from the Logos that makes a race of beings what it is to begin this third-density experience. For the case of most third-density plants, there is the graduation from second density of a group of entities that has learned to give and to receive love in sufficient degree to become enough individualized that the mind complex is able to take upon itself much of the weight of the responsibility for directing the continued evolution of this group of entities which shall become a race or a kind of being that inhabits the third-density experience. Thus, each racial mind has within it that which is given as its own kind of consciousness from the Logos and continues to develop as individualized portions of a grouping that affects the evolution in a conscious and intelligent manner.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: Yes, I’m grappling with this whole concept. When we pray, not asking for anything, just praying, are we learning? Are we accessing something about consciousness? Are we moving into an archetypical structure?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. When entities engage in that process of petitioning which is called prayer there is the giving over of the self and its desire to that which is greater than the self and which has the ability to add to the knowledge of the self according to the repetition of the behavior which has associated with it certain components—the beginnings, the results.

We beg your pardon for the moment. This instrument has some difficulty. We would ask that we have a moment to work with this instrument.

We are those of Q’uo. We thank you for your efforts. This instrument was having difficulty concentrating.

I am Q’uo, and am again with this instrument. Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: Yes, when a metaprogram kicks in is it that it makes you smarter, intensifies your intelligence, or is it that it offers alternate priorities, or is it that it offers different logical structures, or is it all three?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister, and suggest that each was a potential for the situation, and more as well.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: Then is this a field in which we could learn more about how to use this resource skillfully?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. Each of you as you seek in a conscious fashion do just this. There are layers of what you call metaprograms available according to the intensity of seeking and that shall be released as a kind of, shall we say, time release capsule, but more in the desired release nature.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: Not at this time, thank you.

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

R: No question, but I got this image of a blank piece of paper which I would begin to sketch upon, and this would represent learning during the life.

I am Q’uo, and we would suggest that as you continue in your own seeking that the picture you have of your own journey, your own self, and the environment in which you move will continue to become more defined with color, with breadth of emotion, of potential, of inspiration, of joining with other pictures, so that the entire experience does become a richer experience, more filled with information and inspiration but also with the emotion and the passion that one feels in one’s heart for the process of seeking and of becoming, realizing the unity of self with all of creation. The colors become more life-filled rather than life-like and have within them a kind of glow and depth that continues to grow with the seeker.

Is there a final query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Q’uo, and we are most thankful as well to each in this circle of seeking. At this time we shall take our leave of this instrument and this group. We are known to you as those of Q’uo, and we leave you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai. Adonai, my friends.

This morning I went outside and completed the weeding by hand in the Yellow Creeping Jenny garden in the back yard, around the fish pond on the north side of the yard, and the Wuthering Heights Mound in the front yard. Then I transplanted three pots of Vinca into the garden on the right side of the sidewalk next to the parking area in front of the house to replace a number of dying plants that have not responded to rain or being watered. Then I made an errand run with my first stop being the Walgreen’s Drug Store at the intersection of Westport Road and Hurstbourne Lane to pick up some hair thickener. My next stop was at the vet’s to pick up some insulin syringes for Bosco.

This afternoon I drove over to the Providence Care Home in Southern Indiana to visit Connie, a good friend of Carla’s and mine who suffered two strokes in 2018. We enjoyed some conversation about what has been going on since my visit last month. They are required to wear face masks again because there has been a Covid outbreak in the care home, but, of course, we took off our masks to eat some of the Choc-Zero chocolate candies and black berries that I brought for us to snack on. Then I read more of The Things We Don’t Forget Dianne Aprile. I showed her some pictures on my cell phone of my recent trip to Nebraska and some of the flower gardens around my yard. We meditated to complete my visit, and we hugged a loving good-bye until next time.

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

August 17

Come, Holy Spirit

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

Your generation shall pass away, just as this morning shall pass away into evening, and all the works of your hands and the thoughts of your minds shall seem as shadows.

Gazing at one’s day and one’s life in terms of the losses involved is a logical and understandable method of dealing with the accidents of experience. Yet in each cell of your body lies a Consciousness of Love, Joy and Peace, a Consciousness which can speak only mutely and only when asked for.

It is the Consciousness of the Holy Spirit, as you would call us, for we are closer to you than you can imagine and instantaneously ready to flood the consciousness with comfort and healing. You have but to ask, truly wishing to release the sense of loss that experience sometimes brings; truly being willing to yield your sorrows, let go of bitterness and forgive iniquity.

This instrument’s favorite musician, Johann Sebastian Bach, has expressed the musical thought, “Komm Heilige Geist.” This simple prayer, “Come, Holy Spirit,” is that which opens the door to that Peace in which we leave you now and ever; the perfect Peace that lies forever beyond the understanding but is more real than any loss. 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 May 21, 1995:

The question this week has to do with the difference between what we hold as our ideal and what we experience as our actual experience. We would like to know the most efficient way of looking at that difference that would help us most in our growth, and what Q’uo’s opinion about that difference would be?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We thank each person in this circle of seeking for turning to the solace of the search for wisdom and truth and meaning. The faith and tenacity of this group is commendable. And you make it very easy for us to perform our service by your unflagging concern and dedication for and to the devotional life.

The question which plagues all entities who wish to excel is the question of the human failings to which the spirit does not have to be heir. The physical vehicle is an oddity, that way station betwixt nothing and infinity, that shadow world of limits and quantity. This shadow world is delicately and elegantly aligned with the needs of your density, the need to be confused, the need to strive, the need to associate with other human beings while the far reaches of intuition and dreaming discover great new galaxies every day of thought and structure and imagination.

The physical vehicle that carries this consciousness moves through one decision after another. In that gray area in which most human functions seem to take place the polarity of much of the daily round is not obvious to the physical eye. The seeking soul then moves through each day without sensing the quality which is its most fundamental, that quality which perhaps you would call ideal but we would rather term metaphysical, for it is the same quality that within the mind furnishes the touchstone, that imaginary perfection. And yet what does this perfection have to do with the everyday?

The mind is a curious tool, a great resource. Its powers of discrimination are usually well developed in humankind, and this is as it should be, for of all the incoming sense data, the trained mind selects according to priorities and judgments that have been hard won. It is only natural that there would be judgment turned towards the self, that there would be distance seen between ideal and actual. Yet the truth is neither with the judge nor with the one who refrains from judging, but rather the truth lies ineffably in the present moment.

It is difficult in words to express this concept but if you can conceive of that present moment as full of light of all that there is, full to bursting with all that ever has or that ever will be. This moment of orgasm, this moment of delight, this is the closest we have come to a knowledge of reality—no time, no space, no judgment, but pure white Light, a naked manifestation of Love. This is a truth available to each seeking entity, and yet the door into this present moment is locked fast against those who would judge the self or others in such a way as to injure or harm, for a judgment is in many cases an injury, whether it be inflicted upon the self or upon another. It is not to say that judging and expressing that judgment are not perfectly normal activities, and within the worldly purview judgments are expected and necessary. But if you wish to work upon yourself at the highest degree of purity then it is that the eyes turn away from the self that dangles betwixt eternity and eternity, a parenthesis of manifestation within illusion. Your situation while incarnate is that of a soul who has to leave the room for just a moment. You have such a tiny instant of time in your incarnation. This is the higher truth.

Now, we would not take the power of discrimination from any, for the ability to have insight is a valuable one and it is hard-earned. However, we do encourage each first to examine judgment for kindness and compassion and then to apply that judgment sparingly and accurately, for each within incarnation is a bruised reed, a wounded and fragile living being, and to place the burden of unflinching judgment upon such a precariously alive creature is a cruelty.

We ask each to learn the value of mercy, of pity, of softness of heart and humbleness of spirit, for the judge is a proud entity, yet wisdom lies in accepting a humble, even humiliating estimate of self and self-importance. It is most healthful to abandon that effort to judge accurately the self. Or, if not abandon, moderate, de-emphasize, for you are seeking to become lighter and emptier. You are moving through a thick etheric medium, breathing the life-giving air. Metaphysically speaking, that breath is labored and thick compared to metaphysical experience. It is not at all easy to turn from the judging to look away from that comparison betwixt that which is hoped for and that which has occurred. Yet wisdom, we believe, lies not in examining that distance but rather in turning to the light and abandoning judgment for praise of the one infinite Creator, for you are equally praiseworthy when you have achieved the ideal and when you have utterly failed to achieve the ideal.

For what is more basic, more over-arching, than the sense data and all that spins therefrom is that consciousness which has half an eye upon the incarnation and the other half upon the Creator. Great peace of spirit comes to the one who is able to locate the other half of the self, the half that does indeed dwell in eternity, the half that is beyond judgment and exists rather with the eyes turned to see what may be done to serve and not that mind which looks back upon the self to find what the score was, what percentile of achievement has been achieved.

We are aware that much value has been given throughout your experience in third density to achievement, to the achievements of far-seeing men and women who have seemed to achieve their ideals, to experience and express excellence. Nor do we deny that there is value in seeing with the eyes of the world, but we ask you to consider whether or not that value is as fundamental as the turning to the present moment, to the one infinite Creator, to love, for love is the overarching truth. And if the emotional self can turn to that love and bask in it for one moment, that moment of truth shall cry, “Peace, peace,” to the self-judgments of the one who wishes to run the straight race.

The group question for this session was: “The question this week has to do with the difference between what we hold as our ideal and what we experience as our actual experience. We would like to know the most efficient way of looking at that difference that would help us most in our growth, and what Q’uo’s opinion about that difference would be?” Q’uo began their reply by saying that our physical bodies were a meeting point between nothing and infinity which meets the needs of third density to be confused in our relationships while our intuition and dreaming discover new worlds of thought and imagination. They went on to say that the seeking soul moves through the daily experience with its mind making choices without any knowledge of their metaphysical implications as choices of polarity, and in this process the mind makes judgements of itself according to its achievements of the ideal versus the actual experience of the soul when the truth rests in the present moment. Then Q’uo defined the present moment as the Light that contains all that was, is, or ever will be with no time, space, or judgement: a pure reflection of Love. Q’uo went on to say that this reality was available to all, but it would not be experienced if judgement was used in a harmful way against the self or any other self. They realized that judgements were a common practice in the third density, but they recommended that any judgements be applied sparingly, with kindness and compassion and eventually, if possible, to abandon judgements and replace them with praising the one infinite Creator as each is praiseworthy whether they have achieved the ideal, or if they have failed to achieve the ideal. They went on to say that great peace would come to the one who can take the eye from the judgements of the incarnated self and put it upon the part of the self that rests in eternity with the Creator, focused on how to be of service to others in the present moment of the peace and Love of the Creator. On November 30, 1986, Q’uo described how we may find the Creator in the present moment:

I am Q’uo, and, my sister, since all are indeed portions of the one infinite Creator and move in harmony with that Creator, whether the harmonious pattern of movement is known consciously or not known consciously, one may have faith that the life pattern has been described and conceived in a fashion which will bring to one those opportunities to be of service to all which come before one’s notice and to share what you call love in a fashion which is most appropriate for each moment. Thus, it is not necessary, my sister, to look past the present moment and wonder at how it shall be possible to be of service and to radiate that love which one seeks in one’s life pattern, for that has been given to you to recognize in each moment if one will but turn the desire to seek the truth toward each moment and continue to find the face of the Creator in each face which meets yours, and, indeed, within your own face and within each portion of the environment which supports and surrounds you at all times. Thus, you have as a life pattern that which has been designed to provide you with opportunity after opportunity to give that which is possible and to find that love which is there.

This instrument knows a poem that goes: “Run the straight race with God’s good grace. Lift up thine eyes and seek His face. Lay hold on life and it shall be thy joy and crown eternally.” My friends, we feel there is wisdom in those lines. Lift up your eyes and seek His face. That face is Love. It is personified within this instrument’s religious system as the one known as Jesus. This entity knew that its life was symbolic and conformed Himself to that symbology. There are many other faces of that Love. We encourage each to seek the face of that which most centrally symbolizes to the self that present Love, that overarching compassion, that resounding cosmic “yes.”

The physical vehicle, the physical brain, and much of the surface of all of the bodies which you possess within incarnation are tuned to give you a certain kind of data in such a way that you shall inevitably become unable to do that which you see as perfect. The entire structure of your physical environment has as one of its characteristics the inevitable tendency to demonstrate the uselessness of the attempt to remain logical, sensible, rational, and malleable. Although it is natural for humankind to try to control the environment, the personal behavior, and so forth, energies inherent within third density inevitably steer the seeking spirit into a trackless, directionless and utterly confusing frame of reference, for that which is prideful must be cast down, and that which is humble and lowly within must be lifted up.

The spiritual journey is a simple thing, yet it confounds intellectual examination, for it is, among many other things, the yielding up of that pride of self which manifests as the excellent worker, the hard-striving soul. There is an inevitability about the fall of each and every hoped for ideal, and all of this mental and emotional suffering has as its condign purpose the pulling of the energies towards the heart in order that the heart may open. Open to the present moment and to the Love that is all that there is.

Honor your ideals. Honor yourself as you continue to seek to come as close as possible to those values set for the self. Yet know and allow yourself to truly to know that the actual virtue lies in doing what the Creator has called you to do, that which is in front of your face, with gladness, with a single mind and with a light heart. That lightness of heart is a gem of immense value. When you feel the sunshine pour into the heart, when you feel the heart straightening up, no longer bent under a heavy load, then you feel and know truth. The deepest truth of your human nature is Love.

My friends, move in the great race. Do your best, and be glad as you fail, for there is joy in accomplishing one more step of the journey from the head to the heart. Open the hand of your compassion. Release that fluttering bird that seeks the light and the love of the one infinite Creator, that bird within the heart that your poet, Emily Dickinson, saw as hope. To hope, to trust, to abide in faith and in peace; these are the characteristics of one who has seen through judgment and pride and has released the self into that present moment. May you open that door into the present again and again.

As the sands of the sea, as the stars in your sky, just so infinite are the shining spirits which are embodied within this creation who turn their glowing faces toward the Creator in praise and thanksgiving. At this time many, many of those not incarnate in physical vehicles flock within the inner planes of your globe. To those who ask for help they flock by the millions to offer their candle power to heighten the inner light of those in need. Yours is third density. Ask for help and help will be given you. Reach out the hand and it will be full of invisible but real love. You are loved, not because you have achieved but because you exist, a child of the infinite Creator. You are enfolded, snuggled, by invisible nurturing arms. Every cell of your body is perfect. Your truth is that all is perfect. There is no striving necessary, for all is well.

We are motes that dance in the sunlight, but we love you with our whole heart. Ask for help. Serve each other. And the light generated shall be beautiful indeed. As you suffer, as you experience loss and limitation, all is well. Turn often to the perfection, to the integrity, and to the healing health of praise and thanksgiving within the present moment, for all that you see, and know, and do is done upon holy ground. That is the floor beneath the scenery.

Then Q’uo suggested that the seeker should seek the face of Love which is a cosmic “yes” to life that is at variance from one’s physical body and brain which demonstrate the uselessness of being logical, sensible, and rational. Q’uo said that they are a part of the third density energies which requires that the spiritual seeker cast its pride away and lift up the nature of humility within it. Then Q’uo said that this was the way to open the self to the present moment of Love which is all that there is, so we should honor the ideals that we have set for ourselves, but we should do what the Creator calls us to do with a light heart so that we can know that our true nature is Love. Q’uo continued by saying that this is the great race: to give our best effort; to rejoice when we fail; to release judgement and pride; for each of these is one more step from the head to the heart and opening the door to the present moment again and again. Q’uo also said that there are millions of souls that are not incarnate who will come to our aid if we but ask them to do so, and they will give us nurturing love so that striving is no longer necessary, for all is well, and we are perfect. They completed their response by saying that even if we experience suffering, that all is well, and we should turn with praise and thanksgiving to the present moment because we stand on holy ground. On March 4, 1979, Latwii said that we are love and that we stand on holy ground:

Find the holy ground. Find the jewel, that which is love. Upon this ground you can stand without fear of falling, losing your footing, or being cast away from your place, for this is your birthright. Love is what you are. What you think you are, if you think you are not Love, is an illusion, a mass of distorted detail that can be slowly weeded or quickly weeded from your life—as you would weed from a garden those things which were not pleasant or helpful.

We leave you in that ground of being, in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I vacuumed the first floor of the house, and then I ran a couple of errands with my first stop being at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought some food for myself. My second stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store where I bought some Pepsi Zero, some treats for Bennie and Bosco, and some Kleenexes.

This afternoon I went outside and began weeding the Ruins Mound, the flower garden in the middle of the Moss Garden, and the Astilbe garden by  hand as we got enough rain this morning for me to be able to pull the weeds out roots and all.

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

August 16

Those Born Of The Spirit

I am the spirit who comes with quiet feet, walking in perfect Love, sacrificing in perfect peace, showing perfect compassion. I greet you in the full consciousness of Love.

May the Love of Christ come upon you today as a sword and as a peace, excising from you that little self, opening the way for your true and whole creation. For those born of the Spirit, be they gathered together or scattered throughout your societies, may indeed renew the face of the Earth.

Let that consciousness be upon you that is Love, rejoicing in pain and giving up those things which the spirit within you tells you that you no longer need.

May you lose your guilt and anger and be lit by the fire and the truth of Love and Compassion, that you may go forth in activity and yet with a heart full of peace to do the work of Jesus Christ in the world today.

We leave you, encouraging you, as always, in the perfect peace of Jesus the Christ, now and forever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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