The Camelot Journal

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from January 16, 1994:

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and in light. It is our privilege at this time to ask if there may be any further queries for us from those within this group. Are there any further queries at this time?

Carla: I just—I have one question. Is there something within women that is fundamentally different than men, in that women seem to want so much more than men… comfort. Is that part of the archetypical nature of women, that they wish for reassurance more, comfort, reassurance, hugs, approval, that kind of thing, or is it training?

I am Q’uo, and I am aware of your query, my sister. This is a query which reaches deeply within the nature of the biological female within your third-density culture, and indeed beyond and before as well. We shall speak briefly and rely upon further queries for specificity.

The female of your peoples is that entity through which the force of life manifests itself, and knowing this both consciously and subconsciously the female nurtures that life force in every way possible, seeking as all mothers to guarantee the circumstances of the birth and rearing of that life force in manifestation. Thus, the female is more disposed to seek and preserve those situations which shall enhance its abilities to give the life force manifestation through its being as are all such [inaudible] or distortions within your illusion. This distortion also has those echoes and ramifications that attend to each individual female’s interpretation, both that which is conscious and that which is subconscious, so that the desire to nurture the life force may occasionally express itself as the desire for the more comfortable environment that will allow it to do that which is its destiny.

Carla wanted to know why women were different from men, and if it was part of the archetypical nature of women that they wish for more comfort, reassurance, hugs, approval, that kind of thing, or is it training? Q’uo replied by saying that this quality of women was a very deep part of their nature that began in the second density and continues in the higher densities as well, so they would speak briefly and ask for further questions. Then Q’uo said that females were aware both consciously and subconsciously that they were the source of how life manifests itself through them, so they sought to nurture the conditions of birth and growth into manifestation which causes them to seek a more comfortable environment in which to realize their destiny. On April 11, 2009, Q’uo spoke of how life manifests through the feminine principle:

The feminine principle, on the other hand, dwells in a state of rest, aware in a direct way of the energies of infinity and eternity. The moon sings through the blood of the woman. The cycle of the seasons echoes in her and to the biological feminine is given intimate awareness of the ocean of life as she conceives and carries new life within her.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you, Q’uo.

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

E: I have one related to the male/female difference, that is, given that females are inherently more nurturing than man, why is it that all major cultures on this planet are dominated by males?

I am Q’uo, and I am aware of your query, my brother. Again, we do not wish to oversimplify that upon which we speak but we may in brief reply that the male of your peoples is an entity that has its part to play in the preserving and the enhancing of the life force as it manifests in succeeding generations. Thus, as the male finds itself physically superior in most cases, it has the task in symbolic form, if not always in practical form, of finding those shelters and food sources that it shall provide for the family, that is the means by which the evolution of the species is accomplished.

As we mentioned previously, this protective aspect of the female nature to provide safe surroundings for its young has the distortion that can be personally expressed; so does the male have the personal and somewhat more profound distortion of taking that nature of providing physical sustenance and distorting it in a fashion which allows the preeminence of the male to be expressed. Thus, each function of male and female, and indeed of any entity, may be echoed in various portions of the environment that is created by the interaction of individuals and groups. Thus, the physical strength may be overemphasized to such a degree that the male claims physical dominance, or a dominance in any number of avenues. This quality is one which sets up the dynamic tension, shall we say, that works many times in retrograde nature, as the male does not always see how it may relate in a more civilized sense with those about it, both the male and the female.

The tendency to view the self as superior because of looking at one quality only is a common feature of many of your peoples. Thus, there are individuals who judge themselves well because of mental brilliance, because of physical strength, because of creations of one kind or another for which they give themselves credit. These are means by which distortions may be noted and may be set up for balancing, shall we say.

There have been other times upon your planetary influence when the male was not in all cultures in the position which it finds itself at this time. However, you may note that the cycles of relationship move and change and there is much of this change evident now within various cultures at this time, moving as always from the pioneer individuals, shall we say, to those about it, and spreading as the ripple effect to others as well.

E asked Q’uo: “Given that females are inherently more nurturing than men, why is it that all major cultures on this planet are dominated by males?” Q’uo began their response by saying that because the male is usually stronger than the female it takes upon itself the responsibility of providing the food and shelter for the female and their offspring so that the evolution of the species is accomplished. Q’uo went on to say that the greater physical strength of the male, over time, could be manifested as physical dominance in many different ways to the point that the male may fail to see how it may relate in a more compassionate way with both males and females. Q’uo also said that this feeling of being superior in some way was common to both males and females whether by intelligence, physical strength, art, writing, etc. Q’uo completed their thoughts by saying that males have not always been the dominant force in various cultures in the past, and that there was a change in various cultures at this time away from male dominance. On January 18, 2020, Q’uo spoke of the movement away from the traditional patriarchy and towards matriarchy:

The patriarchal system of governance and expression of power is that which has found its room to roam, shall we say, upon this particular planetary sphere for a great portion of what you would call time.

This type of expression of power, or energy, or intention, is that which is based upon the male principle of the reaching. This type of principle is that, when used in a cooperative fashion, and a sensitive fashion, is that which may be inspirational to those entities existing within the patriarchy. However, it is also a principle which is easily misused and may be used to the detriment of many within its sphere of influence, when the reaching becomes the grasping and the holding into position so that certain entities are not allowed a free expression of their own free will. This type of patriarchy, then, demands that there be compliance with a certain set of values and intentions that are often not universal in expression or desire by those within the higher realms of the patriarchy.

Thus, entities who wish to reform the patriarchal situation that may be predominantly of a male nature but also contain those of the female gender as well, are attempting at this time to enhance the type of expression that is more matriarchal, that which is feminine, that which awaits the reaching, that which does not have the temptation or the desire or the ability to be aggressive.

The awaiting the reaching is that which is comforting, that which is cooperative, that which is generative of the expression of love that accepts all that are within the realm of influence and nurtures each within that realm of influence.

Thus, the matriarchal type of expression of energies, is that which is seeing the entire picture, the, shall we say, grander view, the overview, and is patiently awaiting the discovery of each entity within the illusion, be the entity biological male or female, that the old ways of patriarchy have served their purpose and have, perhaps, been in dominance overlong, needing to be balanced by the nurturing nature of the feminine principle that awaits the reaching.

Is there a further query, my brother?

E: No, thank you. That was very helpful.

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

Carla: No, Q’uo. Thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we seem to have exhausted the queries at this time. We are hopeful that we have not exhausted your patience as well. We are most grateful for your invitation to join your circle of seeking, and we rejoice with you at every step upon the journey, for indeed we and many others walk with you, perhaps unseen but forming a goodly company nonetheless. We shall at this time take our leave of this instrument and this group, leaving each, as always, in the love and in the ineffable light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I changed out the sugar syrup in my three hummingbird feeders and my neighbor’s two feeders. Then I used the watering wand to water the flowers along the parking area in front of the house, the mound by the fishpond, the forsythia bushes on my north boundary, and the Solomon’s seal between the garage and the fire pit. Then I used the backpack blower to blow all of the leaves in the Moss Garden into the back yard.

This afternoon I mowed the grass in the front, side, and back yards. Then I set the sprinkler to water four areas in the back yard.

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

June 25

Bless Your Brokenness

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

As you see yourself moving into the world of business and matters, objects and circumstances, you may well see yourself to be inadequate to or broken by all of these worldly things. See and bless this brokenness.

I say “bless” because to be broken is the blessing of the fruit that is to be eaten; of the loaf that is to be shared; of the limited, inadequate thing which may become not only enough but much more than enough.

Open your inner being to the consciousness of Love which the Spirit of Jesus the Christ offers. Bless and give thanks for your limitations and then open the heart to the action of the consciousness of infinite Love and you shall see how all has been created perfectly.

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

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The Q’uo quote today comes from January 16, 1994:

The question this week has to do with how we accept change and the attitude that we can best utilize to meet change. Then we would also like some information on what it is exactly that changes. What is this sense of ourselves that changes and uses various tools like the mind, dreams, archetypical mind, and whatever to change?

(Carla channeling)

Greetings from the love and the light of the infinite Creator. We are those of Q’uo, and we are privileged to bless you in the love and the light of the infinite One. We thank each for calling us to your meeting this afternoon and cannot adequately express our feelings of honor, for it is a privilege indeed to be able to blend our vibrations with your own and to share our humble opinions with you. As always, we remind each that we are fallible beings prone to error. We need to request that each choose those opinions which seem to resonate within the unique web of energies which are your evolving self and to lay the rest aside, for we would not be a stumbling block before any.

This concept of change is interesting. Imagine if you will the unity and infinity which characterize the creation and all within it. That which is various is infinitely various. That which is infinite is made of one thing. Where, then, is the change? Where the manyness? Each entity focuses within itself every energy within the unified creation. Within each unique and infinitely precious soul lies all that there is.

Thusly, the changes and chances of incarnation take place against a grand backdrop. You now see this backdrop as though it were the universe; you cannot see the stage beneath your feet for it seems to be Earth, nor can you see the self within each character that you play, nor can you see each character that you choose not to play, for you are of those within the train which spends its speed into gathering twilight, the cars filled with light, the travelers talking and drinking, and eating and sleeping, and gazing out the windows at the passing scenery.

How much of this landscape that you see have you made yours? This image is intended to funnel your conceptual mind into a configuration within which you may see that the incarnated experience which to you seems greatly various and changeable is in a more light-filled illusion—which is your metaphysical counterpart at this space/time—straight as an arrow. The change you perceive is just that: perception of change, not change. You are on the incarnational train. It is not local. It does not stop until you disembark. The concept of destiny is unknown to most who chase under its heavy hand. Yet, we say to you that this unknown destiny is your greatest ally. This train which shall keep you on track regardless of what scenery you view will ride through its destination well in mind, all the curves, and mountains, valleys and great chasms that seem to toss and fling you through life are the scenery of your spirit’s learning, the visual aids of the great college which is your incarnation.

To focus upon change is skillful for the one who works to accelerate the rate of spiritual evolution, but we greatly encourage each to couch this focus upon change within the larger picture in which you may see that there is a strong and substantial reason to trust and have perfect faith in destiny.

You have put yourself on this train. This trip is planned by you. You did not ask yourself to be happy or sad, to do well or to do poorly, not at all. You asked yourself to experience this exact incarnation. This is your responsibility, to experience as fully as possible each moment—to be hungry for food, that food being all that you can pay your attention to.

Therefore, the first thing we would say about change and the entity changing is, remember that the changes are apparent as great and sweeping [inaudible] changes in direction, but in a truer sense you are simply moving from car to car on that train of destiny. You are beyond all changes secure, safe, and held with the greatest tenderness by the Love of the infinite One. When all overwhelms you it is well to remember that you need do nothing but rest in those arms. As change occurs the disoriented and torn consciousness, which is often experienced can be most unsettling, yet there is always beyond the unsettling emotions the comfort which you may claim, that comfort of the one who loves, the one whose love is greatly part of you. Love created you and Love loves you.

This resting and abiding certainty can heal the most tattered spirit, but the gaze must be shifted away from the torn and bleeding circumstances, relationship, or whatever is perceived as changing and making vulnerable and afraid that self which is your conscious self. To attempt to get a true grounding from the other passengers, shall we say, is not to invoke the higher or more overarching energies. Rather, to turn to the infinite Creator for solace and comfort is the effective action, for consider that each entity who you interact with is also on that train which his destiny has chosen.

The question this week has to do with how we accept change and the attitude that we can best utilize to meet change. What is this sense of ourselves that changes and uses various tools like the mind, dreams, archetypical mind, and whatever to change? Q’uo began by saying that the infinite creation is one thing that is contained within each unique soul, and within this third-density illusion we play many characters which we perceive as changing as time goes on. Then Q’uo said that our perception of change is simply a perception of change, and not change [in the larger picture since we are always the Creator], and our incarnations are like a train that takes us through a great variety of scenery that becomes the destiny of our spiritual journey which we have planned. Q’uo went on to say that we should have faith that our incarnation is occurring as it should in each moment as we move from car to car on the train of the experience of our destiny, and when our experiences of change become overwhelming that we should rest in the loving arms of the Infinite One that created us and each person that we interact with. On April 21, 1994, Q’uo spoke of our destiny as frequently difficult as we go through times of change:

In the process of transformation there is almost always a great deal of sorrow and feelings of loss, for when change is going to occur naturally it simply takes one as destiny will and almost never is it a completely smooth road from that one way which was to that other way which has yet to be worked out. And yet we encourage you to have the faith to praise that which is past and to open the heart to that which is, was, and shall be.

The keeping of silence, the keeping of the listening ear as part of the daily round of activity is always, we feel, an excellent practice, for in the silence, in the listening lies the key that unlocks the door of your own wisdom, that which is within the deep mind, that whose voice is silence, and which can only be heard by the open and listening heart. If you can trust destiny enough to release the attempts to control it, the natural waves of energy moving out from the center of that kindly destiny which is each seeker’s will gradually take that seeker upon the path and in the direction which is deeply desired.

We do not need to tell you how difficult a practice it is to maintain the silent and listening receptivity to destiny in a world in which intangibles and invisible things are often given no worth or value at all. Yet, this practice is most productive of peace of mind and is very efficient in its own way at keeping the seeker upon the path chosen before the incarnative experience.

Let us now gaze at who it is that changes, and who it is that records or witnesses change. Imagine the self standing in the desert at night. The entity you are imagining reaches one hand to the starry sky. Moving finally from this [inaudible] attitude this figure begins to dance, and as this figure dances and spins, the stars above begin to whirl [inaudible] until all of creation is drawn star by star into the self. This figure, then, has all within, all of star, all of space, all of emotion, all of life, all within. This is the entity which witnesses change. You see the manifestation of yourself, it seems to have dimension, to be the daughter of time and space, or the son of time and space.

We say to you that in actuality all that you have experienced as rock, as tree, as human, as what you call angel, as sun, as Creator, all of these things are the witness that flings the hand to beckon the stars. All that moves, moves and has being in an instant, and within this instant the millions and millions of years of a whole creation beginning, [inaudible], and ending has taken place. You now experience the instant before the Creator coalesces once again. Time is an illusion, space is an illusion. The witness knows at some level the depth of this illusion, and through all change it keeps its feet steadily upon the desert floor. There is that within you which has such power that you could not image or believe this selfhood to be yours.

You ask how to meet change? We say to you the second thing that is you do not have to meet change. You have only to remember who you are. You are the witness; pay attention. Remember the desert floor and the out-flung hand, remember the stars spinning into your consciousness and meet change with love, for you have nothing to fear. You commanded this change.

The third and final thing we would say about change is most skillfully taught by the one known as Jesus. This teacher said to worry not about what to eat or what to wear or what things to say, for food and clothing and words will all be supplied as the destiny kindly arranges one day at the time, as this instrument is fond of saying. Yesterday’s change is moving away behind you, tomorrow’s change is not imagined. You need only focus upon the present moment as you perceive it.

The impulse of the manifestation of yourself which is human has the instinct to grasp and hold those things which are perceived as being needed. There is the stretching and the reaching for enough to withstand what might occur. Yet change does not happen well to entities which are holding on to anything. What if in this instant the gravity you experience was reversed. Would you do a somersault or would you fall all over yourselves while explaining that this was impossible. How much of change is painful because it is resisted? There is in the makeup which you have supplied yourselves with a great tool; as always, we mention this tool, that being meditation. The levels upon which are lived the life are several. You see, to unite the spirit, the mind, and the body to promote that unity which appears as health, that health may be greatly aided by the frequent remembrance of the ground of being during meditation, even if it is only for a second. The various pieces of self are knitted up in that opening to the presence within that loved you before you ever hoped to love it. How precious each of you is.

It is as though within the meditation, regardless of how scattered it seems, there is a pure and distilled waterfall of light which irrigates and illumines cell by cell the body, mind and spirit. It is like being rinsed and polished to relax into that presence which is holy. And do not simply confine the self to one kind or form of meditation, for various experiences request various kinds of coherent illumination or meditation. Sometimes you may wish to contemplate a certain eye-catching thought or question, sometimes the meditation may be very active, the sacred dance, the sacred song. Sometime the true need is for the self to rail and complain bitterly to the infinite Creator, to say, “This does not seem to be a lesson in love at all. This hurts, this is painful, and I don’t like it.” Complaining is allowed, my children, complaining is encouraged. Too much is made of the wonderfulness of the infinite Creator and not enough said about the intimate love of this Love itself that engages you in conversation and responds caringly and intricately to the way you speak your experience and tell your story to it.

We encourage each, especially in times of dislocating change, to tell your story either mentally or out loud to the infinite One. The infinite One is never happier than when being addressed, and you, in addressing the infinite One, receive reflections you cannot imagine, reflections of the highest of truth and beauty. Each of you is waiting to flower and bloom from moment to moment. To most ably assist the self in blooming through change we encourage each to remember who you truly are. Remember the true magnitude of your infinite self. Remember the impossibility of ever judging a circumstance or combination of feelings in any accurate way, and shed the responsibility for that. You are responsible only as you will yourself to pay attention to that which is before the eyes and then to address that situation, curious to find the most love within the self and the most appropriate way to share that love—first with the infinite One and then with the self and others, looking in times of change for ways to love and ways to be love, and accepting all with a brave heart.

[Inaudible] in the deeper and deepening consciousness of the witness self that watches all change yet remains the self within the rock, the self within the Creator and all points between. Then may you be tossed about by experience only a little, only to the extent that you accept with a high and courageous heart. We feel you cry out in this change’s occurrence. We feel the pain within the voices that ask “Why?” and we do not wish to be cold-hearted. Yet, it is the perception of the animal within that change is dangerous, and that mind which is the mind of the second-density animal which carries your consciousness about in this lifetime resists and demands a cessation of change, for it does not have faith, is not self-conscious. Its instinct rules, and its intellect rationalizes instinct. Yet, you are not this life-form but another. You are consciousness, and you have accepted partnership with this entity which walks and talks and moves about.

It is not wise to be driven by this animal or its very capable mind. Retain the awareness of that consciousness that does not resist destiny, and school yourself as far as possible to create the response to stimulus which is positive and says, “Yes, I will accept this change and will be sustained in it by the presence of love.” Call upon your own faith, feel strongly the hope which abides, and attempt to remember that all those changes have to do with lessons about loving. You are experiencing manyness; you seek infinity. You are experiencing concern and questioning doubt and worry. Bring in, too, remembrance, love. All things will pass away except love. You are love, you just don’t know it yet. Give yourself and the illusion time.

Now Q’uo said that as we witness change within us, we have all that there is within us: all of the stars, all of space, all of emotion, and all of life, and we become the sons and daughters of time and space, but then we must realize that we are much more than that because we have gone through the entire octave of densities in an instant where there is no time or space. Then Q’uo said that we will experience the instant before the Creator coalesces, and we have nothing to fear so that we can meet change with love as we have created this change. Q’uo went on to say that we need not be concerned about the past or the future, but we should focus only on the present moment without any resistance to the change that we are experiencing. Then in meditation we should seek the uniting of our mind, body, and spirit, and that we should use various forms of meditation to do this such as contemplation upon a thought, dancing, singing, complaining to the Creator about the difficulty of our lives as the Creator will respond to this communication with the reflections of the greatest truth and beauty that we can ever imagine. Q’uo said that this was the greatest way to feel love for the infinite One, and then for ourselves, and for others, and during times of change to be loving and accepting of change. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that we should call upon our faith and remember that all of our life changes are about learning to love, and that we should deal with doubt and worry by remembering that all things will pass away except love, and that we are love. So, we should give ourselves and the illusion of third density time to move through changes. On February 11, 1982, Laitos described how learning to love and forgive ourselves and others can be aided by meditation:

The incarnation offers the entity the opportunity to accept, to forgive, to love all beings, all experiences, all events, including the self. This learning of acceptance and loving is that learning which shall allow the graduation, shall we say, into the next lesson’s series or density. The entity throughout a lifetime, therefore, has the opportunity of learning to love that which is unlovable, learning to accept that which is unacceptable, learning to forgive that which is unforgivable.

This process of loving, accepting, forgiving of all might be enhanced in the meditations upon those circumstances, situations, entities, or characteristics of the self which are deemed by the self to be unacceptable, unforgivable, unlovable. Such characteristics occurring within the daily round of activities might be beneficially noted within the mind and used as a catalyst for the learning to love, accept and forgive in the meditative state.

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

This morning I set the sprinkler in three locations in the back yard while I was editing my Camelot Journal entries for the next couple of days. After I was through with the editing, I used my trimmer to weed the back yard and side yard. At 10:15 I took Benny to the vet to see what I can do to help her eat as she has eaten very little in the last couple of days, and the meds for her heart failure and fluid in her kidneys is in her food. They gave me a medicine to rub into one of her ears once a day, but I have no idea how I will be able to do that as she is feral, and I need to wear thick gloves to handle her.

This afternoon I finished weeding the front yard with my trimmer and went over to my neighbor’s house across the street to weed her flower garden with a hoe.

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

June 24

The Bird That Sings

I am of the principle of divine love and joy.

I greet you in the full consciousness of Christ.

I greet you in joy. Think you that Jesus did not have joy? It is not so. No matter what the suffering of the human condition, there is joy in every moment to be found by opening the inward eye to the beauties, the possibilities, and the chances of the creation.

It may perhaps be that there are matters which cause the utmost discouragement. Yet always there is the bird that sings, the tassel upon the corn that waves in the wind, and the blue, ethereal sky flocked with clouds. Look up this day and find the joy within the creation about you.

Look within and feel the kindly hand of the Spirit, for the principle of Love needs only to be requested to appear in each seeking heart.

We leave you in peace, love and joy, 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 January 2, 1994:

The question today is from N. The first part is about the cycles. Since “as above, so below,” only by understanding the universe, cosmos, celestial bodies, and finding correlations with the activities of the mind, the human body, cells, tissues and molecules, atoms and subatomic particles, down to the etheric body, can we comprehend the whole. Could you comment on the correlation between cycles and the relationship to the human body?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We feel pleasure that we have been called to this session of working in order to share our thoughts with you. Thank you for this honor. Please, as always, take what is meaningful from our opinions, discarding the rest.

The physical makeup of your visible universe is most impressive, the systems, seeming rigidly hierarchical until there is a closer look, at which time anomalies begin to mount. The part of the crystallized creation which is withheld is great. This withholding is not in order that visibility be restricted, rather the withholding is due to the lack of sufficient sight, or opportunity for sight. In other words, neither the third density physical vehicles nor the consciousness inhabiting these physical vehicles is at present equipped with receptors capable of assimilating the amount of data which exists.

We say this because the attempt to match perceived cyclical hierarchies is made non-useful by this fact. It is indeed so that that which exists, as you say, above, is indeed reflected in that which is, as you have said, below. However, that which is above is other than can be conjured or mentally figured out. That energy which created all that there is may be seen to be the center of all that there is. This field of Love is of a nature which is reproduced and is the stuff of all levels of vibration which stem therefrom.

This nature is an essence or a fullness of field. The energy is saturated, that is, there is fullness of Love. You seek in understanding cycles to better understand healing. However, it is an understanding, shall we say, of fields and of the amount of saturation or fullness of Love in the fields, in field strength, shall we say, that aids in the efficacy of healing. That is, the more saturated the awareness of Love is the more fullness of health there is.

To work on the influences of heavenly objects, as you call these, is instead to do fairly subtle work in the area of the archetypical mind. The influences upon these archetypes from celestial objects varies according to the native ground or earth of a particular entity and the study of these correspondences yields a wealth of detailed information in each individual which undertakes such study.

This touches only tangentially upon healing information in that it is so that in working with the archetypes and their relationships there is much opportunity for the skilled student to take fire from a newly perceived gracefulness of relationship that clarifies in some way the student’s thinking or, as you so often say, understanding.

N began with the “as above so below” assumption of cycles from celestial bodies down to subatomic particles and asked “Could you comment on the correlation between cycles and the relationship to the human body? Q’uo began their reply by saying that the entirety of the physical universe is beyond any third density consciousness to comprehend. Then Q’uo said that it was basically true that “as above, so below” because the nature of Love that created all that there is exists in every portion of the creation. Q’uo continued by saying that as more awareness of Love is found in the various fields of energy there is more fullness of health. Q’uo also said that working with the influence of the celestial bodies could produce a wealth of information for those who study the archetypical mind and allow the student to study the relationships within the archetypical mind that can increase their understanding.  In 10.14, Ra said that love exists in every portion of the creation:

The moment contains love. That is the lesson/goal of this illusion or density. The exercise is to consciously seek that love in awareness and understanding distortions. The first attempt is the cornerstone. Upon this choosing rests the remainder of the life-experience of an entity. The second seeking of love within the moment begins the addition. The third seeking powers the second, the fourth powering or doubling the third. As with the previous type of empowerment, there will be some loss of power due to flaws within the seeking in the distortion of insincerity. However, the conscious statement of self to self of the desire to seek love is so central an act of will that, as before, the loss of power due to this friction is inconsequential.

May we ask if there is a further query?

Jim: A minor harvest cycle is related to the solar year which is the amount of time it takes our sun to go around the zodiac, about 25,000 years. The master cycle is said to be 75,000 years. Is there a star around which our sun or solar system moves that is the center of this 75,000 year cycle and, if so, can you tell us is it Alcyone or some other star?

We are those of Q’uo. While it is so that the numbers 25,000 and the turning of sun about solar system—we correct this instrument—Earth around solar system are similar, there is not the importance placed upon the connection between these two similar numbers. The timing, shall we say, of cycles of spiritual living or advancement are as they are because of quite sensitive factors involving the energies of the group of entities moving through third density. In other words, since your Earth sphere has certain populations of entities from various planetary influences the timing of these cycles of spiritual evolution is set in such and such a mold. As the group populations’ biases collectively are altered through what you know as time the timing of the cycles also evolves.

The setting of these cycles is ever liquid and is regulated quite, quite precisely according to every single entity and thought of each entity. This energetic whole has a nascent life which expresses its times of blooming and learning in such and such a way while stars wheel above in the heavens according to your physical sight, the constellations of thought and intention infinitesimally added until a towering largeness and fullness of information has been assimilated. This living entity expresses as a field and this entity’s expressions create the exact timing of the cycles of learning.

The cycles of learning have only tangentially, again, to do with the concerns of healing which we believe we understand these questions to be directed to. It is difficult to express how this perfectly logical seeming set of correspondences actually has an effect because the archetypical mind is most deep and for that reason most difficult to penetrate. We are happy to work upon the metaphysical implications of cycles concerning the archetypical mind, however, it is our feeling that this is not germane to a study of healing except as a rather advanced and subtle portion of healing which has to do with abstract or mental body healing at certain levels. We would suggest working from other assumptions than the assumption that cycles of spiritual learning are correlated with the cycles concerning healing.

Now the question was: “Is there a star around which our sun or solar system moves that is the center of this 75,000-year cycle and, if so, can you tell us if it is Alcyone or some other star? Q’uo began by saying that the 25,000- and 75,000-year cycles were not necessarily connected, and that the cycles’ time period is connected to the sources of the population of Earth, and as the biases of the collective population changes the cycles also change so that the timing of the cycles varies according to the living entities learning as a social memory complex. Then Q’uo said that these cycles have little to do with healing and are related more to the deep nature of the archetypical mind, but the archetypical mind is difficult to penetrate. On October 6, 2018, Q’uo spoke of how the biases of the collective population of Earth has evolved into a higher consciousness as has Mother Earth as well:

Your planetary sphere has, itself, moved through the same densities of this illusion of creation, as have each of you, beginning within the first density; moving then from that which is simple awareness of earth, wind, fire, and water, moving into the second density, where there is a consciousness that expresses itself as it moves towards the light, that being the second-density beings of the plants and the animals who are able to experience growth and movement in the beginning of self-conscious awareness; which is that quality which allows each second-density being to move within the third-density realm, to become that which is the completed entity—the mind, the body, and the spirit, being added in such a fashion to create a human being, as you might call them.

Your Mother Earth has been central in this process of growth through the first three densities, and shall continue to be central in this movement into the fourth density of love and understanding. Thus, the process of experiencing that which is known as the consciousness of self is that which is aided by the planet itself, for the planet has, within it, the conscious awareness of each entity that has inhabited its own beingness.

The planetary entity which you call your Gaia, or your Mother Earth, has, throughout limitless time, experienced its own consciousness and expressed it as the quality that you may see as pure awareness—the awareness of the One Creator that exists in all things at all times. This awareness within your Mother Earth has gone through the same stages of growth as has each entity within your third-density illusion, and as each entity which moves into the fourth density. The qualities of conscious awareness have an expanded meaning within your Mother Earth, for her awareness is not just the awareness of her own beingness and her own body that may be seen quite simply as a movement of matter within time and space, but is also an awareness of each form of life upon its surface, and within its beingness, as life exists at all levels of your Mother Earth.

Thus, the interaction that she undertakes with you in conscious expansion of awareness is that which is a process of harmonizing its beingness with the upward spiraling line of light that moves each entity’s awareness through each level of consciousness, and each density of awareness. Thus, your Mother Earth moves with each of its total population of human beings and all beings of any nature, and indeed, within all things, be they rock, animal, or spiritual qualities of devotion, of seeking, of inspiration, of service to others and service to self.

Thus, your Mother Earth has within her living bank of memory the experiences of all life forms that live upon her and within her, and she gives to each what you may call a very basic kind of inspiration that inspires at the cellular level, as well as all higher levels within each conscious being, and within all lower conscious and unconscious beings and substances. Thus, your Mother Earth moves in concert with its population, being one with each at a very basic level. Thus, all move together within this illusion to the next illusion of the fourth density of love and understanding.

Is there a further query?

Jim: He also mentions a 206,000 year cycle and he would like to know if there is any relationship between this 206,000 year cycle and Arcturus or Aldebaran and if there is a metaphysical significance to this cycle.

We are those of Q’uo. We do not find the comparisons listed to be useful.

Is there a further query?

Jim: Yes. He would also like to know if there is any significance in a 26-million-year cycle and if it has any relationship to a specific star or location.

We are those of Q’uo. And again we do not find a significance to the 26 million year cycle. Perhaps we could suggest that the center of the universe is the center of each entity’s heart. The open heart of the great Self which each self is, is that center which is a unity. All of the portions of the Creator, shall we say rather misleadingly, seem to themselves to be in time and space each unique, each separate and each apart. Yet, in truth, the center of the constellations is the open heart. All measurement, all numbering, all ways of detailing and patterning the observed creation fall to dust before the open heart. Love is of a certain nature. The fullness, breadth, depth and height of the nature of love is both revealed and concealed by its visibility and ready accessibility for each self contains this center without distortion within the open heart.

It is both blessing and curse that those who seek so longingly and yearn so profoundly for scientific information to aid in being of service must have their hopes thwarted by the illusive and ever receding face of spiritual knowledge, for this knowledge is not that which has to do with the kind of measuring which is used to calculate the hierarchies of the observable, physical universe, but Love moves, and its traces dwell within all things. The keys to healing echo the ways or nature of Love itself.

We find that to speak further at this juncture is to infringe upon the free development of the awareness which would ask further queries upon this healing subject and consequently we feel that to speak further at this working is not appropriate. We thank this instrument for bearing with us while we attempted to use some concepts which stretched the instrument’s ability to understand, if we may again use this term. We also thank the questioner and encourage study and further queries on this interesting subject. Our hearts are full of a love and desire to be of service, as always, and we are most thankful for the energy and desire and longing to be of service that this group expresses with these queries. It is truly a privilege to be able to blend our energies with your own and we cannot thank you enough.

N would also wanted to know if there is any significance in a 26-million-year cycle and if it has any relationship to a specific star or location. Q’uo said that they did not see any significance in this cycle and suggested that the center of the universe was in each open heart that reflected the Creator’s Love in a seemingly separate way, but which revealed the fullness of this Love and contains it without distortion.  Q’uo completed their response by saying that it was both a blessing and a curse that the nature of spiritual knowledge was ever receding into a mystery that cannot be measured by scientific means, and I think that the blessing is that if the scientific mind could measure and understand the mystery of the universe, the universe would be too simple to be of the highest spiritual value in making our seeking of truth an infinite journey. In 28.1, Ra spoke of the mystery of creation:

Questioner: The concept that I have right now of the process, using both what you have told me and some of Dewey Larson’s material having to do with the physics of the process, I have the concept that intelligent infinity expands outward from all locations everywhere. It expands outward in every direction uniformly like the surface of a balloon or a bubble expanding outward from every point everywhere. It expands outward at what’s called unit velocity or the velocity of light. This is Larson’s idea of the progression of what he calls space/time. Is this concept correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This concept is incorrect as is any concept of the one intelligent infinity. This concept is correct in the context of one particular Logos, or Love, or focus of this Creator which has chosen Its, shall we say, natural laws and ways of expressing them mathematically and otherwise.

The one undifferentiated intelligent infinity, unpolarized, full and whole, is the macrocosm of the mystery-clad being. We are messengers of the Law of One. Unity, at this approximation of understanding, cannot be specified by any physics but only be activated or potentiated intelligent infinity due to the catalyst of free will. This may be difficult to accept. However, the understandings we have to share begin and end in mystery.

Is there any other query at this time?

Jim: Not from me, Q’uo. That was very good. I’m sure he appreciates that a good deal. Thank you.

We are those of Q’uo, and we greatly appreciate your kind words. May we close by simply spending a few moments stating the wonder, the marvelous wonder of hope when hope is not logical. The wonder, the miraculous wonder of faith, when faith is not logical. May we encourage each to live in hope and in faith, forgetting not one iota of the darkness perceived but knowing that no darkness eradicates light. Live, then, in light, for inwardly you may always be standing beneath the bright sun.

As your spirit basks in its intelligent warmth the body is most positively affected. So may the time of cold and darkness be for you lighted within by the sun of hope and faith. We leave you rejoicing in this faith, in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator.

We are known to you as those of the principle Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning Anna and I synchronized our computers in Nashville and Louisville and listened to Carla channel Ra in Session #35. As it always is, being able to see and hear the words at the same time is an inspiring experience. In this session Ra said that Adolf Hitler was unable to serve the Creator he was unable to make the negative harvest because of insanity setting in during the last part of his life, and we couldn’t figure out how anything anyone would do would not help the Creator to know Itself better. After our session was complete, I went upstairs to do my usual cleaning of Benny’s apartment and check on her to see how she was doing. I discovered that she is still not eating any food which has her medications in it for heart failure and kidney problems. She is also still hiding, so I think I will call the vet tomorrow and change my appointment to bring Benny in from Tuesday to Monday. Then I went outside and cleaned the filters for the fountain on the fishpond so the fountain would not pulse and would be higher in its arc.

This afternoon I ran a couple of errands with my first stop 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. When I got back home I weeded the Ruins Mound and the flower garden along the parking area in the front yard.

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

June 23

The Fire Of Love

Greetings from the spirit of Christ to the world. Love, peace, and blessings be with you.

The fire of unconditional Love is a rampaging and ruthless force which is infinitely creative. Fire also burns, and those who are led by the Spirit are often led to shed and allow to fall into disrepair traits and sensibilities which function well in the world of sense but not in the world where Love holds sway.

It cannot be escaped, the fire of Love, yet by placing yourself trustfully within that fire you may find your soul taught and tempered by its creative blaze. Much of loss is experienced by those whose path is that of Christ. May you who seek learn to see that the power of Love is one which changes situations. There is loss involved. Place your mind trustfully in the faith that those things which fall away will be replaced by far more lovely gifts.

We leave you in the peace of the Love of Jesus the Christ, 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 December 19, 1993:

Group question: [Inaudible] … [name] concerning a dream he had, which he felt was an extremely enlightening dream. We will ask the questions in parts. The first one is: “Who are those who played the parts of my spirit mother and fathers?”

(Carla channeling)

I am Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are privileged to attend your session of working at this time and gratefully thank this group for calling us to share our opinions with you. It is our privilege, and we are most heartily pleased and blessed by the company, asking only that our opinions be accepted as just that. So, we ask each to consider what we offer, rejecting those things which do not immediately seem to aid in your particular spiritual journey, and if there remain any which do aid you, then we are most delighted.

We speak this day concerning the interpretation of a dream. Such is often the platform upon which information necessary to a spiritual seeker is offered, the dream state being marvelously outfitted and equipped to handle complex and shifting values and concerns which are being considered by the seeker on many levels, some conscious and most subconscious. This dream state, then, is marvelously wrought for maximal lading or layering of information. To one who is not yet working with the dream state, dreams may seem ephemeral, nonsensical, and useless. However, to the seeker who spends the care and attention to prepare for remembering and considering dreams this resource of the mind is a stout friend and a wise teacher to the conscious self, expressing in rich detail the tapestry of deep energies which move through the self within the incarnation.

The denizens of dreams have various identities when gazed at from various points of advantage. In a very real sense, and perhaps one of the most important, all figures within a dream are the self. This seems confusing at first glance, for if all figures in a dream are the self, then where is the dynamic which expresses thought and carries instruction? Yet the self is a large entity, an entity of a level or order of complexity which is difficult to express. Within each self there exist the pre-traces or foreshadowings of all potential possible states of mind, all feelings and emotions, indeed, all situations.

In a dream in which all entities are the self, then, the interpreter of the dream is looking at the characters of the dream with the hope of penetrating the symbol, or figure, or motif which the figure represents. In this regard, it is helpful to have some familiarity with the archetypical mind in one of those disciplines, such as the tarot, which attempt with some degree of success to capture the complex and many-layered values and colors of this tapestry of the self.

When one gazes at a mother, within the dream, looking for the archetypical match for this particular entity one may perhaps find some degree of success holding each archetype in mind and allowing the dream figure to be matched to it. The figure of mother contains, shall we say, the essence or heart of the dynamic called female. Those incarnate—we correct this instrument—incarnated in physical vehicles which are female contain the world within them, for to their wombs and through their wombs all must come who come into manifestation.

The female is the doorway through which all life essences stream. Within the heart of the father, then, is that which acknowledges the high position or ruling standard of the feminine. Before that door, that gateway, all men kneel, all give homage. Toward the female, then, is felt an irresistible love, often experienced as a darker or more convoluted love bearing in its folds the pain of that within the male which is not alive as is the female.

Thus, we encourage the one known as [name] in its consideration of the various female archetypes to illuminate this search for self and further to illuminate that within the self which now stops searching.

[Pause of thirty seconds.]

The three images of father—that which is rough, that which is strong, that which is wily—are not mutually exclusive images, yet what, archetypically speaking, within the male is rough, is wily? What depths do these words suggest? What divisions within the self do the unification of these three characteristics foreshadow? We suggest consideration of which is rough, that which is strong, that which is wily, moving always back from the detail to the essence, from complexity of detail towards unity of wedded understanding.

To the student which has achieved comes the clear dream which points both to the completion of one season of the self and to the moment of beginning, the next season of the self. In what way, then, does the incarnation, as its events lie in the present moment, provide resonances with this dream of mother and of fathers? These considerations may well produce further queries.

One of the attendees at this channeling session had questions about a dream that he had, and the first one was: “Who are those who played the parts of my spirit mother and fathers?” Q’uo began their reply by saying that dreams are a very effective way for the subconscious mind to reveal the many layers of meaning that a seeker may experience on its spiritual journey. Then Q’uo said that all of the characters in the dream are some portion of the self which is much larger in the spiritual sense than it is as the incarnated self, so it is necessary to become aware of the archetypical mind in order to grasp the nature of this many-layered self. Q’uo continued by saying that the dream images should be compared to various of the Major Arcana of the tarot where the mother could be seen as the female through which all life essences stream forth and for which great love is felt. Then Q’uo said that the father could be seen as that which is rough, that which is strong, and that which is wily, and which would correspond to the complexity of detail towards unity blended with understanding, and then Q’uo asked: “In what way, then, does the incarnation, as its events lie in the present moment, provide resonances with this dream of mother and of fathers?” In 95.18, Ra gave us information as to the interpretation of dreams:

Questioner: Thank you. A question has been asked which I’ll ask at this time. In processing the catalyst of dreams is there a universal language of the unconscious mind which may be used to interpret the meaning of dreams? Or does each entity have a unique language of its unconscious mind which it may use to interpret the meaning of dreams?

I am Ra. There is what might be called a partial vocabulary of the dreams due to the common heritage of all mind/body/spirit complexes. Due to each entity’s unique incarnational experiences there is an overlay which grows to be a larger and larger proportion of the dream vocabulary as the entity gains experience.

May we answer further at this time?

Jim: The second part of the question is: “What of an helpful or clarifying nature could be said regarding my spirit mother’s answer to my question about the constancy of my experience of being?”

Carla: Could you read that again?

[Repeated]

(Carla channeling)

Q’uo: The metamorphosis that occurs in some life forms is far more striking than transformation within the third-density consciousness. When the tadpole becomes a frog, there has been quite an obvious change. When the pupa becomes a butterfly, there is an obvious change, but when a seeker has unwittingly fulfilled an archetypical task, the transformation is not obvious or even visible, necessarily.

Further, this transformation takes place at two very different levels of being. In one level, the subconscious level, time/space holds sway and there is no veil, so that clarity of color and detail is seen. However, the portion of the personhood, shall we say, which is conscious is like that of the iceberg. The conscious self is often tempted to think of itself as it sees itself in the mirror as the whole self. However, most of that which makes a seeker that particular and unique seeker lies forever hidden, and as an entity continues to do work in consciousness, great magnitudes of change are seen below the threshold of consciousness and rainbows of colors detail this marvelous melodrama of evolving selfhood, while above the threshold of consciousness the changes are muted and the desire to see these changes, be it ever so keen, must make itself comfortable working largely with the palest and dimmest of hues compared to the richness of color in the time/space portions of consciousness which lie below the veil.

Thusly, it is well that there be in a seeker attempting to learn new ways the willingness to accept upon—we correct this instrument—on faith alone that the work done faithfully and persistently is indeed creating new selfhood below the veil of forgetting, even though that which appears within the conscious experience may not at all times have the brilliance and clarity which is instinctively felt as the work of seeking revolves and moves the seeker in its orbit of evolution.

It may be seen, then, that on one level a state once experienced becomes the basic state and further evolution holds this value as its ground value. On the conscious level, however, the value which is stable subconsciously seems to be anything but stable as the conscious entity working within this shadowed valley of existence which is your normal waking consciousness must work to understand what it can amid the ever changing emotional mind-sets which bias most entities’ web of perceptions according to those defenses and adjustments which have fed into the increasingly eccentric and individualistic web of characteristics which is the evolving personality of the conscious self.

Thusly, there is always change, but the fruits of these changes, the completion motifs of cycles within incarnation, though steady and stable within the deep self, will not seem stable at all within the conscious life. How to evaluate oneself with regard to this holding of the steady state? We encourage any seeker with this kind of query simply to lay it aside, for the least among your peoples can judge the self but the greatest among you cannot judge wisely. Therefore, we encourage the lack of the taking of the spiritual temperature and also the releasing of the opinion concerning which state it would be best to be in.

Certainly one wishes to always run the straight race with a pure and full-hearted effort. Yet we suggest that the running of this race is in itself that satisfaction which truly endures. The grasping or holding on to that which has occurred, we suggest, is not necessary, for such clear dreamings generally signal the ending or completion of one cycle of learning and the momentary or new entry into the next cycle which shall be the next lesson of love.

The entity which began the cycle, now ended, is no longer that which calls itself [name] and now that this cycle begins, to turn back and reach for these experiences felt within the dream queried about is just a holding on to that which is rather a signal, a fairly complex signal, which suggests without specific delineation the nature of what may be called the initiation which has been gone through.

Then the attendee asked: “What of an helpful or clarifying nature could be said regarding my spirit mother’s answer to my question about the constancy of my experience of being?” Q’uo began by saying that the transformational experience that the dream expresses takes place in the time/space portion of the subconscious mind where it is perceived in great color and detail whereas the conscious mind only perceives fragments of the transformation, so the seeker must rely on faith that the work it has done in its consciousness is reflected by the dream. Q’uo went on to say that these changes in consciousness are steady with the subconscious mind, but they will be experienced as not at all steady by the conscious life, so Q’uo suggested that the seeker not worry about these changes and simply continue its spiritual journey with the basic realization that the dream is a signal that it has successfully passed through what might be called an initiation. On May 13, 1990, Q’uo gave a basic description of what initiation involves:

There are various stages that an entity will be available to pass through during an incarnation that are determined before the incarnation as general categories in which lessons shall be attempted. As an entity assesses the upcoming, shall we say, incarnation and the potentials for growth that it wishes to include it will survey the kind of transformations, or initiations, as they are often called, that will be necessary to undergo as a portion of the learning process, much as a student within your colleges would determine what courses of mathematics would be necessary in order to master that particular field of study.

May we ask if there is a further query?

Jim: The third portion asks: “How did the nature of my question to my spirit mother constrain the form that her answer took?”

Carla: Could you read that again?

[Repeated]

(Carla channeling)

I am Q’uo. This instrument is not aware of the content of this particular part of the dream, so we shall have the difficulty of working without this instrument’s awareness of what we refer to within our words. Therefore, this response is less than complete.

Let us consider the archetype of the two women, one of the negative polarity and one of the positive polarity. The central figure which is male has his hands crossed across the breast holding in each hand one of the women’s. The moment comes when the choice between these two women, between that which they represent in all of its richness, must be made. The particular energy which goes into that moment of choice constrains or configures the shape of that level or way which opens before the male which has made the choice. Therefore, we suggest a consideration of this archetype known to this instrument as The Choice, one of the tarot images.

The third question was: “How did the nature of my question to my spirit mother constrain the form that her answer took?” Because Carla was not aware of the attendee’s dream Q’uo said that their answer would be shorter and consisted of using the image of the Transformation of the Mind where a man has his arms crossed over his chest and is holding a negative female’s hand in his right hand and a positive female’s hand in his left hand, and he must choose which hand to hold onto and which to drop. In 100.6, Ra described this process of choice:

In this image of Transformation of Mind, then, each of the females points the way it would go, but is not able to move, nor are the two female entities striving to do so. They are at rest. The conscious entity holds both and will turn itself one way or the other or, potentially, backwards and forwards, rocking first one way then the other and not achieving the transformation. In order for the Transformation of Mind to occur, one principle governing the use of the deep mind must be abandoned.

May we ask if there is a further query?

Jim: The fourth portion asks: “Why did the experience occur in the dream state instead of during waking hours?”

Q’uo: We encourage the one known as [name] to rejoice, for the dream which has been given is of a certain level or kind in which what may be called reality or ground of reality is enhanced so that there is a reality to the dream which is greater than the waking reality.

In actuality, the subconscious is always far more fully conscious than the waking entity. So the, shall we say, syntax and vocabulary which in …

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Carla channeling)

…which informs these images is of an order impossible to contain within the waking state. Were this material to be given with this degree of clarity within the waking state the consensus reality which the self depends upon would tend to be greatly shaken, the energy of this harvest being that which the waking self could not bear.

Thusly, were this same information to be given in a waking vision, there would of necessity be some bias within the self which would form the pattern for the translation of these bright images into the grays, the pearl, off-white and tan of human experience as you know it, all the shades of gray and tan, the colors of shadow, rather than substance. Yet that which is so gray seems to the physical eye quite bright. Imagine the impact of that which would make the colors of your sky and your sea, your land and your earth, seem drab. Such brightness pierces the eye and blinds it. Thusly, the dream is skillfully knitted up for the self by the self in the way which allows the self to remain sturdily within the incarnational set of biases which define the perceptions of self to self at the moment.

The fourth question was: “Why did the experience occur in the dream state instead of during waking hours?” Q’uo said that the attendee should be glad that the experience occurred in the dream state because the subconscious mind is more aware than the waking entity’s mind, and if the information of the dream were given in the conscious state the consensus reality of the attendee would be greatly shaken and unable to bear the message. On January 10, 1987, Q’uo spoke of a method of using the subconscious mind to aid the conscious mind in becoming aware of dream messages:

I am Q’uo, and we might suggest the general use of the dreaming state is that which allows the seeker to use the subconscious mind such as one of your computer programmers would utilize the computer. The conscious mind is aware of the situation that presents the puzzle. It then, through its desire to solve the puzzle, provides that which it has gained of knowledge to the subconscious mind, and that information, when charged with the desire to find the path of love for the seeker, shall return to the seeker in what you call dreams that are coded in a symbolic fashion.

To become aware, then, of these messages from the subconscious mind is the goal of remembering the dreams. One may learn this skill by reminding the self upon retiring for the evening that each dream shall be remembered and recorded as soon as possible upon its completion. These dreams and their coded messages then may become the topics, shall we say, for the meditation of the day. In this fashion, the subconscious mind is programmed to release information which may serve to reveal more and more pieces of the puzzle so that the feet may be placed more firmly upon the path of love.

Is there another query?

Jim: The last portion asks: “My own opinion on how to best appreciate this experience is to continue to meditate on the observations and items of experience that depended from it. What else, either in my considerations or actions, might be beneficial in this same quest?”

We are those of Q’uo, and we suggest, first of all, that the skill which is able to move forward from such a dream-vision is encouraged, for to stay with the lesson, which is today, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow is that energy which is baffling the natural flow of ongoing experience. Thusly, in the most general sense, it is well for the mind to open the hand, as it were, metaphorically speaking, to release from any bondage or prison that great gift which has been given to the self by the self. This self will continue to supply to the conscious mind that material which ennobles and illuminates the experiences now causing catalyst or material for the self to push and wrestle against and learn from.

It is more efficient to cooperate with that ongoing flow, to open the self forward and gaze into the present moment and the near future, having faith that that which has been harvested and accomplished within is safe and cannot be denied or stolen from the self.

In terms of those studies which move positively from this recorded group of images called the dream, we again suggest pondering and musing over the archetypical male and female roles played by each, whether reluctantly or gladly, throughout the incarnative experience.

Let us pull back then, and gaze at this experience. What is it to be male? What is it to be female? What power lies within the female? To what, within woman, does man bend the knee, and rightly so? And what within the present experience mimics these archetypical images in quality or feeling?

The last question from the attendee was: “My own opinion on how to best appreciate this experience is to continue to meditate on the observations and items of experience that depended from it. What else, either in my considerations or actions, might be beneficial in this same quest?” Q’uo’s response was that the attendee should move forward from this dream-vision as the subconscious mind will continue to give him experiences that will illuminate his spiritual path as an ongoing flow in each present moment. Q’uo completed their reply by asking the attendee to consider what it means to be a male or a female, and what is the power of the female that inspires the male to honor the female, and what within his present experiences resembles these archetypical images in the nature of their feelings? On March 7, 2020, Q’uo defined the male and female energies and how they can work together:

There is much within this concept that can be quite helpful to individuals and societies—the masculine concept of reaching, and affecting, and moving in a certain fashion—various energies that are available for the progress of the society as a whole. Therefore, we would suggest that the more balanced expression of masculine energies that reach and affect would be cooperation with those energies of the feminine nature that are able to provide a broader point of view.

The masculine reaching is balanced by the feminine suggestion of cooperation, of awaiting the reaching, of rejuvenating those masculine energies which reach, and are helpful and hopeful of being able to be replenished by the integration with the feminine energies that are there to receive and to energize, to inspire, and to allow masculine energies to be utilized in a more balanced fashion. There is the joining of the male and the female in the sacred marriage of unity of the One Infinite Creator that is seen then within all entities, so that there is not just one or the other, masculine or feminine, that is expressed in the entities and the cultures that are affected by expressions of such energies in one way or another at all times.

Therefore, we would suggest that the masculine energies that are able to realize they are only half of the solution to any problem are those energies which are more intelligent, sensitive, and liable to move forward in a more balanced fashion to allow both individuals and cultures to also gain from this balanced expression of the positive and the negative, the male and the female, and realize the Creator within each and within all by this expression.

May we ask if there are any queries from those present?

Jim: None from me, Q’uo. Thank you very much.

Q’uo: We thank you, my brothers.

As we take our leave of each for this working, we rejoice with you that you are able to pursue that spiritual quest which is every man’s with joy and faith. We applaud the courage it takes to persist beyond any limitations in intending and desiring with a whole heart to learn the truth, to witness to the light and to live serving in love for love’s sake.

When dreams occur, there is a glamour cast over the experience. The dream is fantastic, immediate, the speaking of a reality beyond that which you may see with the physical eyes. Yet this waking world into which we speak at this time is the place where, as this instrument would say, the rubber hits the road. This frustrating, confusing, chaotic, ongoing experience which entities rush through, calling it life only if it is thought about, this is the ground upon which lessons are learned, love is taken in and given out and all of worth is collected through the webs of perception.

When studying something like the dream about which the queries were asked, always keep in mind that respect which one has for a teacher, no matter how difficult. This illusion is your teacher. Your ability to learn is enhanced by information such as is within this dream, but this information always turns back into the waking self, pointing the way for further service, defining the nature of passages of seasons within the learning self.

Above all things, respect the incarnational self. Respect and offer homage to the intransigent and often negatively seeming face of everyday life. The mind turned towards the present moment with respect and charity is that mind which is ever closer to the veil of forgetting. That which accepts and reaches for the conscious life with gusto, though that gusto were for seemingly petty and everyday life, expresses great wisdom. You need not cling to any information but allow the information to travel as it will, occurring and recurring, and when recurred, thought about.

Yet, what does the entity hope for from the physical incarnation but the opportunity to make and remake the choice of how to serve?

Unbind the mind always and ask it freely to ramble. Then each day do some reflective considering of the flavor of the day’s perceptions. By such means the material of the day is seated and works down into the roots of mind. The unexamined in life is far less likely to be used by the subconscious to teach the conscious self, so look to the perceptions. How are the biases of the seeker that you are in mind affecting the priorities which order the perceptions which are allowed into the conscious mind? Look always, when reflecting upon experience, towards ways to improve that gathering of perceptions so that there is better information given to the self which makes the choices. And always, as always, we encourage the steady, persistent, daily meditative times, be they short or long, for these meditations seat and stabilize learning and open the door into the silence which births the creation.

We leave you in this silence, above all things. It is made of the Love of the one infinite Creator. And we leave you in the builded and constructed universe, which is all light. We are those of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I continued watering different parts of the back yard to include the various flower gardens and bushes that are in need of water because of the high heat and lack of rain for the last few days. I also got a call the from vet who said that Benny is doing better as she has been on oxygen for nearly a day now and may be ready to come home later today if she continues to do well when they take her off of the oxygen. Her kidney and heart condition will require medication after she is home, and since she is a feral cat it will take some ingenuity to figure out how to give her medication. Later in the morning I vacuumed the first floor of the house.

This afternoon I sprayed all of the flowers in the yard with the Deer Stop spray. Then I used my limb loppers to cut some of the lower branches off of the Pawpaw tree beside the driveway so that I can get that area’s grass mowed more easily with my big mower. I also used the chainsaw to cut up the old mower ramp that broke and an old side door to the garage that was replaced earlier this year and put all the wood in the garbage can.

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

June 22

Positive And Negative Flows

I am of the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I greet you in Love.

The principle of Love has no beginning and no end; no movement in time; no inner dynamic of strength or weakness. Love is an energy which flows according to desire and spoken need. And, indeed, many unspoken needs create the flow of Spirit.

It is possible also to create a flow which dries and negates the voice of the Spirit of Love. You experience this flow as doubt. Yet it is the lack of positive faith which permits the negative flow.

We suggest that all self-recrimination be laid aside, for all people create both positive and negative flows within the life experience at different times. Only focus upon this moment and offer your gift of faith in the face of it, that a positive flow of Spirit may come to show to you the face of Love.

We leave you in peace, both 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 December 12, 1993:

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and in light through this instrument. At this time may we ask if there might be any further queries for our consideration?

Carla: I didn’t understand what he—what they meant, when they were talking about the deep mind. The images … It was just unclear to me about the deep mind, and the living, almost like beings in that deep mind, which are living. Somehow there was the suggestion that they’re not precisely us, they’re living like fish in the water of us in the deep mind. And I couldn’t make anything out of that, so I didn’t express it. And I wonder if you could try again through Jim, because I was interested in that image, but I couldn’t express it well enough to use it.

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. And we would agree that this concept is one which is difficult to comprehend within your normal reference points of existence, for there is little of the deeper mind that your people choose to investigate beyond the individual subconscious. However, if an entity is successful in traveling to the roots of the mind beyond that that can be called the personal subconscious, there is the racial consciousness of its own kind, shall we say, and here there are experiences that have been gathered by those of the same racial heritage that affect the individual entities of that grouping …

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and am again with this instrument. We shall continue. Beyond the racial mind there is the planetary mind that is different than the racial mind on this particular planetary influence. For, as you are aware, many there are upon your planet that have had their beginnings elsewhere upon other planetary influences, so that there are various racial minds which compose your planetary mind. It is possible for a third-density planet to evolve with only its original second-density population progressing to the third, so that the racial and planetary minds are more alike if not identical.

Moving further into the roots of the tree of mind, we come to that portion which is called the archetypical mind. It is here that the blueprint for your evolutionary process is found, so that the influences that you experience from this source are of a fundamental nature, and provide insight and inspiration into your daily experience only in the form of echoes, hints and shadows. At the level of the archetypical mind there is the participation, both of the individual entity such as yourself and entities of quite another nature, though all are one in truth. The creative forces or intelligences that are responsible for this portion of the creation in its very essence are those which work upon the level of the archetypical mind, refining that cosmic mind of the one Creator in such and such a fashion, so that there is the possibility that the Creator may know Itself with greater variety and intensity than if the cosmic mind did not experience further refinement.

It is here, at this level, that we were speaking previously in suggesting that there are concepts that are basic to third-density experience which have their origin at this level of archetypes. And because of this similarity of lessons to be learned there is the seeming repetition of experience for the seeker of truth within your illusion. Thus, you draw from the same well waters that nourish your life-being and give it its flavor, its élan.

When Carla was channeling Q’uo in this session Q’uo used some descriptions of the deep mind which Carla did not understand to the point of not channeling all of the concepts that Q’uo was giving her, so she asked Q’uo to clarify the deep mind as they channeled through me. Q’uo began their response by saying that the deep mind is hard to comprehend by most people because it is beneath the subconscious mind and moves into the roots of the racial mind, and because many of Earth’s population are from other planets there are a number of racial minds that make up the planetary mind of Earth. Then Q’uo said that moving further down into the deeper mind there is the archetypical mind that contains the blueprint for the nature of our evolutionary process, and there are various Logoi that have refined the nature of the cosmic mind of the Creator so that in our evolutionary process we may aid the Creator in knowing Itself better. Then Q’uo completed their reply by saying that it was at this level of the archetypical mind that they were speaking about when channeling through Carla when they said that there were lessons native to the third density illusion so that many seekers would have a similarity of lessons that would appear as a repetition of experience as all would be drawing the water of life from the same well of inspiration. In 90.14, Ra spoke of the nature of the archetypical mind and its relationship to the racial mind and planetary mind:

Questioner: Now, as I understand it the archetypes are the biases of a very fundamental nature that, under free will, generate the experiences of each entity. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. The archetypical mind is part of that mind which informs all experience. Please recall the definition of the archetypical mind as the repository of those refinements to the cosmic or all-mind made by this particular Logos and peculiar only to this Logos. Thus, it may be seen as one of the roots of mind, not the deepest but certainly the most informative in some ways. The other root of mind to be recalled is that racial or planetary mind which also informs the conceptualizations of each entity to some degree.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you. That was fascinating.

I am Q’uo, and we are grateful to you as well, my sister. Is there another query?

Carla: Not from me, Q’uo.

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware that we have spoken for a goodly portion of your time this day, and we are most grateful to each of you for inviting us to do so. We are overjoyed at this opportunity, and we can assure you that though it seems there is repetition upon repetition within your illusion, that the effort you make to greet each experience with love and with light is unique, and adds its own portion not only to your experience but to the experience of the one Creator. And each effort, each breath, and each thought that you take is treasured by those who observe and have responsibility for this progress as your teachers, your friends, and your guides, shall we say.

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

This morning I took Benny to the vet because she had not eaten any of her food, and she was not in her usual place in the tower as she has not been in the last few days. When I found her under some shelves she looked at me for a second and then closed her eyes and began to breathe deeply as if she might be in pain. My vet said that the X-ray that they took showed that she had pneumonia and maybe a cancerous growth. They suggested that I take her to the Louisville Emergency Veterinary Clinic for more testing. I was able to get right in to see their vet because this is a critical situation for Benny. They suggested that I hospitalize her with them for the weekend while they ran further tests. Later in the afternoon they gave me a call to let me know that she has heart problems and that they were giving her medications for them, and they would continue to give me updates through the weekend.

This afternoon Dianne and I went over to a care home in southern Indiana to visit our friend, Connie. We took along some fruit and berries to snack on, and I showed Connie some pictures of my flower garden and a couple of videos I took of three fauns and a red fox kit that I have seen in my yard recently. Then I read more of The Things We Don’t Forget, by Dianne Aprile as Connie has always enjoyed the spiritual concepts and sense of humor in this book. We completed our visit with a 5-minute meditation.

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

June 21

Holy Ground Of Your Being

I am of the principle of Love, and I greet you as the spirit of Jesus the Christ who moves in the world in the present moment.

What, indeed, is holy? And how can we be called the Holy Spirit? Gaze about you as you move through your daily activities. What see you that is holy? What see you that is blessed?

As you gaze outward, you see the blessings of tree and flower, shrub and grass. Yet do you gaze inward to find the holy ground within? As you sit in contemplation of these words, be aware that you are upon the holy ground of your own being, created in holiness, sent forth into this earthly world in holiness, and now suffering and rejoicing in holiness.

Know and feel the divinity of being which lies beneath all imperfection and then know that, by the power of the Holy Spirit that speaks within, each of you may use those hands for holy things, for service to each little one that belongs to the Father.

We leave you in love and 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 December 12, 1993:

Group question: The question this afternoon has to do with what the Confederation contacts that we speak with think about our continually asking basically the same sorts of question. We seem to need a lot of repetition concerning “being and doing” in our lives, controlling and allowing things to work for their own ends, or, basically, the lessons of love. And we’re wondering how this all looks to the Confederation contacts as they observe our behavior, listen to our questions, and see our concerns—our sort of orbiting in small circles.

(Carla channeling)

We greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo, and the love and light of the One with which we greet you is our way of expressing all that there is, so that in this greeting we have offered to you all that we have to offer in service. We are in service to your people to promulgate this one deeply held opinion of ours: that is, that there is but one great original Thought, that Thought called Love which is the Creator and the nature of all that there is, with light being that instrument with which the grand tapestry of your world scene is woven.

We come to answer your query concerning repetition. We were unaware that we ever do any other thing but iterate and reiterate the one simple truth, that all that there is, is one thing, that thing being a mystery which recedes before us as we move in that which we hope is a positive evolutionary way. Therefore, we have a very favorable opinion of that which you conceive of as your repetitive queries.

The admonition, “Be ye perfect as your Father is perfect,” is attributed to the teacher known to you as Jesus. We, too, encourage the attempt to be perfect, that is, be perfectly loving just as the infinite Creator is infinitely loving and purely loving. Yet, this instrument himself was a broken and imperfect entity within the veil of third-density incarnation. However, this teacher encouraged this drive towards perfection again and again. However, this teacher, in the ministry which expressed without words the nature of this entity’s love, chose again and again to bestow that love, charity and wisdom upon those which any civilized culture would call imperfect—the tax collector, the prostitute, the halt and lame and those possessed—a veritable rogues’ gallery of failed and sinful entities.

These profoundly imperfect entities were those to whom the one known as Jesus expended the most care, going after that one in the hundred which is lost, forgiving all for faith. To one who had faith, this entity was able to effect healing. Was any who was healed described as perfect or deserving? Not at all. We, too, encourage you to strive at your very highest level of effort to “fight the good fight,” as this instrument would say, gazing upon the present moment and the future as the ever-unfolding opportunity to become perfect. Yet, in this endeavor, we predict that the odds are great that you shall not perceive yourselves as being anywhere near to perfection.

This instrument earlier stated that she was in despair because she looked at the actions and thoughts of several different present moments, asking the self, “Is this the way you live in the Creator’s presence?’’ May we point out that this entity was, in each instance, thinking of the Creator, with the relationship of the self to Creator inevitably and intrinsically characterized within the heart of self, so that there was no chance for the entity to be away from the Creator’s presence.

In each and every self-perceived imperfection of thought and action, each of you, as you criticize yourselves, gaze at who is criticizing and who is criticized. These are both the self. The dialogue with self would not be possible were not the self composed of voices which include that voice which calls to remembrance.

When the seeker begins the conscious portion of its incarnational work in consciousness, all is unknown. The desire to learn is great, and the first lessons are transformational, as the conscious mind begins to deal with our opinions of how, within incarnation, entities might speed up the rate of their spiritual evolution. They are able to make large changes quickly. The meditation is placed in a kind of routine, and the entity begins experiencing fairly rapidly the results of that daily meditation. The world of nature is seen with brand new eyes which gaze upon the creation of the Father, seeing that which we, too, see: the euphonious harmony of all things in the visible world, vital, alive and praising the infinite Creator. The rhythms of life are seen in an entirely different way as the processes of meditation and contemplation go forward, and it begins to be a world in which there are things which the seeker can see to do, in the way of their service towards the Creator and others.

These things are noticeable changes. The difference it makes to the living a life based on faith is palpable, but the seeker moves onward, and each step takes the seeker into that new world in which things have not yet been constructed. Soon the changes within, meeting and reacting with the environment, begin to cause that which one might experience as a dying away of some of the self, the turning towards a different or transformed view of how the spiritual journey shall be run, and more and more as this process continues, the seeker finds itself torn loose from all that previously maintained equilibrium. The path moves onward, yet, the self is transforming and is not any longer a set character. The seeker begins to wish to have some kind of structure within which to seek, yet, that structure is constantly being torn down to some extent by the progression of the spiritual evolution which was desired.

Thusly, as this desire for spiritual evolution is progressively satisfied, just so it becomes that which is not familiar. And in the middle of this seemingly effortless meditational practice, one finds the self becoming very full of effort, attempting to digest and inwardly mark all that is taking place in a balanced and truthful way. The self becomes less known, for much is in motion. And as the question itself implies, the odds are good that quite often within the stretch of years of a seeker’s conscious spiritual walk the self will be, again and again, rather frequently out of balance, or shall we rather say, perceiving the self as out of balance, and there is the wishing and hoping for more balance, for more skill in expressing the life in love and in service.

The question this afternoon has to do with what the Confederation contacts that we speak with think about our continually asking basically the same sorts of questions? Q’uo began by saying that in their opinion all of their responses to any questions are repetitions of the same nature that sees all is part of the oneness of creation and a mystery that continues forever. Then Q’uo said that we should attempt to be perfect, but perfect in the way of loving any kind of person that might come our way as Jesus did with so many kinds of failed and sinful entities. Q’uo continued by saying that we may never feel that we have achieved perfection, and that as we criticize ourselves for imperfections, we are both the one who criticizes and the one who is criticized, and that same self that remembers all that we have experienced. Q’uo said that when we begin our work in consciousness our desire to learn is great, and our first learning is transformational as we discover ways to learn such as meditation and contemplation where we can expand our awareness of the nature of creation and increase our faith in the harmony of the visible world around us. Then Q’uo said that changes begin to take place within us when old perceptions and ways of being begin to die away as we perceive a new way that our spiritual journey may continue. Q’uo continued by saying that even though we may seek some kind of inner structure in these changes we are constantly finding that we are moving out of balance, but we still desire to be able to live a life in love and service to others. On March 25, 1989, Latwii described the value of seeking to be of love and service to others even when we feel we have failed to do that:

We would suggest that each entity be reminded that it is the desire that is found within the heart of the being that is of most importance in any incarnation. The desire to imbue each relationship and each activity with as much love and service as one can find within one’s being is that quality which shall provide the entity with the peace of mind, shall we say, in the ultimate sense.

We are aware that each entity looks at its own life pattern in a manner which is less than complimentary in this regard and sees the self as falling far short of those goals which one has set in the metaphysical sense. That one constantly falls short of that which is desired is unimportant in the overall growth of the soul. What is of importance in this growth is the desire to seek, the desire to serve, and the desire to continue even when one feels one has been nothing but a failure.

Perhaps our greatest message to you in this regard is: keep walking. Do not be disappointed in the self because there seems to be the repetition of message. This simply indicates where in a particular group or circle, the rubber, as this instrument would say, is hitting the road.

Shall you wish for a pure heart? Then, inevitably, shall you notice each and every impurity which you perceive in the self. Do you wish to be always the one who offers love? Just as strong as this desire is, so is the strength of your ability to notice unloving acts. And if your desire is to balance being and doing, then you shall surely notice, again and again, that you wish to be given more tools and resources to aid you in combating and working with the self as it is perceived by the self to be acting out of balance.

So those things which concern or worry, like this repetition, are not in our opinion negative, but rather merely indicative of where the energy is within each of you in the circle. Please consider how long this spiritual journey is, and how infinitely fine the distinctions and the enlightenments become as the Spirit progresses through the densities to gaze at the long view. Not only are you attempting within incarnation to balance the being and the doing, the resting and the acting, but there are millions and millions of your years ahead in which you shall only tighten and magnify the scope of that which you observe, looking always not at what has been gained, but at what there is to do. These lessons, shall we call them, go on forever, until time itself becomes meaningless and spiritual gravity takes over.

We ask, then, that the heart rest in a peace which does not come from settling differences or realizing truths. We hope for each of you a peace that is full of the striving of entities to rest in the Creator. That Creator is not still. The Creator in which you rest builds up and tears down all possible avenues. Dwell within the precinct of this peace. This peace is not still. This peace may be full of noise and full of prayer also, yet this peace is simply the awareness of the Creator in direct relation to you, and in direct identity with the heart within, which contains that spark of pure Love which enlivens the whole.

You are mortal, experiencing incarnation within a heavy illusion. Those things you came here to learn you are indeed learning; but it takes your time, not simply one lifetime, but again and again called into incarnation to repeat and repeat that lesson not perfectly grasped as yet. If we felt that we should not repeat ourselves, my friends, we would soon be out of talk.

We are attempting to show to this instrument the image of the ice which forms on top of the pond or puddle. The sheet of ice across the top is solid to the touch. It is strong and holds weight. It is one shape only, and can only be changed by breaking and scattering its crystalline nature. Yet, below the ice is living water, the habitat of beings—fish and plant life thrive beneath the solid ice. This is as you in incarnation. The form which you have taken is crystalline in its own way, and marvelously wrought, and each entity has its own beauty and cleanness of form. This solid entity which greets you in the mirror shall be your physical identity until you leave both the illusion and that physical form behind. Yet, that solid entity is not the end of you, but merely the surface of your form. Within you are deep and living waters in which the flora and fauna, shall we say, of archetypical images which live in those deep waters may thrive and bloom. Does the physical form change because of this life which moves within? Usually not, yet this is your self, mostly unknown by you except that you can feel that pressure of vitality coming from the depths within, and you can experience this depth and fullness of being.

The crystalline form will indeed need to be battered with that blunt instrument called repetition, a hundred or a thousand times before the dent is made—the form changes, the mental formation changes, the emotional changes—the work is slow, and you feel pokey and petty and tired of not quite getting it yet. We encourage and exhort each in the regular allowing of the definition of the self to be consciously altered by the bringing into remembrance and awareness that living, breathing, vital part of the deep self. Breathe deeply of that living water. Inhale it into the form which is the physical health. Consciously irrigate and marinate the self in these living waters of deep mind, then allow that consciousness to fade, so that you may, once again, take up the attempt daily, hourly, moment by moment, to live the life of faith, as witness. And in that witness, whether by expression or aura or any word or deed, may you celebrate that imperfection which is the perfect outworking of a life lived in faith and service.

Do you seem to need repetition? Very well then, my friends, repetition it is. And with each repetition, the total of Love does not expand but simply intensifies, so that as each lesson is repeated, new and deeper grasping and understandings are found. The entity has not been created, may we say, that can do the same thing twice—not in the world of spirit.

We ask each to lift the criticism that is implied in being aware that you are working towards an unattained goal. Feel each day both the perfection which is the true nature of all things, and the imperfection which is consciousness expressing through a medium. The medium of third density is that which consciousness can do very little about, comparative—we correct this instrument—compared to its action upon other densities. Therefore, allow the self its nature, and be at peace with the repeated lessons.

Now Q’uo said that their best advice was for us to keep walking on our spiritual journey even when there seems to be a repetition of messages, and if we wish to be of a pure heart, to offer love, or to balance being and doing, that we should not be discouraged when the opposite of each occurs. They said that we should not be discouraged when our lessons repeat because we are on a very long journey that will last for millions of years in which “you shall only tighten and magnify the scope of that which you observe, looking always not at what has been gained, but at what there is to do. These lessons, shall we call them, go on forever, until time itself becomes meaningless and spiritual gravity takes over.” Then Q’uo said that we should rest in the peace that does not exist in the resolving of differences but reaches the heart within and identifies with the Love of the Creator which enlivens the entire creation.  Q’uo continued by saying that we have come here to learn many lessons which we are beginning to learn, but they repeat in many incarnations that makes it necessary for Q’uo to repeat their view of them. Q’uo went on to say that our physical body is only the surface of who we are, and that deep within us are those archetypical essences and the true nature of our being which can change our conscious perception of who we are so that we can soak up these perceptions and then let them go. Then we can attempt to live a life in faith as a witness to the perfection of our imperfect nature of our life which we live in faith and in service. Q’uo said that in repetition we do not learn the same lessons twice, but we learn deeper levels of the beginning lesson. Q’uo completed their response by saying that we should be aware of the perfection of the creation and accept the imperfection of our consciousness in the way that we perceive the creation. On September 22, 2009, Q’uo spoke of the nature of living a life in faith:

Faith, on the other hand, has no content. It contains no knowledge. It is an attitude. It is the attitude that knows beyond doubt, regardless of the circumstances, that all is well. And the entity who is living a life in faith cannot be daunted by circumstance. Faith is an attitude which assumes that the infinite Creator, the higher self, and that self which planned this incarnation before taking flesh have provided ample opportunities for learning and for service.

Sometimes involved in learning is suffering. Sometimes there is sorrow and pain. Yet one living a life in faith knows that that which is happening is perfect. It is precisely what is needed to advance spiritually and to be of service. Consequently, such an entity cooperates and harmonizes with circumstance and allows creativity and imagination to play a part in the flowing forward of events.

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

This morning I went outside and put all but one of the garbage cans away that the yard waste service empties of tree limbs. I used that one to hold the various leaves and small limbs that were dropped here and there in the unloading process. Now that one garbage can will become the place I put any future limbs. When I put it in its place in front of the garage I remembered to take the few small tree limbs off of the roof of the garage, and I put them in the garbage can. Then I cleaned the filters on the fishpond. My last job of the morning was to use the watering wand to water the Sun Patiens in the Sun Mandala behind the garage and the area around the fire pit.

This afternoon I ran three errands with my first stop being at  Feeder’s Supply to buy more bird seed. My second stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought some raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries that I plan to take with me tomorrow when I visit a friend who is in a nursing home in southern Indiana. My last stop was at the vet’s to pick up some meds for Bosco. Then I put the sprinkler in three different places in the back yard to water dry areas.

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

June 20

Faith And Forgiveness

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

Faith. Forgiveness. These two words move together in rhythm, creating a more beautiful dance of your life experience. It takes a foolish and unconditional faith to forgive; to forgive the self and to forgive others. But those things which are not forgiven are as burdens carried which may be laid down, stopping all consequences, releasing all personal ties to the difficulties of your life experience.

As you forgive in faith, so you act as unconditional love would have you act. Yet, do not do this too early. But rather, be sure that you have created in yourself a new heart and a new spirit, a new knowledge of faith, that the faith and forgiveness may not come from your will, but through you from the Father.

For only in the Father’s infinite mercy may He forgive iniquity. And you are the channel of that forgiveness, as is everyone who has consciousness and emotion, potentially.

Speak well in the world. Yet always, within, dwell in an humble and holy spirit of unconditional love, having the faith to forgive and forgive and forgive again. For those who have forgiven have no further connection with the spiritual difficulties produced by the difficult situations.

Self-forgiven and other-self forgiven, you may move through your day in a dance of joy, doing all that you do for the love of the Father, finding no chore or task too simple to be blessed. Free yourself, my friends, by faith and forgiveness, into the peace of Jesus the Christ.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from November 28, 1993:

(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 ask if there are any queries upon any other topic that we may attempt a response to.

Questioner: I have another question, Q’uo. Prior to the session the situation was discussed of helping ourselves. [Inaudible] to be at a disadvantage in our particular society and my observation was that the feelings that come to me during that Sunday were unexpected. I was wondering if there is any use for logical reasoning in trying to observe one’s own reaction in giving aid or helping another, or if it is more useful for a seeker just to accept it as it is and sort of try to do the best every time that situation or event comes up. I wonder if you could comment on it?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. The situation of which you speak is one in which you were offered the opportunity to be of service to another in a very direct and immediate fashion. This quality of immediacy is that which catches the seeker, shall we say, in an off-guard position, as you may put it. The spontaneous response of any entity to any stimulus is to act in this off-guarded moment in a pure and unpretentious fashion, to look at this experience as it has been completed, and to review one’s reactions, thoughts and emotions is the archetypical path of the seeker for the examination of the life pattern is the seeking of truth. The illusion exists for your seeking and your learning. Thus, we applaud the care taken in investigating one’s responses to significant stimuli. The significance is chosen by each of you according to that which moves your inner rhythms, those patterns programmed previous to the incarnation. Thus, is well to spend time daily reflecting upon the day as it has passed to note those experiences where there was movement in your own consciousness, those felt and that left behind a strength and a mark upon your memory.

Questioner asked: “I was wondering if there is any use for logical reasoning in trying to observe one’s own reaction in giving aid or helping another, or if it is more useful for a seeker just to accept it as it is and sort of try to do the best every time that situation or event comes up?” Q’uo began by saying that Questioner had an opportunity to be of service that was very direct and unexpected, which required a spontaneous response, and after the service was completed, that Questioner should review any thoughts and emotions that were felt during the experience. Q’uo continued by saying that this process was an example of how the seeker of truth may become aware of lessons programmed before the incarnation, so Q’uo suggested that it would be helpful for Questioner to spend time each day reflecting upon the experience that had left a mark on his memory. In 41.19, Ra mentioned the value of a spontaneous response to experiences:

The key to balance may then be seen in the unstudied, spontaneous, and honest response of entities toward experiences, thus using experience to the utmost, then applying the balancing exercises and achieving the proper attitude for the most purified spectrum of energy center manifestation in violet ray. This is why the brilliance or rotational speed of the energy centers is not considered above the balanced aspect or violet-ray manifestation of an entity in regarding harvestability; for those entities which are unbalanced, especially as to the primary rays, will not be capable of sustaining the impact of the love and light of intelligent infinity to the extent necessary for harvest.

May we speak in any further fashion, my brother?

Questioner: I will take it further by saying that when I agreed to help, I had some expectations in the way it would feel, and it did not feel that way, and so I would ask you what kind of experience does the seeker set himself up for with the approach he is giving it? Would you give some preconceived idea of what it might be like? What it should be like?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query. To have a preconceived idea as the to the outcome to any event is to confuse the perception of that event when it occurs. This provides additional catalyst to the seeker, and it is not inappropriate to have these preconceptions, however, it may be noted to be inconvenient. It may also be noted by the seeker that there are a great many responses possible as a result of the giving of service and each response may be carefully noted and investigated so that the connection with giving without condition can be made.

Is there any further query, my brother?

Questioner: No, Q’uo. Thank you for that.

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

Carla: Well, this is personal, but I was talking with Jim the other day, and we were wondering what had changed since the readings that I was given by Ra that have enabled me to do things that, at the time, I simply could not do. If this is not a subject you can speak upon, that’s fine. If you cannot comment, great.

I am Q’uo. We first must ask if we spoke too soon?

Carla: Well, Q’uo, only because I always have something else to say, I was just going to say that, in general.

I am Q’uo. Still … [laughter from group] and we give this instrument the image of the steel door, locked carefully, and apologize for the lack of information. Is there any other query, my sister?

Carla: Would it aid my understanding of the energies at work in my life to meditate on this door?

I am Q’uo, and we would suggest that the query itself be the focus of meditation.

Carla: Very well. Thank you, Q’uo.

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

Carla: No, thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we thank each for your patience and most especially for your invitation to us, for we are always filled with joy to receive it, and to have the opportunity to blend our vibrations with yours. We are most grateful to walk with you this portion of your journey, and assure each of you that there are many such as we who walk with you always, and there are those who rejoice at your every step. We shall take this opportunity to leave this instrument and this circle of working, leaving each, as always, in love and light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I went outside and got the 10 garbage cans of tree limbs and the 18 bundles of tree limbs out to the road for yard waste pickup tomorrow. This is the third week of having this many tree limbs from the windstorm during our Homecoming Gathering for the yard waste service to pick up. I didn’t want to put them all out at once because I felt that would have been overwhelming for the yard waste guy to have to deal with. I also put out our recycle bin to be picked up tomorrow as well.

This afternoon I made an errand run with my first stop at my foot and ankle doctor to see if he can reduce the pain in my left foot where he removed a callus a couple of months ago. Then I stopped at the bank to make a cash withdrawal. My third stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market to buy some food for myself. My fourth stop was at Walgreens’ Drug Store to buy a funny card for a friend and some other non-food items. My last stop was at the vet to pick up some meds for Bosco.

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

June 19

The Sturdy Flame Of Your Consciousness

Greetings in the Love of that consciousness which is Christ. I am known to you as the Holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We thank you for this time, acknowledging that we are blessed by extending that holiness to you, for could you but pierce the many distractions and confusions of your daily life, you would see clearly the blessedness of your bright incarnations, the sturdy flame of your consciousness.

If we could inform you regarding the love which you express in your being with every breath, you could see yourself and others without distortion of any kind; without confusion; without the golden-hued glasses of memory. Turn, then, to the present moment, my child, for it is, as yet, unspoiled by distortion and confusion and contains the consciousness of Christ, entire and perfect.

Peace be with you, now and always.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The Q’uo quote today comes from November 28, 1993:

[The tape begins in the middle of a reply to a question having to do with astrology.]

(Carla channeling)

[I am Q’uo.] … we seek at this time to do.

We are most happy to share our thoughts on astrology, with the disclaimer that our thoughts are to be heard as the thoughts of a friend, rather than those of an all-wise teacher, for we make errors. The request we have of you is that you simply leave behind any thought which does not seem worthwhile to you.

We give this instrument the picture of the world that lies in darkness. A kind of waiting, or anticipatory darkness such as the eve of a great holiday. The present period among those upon your sphere’s surface at this time is an increasingly exciting one as there has been more and more of this consciousness among all of your world’s peoples that some great event seems to be in the offing, so that the coming of the night is more acceptable.

It is into such a frame of consciousness, if you will, that we bring this discussion of astrology. This instrument wonders what we do, but we ask it to relax and go with us on this. There have been centuries in which it would not have aided most to look more closely into the archetypical mind. These centuries have passed for this third-density experience which you enjoy at this time. The end truly is near, if you will. Not physically, but more and more mentally and spiritually. There is that subconscious or unconscious awareness amongst your people that there are special reasons to look more deeply into natural phenomena and their possible effect upon the self, be it body, mind or spirit that is affected.

Astrologyis a complex and detail driven technology, if you will, a system of ephemeral, mathematical constructs having to do with the configurations of heavenly bodies. To the student who wishes to probe more deeply within the self to become more and more familiar with those uncharted regions of the self represented by the marker in consciousness which you would call sub-awareness, it [astrology] offers one way of learning more about the deeper mind. There is this sub-awareness that the deeper studies at this crux may be those which have fruitful results. On this level, let us say, the awareness of specific and personal details is not that of which we speak at this time. Rather, the archetypical mind finds explication by the relationships of heavenly bodies to each other and to the planetary sphere upon which you presently enjoy incarnation.

At this level, much deep awareness can be encouraged by immersion in that complex set of relationships of star to star and star to the system of star and planets which you call home. On another level, the personal level, yield of useful information from continued study of and awareness of the progression of one’s own—this instrument would use the word “chart”—is shall we say, a good way to develop both an instinct for influence and a relatively authentic feeling of control over the continuing life experiences which is so precious to you. To one entity, such a study would be work, a difficult chore done in order for the learning. To such a one, we would suggest investigating other avenues for learning more attuned to the environment and for aid in the feel of control over the life experience.

Astrology, then, is that for which some entities are well suited, others not. To the entity which feels positively or affirmatively concerning keeping up with the chart’s progression for the self, astrology can bear that aid in consciousness which creates for the seeker a vantage point, consciousness which can act as a collecting area for the amassing of one’s psychic self. The gift of being psychic or aware in non-physical ways is within all people. The means of developing this gift are tremendously large, infinite, we would think. However, to a fairly large percentage of those now seeking to increase the rate of learning, spiritually speaking, a substantial number would, indeed, find in astrology that place from which to continue to learn how to gather more and different information from the environment, for the environment is illusory and more than that is an illusion with many sub-illusions which further color the catalyst which is retained for use by your minds.

The group question for this session concerned astrology and very likely its aid, I am assuming, in describing the spiritual journey of the seeker of truth since the question was not recorded. Q’uo began their reply by saying that the end of the third density draws closer now so that more people have a subconscious awareness to look into natural phenomena and their effect upon the mind, the body, and the spirit. Q’uo said that astrology is a way of discovering more information about the deeper mind, or the archetypical mind, by studying the mathematical relationships between various heavenly bodies and the Earth that can give the student of astrology a feeling of having a certain amount of control over its life. Then Q’uo said that astrology is a way of gathering psychic information about ourself and increasing our psychic abilities that are related to the illusory environment and biases our daily catalyst that we process with our minds. On November 26, 1991, Q’uo gave a general description of the value of astrology:

The practice of that which you call astrology–the study of the nature and effects of the planets and the stars upon those entities which inhabit your planetary sphere–is a study which, like many other studies, offers to those interested in it the opportunity to view the road which has been traveled, is being traveled, or shall be traveled.

It is often helpful to the seeker of truth to be informed of those qualities which are primary in the personality of the present incarnation, so that the seeker might work from those areas of strength, and build and stabilize those areas of weakness, so called, in the attempt to achieve an overall balance within the mind/body/spirit complex. It is often helpful for the seeker to know, for instance, that certain of its abilities are helpful in circumstances which have heretofore been puzzling and confusing to the entity. It is helpful to view those wide places and those narrow places in the road, so that there might be the movement through both with the most efficacy.

Now let us speak more in general, for there is a point to be made as regards the use of systems created by the mind and observations of mankind. Insofar as any system is internally valid in its logic, that system may be to the entity which plumbs its depths that crutch or aid which acts as the collector for the abilities and gifts of the seeker. In general, it is well to choose as a system, whether it may be astrology or numerology, the study of the eye or head or hand, and we could list systems for a substantial length of your time. What avails then to the seeker as efficient tools is that very systematic nature, for the mind within incarnation has the instinct for the pattern.

Each entity in each experience is, in part, working internally to place the present moment into a context which will yield the maximum amount of information. This information is usually heavily biased towards comfort and well-being. However, the mind can be increasingly trained to retain catalyst which is presented to the mind which perhaps has little, if any, survival use but which does indeed aid in spiritual learning. And the way to become more able to do the work in consciousness is to persist in experiencing one system, be it of myth, science, philosophy or ethics or any system whatsoever which—we correct this instrument—to which the seeker is personally and individually drawn.

For you are, indeed, living on the eve of that which shall come to be. It is almost impossible to describe the nature of the shift of consciousness from basic third density to basic fourth density. This shift shall take you with it, if you dwell now on planet Earth. Therefore, we encourage the twin awarenesses that it is a great time to be watchful and that it is a good time to celebrate that which astrology or any “ology” might do, which is to aid in the development of that sharply tuned hunger for the truth that is revealed in the present moment.

How we do encourage each to more and more dwell and marinate the complete entity in the present moment. It may seem odd that the mind’s structure is such that the entrance to the present moment is often roundabout, moving not through the invisible door into the fully accepted present, but rather going completely around the entire structure of living to surprise the present moment, only after the long walk has sharpened the appetite.

Astrology is, shall we say, the hors d’oeuvre which encourages an entity to more aptly fit the intellect to accept an increasing number of inferences. This ability to loosen the self from the physical and move into an abstract system of gazing at the self is key. What you do in gazing at astrology is to sharpen the intellect’s ability to let go enough so that the gifts which are called psychic may express themselves intelligibly to that mind which has been softened to accept increasing numbers of inferences, for that which you seek cannot be deduced or received.

Discuss what you will. You cannot bring instrumentation, as you know that, to bear on the nature, which is the original Thought of the one infinite Creator.

Now Q’uo said that, in a more general sense, it is well for the mind to create an internally consistent way of revealing the gifts of the seeker in a certain way, for the incarnational mind has an instinct for patterns. Q’uo continued by saying that the movement from the third density into the fourth density is the perfect time to use any system of study which reveals more of the sharply desired hunger for the nature of truth that is revealed in the present moment. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that the value of astrology is to allow the seeker to move from the rigidity of the physical reality into the abstract system of seeing the self in a way that the intellect lets go and allows psychic gifts to be realized as a reflection of the original Thought of the Love of the infinite Creator. On July 20, 1986, Q’uo described the nature of the original Thought of the Creator:

We would speak to you about the manifestation within your incarnational patterns of the one original Thought which is the Creator. The one original Thought upon which all creation was founded and with which all creation redounds is Love. Yes, my friends, Love is a thought, a principle, a Logos. You, by your very consciousnesses, are the Logos in a holographic representation, yet you are completely unlike any other holographic representation of the Creator, for your experiences are unique to your particular consciousness. Your field of energy is completely unique and precious to the one infinite Creator, and your greatest gift is your being, for by your mirroring of your perceptions, the Creator learns of Itself.

As each of you has to some degree or another already considered this present incarnation, like all in third density, yet none more so than this, is an incarnation of choice, the choice having to do with the one original Thought of love and your manifestation of it.

We would at this time declare with regret that this is the substance of our discussion at this time, unless there is a query which would take this line of reasoning further. Might any have the desire to proceed further at this time with this particular query?

[Pause]

In that case, we would close this particular session through the one known as Jim. We leave this instrument in love and light. We are known to you as Q’uo.

This morning I put the Quickfix solution in my fish pond to help increase the clarity of the water. Then I fertilized each of the five water lilies with two tablets in each pot. I also got the sprinkler running in the area behind the garage where we had the tent during Homecoming. Then I refilled the hummingbird feeders in my yard and in my neighbor’s yard across the street. My last job of the morning was to use my trimmer to trim the weeds in the gardens around the fishpond.

This afternoon I used potting soil and garden dirt as a mixture and put it into four pots and then transplanted three Prickly Pear Cactus stems into each pot. These stems came from a large stalk that broke off from a large Prickly Pear Cactus in the back of the kitchen a couple of months ago, and I have had them in a bucket of water ever since so they could develop roots. Then I put them on shelves near the original Prickly Pear Cactus and gave them a good watering.

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

June 18

Give Praise!

I am of that principle known to you as Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of divine and everlasting love.

I ask you to turn your minds this moment to praise.

Praise the daylight, the clouds in their majesty, the mist and fog, the thunderstorm, and the snow.

Praise that night which enables each to appreciate the light of day. Praise each shadow of that darkness for the beauties which come to one in the night: the dreams, the visions, and hopes of paradise.

Praise the Father that has created you.

Praise your creation, for though you suffer, you live, and laugh and love.

Praise consciousness itself, for in it lies the voice and the presence of the Father.

Above all, praise Jesus, the agent of redemption. And praise redemption itself, that gateway through which the journey may be made into eternity. Within each moment there is this opportunity. How exalted may your praises be! How joyful the alleluias!

Give praise! Give praise, O people of the Creator, O children of the Father! And in your heart may you experience the peace of moving into alignment with love, with Christ, with the Father, and with the spirit who speaks to comfort.

Peace be with you 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 November 21, 1993:

Group question: The question this afternoon has to do with the forgetting process that each of us goes through as we enter an incarnation. Ra has suggested that lessons we learn here with the forgetting process in place carry so much more weight in our total beingness than lessons learned when the forgetting process is not in place—when we remember our total nature and the total unity of all creation. And we’re wondering some about how the forgetting process works, how it is put into place, and then how our remembering takes place and the progress that we make in our lives that’s due to a remembering of the purpose and the goals.

(Carla channeling)

We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator. It is a privilege and a blessing to join your group’s meditation this day. We thank you and bless you for this request to share our thoughts with you, for in this request you aid us in performing that which we do to be of service to the one infinite Creator at this time. As always with those who have opinions, no matter how carefully held, it is well for each to discriminate in the thoughts chosen to take and use. We ask that only thoughts which are deemed helpful by you be retained. The rest may comfortably be left behind. Thank you for this courtesy.

We would say that there is an over-shadowing of this group at this time by the one known as Hatonn. This is in order that there be an appropriate confluence of vibratory patterns placed upon your taping machine. However, this entity has no desire to speak to this group at this time, but merely wishes that we express that they are with this group and also thank each for requesting Confederation presence.

Picture with us, if you will, a large mansion with many, many rooms as has been the style off and on for centuries. In this dwelling there are secret passageways and staircases, secret rooms and secret tunnels. A visitor might enter this immense dwelling and abide therein for a long time without ever being aware of the secret portion of the house. There would be, seemingly, all that was in the house to proclaim that this is all there is. Yet, this space would continue to exist on the other side of that secret door. That the visitor did not know the door was there would have no effect upon the door. It is in this kind of way that the forgetting process occurs.

When you picture an infant, newborn into the world of illusion, you see a tiny bundle of raw need and that tiny spark of life existing so purely and innocently. Yet, this infant contains all of the space for its memories that it has ever had and ever will have. Some of these memories are from the many, many times of being incarnate in third-density physical vehicles; however, some of the content of this memory is that memory which is gained as a portion of essential beingness given from the original Thought, which is divine Love. The truth, shall we say, is ineluctably placed within each entity as a portion of the basic consciousness with which individual characters are injected, shall we say, to form that which one could call the soul or the whole entity.

Up until the breath is drawn for the first time, this newborn infant is a functioning portion of second-density, in many cases. The consciousness which is individually an entity’s may well hover about the forming physical vehicle rather than take its seat within the physical vehicle, so that there is often no presence there except the physical vehicle within the mother. However, when the time of birth approaches, then must the entity which shall use this functioning physical vehicle go into the physical vehicle and form that bond betwixt lighter bodies and the physical body which bind the two together until the cessation of the physical body. This represents a true marriage, shall we say, of Earth and heaven, or of the elements of that which lives and dies and that which has not been born nor shall die—that which is forever the Mystery.

It may seem a cruel joke that such perfectly formed and pure infants must be taken from that consciousness of the truth in which inhabitants of second-density dwell. However, as the query itself notes, the advantages of functioning without these memories are great. To the conscious mind there is given what is more a shadow than a substance of the actual memories which are stored within the deep mind. It is as though the very workings of the most essential aspects of each personality were necessarily so ordered as to leave many hints and innuendoes suggesting that there is such a thing as a more ethical way to live or to decide between two things. This bare instinct for the right is that flag or token or suggestion that there is much more of a metaphysical or ethical nature which forms a system of deeper truth.

This deeper truth is protected from that quick and easy access by the conscious mind which entities are used to having in general. It is neatly and cleanly cached, not merely out of sight, but secreted and truly hidden, for there is extreme power which is released when the truth is claimed; and it is a worthy goal to seek and find more and more deep levels of truth. Were this truth not so well hidden, it would not have the power to move and offer transformation to that entity which perseveres in ceaseless asking and desiring of the Creator that more and more of truth be opened to one.

You dwell in a deep and convincing illusion—this you know. Each has already discovered some degree of personal power. Each desires and attempts to use that power rightly. As each continues that pilgrim’s path, seeking always the higher truth, the higher compassion and wisdom, doors do open, and to the entity who watches and pays close attention, each and every situation can hold revelation. Yet, know that it is only insofar as one continues to apply those truths already learned that these doors do open.

The group question for this session was: “We’re wondering how the forgetting process works, how it is put into place, and then how our remembering takes place, and the progress that we make in our lives that’s due to a remembering of the purpose and the goals?” Q’uo began their response by making the analogy of how we go through the veil of forgetting by describing a house that we might enter that has secret passageways that are not apparent, and we could live in that house for a long time without knowing about the secret places. Q’uo continued by saying that as each of us is born into our incarnation we have the space within us of the memories of many other incarnations, potential future incarnations, and also a memory of the Love of the Creator contained within our consciousness that is our soul. Then Q’uo said that when the second-density body is born, the soul, which is part of the Mystery that is never born and never dies, forms a bond with the physical body which does live and die. Q’uo went on to say that within the deep mind of each entity there are small hints and clues as to the true nature of the being that are given to the conscious mind as to how to make ethical choices that form a deeper truth. However, this deeper truth is not easily accessed by the conscious mind because this is the path of the seeker of truth that has more transformative ability when it is hidden and must be persistently sought from the Creator. Q’uo said that as this process of seeking continues, and the truths that are found are put to use, then more doors of perception and experience open. On December 25, 1994, Q’uo spoke of the deeper truth within us that can be revealed through constant seeking for it:

 Each entity is indeed its own teacher in terms of experiencing truth. Yet that feeling of having experienced and lived a truth has occurred to each within this circle of seeking and, indeed, to almost all of those who at this time, if you will, feel that they are awakening to a deeper truth about who they are and where that pilgrimage that they then take up shall lead.

Treasure each and every experience of this kind that has been given to you as a gift. Remember these moments, for many are the times when only the memory of faith is available to the conscious mind. Yet that sweet memory is so over-arching and so transcendent that the one instant of union with the divine is infinitely more than enough to justify a lifetime of faith, sacrifice and service.

Each has treasures within that cannot be seen by the inner or outer eyes. These gifts open to the pilgrim who sets itself to watch and pray and trust in that which it does not understand, yet recognizes as spiritual food and drink. When such a moment comes, then the possibilities multiply, and in that heady experience of light or love there is the opportunity to sow for the future self those seeds of desire which shall best aid that seeker in its long, indeed, its endless journey.

The nature of seeking is such that many attempt to speed up the process of discovering truth far beyond that rate at which they may reasonably expect to learn and retain information. Therefore, we encourage each to allow for reflection and reiteration of lessons and truths, for the process of imbibing these heady waters of truth is much longer and more subtle than a simple model of the memory of an entity might suggest.

We suggest that each of you is a marvelously complex creature, and that many times when you may be most aggravated at the delays in learning lessons are the times when it would be far better simply to allow the waiting and the process of seating these growing perceptions of truth in the stable connection betwixt newly opened subconscious material and its emergence through the threshold of consciousness into the fully conscious mind.

It is as though these secret places within the mansion of your beingness are the treasure trove which the dragon guards in your mythology. The dragon is that portion of the universal Self which aids the self in staying whole and entire, for that which you seek—that great original Truth—is powerful enough to have created all that there now is, and is powerful enough to end all that there is. Contact with this energy is a thing which it is well to allow to occur in natural ways with no heightened expectations. In quietness and in peace shall truth be yours, which you have earned through desire purified through discipline, through emotion purified by wisdom.

Now Q’uo suggested that we take time to reflect on the truths which we have discovered to be sure that we have truly learned them rather than try to speed up the rate of our learning and then get aggravated at the seeming slowness of our learning. They said that we need to allow a stable connection to be made between our newly opened subconscious mind and our conscious mind because the truth that we are seeking is guarded by the dragon of the universal Self that keeps us whole, for that great original Truth we seek is powerful enough to have made the entire creation and also to end it [at the completion of the octave of creation]. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that we should seek contact with this energy through our desire that is purified through discipline, through emotion purified by wisdom. On April 14, 1996, Q’uo described the nature of the great original Truth that we seek:

Each spiritual seeker sets out upon a voyage of discovery. And yet each island of truth, each continent of discovery, is within the seeker. The journey across perilous waters is an illusion necessary because all within third density dwell within a heavy illusion and the way to grasp the nature of that illusion and to use it is also illusion, for is not all the shadow of one great original Truth: Love—that which is ever unmanifest, invisible, ungraspable, unprovable. Such is the nature of the spiritual journey.

Rather than moving forward from this point, we would pause and ask if there is a direction which any within this circle would have a desire to appoint.

Questioner: What would be your recommendation for the best way to aid this remembering process?

We are those of Q’uo. The door into that secret part of the mansion of your self has a key which opens it. This key is meditation, contemplation, or prayer. These words suggest ways of expressing a relationship. We wish to use a term which points to that relationship, that truth within is to the self which functions daily as the bottom of a lake is to the bubble upon the surface. There is no actual touching of conscious mind to the ground of being, if you will.

When one meditates or in some way seeks to impress within the self its relationship to the one infinite Creator by whatever means, this intention to seek the Mystery triggers a kind of instinct within the conscious portion of the deep mind, thereby focusing energy and personal power around this mountaintop which has poked up from the subconscious into the conscious mind—that little peak which shows above the threshold of consciousness as the instinct for an ethical or moral right, or that little mountaintop which says that there must be a Creator. The act of meditation, then, not only works upon the mind and body to relax and open up the flow of energy, it also triggers a closer alignment of the self which is conscious with the fundamental or basic nature of that great mountain within the subconscious or deep mind which is the area which contains those deep and vast truths which have structured and formed all that there is.

You carry the blueprint of all things within, and the potential to activate any or all of this knowledge. That you are protected from burning yourself out in discovering these fiery truths before times is to be expected in a universe where there is the possibility of advancing. The Creator has not hidden these truths in order to cause hardships, but in order to prevent premature awareness. Each entity is intended to open itself to transformation in this natural way, so that there shall be no loss of incarnation that is not necessary.

May we at this time request a further direction?

Questioner: No, that’s very good. Thank you, Q’uo. I appreciate what you’ve had to say.

We are Q’uo, and we thank you, my brother. This instrument is asking us why we dally. We say to this instrument, “Relax.” We rest in the harmony of this circle, reluctant to leave, yet, having fulfilled our function, we simply float within the vibratory patterns which are so beautiful to us in each of you.

We thank you again for requesting our service, and, reluctantly, we do at this time desire to leave this instrument. We leave each of you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of the principle Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai. We leave you in love and in light.

This morning I put the sprinkler in three places in the back yard that I have not watered for a while: around the firepit, the Refuse Mound, and the forsythia bushes on my north boundary and let the sprinkler run for 30 minutes in each location as I was working on my Camelot Journal entries for today and a few days later this week. Then I went outside and weeded the Morning Glory Garden in the center of the cross area in the back yard. Then I took my trimmer and continued weeding in various locations in my entire yard.

This afternoon I made an errand run with my first stop being at Kroger’s to buy some kitty litter, Pepsi-Zero, and some sharp cheddar cheese. My next stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought more food for myself. My third stop was a Walgreen’s Drug Store where I bought a birthday card and some non-food items. My last stop was at The Home Depot where I bought a couple of pots, trays, and potting soil in which I am planning to plant some prickly pear cactus stalks that I pruned off of a large stalk that broke a couple of weeks ago and which are now rooting.

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

June 17

Offer The Self In Sacrifice

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

Jesus the Christ taught the disciples to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.” The Creator has chosen that all things may be fed, upon all levels, by the breaking, sacrificing and blessing of substance.

You know already of physical food, and you know of the food that emotion requires, food that is given from one soul to another of anger or of peace. Yet this act of giving of emotional and spiritual food is often not graced with a prayerful attitude or the sacrificial breaking of the self in order to open up those few words of humanity to the infinite riches of the words and feelings of the spirit of love.

In pride the manna of the Love of God cannot be shared. Therefore, may each seeking soul offer itself in sacrifice, opening the spirit, breaking the loaves and fishes and blessing them, that there may be abundance of love and peace and all that may be necessary for the beloved creations of the Father.

May you feel that peace and that joy 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 November 14, 1993:

(Jim channeling)

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

Carla: If no one else has a question, I have one, but it’s not really on this subject. I wonder if you could comment, Q’uo, on the unusually strong feeling I had of being levitated during the time where I was waiting to find out what was wrong during that pause. The whole beginning of the channeling I felt like I was almost being lifted off my seat. If you could comment in any way, I’d be interested.

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We find as the contact with your instrument, and indeed with any instrument over a period of time continues, that there are side effects, shall we say, that go with the prolonged intensive contact. That you feel the sensation of weightlessness is simply a portion of this process by which you give yourself over to serving as an instrument and move into that portion of your subconscious mind that is partaking of the time/space portion of your illusion more fully than is normal.

Thus you feel the sensation of levitation or of a floating that corresponds to a more malleable environment in which your physical laws have little impact. Is there another query, my sister?

Carla felt like she was levitating during the channeling of Q’uo in this session and especially during the sixty seconds’ pause while she was attempting to find out what was happening, so she wanted Q’uo’s comments on this situation. This is what Q’uo channeled through her during the pause:

This instrument had moved too deeply into the trance state and the request needed to be made to move more into energetic alertness. When this instrument felt the difference in vibration it spent some of your time moving completely throughout the environment being sure that there was the appropriate protection of the place, the working, and those within the circle.

Then Q’uo transferred the contact to me, and Carla asked Q’uo to comment on this situation. Q’uo commented by saying that as one serves as an instrument over a long period of time, as Carla had done, there were side effects that were a result of moving into her subconscious mind and moving into the time/space portion of the third density where the natural laws were replaced by sensations such as levitation. On April 2, 1995, Q’uo described how the natural laws of time/space and space/time are different:

Thus, within space/time the plans created before incarnation, within the realms of time/space, are set into motion so that there is much self-awareness and awareness of all that can be gained by exploring the great darkness or seemingly so with the tiny candle of consciousness. The weight of the experience within space/time is more upon the shoulders of space so that there is movement there more possible than in the more inflexible time as it moves, or shall we say more correctly, as it is perceived in its linear fashion.

Within the realm of time/space the weight is more on the shoulders of time where more flexibility is there appreciated, movement in time being as easily accomplished as movement in space within the physical space/time illusion. Thus, the freedom and wider perspective of time/space offers the more fully experienced presence of the one infinite Creator but with less, shall we say, ability to progress along a path which is more obviously unified than is possible upon a path which is seemingly less unified as it is within the space/time illusion.

Carla: Yes. Thank you for that answer, though. So, we’re not supposed to slap ourselves on the back and say, “Good job, good job,” OK? But encouraging and exhorting and empowering others is always, has always seemed a part of being a servant, and it just seems to me that encouraging the self along those lines—I don’t know, I guess maybe when you’re encouraging others it’s more obvious that you’re really praising the Lord, shall we say. When you’re patting yourself on the back perhaps you forget that you’re basically praising the Creator. It certainly seems that someone should get the praise! Can you comment on that feeling? And I’m a little confused. I mean I do feel that it is a spiritual thing—definitely you’re supposed to encourage people in their efforts, so why not yourself?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. The encouragement, to be most effective in hitting the heart of the illusion and its opportunities, needs to be focused upon the one Creator as fully as one is able at any given moment, which is to say that as one is able to see the effort and the entities involved as the Creator and is able to give praise and thanksgiving for both. Then one is giving the highest encouragement. We realize that there are many steps to this point, and encouragement may take any form and serve a useful purpose. We know that those here gathered wish to give the utmost in all efforts. Thus, we give you the ideal, reminding each that one will always fall short. To accept whatever one can do is to give the encouragement that is appropriate.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: No, Q’uo, there isn’t. Thank you very much.

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

Questioner: I have a question, Q’uo, and it is a sort of a personal question so [inaudible] could possibly to comment in any way that you feel appropriate, including not at all. I was just wondering about my difficulty to stay in meditation and concentrate that I was noticing lately. Is there a way that I can look at it to be fruitful, or am I missing something just in seeing that it is difficult? How can I work with it somehow?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. We would recommend that as any activity of the mind is noticed while you are pursuing the meditative state that you take one step backwards in your mind and observe the activity as a passing event, thus redefining your meditative position in a larger context so that you always are aware that you seek that metaphysical moment of unity while observing the activities of your mind. Thus, the larger perspective will allow you to move more in harmony with the moment of meditation which you seek. Is there a further query, my brother?

Questioner: When I think about meditation, I think the effort going into it is important rather than the actual amount of time spent within the illusion, yet there is a period to be devoted to tuning. So there, I assume, is some minimum, perhaps I could say, minimum time required to get in tune and then move into the moment. Can you comment on that?

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and am again with this instrument. The most important portion of the meditative experience is cultivating the desire to meditate. This may be done in an instant. All other effort is an addition to this foundation effort. Thus, if you wish to tune or to practice any form of meditation after desiring to do so, you refine this desire and work with it in a specific fashion, and this working may take any amount of your time. However, to desire to meditate can be done in an instant. Is there a further query, my brother?

Questioner: No, Q’uo, [inaudible] is … thank you for the answer. I appreciate your [inaudible].

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

Questioner: I guess not, Q’uo.

I am Q’uo, and we would take this opportunity to express our great gratitude to each present for asking for our presence in your circle of working this day. We feel very privileged to be able to share our opinions with you and, as always, ask that you remember that we share that which has been helpful to us and we hope that you will take only those concepts that are helpful to you, leaving all others behind.

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

This morning Anna and I synchronized our computers to listen to Carla channel Ra in Session #34, while we were reading the words being channeled on the screen as well. We found a number of places in the channeling where we paused to talk about the concepts being discussed. Then I went outside and pumped out a quarter of the water in the fishpond and used it to water the flowers and bushes around the fishpond. Then I cleaned the filters and refilled the pond with fresh water. While the water was refilling, I weeded the flower garden on the Ruins Mound by hand.

This afternoon I cleaned Benny’s apartment upstairs by using the carpet sweeper to clean the hall runner; then I used my broom and dustpan to sweep up all of the kitty litter in her room; then I used the duster to dust all three rooms and the hall.

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

June 16

Be Alive Today

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

Let your lives be alive today as you spend as much mental time as possible with the consciousness of unconditional Love which is the essence of Jesus the Christ.

Let your day be one of joyful experience. For resting in the peace which sees that all challenges and difficulties are blessings, one may continually be moved by the presence of Love, regardless of circumstance.

Let this be your day for quiet and confident remembering of the Father and of the consciousness of Love which is Jesus the Christ. It is not easy to allow oneself to be content in any circumstance, but this is the lesson of joy, acceptance and faith which divine love offers. Let this be a day of building, of loving, and of remembering.

We leave you in the peace that is not of your illusion. We leave you in the peace of the Love of Jesus the Christ, with all that that implies, both 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.