The Camelot Journal

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The Q’uo quote today comes from May 23, 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 to any further queries which those present may have to offer to us. Is there a query at this time?

Carla: Well, I noticed that at no time did you say that there is any actual difference between the two sexes. Did you intend that, and simply mean to say that all of the differences were apparent and shallow?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. Let us begin by suggesting that it was our intention to speak to the strongest qualities of each of the sexes and not to move into areas of difference at this circle of seeking. There are qualities of the archetypical mind which gravitate to each sexual orientation which provide avenues of service and opportunity for learning to each of the two sexual possibilities. This is a study which is, in our opinion, one of great depth and breadth as well, and it was our intention at this working to move more upon the general nature of each of the two sexes, swimming, shall we say, in more shallow waters than choosing to dive deeply into those qualities which are significant to one or the other sex.

Is there another query, my sister?

Carla: No, I can accept that. Thank you, Q’uo.

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

Questioner: I have a question, Q’uo. I just wonder if the reason that so many prophets or enlightened ones seem to be in a male form—the archetypical concept of wisdom and seeking being the male—or is this concept that I am raising here misguided?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. There is the seeds—we correct this instrument—there are the seeds of truth in that which you have observed. However, there are also other factors to be considered, these also related to the quality of the Magician, or Matrix of the Mind, which is potentiated into the activity of seeking by the High Priestess, the Potentiator of the Mind. Thus, as this quality of seeking manifests in your illusion, especially within the more recent centuries of your illusion and its various cultures, there has been the predominance of the male influence upon most of the recorded histories of these cultures, which has had the effect of displaying the achievements of the male members of the culture, and, indeed, in making opportunities for them.

This is a more, shall we say, common or traditional way of reflecting archetypical energies and has not always been the mode of cultural expression upon your planet, but has been more recent, shall we say, in its histories of culture. Thus, the feminine quality which potentiates the seeking has been less apparent than the masculine quality, which has been potentiated by the feminine qualities of both the subconscious mind of the male and of the conscious and subconscious qualities of the female in what is generally called the supporting role.

Questioner asked if the reason that so many prophets and enlightened entities seem to be male was because the archetype of wisdom was that of the male? Q’uo began by suggesting that in the overall sense it is the High Priestess, the Potentiator of the Mind, that sets the Magician, the Matrix of the Mind into motion. They continued by saying that in recent history it is the male influences of the cultures that have displayed the achievement of the male by making opportunities for them, and that this has not always been the way that previous cultures functioned. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that it is the feminine quality of the High Priestess that potentiates the feminine qualities of the conscious mind of both the male and the female sexes. On September 25, 2010, Q’uo spoke of the nature of male dominance of the female in our world today:

It is also to be noted that a great source of confusion in your Earth world is due to the fact that the male sex is aware of the inner power of women and is somewhat challenged by it. Consequently, there will be every effort made by the usual non-thinking person who is male to keep women in their place, to tell themselves that women are inferior, to belittle them when they have intuition about which men do not know, for it is something that they can never understand. The instinct of a bully is not to harmonize but to control, and it is a sorry mess that your societies have tended to make of the possibility of dancing together, male and female, in utter harmony, seeing themselves as a tag team or on a tandem bicycle, working together, setting their intentions in common, and creating of life a glory and an honestation to the Creator.

And on January 18, 2020, Q’uo spoke of the way that the feminine principle may be the more compassionate way to live the life by working together with the male principle:

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.

This morning Jan T. made a presentation on the topic of The external Process and the Great Mother Earth in the tent. At the same time Tatiana C. made a presentation in the Living Roo on the topis of From Inside Out for a Wordless Experience. Then Lily Y. made a presentation in the tent on the topic of Conspiracy Theories and The Law of One—a Personal Journey. At the same time Eddie E. made a presentation in the living room on the topic of Resource Lits: Accompanying & Concordant Studies for Students.

At about the time we were going to take our break for lunch a tremendous windstorm struck our area, and tree limbs of all sizes were blown down into my yard, and we lost power. Then we discovered that a huge oak tree in my neighbor’s yard had blown down across the road that totally destroyed two cars that belong to two of our attendees. Two other cars suffered minor damage, and we had to postpone the rest of the presentations for the day because we didn’t have any power for the electrical equipment necessary for the presentations to be given.

This afternoon we eventually had lunch and spent most of the rest of the afternoon, evening, and into the late hours of the night talking in small groups in the house and in the tent using battery-powered lanterns that I bought earlier in the day. Even with the devastating storm, everyone felt that this had been a wonderful experience of open-hearted sharing with each other with many new connections made between each other.

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

May 26

The Spirit Of Love

I am the spirit of Him who comes in the name of the Lord.

All things dwell within the love of God. The love of God is a power which emanates from each living thing. Long before one reaches another person the two sendings of love have intertwined and greeted each other.

There are those whose sensitivity causes them to find pain in the contact with the love of the Creator and pain in the contact with other souls. For the love of God is a strong and vibrant thing and one which removes one’s isolation completely.

Yet even in the midst of isolated countryside, that consciousness which emanates and exudes as the love of the Creator is sent out by each creation of the Father, each flower, grass and tree.

There are some sensitive souls who must then seek the cave. There the emanations of stone, water and air are silent or at least quiet enough that the soul who works alone may find rest.

We urge each to open the doors of acceptance to the life of the spirit of love in people and places and circumstances, but even if we speak to one within a cave we know that the love of God in Christ shall work with you at your chosen speed.

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. Today the Q’uo quote comes from May 23, 1993:

Group question: The question today has to do with why entities who incarnate in this particular illusion choose one sexual orientation over the other. Is there an advantage or are there opportunities to choosing male over female or female over male in dealing with the various catalysts and learnings that are available in this third density?

(Carla channeling)

Greetings and welcome. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. We greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. It is a privilege and a blessing to join this circle of seeking and to share our thoughts with you. We thank you for calling for this type of information, and are most honored to be here. We do request that each seeker accept our lack of authority. We are fellow travelers rather than authoritative sources, therefore, we ask each to keep those thoughts of ours which may aid, and allow any that do not seem appropriate to be forgotten, for we would not represent a stumbling block for any.

The query concerning the advantages of male or female sexuality begins with the note that sexuality itself has advantages. The advantages of being polarized are a fruitfulness which one cannot gain without polarity. This may be seen to be literally true in human sexuality, wherein male and female come together to allow the opportunity of a pregnancy to occur. In the sense of working with one’s conscious awareness of the passing moments of experience, polarity is that which actively encourages the self to move into relationship. The sexual polarity creates a bias towards seeking companionship. The companionship may then move in any of a number of ways, all of which bear fruit in terms of an increased rate of catalyst, and therefore, an increased opportunity to learn from the catalyst.

Archetypically speaking, this sexuality can be seen to be that difference between the Matrix of the Mind and the Potentiator of the Mind, in that the male energy is seen as that which reaches, as does the Matrix of the Mind. The female may be seen likewise as that which awaits the reaching. In the cultural roles prevalent among your peoples, these roles are seen to hold somewhat towards true; that is, to the male of a mated pair, there is given the most affirmative training towards the bias of feeling a responsibility to provide for a family, to nurture and tend a wife and children by working and offering the fruits of that labor. The cultural feminine archetype, as opposed to the archetype of the deep mind, is considerably clouded and complex compared to the cultural role of the feminine gender, say, one hundred of your years in the past. However, there is a tendency still, and an inevitable one, towards the female’s perception of the self as one which nurtures and supports by the presence, by the loving and intuitive caring, by the qualities of compassionate gentleness, and intuitive hunching or guessing.

In broad strokes, then, it may be seen that entities which wish to learn the lessons of unselfish service through labor away from the family are drawn to the male sexuality. Those wishing to work in relationships and to learn the lessons of unselfish loving and serving through presence, may well choose the feminine gender.

However, at a more goal-oriented level, these goals having to do with what you may call karma, male or female gender may well be chosen regardless of the implications of any sexual bias in order to set up the appropriate relationship wherein lies the work of the incarnation.

Thusly, if one with whom you have a tie which is karmic has the need to establish the sexuality as male, then in order to come into a desired mated relationship, for instance, you would choose the female gender in order to arrange the niceties of convention so that it would be possible to choose during the incarnation to take on this relationship. Within this relationship, you, as a woman, might be needing to work in what seems to be a more masculine series of lessons of responsibility and provision. However, the sexuality would have been chosen only in order to set the stage for the work in relationship.

It is quite common to choose gender for the purpose of aiding destiny, for most work done by men and women within incarnations this late in third density are working with the balancing of relationships, so that harmony and the kind of balance required to ride the bicycle with no hands might be achieved, not for one but for both. Thusly, one will see many relationships, none of which seem to be particularly similar, one with the other. This is because the soul choosing to do this work has acquired many, many lifetimes as both sexual choices—the biological male and female—and now are refining understandings gained in previous work with these relationships.

It is to be noted that the refining process, though it takes place in a much smaller arena than the first learnings, is nonetheless as difficult—or usually more difficult—and intensive work. We find this to continue beyond your density, that is, that the work of refining the choice for service to others begins with one decision and then becomes more and more complex, decision by decision and relationship by relationship. This continues as far as we know, becoming more and more detailed and difficult or intensive, until that moment when all detail is first glimpsed clearly as irrelevant, and the face turns for the final time to gaze in infinite love at the source and ending of all that is.

The group question for this session was: “Is there an advantage or are there opportunities to choosing male over female sexuality or female over male sexuality in dealing with the various catalysts and learnings that are available in this third density?” Q’uo began by saying that the concept of sexuality in general gives two beings the chance for raising children, creating a companionship, and growing from the catalyst of this experience. Then Q’uo said that the male and female roles were archetypical in that the male, or the Matrix of the Mind, is an example of that which reaches or provides for the family, and the female, or the Potentiator of the Mind, is that quality that awaits the reaching and is of the nurturing nature. Q’uo said that past relationships might create the karmic need for one in the relationship to take on the male role and the other to take on the female role although these roles could be in the process of refinement for both entities in the relationship so that each would, from time to time, express both sexual qualities since each person would have lived many lives as a male and many as a female. They said that this was more intensive work and would continue into the higher densities as a means of polarizing in service to others so that each detail of this choice of service becomes more complex and difficult until it is finally seen that all detail is irrelevant as one turns and gazes in infinite love at the source and ending of all that is. On January 16, 2000, Q’uo said that love draws us onward toward the source and ending of all that is:

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

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

Each entity has the capacity to take advantage both of male and female orientations within one lifetime of experiential catalyst. We encourage seekers to investigate and deeply consider the perceptions from the standpoint of the opposite sexual gender. For instance, it is certainly reliably interesting for a woman to encourage those qualities the culture encourages and the archetype suggests: the bearing and raising of the children, the nurturing of the loved circle of family and friends through thoughtfulness and presence, the qualities of attractiveness and charm. These are most fruitful to investigate. Often the society and culture do not insist that the male viewpoint be included in this role-playing, yet how much more aware does a female become which has actively pursued the consideration of the male within the mated relationship?

Two queries are relevant: Firstly, “Were I a male …”—that “I” being the female—“Were I a male in this situation with these necessities, what pressures, what sensibilities, what cultural expectations would I then have access to that I do not as a female?” Conversely, although it is excellent for the male to wholeheartedly enter into those biases which the culture and archetypical mind suggest, it is very catalytic to focus upon creating adequate supply for the self and the loved ones, to be the leader and the tender of the physical plant of home and assets; yet, it is also fruitful for the male to ask himself, “If I were a woman, how would my perception of my role and its requirements be altered?”

We bring to this instrument’s mind the suggestion of an image from your holy work. In this scene from your Bible, there is a woman who has been unclean and very ill for many years. This woman strives merely to touch the hem of the robe worn by the teacher known as Jesus. The entity, Jesus, becomes aware that this woman has indeed touched the hem of his robe, for this entity feels the healing energy moving through him, and he asks, “Who touched me?” The woman owns her action and explains that she wished to be healed. The teacher known as Jesus then says, “Go, for your faith has made you whole.” In this instance, the entity known as Jesus stands waiting as the female, and is literally reached by a biological female functioning as a male in reaching out.

We may encourage each to feel within the self the full range of male to female qualities as they arise within, for all aspects of polarity teach. However, it is especially helpful to move in mind to the extreme that is the antithesis of the self, and so attempt to furnish the mind and the spirit with a more and more universal perspective. This perspective is certainly reached partially by swinging between male and female. However, in each case where an entity is more markedly in the cultural stereotype of its sex, therein lies the opportunity to increase one’s depth of compassion by moving firmly and regularly into the opposite perspective.

Note within the mind’s conversations as well as conversations with others, instances wherein generalities are made stating that women are such-and-such or men are such-and-such. It will be seen quickly that the generalizations cover, but do not obliterate, uneasiness and even fear of some aspect of the otherness of the other sexual gender. In terms of the red ray, marked polarity is greatly beneficial betwixt the two biological sexes. In terms of orange and yellow-ray relationship potential, it is as helpful to be devoted to considering the antithetical point of view as it is to be an advocate for one’s own gender.

As one gazes at the third density, one may see a movement which seems, and in many ways very deeply seems, to tend more and more towards the feminine principle, for the goals of third density are the choice of how to serve the infinite One and how to become more and more a witness to and a co-creator of love. Lessons learned revolve completely around love, not around wisdom but around love. The one known as Jesus expressed deeply feminine approaches to the challenges of hostile environment and relationships. The qualities of verbal submissiveness and reaching in love to encourage peace and great tolerance were emphasized in this incarnation. Indeed, the principle which this instrument calls “Christ consciousness” is one of unrelieved compassion, that is, compassion unrelieved by wisdom.

Thusly, females in their cultural training find themselves more cognizant of what may be called, “the Mind of Christ,” and find sacrifice more tolerable and acceptable, thereby creating much energy available for potentiating love and the learning of loving. It only awaits the male’s decision, however, to work with attitudes of inner peace for this to be available to males as well as females.

In the end, at this level of discussion, we come back to the benefits of having sexuality. We celebrate the fruitfulness of this polarity which brings entities together to learn, to love together, for the giving and accepting of love and all its fruits, advantages and disadvantages, is the proper business of humankind. Each knows the depth of the illusion of sexuality. Each is aware of the self at levels which do not alter because of being male or female. This Personhood is infinite, and from this standpoint, we encourage each to be aware of one final thing, that is the person within that is the self, that is one with that great Self which is love embodied and incarnate in the great original Thought or Logos. The Creator is not male. The Creator is not female. Yet, the Creator is reached by both equally within illusion. When a point of view is needed, and the biases of male and female … [inaudible].

We encourage each to move through considerations as male and as female, and then to reach within the self to that level where all selves are persons equally, and stand firmly and confidently gazing from that point of view to look at the biases brought about by gender, by birth, and by relationships.

Although this instrument wishes to have had more aid to channel upon this topic, we find that sexuality is relatively shallow in terms of its ability to create unique perspective. Certainly from within the incarnation, women easily see men as generalities, and men see women as generalities and experience great differences betwixt the two. However, free will is such that these differences simply create alternate forms of the same catalyst, so that biological sexuality does not have deep reasons for being chosen.

We consider the outworking of relationships to be focal and most central to learning of love. Yet, in each mated pair, both entities shall don and discard both male and female type roles depending upon the energies necessary to be expressed in order to balance the relationship.

Now Q’uo said that although both the male and the female have certain roles to play in the culture, it is often helpful to each of them to ask how their lives would be different if they were of the other gender as they move through the life experience. Then Q’uo said that it was very helpful for those of both sexual orientations to mentally move back and forth between the two orientations in order to gain a broader perspective and to feel greater compassion for the opposite perspective. Q’uo continued by saying that in discussing the culturally accepted descriptions of what men and women are like, these descriptions often reflect a fear of the other gender for both sexes so that considering the qualities of the opposite sex would be helpful in advocating equally for both sexes. Q’uo then said that in the third density there seemed to be a preference for the feminine gender because the means of serving the Creator was by becoming a witness to and a co-creator of unconditional love, or the Christ consciousness, that finds sacrifice more acceptable as a way of creating love, but this was also possible for males if they focused on inner peace. Q’uo completed their thoughts by reminding us that the Creator is neither male nor female, and whether one is male or female their true nature is of the one great original Thought of Love which they can manifest as they utilize their relationships to manifest love. On April 9, 1995, Q’uo spoke of the attainment of the one great original Thought of Love by the blending of the male and female energies:

Thusly, males have the necessity of dealing with the catalyst of attraction to any attractive and available female. Indeed, that male energy is capable of reaching in fantasy, in thought. There does not even need to be the stimulus of the female which is present. This ensures that the species will survive as long as the planet is viable.

Meanwhile, for the female energy, there is the opposite side of this dynamic: unity. There is but an articulated unity. Males who have much female energy also find themselves involuntarily drawn into the contractions of one who protects oneself. This energy is so powerful that it—this instrument is having trouble finding a word for what we wish to say—the power of this energy is so great, that there is the necessity for the female or negative energy to be watchful, cautious, and protective. Not for the female energy the indiscriminate reaching, but rather the careful protection, for the unity that is articulated betwixt male and female is that mystery which is the one great original Thought.

Female energy potentiating male energy equals subconscious energy run through conscious channels. So, each becomes a channel for the one great original Thought which is Love. And in the sexual mating betwixt two who grasp the profundity and centrality of the energies of lovemaking, there is the possibility of touching intelligent energy, and in this fusion, the two truly are one. And from this rise male and female, blessed, balanced, and healed.

We apologize to this instrument for disappointing it, and we thank this group that it has allowed us this opportunity to share these thoughts. At this time, we would take any questions that any might have and close the meeting. We would prefer to transfer at this time to the one known as Jim. We are those of Q’uo, and leave this instrument in love and in light.

This morning we had several very inspiring presentations that discussed spiritual principles from various perspectives. The first one was by Linda H. who shared the technique of Reiki healing as like unto the Holy Fire in its workings as we gathered in the living room. Then in the tent Jan T. made a presentation on The Internal Process of Ganja Ritual. The next presentation was by Beatriz G. on Resistance, Anxiety, and Chlorophyll which was held in the tent. At the same time Gabe L. made a presentation in the living room concerning The Heart of Seeking.

This afternoon Morris H. made a presentation in the tent on the topic of the 4^th Density is Emerging. At the same time Trisha B. was making a presentation on Heart Sharing in the living room. Then Karan D. make a presentation in the tent on Social Ecology: The Philosophy, Ethics, and Politics of Harmony. The next presentation was by Austin B. in the tent on the topic of Unidentified Flying Catalyst. Kent D. made a presentation in the living room on Gemstone Therapy. Then Gary B. made a presentation in the tent on The Metaphorical rib: Carla in 6^th Density. At the same time Dr. Jim R. made a presentation in the living room on The God Gene.

Then dinner was shared at Selena’s Restaurant.

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

May 25

Life Within Each Cell

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

The answer to many riddles lies beneath the surface of stone and earth and all things which seem hard, uninteresting, and mundane.

The life within the stone and the earth and all things is an eternal part of the spirit of living love and exists in an eternal fashion. The life within each cell of the physical body rests in eternal life also, so that far from being a creature of darkness, the living body dwells in eternity as it dwells within the Earth sphere.

Open the thought about the body to the knowledge that it is instinct with the Holy Spirit of the living God and call upon the eternal life and health of each cell. Then you may feel the excitement of the cells of the body receiving permission to be what each cell truly is: a perfect representation of love.

We leave you in the peace of that love, now and always. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from May 9, 1993:

Group question: We’d like to know this morning about the flow of energy that moves through the healer in a couple of different situations. Number one: when the healer is either attempting to clear his or herself and wishes the energy centers to be the most brilliant and active for the offering of the service of healing, where does the energy flow? Does it flow top down in the energy centers or from the bottom up, and when the healer is attempting to offer itself as a healer, does the energy flow in the same pattern or is it another pattern? Could you tell us how the energy flows in both situations where the healer wishes to purify itself or when the healer wishes to offer itself as a healer?

(Jim channeling)

We are those of Q’uo, and greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. It is a pleasure to be called to this early meeting of your group, and we are excited to be asked to share our thoughts on the subject of arranging the tuning or the vibration. We request, as always, that individual truth only be recognized and other statements we may offer which find no home be discarded.

The practice of cleansing one’s vibrations and tuning and purifying them in preparation for spiritual work is a very simple process, yet one which lends itself to great varieties of adaptations depending on the preferences and the belief structures of the cleanser. The basic, shall we say, technique that this instrument uses suffices as well as any, and we would suggest it is the beginning of our answer. In this practice, the entity ritually cleanses the mouth, the hands and empties the bladder, thus expressing the desire to be washed thoroughly of all wickedness. It then asks to see within the chakra colors in their configuration, beginning with the red, or lowest center, working first with the red, the orange and the yellow. These may be viewed and adjusted separately, then seen together and regulated. Then the heart chakra is called for, and the first three chakras, reanimated if necessary to form a more apt base for the actual size of the green energy center. Then the blue and the indigo centers are viewed, again spending enough time with each to achieve a visualization of all the chakras moving evenly and easily.

The heart of the tuning process is just this much, however, in order to make this procedure more beautiful in offering of the self in service to the one infinite Creator, each entity which prepares develops its own system of progress and requests for help and protection. Many create movements which touch in some ritual way the four directions about the place of working, saluting each direction and calling upon that direction’s power for protection.

For instance, with this particular channel, the myth of the Christ is used and the archangels are called to their four stations, which are the four directions, and then asked as symbols of the heavenly host to stand as protection of the contact, the channel and the session of working when the time has come for the energies to be used.

We suggest, rather than a directional visualization of energy flow, rather, the visualization of the awareness of the whole self in every cell all ready and empty, awaiting the flow through the self. In this awaiting, there need be no feeling of urging a direction, and when the hands are used to point the energy, it may be firmly visualized, not that the flow is quick or slow, but that the appendages are lightened of every normal burden of weight or substance and are become hollow receptacles through which the infinite Creator may work.

The group question for this session concerned the flow of energy in the healer. The first part of the question was when the healer is preparing to purify itself as a healer, does the healing energy flow from the top of the energy centers to the bottom, or from the bottom to the top? The second part of the question was the same but regarding how this energy flowed when the healer was offering itself to another person who needed the healing. Q’uo began by saying that there are many techniques of visualization that may be used, but Q’uo said that it would share the instrument’s practice washing the hands, cleansing the mouth, and emptying the bladder as symbolic of ridding itself of any negativity. Then the instrument would visualize the first three energy centers separately, then together, and then move on the heart center and then back to the first three to see all of them in combination as the foundation for the work in the heart center. Then the blue and indigo centers would be visualized to balance the totality of the energy centers working together. Then Q’uo said that it was well to utilize a protective ritual to aid the process using the energy centers for healing by invoking the Christ and the archangels of the four directions to lend their energies of protection as the healing process was undertaken. Q’uo completed their response by saying that there was no direction as such that was necessary for using the energy centers, but the readying of each cell of the whole self as being hollow receptacles through which the infinite Creator might do Its work. On May 8, 1993, Q’uo spoke of how the healer may become a vessel through which the infinite Creator may do Its work:

In effect, as long as the healer has a consistent and compelling individual method of visualizing the movement of light this system of visualization is virtually and functionally accurate. We are not attempting to be obscure but are saying that almost any consistent method of visualizing the passage of energy will work for the one which has healing gifts and the desire to manifest these gifts. The healing ability is not raised by these visualizations or managed or controlled in their nature because of this system of visualization, rather the healing energy is channeled through the instrument, and what occurs as the healer does its work is that the healer discovers a way of visualizing the procession of this light in motion or this energy in such and such a way which does not interfere with the healing energy’s own intelligent movement.

The goal here is for the healer to become transparent to this energy so that it is completely calm and is functioning as conscious catalyst. However, in order that the mind of the healer be stayed and comforted some method or system of visualizing the traduction of this energy is necessary. Therefore, we urge that each healer—however modest or great the healing gift, each is a healer—that each healer find that level of detail and informative embroidery which is wholly sufficient and satisfactory for the self, knowing that the purpose of this visualization structure is to so secure and quiet the instincts of reason and so sweeten and make cooperative the nature that the infinite energy of the one Creator may flow freely and intelligently to do its work.

We would welcome queries in more detail at this time, that we might be of more specific service. We are Q’uo.

Carla: R, do you have any questions? I do, but I can wait if you have some.

R: I don’t have a question at this time.

Carla: Okay. When attempting to clear blockages that one is aware exists, and in doing so, not for the purpose of healing others, but for the purpose of healing self, oftentimes the energy feels stagnant in one or two chakras, and I feel difficulty in releasing or understanding what is occurring, in which case, I don’t understand if the energy is unable to move through and therefore it is creating backup and does not know where to go, and I can feel that pressure in the physical sense. I am quite unsure how to release this energy which has somehow gotten stuck and do not know how to do it either through thought or emotion, and I was wondering if you could give me tips in reference to either diverting the energy or helping it to move through the blockages or sending it back out to release the pressure.

I am Q’uo. My sister, we would suggest two ways of working with these experiences. Firstly, your particular inner nature is profoundly affected by visualization, therefore we would suggest that this ability to visualize be harnessed for your own good use. In cases where stagnation of a center is perceived, there needs the feeling that one may but sit and become able to separate from this blockage enough to have effect upon it. The method of doing this is in a rough way described, to move into a posture of request and mentally request the aid of your guidance and with that guidance felt in some subjective way, then you, with guidance, might be suggested to establish a place for you both in time/space from which you together may visualize a prolonged process of clarifying, speeding up, regulating, and brightening the energy center in which blockage is perceived. This way, you are able to harness the impersonal side of your own ability and use it upon the self.

Carla: That was very interesting. I’ll certainly try that. The only other question I have in reference to the chosen path of self healing through the evening with asked guidance … is there anything I can do to perhaps aid, either in visualization or in chakra opening, to aid the guides as they work with me through the evening to help clear this?

I am Q’uo. My sister, your greatest aid to guidance is a repeated inward affirmation to their existence, to their power and their desire to serve the one infinite Creator on your behalf. The more firm and sure the foot of the one who stands to serve in the name of the infinite Mystery, the more sure shall be that aid, for in work with this mystery, all feet stand firm on nothing, and that nothing is called faith. Allow that faith to become more conscious, to become more part of the momentary experience. Allow the floor of faith to be under your feet along with the floors of Earth and carpet.

This establishing within the inner world of self of the holy of holies is the beginning of a life truly lived not in the world. If only Earth be touched, those not of the world must still be in it. When the fair carpet of faith is over strewn upon the mundane ground of experience, all of the mundane experience becomes charged with potential, for what would be called by this instrument magical work, that is, work which creates changes within your own consciousness.

May we speak further, my sister?

Carla: Ha! I’d love for you to speak further always … um … running out of questions here. You are answering everything with such greatness. You’ve been wonderful for me these last few days, and I want to thank you for that. If there is further info, you can go into that. I think I am beginning to truly grasp what you are saying, and if there is further information, I’ll take it. If not, I will leave the room open for other questions.

[Pause]

My sister, there shall always be further information as long as there is the inquisitive ear and the inquiring mind. We are also feeling most privileged for having been able to spend this time with your circle of seeking. It has been a great privilege and pleasure, and perhaps you know we do not speak fulsomely, but only honestly. We lift our hearts to the one Creator and know you stand with us with all love and amazement, rejoicing in this mystery that calls us forth from dust to behold we know not what, yet must we continue to be about this business, seeking always the infinite Creator and Its service. We leave you in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator, and know that this love is bestowed each to each. We encourage all attempts to love and support each other.

Carla: Q’uo, can I ask you one last question?

Q’uo: You may.

Carla: It’s just a curiosity of mine. In the friend that passed, who I know is full well taken care of and is on another journey wherever, due to the circumstances in which he left and the great love I felt towards that entity, I’ve wanted to know if it is common for those within an incarnation to offer a service to those who are not incarnate, and wanted to know if it was appropriate to offer the service of asking that entity if there was anything, while I am here, that might be helpful for his peace of mind or whatever, that I might do in reference to his loved ones. I don’t expect to step beyond things which are beyond me, but if there is a way to offer that service, I would like to do so and as well wish him on his journey, that it may be well and full of love and light.

We are those of Q’uo, and in our opinion the highest service for one who has moved recently into larger life is to intercede, that this entity may more easily look and see that which is hard to see until much is accepted. Prayers interceding for the orientation of the newly arrived friend are very much in order so that this entity may know where it is and be quickly moved within a comfortable set of circumstances seen subjectively.

This instrument informs us we must depart, and so we shall, leaving …

Carla: Thank you for that.

I am Quo. We are rude not to say “Thank you, my sister,” however, we shall indeed take our leave of this instrument and each of you now in love and in the infinite light of the one great Mystery. Adonai. Adonai. We are those of Q’uo.

This morning I put the DIAGONAL PARKING sign up in the parking area on the north side of the driveway. Then I went to the Home Depot to buy ten Citronella plants to put around the chairs in the circle of chairs under the tent.

This afternoon the attendees for our Homecoming Gathering began arriving and engaged in conversations in the living room until it was time for us to move to the chairs in the circle in the tent at 5 pm. Gary and Trish gave the attendees some general information about the location of the bathrooms and our meals. Then I spoke for a few minutes to welcome everyone to our second Homecoming Gathering on the Memorial Day weekend. Then we ate dinner in the tent and continued our conversations as well. After that we joined in some authentic games that helped us to get to know each other better, and we completed our first Homecoming Day of sharing the opening of our hearts in love and light to each other. It was such a blessing to be able to share this experience with so many long-time friends and to begin making so many new friends too. Tomorrow there will be the opportunity to attend the presentations about the spiritual paths of various of the attendees that are always the heart of our Homecoming Gatherings.

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

May 24

Peace, Be Still

I am the principle of infinite compassion which is the love of Jesus the Christ and I greet you in this love.

So many doubts assail your minds; so many self-destructive thoughts; so many stumbling blocks which each seeker puts in its own way through doubt. Let us speak to you of faith.

In all of the ways of existence there are those things which one may question. Yet, undergirding all that there is, is a mysterious splendor of that which was created by love.

The attitude of faith asks no words, brooks no sentiments, and discusses no implications. Faith is that abiding belief that a kindly Creator has a will for each to learn and to grow spiritually and to be of service to others.

Many situations seem quite devoid of that opportunity. Do not be fooled. When you can, show faith. When you can gaze upon the stormy waters and say, “Peace, be still,” within yourself, then you have not dogma or doctrine but a solid rock upon which to stand and the overreaching arms of the Father to protect you, comfort you, and hold you as you walk the steps of the seeker.

We leave you in the peace and joy of that mysterious journey, now and ever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from May 6, 1993:

Group question: The question this morning has to do with D doing healing work with Carla. Her basic concern is that she not cause any difficulties for either Carla or herself. She is particularly concerned about various imbalances of a physical nature within her own body at this time. There are back pains, a growth in her vagina, and certain out of line areas in her spine, and she wants to be sure there’s not any excessive flow of energy, either from her to Carla or from Carla to her, and would like to know if there would be any difficulty in going ahead with the healing chelations, and would like to know if she could have more than one session with Carla, or if one would be the most advisable? We would like your comments on these areas and the healing work, in general, D will be doing with Carla.

Let us pray together.

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo, and we greet you in love and in light in the name of the infinite Creator. We thank you for the privilege of being called to your group during this working. Your queries concern the non-chemical body of learning—we correct this instrument—of healing techniques and see that you are concerned as to their possible damaging effect.

Perhaps the concept with which we would begin our commentary is concerning the situation when a healer attempts to offer to one which is considered diseased the catalyst which may be taken advantage of by the patient. It is well that the healer continue. No matter what the details and stories to the contrary point might be, the healer offers an opportunity. Within this opportunity there is for the one who wishes to be healed the choice that can be made to cooperate with and to affirm the healing that is being offered, thus doing the work itself, or it can feel that for some reason this opportunity is not one which is wished and then no cooperation is forthcoming.

In neither event has there been a difficulty because of a certain amount of irregularity in the various color balancings of the chakras of the healer. Neither healer nor healee must come to the eucharist of transformation already perfected. Rather, the healing ability moves through the one which has committed itself to be a healer. The healer’s skill, then, is to a great extent involved in continuing to attempt to match the basic vibratory rate of the self with the vibratory rate of the one original Thought which is infinite intelligence or Love.

It is well that a healer not consider its detailed picture of balanced health as perceived by the self. The more skillful attitude is to persist in whatever circumstances with the attempt to move the vibrational focus in tuning to as close to the original Logos as possible in any given circumstance.

Again, with that entity to be healed, the preparation involved is a surrender to one’s own frailty as a being within incarnation, and to rejoice in the energy which is being shared, and to cultivate a willingness to experience change. None of this, however, has to do with the relative balance within. What we would like to make clear is that neither healer nor patient must need approach perfection. If the heart speaks its desire when the healer moves into readiness to heal, this energy of heart is the key empowerment which creates the open flow of the infinite Love and Light of the Creator.

So, healing being one more kind of channeling, you may see the same guidelines to apply: that is, purify the intention, be persistent in the practices, and refrain from judging the performance of the self or those worked upon. This is a beginning to the queries which are with this circle this day. May we ask more for more detailed queries at this time? We are those of Q’uo.

This was a special session in which D wished to know if there would be any problem for her or for Carla in attempting healing chelations with Carla, and whether one session would be enough, or should there be more than one session? Q’uo began by saying that the healer may offer its healing ability to the one to be healed who then may take advantage of this opportunity to either affirm the offer and heal itself, or the one to be healed may refuse to do so for any reason as either option is acceptable. Q’uo went on to say that neither the healer nor the one to be healed are perfect beings in the healing process as the healer is seeking to bring its vibratory rate into harmony with the one original Thought of the Love of the Logos, and the one to be healed may surrender its failings and rejoice at the opportunity to experience change. Then Q’uo said that neither the healer nor the one to be healed needs to approach perfection as the key to the healing taking place is in the heart of the patient as it speaks its desire to be healed. Q’uo went on to say that when the healer moves in readiness to heal, this is the key to creating the open flow of the infinite Love and Light of the Creator through the healer to the one to be healed. On September 27, 2008, Q’uo described the healing process:

The energy of healing is not a single thing or a simple thing. In its pure form, that is, the form in which the healer is an instrument of the divine, allowing to flow through it the energies of the one infinite Creator, there is no possibility of infringement because of the fact that the transaction has nothing of action in it on the part of the healer, except for the healer to turn to the one infinite Creator and ask that it may be used.

When the healer is out of the way and the energy is coming through the healer, if the one who is supposedly to be healed does not wish healing, Spirit will move away without a second thought. The healer in this circumstance functions as a catalyst. It creates an environment, without itself being changed, in which the one to be healed has the opportunity to choose a different default setting for its wellness. Insofar as the one to be healed chooses to take this opportunity, miracles may indeed happen. However, there has been no connection or contact, if you will, between the will of the healer and the will of the one to be healed.

I would like to suggest to my readers that from this point on most of the questions from D are very long run-on sentences which, at a couple of points, seem to have put Carla to sleep. I give Q’uo a good deal of credit for giving succinct answers to what are to me nearly indecipherable questions, but simply reading Q’uo’s responses may provide some good information about healers and the healing process.

D: I think I’d just like to clarify my understanding of what you’ve just said, which is basically the error that I have made has been to worry unnecessarily about the preparations, and so long as my intent is solid within the heart and provided I am myself, which is maintaining the ability to align myself during the actual treatment, that is really all that is necessary. Is this correct?

I am Q’uo. Yes, my sister, this is correct with but one small addition. Among your peoples’ food bears an important part. Much energy is given to the procuring and consumption of foodstuffs. Therefore, one way in which the deeper self is most easily notified that there are strong desires for purification or for the raising of the vibration is to institute some sort of care on a routine basis concerning the foodstuffs ingested.

The difference in the diet does not make so much of the difference as the persistent daily taking of the care with the vitamins, perhaps, or with a certain part of the diet. This is a way to keep within the mind the desire to be a purified channel. It does not mean that one should deprive the self, but that it aids the field of intention of the healer to readily be reminding the self of the desire to be a better instrument for the Creator. This has the excellent side effect of creating within the mundane life a certain pleasing relaxation which is dependent upon one whose decisions regarding such things as foodstuffs are in a comfortable and at least subjective feeling of balance.

May we answer further, my sister?

D: I appreciate you discussing the feeding thing. That’s been very much on my mind in the last few months, most especially with the intention of clearing this imbalance, to balance the diet. There seems to be a sabotage effort, if I may call it that, with an intense warning that goes within. I’m sure that many other healers experience this as they’re attempting to find that inner balance, but it seems the more one pushes with intent to clear out and to become of a higher vibrational level in all areas including meditation and balance of diet and what not, it seems that the old habits maintain their forces at an even greater level.

Can you comment on this pushing/pulling process, and is this just part of the process, and it just needs to be given time, or are there, when you stir up with intent for positive, bringing more positive light into you and creating those positive things such as bringing in better foodstuffs, when you’re attempting to bring that in to your lifestyle on a daily basis, what causes this great resistance, and is it just a matter of time in which one will work itself out, or are other factors involved within a particular healer itself that prevents this from occurring naturally?

I am Q’uo. We struggle to give a concept to this instrument. Let us begin in the middle. The service a healer does for the one to be healed comes utterly through the healer and through to one to be healed and represents a potential where, shall we say tangled light may resume its proper arising of hues. Because the healer wishes to create a channel where this light of love moves without hindrance it works upon the food and upon the attitude.

The main part, however, is involved in something which almost gets lost in the considerations of diet and meditation. That is, that the perfect channel has a life of its own to some extent. Before the healer opens this channel, whatever the level of work on the self beforehand, the channel then requests the most excellent flow of healing energy which it can carry in a stable manner. By requesting this privileged energy in this way, whatever the imperfections of the channel, the energy will be such as not to be too much for the channel to carry.

Could you please question further to point us in a more specific direction, my sister?

D: Just give me a moment. Then, in reference to the clearing done this morning, I was fairly on target. Can you just tell me yes or no on that, and I’ll go further?

I am Q’uo. We affirm that that which you did was good work.

D: OK, there are certain directions I would like to go. I’m just not sure which are the proper directions and the proper order for directions, so I will start, I suppose, with the pendulum leading on karma. I would like to know whether it would be more effective to do this, just prior to treatment and after treatment, and if you would be able to take me through the procedure of guiding me how to take the proper measurement as I go down through chakra centers, so that I can get the best and most accurate reading. After that I would like to follow up with some questions in reference to the chakra centers, and go from there. Is this acceptable?

I am Q’uo. We are not able to do your learning for you. We therefore do not feel it wise to share our opinions with you upon a specific set of readings from the pendulum, shall we say. We leave you high and dry there. However, when this has been done and you as a student of this technique have thought concerning your experiences and have drawn queries from them, then those queries constitute a portion of your own struggles to learn which we may respond to without interference in free will. Is this alteration acceptable, my sister?

D: I understand completely, and I apologize for asking that. I’m still educating myself in reference as to how to ask the specific questions. That’s perfectly acceptable to me. There are two things I would like to do. I would like to ask in reference to doing meditational practice on myself because it has been done, and I am concerned with the incorrect directions I am giving myself in reference to clearing.

You have made reference quite a while ago in another session in having to do with … we are as a people basically redundant and very detail orientated, and the general idea here I’m getting is that for all of the detail carrying out that we do, those details are basically for us to work out so that we can come to a higher concept of what is really occurring, in which case some of these questions I ask in reference to my chakra clearing may be very detailed, but they also might be helpful for me to be able to come to that higher point, and I ask if that’s acceptable with you?

I would also like to review, then, that work which was done on a friend of mine who is now not within this realm, and find out … I do not want to go beyond the law of free will or confusion, but I’m curious as to whether or not I can ask certain questions in reference to those chelations in order to be able to determine either errors or mistakes that might have been made, or are there things that I might be able to do correctly in the future for others, having done that experience, and that’s my question?

We are Q’uo, and are aware of this last query which we find difficult to make into one question …

D: There are many …

We are Q’uo. May we just say that if your queries stem from experiences and those experiences already part of your healing experience bring queries to bear, we are gratified to listen to them and respond as we may, my sister.

Is there another query to follow-up?

D: Yes, in that case, may I begin with the questions that I wrote?

I am Q’uo. Proceed.

D: OK. First I would like to know whether I can have permission from the entity known as E to release this information to this group. He was very willing as a patient during the time that we did work on this. It was great learning for me, and I need to know if it is necessary to ask permission and is it acceptable to be given, because much of these questions are going to be directly related to work done on him.

I am Q’uo. We find that the entity released hindrance to you at the end of the time period wherein it was receiving aid, therefore you may query.

D: Great, thank you for that. In session one, there were three sessions, in session one I realized that the preparation work was quite inadequate and during which many mistakes were made. The first error was in skipping over the placement of the hand upon the ankles and then again I overlooked the first chakra when I went back. I then went back to try to rectify this. Does the order in which one moves make a significant difference when practicing or clearing in a generalized manner, and also when an error, and you make a mistake and move, is it best to continue moving upward, or should the healer retreat back to the area which has been overlooked, in which case, what is the proper procedure for backtracking and inserting this step?

I am Q’uo. My sister, the ways that various healers choose to enter the body field are variously efficacious. Some have a knack of finding one way for all patients, and this is good. Others feel sensitive to a specific patient and alter a routine for that reason. Routines then vary greatly. To some extent it does not greatly matter. Perhaps we would say simply that it is well to work either up the chakras or down the meridians. That is, working from the bottom up, the first work would go into working with the back and the trunk of the torso first, the head coming up at the top of the chakras and then all the muscles worked.

The other most used technique is to begin with various movements and polarity work at the head and move slowly down the torso, arms, and legs. To the extent that such order within the session gives to the healer a good feeling of having not left anything out, this is excellent to the healing forces within. A regular technique is also excellent because it allows the patient’s emotions to remain calm as it knows where it shall be touched next.

Therefore, you are quite wise to have a technique that usually does not vary. When something is forgotten with the technique however, it is perhaps the more skillful option to fall back to that which has been forgotten; do it, and keeping the hand always in contact with the body, move gracefully and slowly and with confidence to the place where you left off, and begin again. The key here is slowness and calmness for the patient if the patient that is attempting to be a part of the healing process is relaxed and used to that rhythm which you have set up. Therefore, if the rhythm is broken the slow touch moving back to reclaim that portion of the healing technique and then the slow touch trailing back to where one left off keeps that patient’s emotional and mental bodies open and receptive. Whereas if the hand were jerked off the physical vehicle of the patient and haste taken in running back to redo the left out portion, the harmony of the session would be broken and with that some of the potential the healing work in that session might have.

May we answer you further, my sister?

D: You answered that one perfectly, you covered everything I had running through my mind when I did that. Due to the poor conditions in which we were operating, oftentimes I found myself uncomfortable and out of proper alignment due to the fact that I could not maintain my body vertically for very long without slumping forward or backward for better comfort. What happens when a healer cannot maintain this vertical posture? Does the incoming energy reflect off the body instead of going through the body and how does it affect the healing?

Listening to you this morning I am now going to interject this into the question, I am guessing that the energy we are working with is so intelligent that, so as it knows not to do harm to either one, and because the intention is there regardless of the moving back and forth or the incorrect positioning, if the energy will still flow properly and accordingly and in which case should the healer concentrate on personal comfort and intent alone, and disregard the fact that this vertical positioning may be off?

I am Q’uo, and yes, my sister, you have penetrated that problem easily. The goal in being a servant is to offer a service. The better the posture, the better the attitude, the better the frame of mind, the better of any attribute chosen, then the better the experience for the channel or healer. As to the feelings of the patient, it does not bear any meaning whether the healer is more or less totally comfortable or erect or not erect. So most thought then may always be taken for the work and only secondary thought need be taken for a passing discomfort. Of course, if there is a strong element of discomfort present it becomes very difficult to clear the mind and heart in order to tune and be a channel for healing. So you may see that this is one judgment call a healer must be responsible for making.

Is there a further query, my sister?

D: Just a confirmation then. In which case, if a healer becomes extremely uncomfortable, provided the healer moves slowly, with intent as to not to disturb the patient, the healer may, if the healer wishes to continue the treatment and not just adjust either a chair or whatever, provided the hands are kept on, or the healer goes through the drop/disconnect procedure and then moves the chair to better comfort, and then proceeds with the healing, this is perfectly acceptable provided the healer takes the care to do this slowly and so as not to disturb the patient. Can you choose to at that time discontinue the treatment, in which case, this is the second question, if that is the case and there is too much discomfort can the session be ended right there or does a clearing need to be continued through? Can you stop in the middle of treatment, and will that leave the patient high and dry, or is there some procedure in which you can quickly close so as to remove yourself from the patient and allow the patient to absorb whatever energy has been given and the patient will be alright after that procedure has been cut in half?

We are Q’uo. When there is sufficient discomfort to end a session in an untimely manner and there is the energy which has been called for, it is appropriate to consign that energy which carries healing back to the one infinite Source. The ending without the completion of a certain series is acceptable. However, to stop, shall we say, cold is unwise. Better to take these energies, move them with hand to the last position and from this position ask these energies to move back to be released into the infinite light of the one Creator, thus sealing and blessing both the patient, the channel, and the mutual work.

Is there a further query, my sister?

D: You answered that one fine, yes. When the procedure was completed E was very anxious to get up, and I neglected to offer him a glass of water which was her instructions from the sessions that I had attended with Barbara Brennan. I was curious as to the anxiousness on his part, if it was strictly due to his personality or was his insistence to get up a reflection of some of the healing in part, and it was also recommended that the patients rest a while after treatment. Can you comment on the purpose for this resting, as well to explain why the water was included as a required step. Also, should this water be previously charged as well prior to treatment and the drinking of it, and how does the water interact with the energetic healing process. Also, if the patient does not rest immediately after this treatment will this in any way …

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Q’uo: Not only is water an excellent thing to use, but oil is also excellent. Both of these substances carry electromagnetic charge, and therefore are helpful in the seating within and without of changes offered at the cellular level. When such are forgotten, it simply jolts this newly offered body memory, and it may not be well seated or as well seated in body memory as those things which then were given a nice space of quiet in which these energies could take hold.

May we answer you further, my sister?

D: E experienced a great deal of dizziness for days afterwards, and mentioned that his taste buds were registering foodstuffs as hot. Was this due in part to the healing or the energy activating certain things within him, or were these at this point just other symptoms of his disease?

We are Q’uo. My sister, we find that this constitutes a question for your inquiry, not ours.

D: OK, we’ll move on. Did any movement whatsoever during those treatments cause injury to either E or myself?  Understanding now that intent and everything that you’ve explained this morning, I’m just curious. At the time I did not have that complete understanding, and was concerned about backflow. I experienced afterwards dull burning headaches and what not, and again you may refer this back to me, but I am guessing that that was due to non-cleansing afterwards, in which case I’d like to move to cleansing procedures after chelations to find out what would be the best method to cleanse oneself of such energies as I found just treating oneself from the energies that it has been using. Are there other methods aside from taking a bath that a healer may use to clear oneself of the energies that have been exchanged during a session?

I am Q’uo. My sister, it is most important to your work that you do indeed form a very regular habit concerning cleanliness with laying on of hands. One such as yourself which is sensitive to the electrical body vibrations of entities, in working with the body you are working also with the finer bodies. It is the simple truth that when you work upon other being’s pain you pick that up within your physical vehicle through the hands which you are laying on. Prior to a session there needs to be a moment, however long you personally feel it should be, where you protect the self and ask for angelic help for each, you and the patient. You then ask for this same white light within which no negative error may occur, to cover not only yourself but also the patient in the working itself.

After such a session again you must needs cleanse the hands at least with the soap and the water. Any cleansing technique which you personally find symbolically satisfactory is a good way of symbolizing your desire to be a perfect, clean, clear channel. The portion that is physiological in the hand washing and so forth is a far more important consideration after a session than before.

May we answer in any more detail, my sister?

D: If the healer is working on several patients that particular day, I’m assuming it would be wise to symbolically cleanse oneself after each patient. Would that be sufficient, and after a full day’s worth of work is there additional work the healer must do in reference to cleansing from all of the sickness and varieties of sicknesses that the healer has come in contact with, or is this basic cleansing after each patient sufficient considering that before it works on each patient it will certainly ask for the light to protect itself?

I am Q’uo. For most entities which work to any substantial degree with such do prefer the bathing after the day’s work. In fact, it is not strictly necessary, however, the water does rinse some remaining accumulated, shall we say, thought form grime from the finer bodies within the energy nexus of the physical body and there does seem a feeling of lightness that showering afterwards does bring.

May we answer you further, my sister?

D: In adding particular salts to [inaudible] and what not, does this make a tremendous difference as opposed to just taking a regular shower, or are all of those procedures no matter what one adopts, no matter what one finds comfortable for helping the self, I’m assuming and I’m guessing that no one thing is greater than the other. It is really a personal choice one makes in reference to how one chooses to bathe and what materials one chooses to bathe in, am correct in this assumption?

I am Q’uo. Yes.

D: OK, I just need a moment here to review. I want to recover some stuff to do with that session. Is there a degree of illness so progressed that it’s wise for a beginner such as myself to refrain from attempting to give energetic healing? Are there danger signs one should heed during these treatments to avoid? I’m going to mix that question. I’m just going to say is there a point in which a healer should refrain from attempting to give energy to another who is in either terminal illness or very, very ill and the energy levels are very, very low, or is it perfectly acceptable to give healing right up until to the point of their passing through this incarnation, strictly due to the fact that you are offering that energy to the patient ,and it is their choice no matter what they choose to do with it, therefore there should be no harm to you? I’m trying to determine whether or not there are certain levels that are too dangerous to work with, or whether you are really buffered by the intent of what you are doing throughout the entire process no matter who you work on?

I am Q’uo.

Carla: I’m sorry. I’ve got Q’uo, but Q’uo’s not saying anything. Just repeat the question and maybe I can …

D: I am concerned about the degree a patient may have, is there any danger to working with any patient with any degree of illness whatsoever, or does the entire procedure working with intent and understanding intelligent energy as it exists, does that buffer the healer from any negativity or darkness from the illness that may be within a patient?

(Carla channeling): I am Q’uo, we are sorry for the pause but this instrument was too deep, and we simply had to bring her back forward. It is to be borne in mind that nothing is being done to engage the ill health of the entity.  No outcome is intended when doing healing work. Let us specify: if someone comes to you with AIDS, say, and asks for a healing, and after the healing then continues to deteriorate, yet shows an improved spirit of charity, one may say that this entity is not cured. However, it has been healed.

No healer or patient can truly judge the precise nature of an illness, nor is there any necessity to do so. Rather, the effort is made to create a bridge whereby a higher truth by grace and force of destiny may overshadow and thus transform some disease into a condition of ease or wellness. Therefore, no concern needs be taken no matter how seemingly ill an entity is, for picking up, shall we say, severe illness from such a person. The realized or crystallized healer simply offers a catalyst with no outcome in mind and the prayer, “Not my will, but thine.”

May we answer further?

D: That answer fairly summed up many, many questions, I just need a moment. I want to make sure I don’t neglect anything here. Just a concern I had as a healer while working on the patient. My concentration was fairly there. I attempted during those sessions to remain as aware as I possibly could and in touch. As a healer in the state that I am at present I have much difficulty determining when to make a next move due to the fact that I’m either not practiced enough or not sensitive enough to judge from the energy flows within my hands to know when to move on. During those chelations, I relied on my guides to work with me and attempted to remain open enough to know when to move, but we’re still basically in the dark, understandably. I understand that, but are there any other methods that as a healer I can incorporate while this procedure is moving along that might help aid my sensitivity to be able to understand when to move onward, or is this something that must be developed through many, many chelations and must be left up to me to determine?

I am Q’uo. Firstly, much must be left up to the student for its own good. To offer the easy shortcut is to cut you off from your own wisdom.

D: Alright …

Carla: Was there another part to that question because I seem to keep going to sleep …

D: No. Carla, don’t even worry about it …

Carla: OK.

D: They’re doing a great job here in being able to cut out a lot of the detail in that I needed to move through to get to the basic point. There is a point in, oh yes there is a point in which when I worked on E, and there was a dramatic release of pain when I touched his feet during the beginning of his chelations, he requested that I redo it because I guess the relief felt so great at the time. I did not feel good about doing this but went ahead due to his request anyway. And as I had finished the complete chelation treatment, went back to again place my fingers upon his feet and insert new energy. This caused immediate pain within him, and I realized that this was not the correct thing to do. Under those circumstances was it best to do what I had done which was just attempt to withdraw, and can you give me any information whatsoever in reference to how going back over once treatment has been given to a patient, how this may hinder or hurt the treatment that’s already been given, in the example that was given to us for clearing?

I am Q’uo. In terms of the psychological portion of such healing it is well to move with dignity to an ending and allow that ending to be just, not thereafter going back to offer an encore on one particular portion. This creates a better atmosphere for healing, whereas going back to do this or that creates the atmosphere of not enough. If it is simply the back rub then one can go back and forth depending on what needs to be rubbed, but in healing one is not simply pressing muscles and asking them to relax, one is working at the cellular level in creating opportunities for the transformation of a life-form as a whole. Therefore, it is well simply to refrain from going back over that which has already been offered, completed, and blessed.

May we answer you further, my sister?

D: Just a moment here. At a certain point in the third session, I requested that E’s guides work along with mine. As my hands were placed on his second and third chakras I left them there, that if E would accept it, and if it were agreeable with all that his guides come in and do internal work that I was not adept at doing, which might further enable him while I was there acting as a channel, in which case because I had great difficulty determining how long to stay, or understanding, or being able to feel what was occurring, I had to use my judgment, in which case I felt inadequate in judging how much time was necessary for any particular guide to do anything without being able to communicate with those guides in some way, shape or form, sensing or feeling, emotionally knowing, I felt that I was rather blank in this area.

Also, when I retrieved some mucus from his chakras and lifted it up and gave it to the guides, again I questioned how much time was necessary to be able to give the guides the necessary time to neutralize that mucus. Are there tips or anything that I might be able to work with, knowing that I am working in the dark, and I’m most concerned with not cutting off the efforts or the workings of those guides? If in the future I work on patients, how much time should I allow for these particular healings, knowing that I am completely in the dark, and having difficulty with accepting my own judgment in this area? Can you comment on this?

We are Q’uo. In dealing with the guides we suggest the practice, when there are no patients, in a form of address to the guides. Perhaps the visualization of greeting guide or guides, as you may feel them to be, giving them respect, bowing to their help, and thanking them in a visioned way within. Then placing in the mind’s eye so that the guides may move into this situation the condition of the patient as you find it. Then the requesting that this patient’s guides move in their wise ways into the situation. Then an inner affirmation that this indeed is being done, and that these essences are indeed now working to alleviate the illness. Once this has been respected, seen into the beginning of the functioning and thanked and blessed, that then need not be repeated in that same day at least, for that would indicate that there was some lack of faith that this had indeed had taken place.

Indeed, in general terms, it is important that a healer begin to accept its hunches, for no healer ever knew a bell to ring in the head when some energy work was finished, rather the healer of this kind of energy simply has a feeling that the energy has stopped, then it moves on. Over time experience brings not only the awareness of the energy flow and its surcease, but also the awareness that you were very close to being accurate before you had enough data to begin to perceive more clearly the ebb and flow of energy.

May we answer in one final query at this time?

D: Yes. In all of my closings I felt inadequate before doing procedures, I had great difficulty determining the orb field, how far that extended. I, reading in the Hands Of Light book, Barbara describes this process most carefully as moving with the heart towards the infinite oneness, and then this process cannot be mental. In the sessions I was working with, though, I was only able to at best create the mental picture of my interpretation of what the heart feeling might be because I could not move into the heart and feel the emotional feeling, so I did this rather intellectually. In moving back to a session I worked on with an entity called S, when I worked on this procedure with her she did indeed remark that she saw angelic beings which was also described in the book and in which case I was also very mental at that point, or felt I was being mental.

Therefore, in comparing my intentions with those which are described in the book and attempting to do the best efforts that I can, I wish to have you comment on the difference between heartfelt rising and mental rising and perhaps you can offer me some tips in reference in being able to connect more closely to the heart and working around mental, or comment on the fact that the mental workings of my mind at the time were sufficient enough to create the closing. And that is my final query.

I am Q’uo. My sister, the closing of the door of opportunity is an event at the end of a healing which has a magical function. There are those who actually create a noise such as a clap when such magical activity has been finished. The insistence of the one known as Barbara that the healer’s perceived ending move from the heart is based on the magical aspect of the heart as opposed to the intelligence. A closing which has been perceived by the self as coming from the intellect may well be that which does not contain enough resonance to properly seal the working.

Thusly, the descent into the heart, if as a whole the ending is mixed between brain and heart, then perhaps while learning is taking place the student may offer what closing he may make at that time, but before leaving the ending move deliberately into the heart and give an unspoken or spoken thought along the line of “This is done, this is finished,” or blessings that this may be well, and then the hands clap together once or simply the foot quietly stomped against the floor, thus preserving the form which respects and recognizes the magical that is the unusual portion to this form of healing.

We thank the one known as D for having these interests and asking these most interesting queries. We thank each in this group for calling us and offer each our blessings and love. We leave you now in the illimitable light and love of the one infinite Creator. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I went downstairs and vacuumed three bedrooms and the bathroom in preparation for our Homecoming Gathering which begins tomorrow. Then I ran an errand to Paul’s Fruit Market to buy some black bean burritos and blackberries. I also stopped at Walgreen’s Drug Store to buy some paper plates and super glue.

This afternoon I used my ladder to get up on the roof of the garage to remove the tree limbs that have fallen on it in recent rains and wind. I also put up the bamboo barrier around the front and side of the port-a-potty to make entering and leaving it more private. Then I put some sand on the brick walk leading from the house to the area where the tent for our Homecoming Gathering was erected this morning with the hope that the sand will keep the brick walk from being slippery if the forecast rains this weekend occur.

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

May 23

The Touch Of The Spirit

I am of the spirit of Jesus the Christ and I greet you in the consciousness of love.

We find this instrument contemplating the lightness of our touch upon its consciousness. Would this instrument wish the Holy Spirit to come upon it in such power that it were struck blind? There are times when the Spirit must come upon one or many in the boldest strokes of light and thunder.

Yet far more often is the Spirit’s influence felt in the light movements of the wind of Love’s consciousness upon the texture and fabric of your illusion. Yet if it is desired that greater light in greater strength strike the life, the pilgrim may seek to condemn, vilify, and persecute those things which it does not understand. Then the Spirit, soft and sweet, becomes dire and terrible and light becomes awesome.

May your ways be unbound by judgment and may the Spirit touch you in peace, now and always. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from May 2, 1993:

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and am again with this instrument. At this time we would ask if there may be any queries to which we may speak more briefly?

Carla: I’d like to ask if it might be said that through choiceless awareness, through choosing that choiceless awareness, we become truly creative in our third-density experience, more consciously creative?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query my sister. It is a feature, shall we say, of choiceless awareness that that quality of working with energy fields and ideas that you call creativity is given the greatest opportunity for expression, for this energy of thought and inspiration runs ceaselessly through each entity’s life experience and is available for inspiration as the entity is able to open the self in an unguarded and vulnerable way to this energy. Whether this choice to experience awareness without choice is made in the conscious sense or in the subconscious sense, the entity is able to feel the pulse of its own being and to express this sensation in any avenue available, whether it be of the physical creation, or of the mental creation, or of the simple experience and expression of awareness internally.

Thus, in short, our answer is yes, my sister, your ability to become a co-creator is in direct proportion to your ability to open yourself to the possibilities of the moment, as you offer yourself in your beingness to each moment.

Carla wanted to know if by using choiceless awareness we can become more consciously creative in our third-density experience. Q’uo began by saying that choiceless awareness was a way of working with energy fields, or creativity, as one is able to open the self to this energy in an unguarded way either consciously or subconsciously. Q’uo went on to say that this would manifest in a physical way, in a mental way, or as an expression of internal awareness. On May 2, 1993, Q’uo defined choiceless awareness:

One entity approaches a fence. Because the entity is inwardly looking, the entity does not mind where it goes, so it turns and walks along the fence. This is not only choiceless awareness in that there is a graceful and seamless acceptance of a change of direction to cooperate with the electromagnetic fields of wood and metal. There is another entity which is determined to go towards something on the other side of the fence. This entity is choicelessly aware of the fence and nonetheless climbs over it. Depending upon an entity’s attitude, however, it might be considered unfortunate to have the necessity of going along the fence line. It might be equally offensive to another to climb the fence. The more sharp the choice, the more precious the attitude of choiceless awareness. The more challenging the circumstance, the more useful is grace.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: Thank you. I just wish to say that it seems that in our choiceless awareness we become—we realize that all of creation is something we do together, and it inspires more honor and respect for our oneness. Thank you.

I am Q’uo. We agree with your eloquent statement, and thank you as well. Is there another query?

Carla: I would like to try. I didn’t understand very much of what I channeled. I had the idea that the archetype of the Matrix of the Mind, part of that image is that it’s reaching out to the Potentiator of the Mind, so it seems like that there is a choice involved in the archetype. I’m a little confused. Could you speak to that at all?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. There is in this first archetype the male entity, the magician standing, and as your cards show in their redesigned form, the entity holds a sphere. This sphere represents the nearness of spirit and the immanence of the archetype of the High Priestess, that is much as you would call the force which brings manifested spirit into the illusion as it potentiates thought and action in the conscious mind. The conscious mind has placed itself in this proximity with the hope, shall we say, that such potentiation shall occur. In this placing of itself in this proximity to the subconscious mind there is, indeed, a choice which has been made, much as you would make the choice for experiencing choiceless awareness. However, the choice in this case is made pre-incarnatively so that the Magician that is placed in proximity to the High Priestess has not of its own consciousness chosen, but has been, as are each of us, placed by the grace and creative power of the one Creator. The proximity, however, is that which presents the possibility of potentiation and the gaining of experience.

Now Carla asked if there was a choice in the reaching of the Matrix of the Mind to the Potentiator of the Mind? Q’uo said that the there was, indeed, a choice to be made in the Magician, or Matrix of the Mind, reaching towards the High Priestess, or Potentiator of the Mind, but it was pre-incarnatively made to aid in the gaining of experience. In 78.34, Ra described this relationship of the High Priestess to the Magician:

Questioner: Would the archetype then that has been called the High Priestess, which represents the intuition, be properly the second of the archetypes?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. You see here the recapitulation of the beginning knowledge of this Logos; that is, matrix and potentiator. The unconscious is indeed what may be poetically described as High Priestess, for it is the Potentiator of the Mind and as potentiator for the mind is that principle which potentiates all experience.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: No, I’ll have to read that, but thank you very much, Q’uo.

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

[Pause]

I am Q’uo, and as we observe the depletion of queries, we shall take this opportunity to once again thank each present for inviting our company to your circle of seeking. We are greatly inspired by the dedication to seeking that each of you possesses and which each brings to this circle with such daring and creativity, shall we say. We look at each entity and see the valiant warrior walking carefully in the darkness of the illusion, examining that which surrounds, and which moves within it, and offering that which is found with sincerity and a certain childlike glee. This is quite moving to each of us, for we are aware of the difficulties of your illusion and we appreciate the effort required to keep moving in the mystery and to offer the services to others without fail, each aiding each upon the journey.

At this time we shall take our leave of 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 continued my preparations for the Homecoming Gathering this weekend by weeding the Morning Glory vines in the center of the cross area. Then I took off the netting and wire protections from flower gardens in the front and back yards. Most of my flower gardens don’t have any netting or wire protection, and have not been bothered by the deer because of using the Deer Stop spray that I bought at Paul’s Fruit Market which is primarily composed of putrified eggs. Then I ran some errands with my first stop being at Thieneman’s Nursery to buy some Angelonia. My second stop was at Feeder’s Supply to buy more cat food for Benny and kitty litter as well. Then I stopped by PNC bank to make a cash withdrawal. My next stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market to buy some food for myself. My last stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store to buy some Tylenol and Pepsi Zero.

This afternoon I transplanted the Angelonia into the flower mound in the middle of the Moss Garden where some flowers had died out, and then I used my backpack blower to clean up various areas of the back yard and side yard.

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

May 22

The City Of God

We are of the principle of the living Christ, and we greet you in the full consciousness of Love.

For many days the instrument has felt beleaguered and puzzled. And so we turn the mind of the instrument to patience and waiting. There are times during the life experience—and it is designed in just this way—when the overwhelming nature of experience is such that the conscious mind is pulled away from that great, slow rhythm of the consciousness of Love. The mind, then, is receptive not to the city of God but to the city of man.

Yet that high and holy hill exists in the world as well as outside of it. And it is in quietness and peace of mind that this kingdom is to be seen. Yet also is it to be seen in the beauty that informs each and every work of God and of man. The city of God, that glad place where man may tabernacle with his Creator, lies within as well as in the world to come.

May each who frets and worries sink into quietness and peace of mind, thus to discover the Holy City and God’s will.

We speak to you in love and peace, now and always.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

Group question: The question today has to do with why entities who incarnate in this particular illusion choose one sexual orientation over the other. Is there an advantage or are there opportunities to choosing male over female or female over male in dealing with the various catalysts and learnings that are available in this third density?

(Carla channeling)

Greetings and welcome. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. We greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. It is a privilege and a blessing to join this circle of seeking and to share our thoughts with you. We thank you for calling for this type of information, and are most honored to be here. We do request that each seeker accept our lack of authority. We are fellow travelers rather than authoritative sources, therefore, we ask each to keep those thoughts of ours which may aid, and allow any that do not seem appropriate to be forgotten, for we would not represent a stumbling block for any.

The query concerning the advantages of male or female sexuality begins with the note that sexuality itself has advantages. The advantages of being polarized are a fruitfulness which one cannot gain without polarity. This may be seen to be literally true in human sexuality, wherein male and female come together to allow the opportunity of a pregnancy to occur. In the sense of working with one’s conscious awareness of the passing moments of experience, polarity is that which actively encourages the self to move into relationship. The sexual polarity creates a bias towards seeking companionship. The companionship may then move in any of a number of ways, all of which bear fruit in terms of an increased rate of catalyst, and therefore, an increased opportunity to learn from the catalyst.

Archetypically speaking, this sexuality can be seen to be that difference between the Matrix of the Mind and the Potentiator of the Mind, in that the male energy is seen as that which reaches, as does the Matrix of the Mind. The female may be seen likewise as that which awaits the reaching. In the cultural roles prevalent among your peoples, these roles are seen to hold somewhat towards true; that is, to the male of a mated pair, there is given the most affirmative training towards the bias of feeling a responsibility to provide for a family, to nurture and tend a wife and children by working and offering the fruits of that labor. The cultural feminine archetype, as opposed to the archetype of the deep mind, is considerably clouded and complex compared to the cultural role of the feminine gender, say, one hundred of your years in the past. However, there is a tendency still, and an inevitable one, towards the female’s perception of the self as one which nurtures and supports by the presence, by the loving and intuitive caring, by the qualities of compassionate gentleness, and intuitive hunching or guessing.

In broad strokes, then, it may be seen that entities which wish to learn the lessons of unselfish service through labor away from the family are drawn to the male sexuality. Those wishing to work in relationships and to learn the lessons of unselfish loving and serving through presence, may well choose the feminine gender. However, at a more goal-oriented level, these goals having to do with what you may call karma, male or female gender may well be chosen regardless of the implications of any sexual bias in order to set up the appropriate relationship wherein lies the work of the incarnation.

Thusly, if one with whom you have a tie which is karmic has the need to establish the sexuality as male, then in order to come into a desired mated relationship, for instance, you would choose the female gender in order to arrange the niceties of convention so that it would be possible to choose during the incarnation to take on this relationship. Within this relationship, you, as a woman, might be needing to work in what seems to be a more masculine series of lessons of responsibility and provision. However, the sexuality would have been chosen only in order to set the stage for the work in relationship.

It is quite common to choose gender for the purpose of aiding destiny, for most work done by men and women within incarnations this late in third density are working with the balancing of relationships, so that harmony and the kind of balance required to ride the bicycle with no hands might be achieved, not for one but for both. Thusly, one will see many relationships, none of which seem to be particularly similar, one with the other. This is because the soul choosing to do this work has acquired many, many lifetimes as both sexual choices—the biological male and female—and now are refining understandings gained in previous work with these relationships.

It is to be noted that the refining process, though it takes place in a much smaller arena than the first learnings, is nonetheless as difficult—or usually more difficult—and intensive work. We find this to continue beyond your density, that is, that the work of refining the choice for service to others begins with one decision and then becomes more and more complex, decision by decision and relationship by relationship. This continues as far as we know, becoming more and more detailed and difficult or intensive, until that moment when all detail is first glimpsed clearly as irrelevant, and the face turns for the final time to gaze in infinite love at the source and ending of all that is.

Each entity has the capacity to take advantage both of male and female orientations within one lifetime of experiential catalyst. We encourage seekers to investigate and deeply consider the perceptions from the standpoint of the opposite sexual gender. For instance, it is certainly reliably interesting for a woman to encourage those qualities the culture encourages and the archetype suggests: the bearing and raising of the children, the nurturing of the loved circle of family and friends through thoughtfulness and presence, the qualities of attractiveness and charm. These are most fruitful to investigate. Often the society and culture do not insist that the male viewpoint be included in this role-playing, yet how much more aware does a female become which has actively pursued the consideration of the male within the mated relationship?

Two queries are relevant: Firstly, “Were I a male …”—that “I” being the female—“Were I a male in this situation with these necessities, what pressures, what sensibilities, what cultural expectations would I then have access to that I do not as a female?” Conversely, although it is excellent for the male to wholeheartedly enter into those biases which the culture and archetypical mind suggest, it is very catalytic to focus upon creating adequate supply for the self and the loved ones, to be the leader and the tender of the physical plant of home and assets; yet, it is also fruitful for the male to ask himself, “If I were a woman, how would my perception of my role and its requirements be altered?”

We bring to this instrument’s mind the suggestion of an image from your holy work. In this scene from your Bible, there is a woman who has been unclean and very ill for many years. This woman strives merely to touch the hem of the robe worn by the teacher known as Jesus. The entity, Jesus, becomes aware that this woman has indeed touched the hem of his robe, for this entity feels the healing energy moving through him, and he asks, “Who touched me?” The woman owns her action and explains that she wished to be healed. The teacher known as Jesus then says, “Go, for your faith has made you whole.” In this instance, the entity known as Jesus stands waiting as the female, and is literally reached by a biological female functioning as a male in reaching out.

We may encourage each to feel within the self the full range of male to female qualities as they arise within, for all aspects of polarity teach. However, it is especially helpful to move in mind to the extreme that is the antithesis of the self, and so attempt to furnish the mind and the spirit with a more and more universal perspective. This perspective is certainly reached partially by swinging between male and female. However, in each case where an entity is more markedly in the cultural stereotype of its sex, therein lies the opportunity to increase one’s depth of compassion by moving firmly and regularly into the opposite perspective.

Note within the mind’s conversations as well as conversations with others, instances wherein generalities are made stating that women are such-and-such or men are such-and-such. It will be seen quickly that the generalizations cover, but do not obliterate, uneasiness and even fear of some aspect of the otherness of the other sexual gender. In terms of the red ray, marked polarity is greatly beneficial betwixt the two biological sexes. In terms of orange and yellow-ray relationship potential, it is as helpful to be devoted to considering the antithetical point of view as it is to be an advocate for one’s own gender.

As one gazes at the third density, one may see a movement which seems, and in many ways very deeply seems, to tend more and more towards the feminine principle, for the goals of third density are the choice of how to serve the infinite One and how to become more and more a witness to and a co-creator of love. Lessons learned revolve completely around love, not around wisdom but around love. The one known as Jesus expressed deeply feminine approaches to the challenges of hostile environment and relationships. The qualities of verbal submissiveness and reaching in love to encourage peace and great tolerance were emphasized in this incarnation. Indeed, the principle which this instrument calls “Christ consciousness” is one of unrelieved compassion, that is, compassion unrelieved by wisdom.

Thusly, females in their cultural training find themselves more cognizant of what may be called, “the Mind of Christ,” and find sacrifice more tolerable and acceptable, thereby creating much energy available for potentiating love and the learning of loving. It only awaits the male’s decision, however, to work with attitudes of inner peace for this to be available to males as well as females.

In the end, at this level of discussion, we come back to the benefits of having sexuality. We celebrate the fruitfulness of this polarity which brings entities together to learn, to love together, for the giving and accepting of love and all its fruits, advantages and disadvantages, is the proper business of humankind. Each knows the depth of the illusion of sexuality. Each is aware of the self at levels which do not alter because of being male or female. This Personhood is infinite, and from this standpoint, we encourage each to be aware of one final thing, that is the person within that is the self, that is one with that great Self which is love embodied and incarnate in the great original Thought or Logos. The Creator is not male. The Creator is not female. Yet, the Creator is reached by both equally within illusion. When a point of view is needed, and the biases of male and female … [inaudible].

We encourage each to move through considerations as male and as female, and then to reach within the self to that level where all selves are persons equally, and stand firmly and confidently gazing from that point of view to look at the biases brought about by gender, by birth, and by relationships.

Although this instrument wishes to have had more aid to channel upon this topic, we find that sexuality is relatively shallow in terms of its ability to create unique perspective. Certainly from within the incarnation, women easily see men as generalities, and men see women as generalities and experience great differences betwixt the two. However, free will is such that these differences simply create alternate forms of the same catalyst, so that biological sexuality does not have deep reasons for being chosen. We consider the outworking of relationships to be focal and most central to learning of love. Yet, in each mated pair, both entities shall don and discard both male and female type roles depending upon the energies necessary to be expressed in order to balance the relationship.

We apologize to this instrument for disappointing it, and we thank this group that it has allowed us this opportunity to share these thoughts. At this time, we would take any questions that any might have and close the meeting. We would prefer to transfer at this time to the one known as Jim. We are those of Q’uo, and leave this instrument in love and in light.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from April 25, 1993:

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and in light. It is our privilege to ask if there may be may any further queries to which we may speak before we take our leave of this group. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: So, my feelings of pretty severe self-criticism during this time are a season where I am trying to assimilate some kind of changes, is that right? Is it important that I know what that change is?

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

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

This child-like nature is balanced and focused by the maturing sensibility of a seeker. This is the strength of experience, catalyst which has been processed and placed carefully within the personality as a secure building block is placed within any builded structure. However, this maturing and adult-like attitude can also be an inhibitor to further change, in that it wishes to maintain that which it has and that which it is, for it is difficult enough to accept oneself as one sees the self, and to be asked to accept that which is perhaps more unknown within the self is an added challenge, which again requires the attitude of the child, looking at all about it without fear and with complete acceptance.

Carla asked Q’uo: “So, my feelings of pretty severe self-criticism during this time are a season where I am trying to assimilate some kind of changes. Is that right? Is it important that I know what that change is?” Q’uo began by saying that eventually it is important that Carla knows what changes that she has experienced, but in the beginning of these changes it is important that, as a conscious seeker of truth, she open her attitude and heart to a new being which is being born within her through difficulty and change. Q’uo suggested that Carla become as the child and look at the world as a source of endless excitement of change occurring through the experiences that she is having, which she has pre-incarnatively chosen, so that she may process this catalyst and use it as a fundamental building block of her personality. Q’uo completed their response by saying that being able to accept what is unknown within the self is the attitude of the child: to look without fear and with complete acceptance at the challenge of change. On July 12, 1992, Q’uo spoke about the challenge of change:

For each seeker of truth is a channel for the life experience, and when one finds oneself in the midst of change or transformation, this experience is the result of much desire previous to the beginning of the change, for first must come the recognition of oneself as one is at a particular moment. Then there comes, or perhaps does not come, the desire for change in a certain area of the life experience. Only after these recognitions have been achieved is the seeker able to undertake any portion of the change, which then may be manifested to the eye, the ear, or the emotions of the seeker undergoing the change.

By the time the changing and the frustration that comes with change is noticed, most of the work of the seeker has been accomplished as regards setting the change in motion. The work that remains for such a seeker, noticing the change within its being and experience, is the work of moving in harmony with the change. For this reason, we recommended the lighthearted approach which tends to see that all is well, that discomforts can be humorous and certainly can be survived, and can be survived most efficiently when there is this lighthearted approach.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: Just when … when I am in a state like this, any good that I ever was at meditating—and I don’t have the experience at meditating and I am not even sure I should call it meditation—I did notice you did not talk about meditation too much this time, you talked more about just remembering. Could you address the problem of not being able to meditate so well?

I am Q’uo, and I am aware of your query, my sister. As we spoke previously, the experience of change, especially when this experience is enhanced by a cyclical movement within the deeper being, is one which is felt to be chaotic and confusing, irritating, and almost unable to be borne. Thus it is not surprising that one’s meditations would also be affected by this confusing and chaotic experience. However, be assured that as you place yourself in a position to meditate and to open yourself to the experiences of love about you, that no matter what your perception of your experience of meditation might be there is work accomplished there, not just in the intention to meditate nor in the actual practice, whether perceived as well or poorly accomplished, but in those deeper portions of yourself to which contact is made during meditation, in order that these portions of your deeper self might be able to have their influence upon your perceptions in even the subtlest manner is the opportunity that is most helpful to the seeker of truth. For as you travel through the deeper portions of your mind and open yourself to any experience that you find there, you conduct an harmonizing expedition, shall we say, bringing together various resources that are uniquely yours, and applying them in a manner which is as mysterious as the heart of creation itself seems to each. Yet, in all the mystery and confusion, the intention, the practice, and the contact with the deeper portions of the self will provide you with the metaphysical food to fuel your journey further.

Now Carla wanted to know why she was not meditating so well as she was going through this process of change. Q’uo said the change that Carla was going through within the deeper portions of her being was chaotic and confusing, so it was likely that her meditations would also be chaotic, but if she opened herself to the love in the moment while she meditated that she would be able to contact those deeper portions of herself that would provide the metaphysical food to fuel her spiritual journey. On May 19, 1985, L/Leema spoke of the fruit of meditation:

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

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: No, Q’uo, thank you very much.

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

Questioner: I am just curious, Q’uo, if it is correct to say that when there is a great deal of change going on the inside then what seems to be happening on the outside is stagnant or calm. Also, the opposite of it, where there is stagnation on the inside that is mirrored by a great deal of catalyst happening to the outer self. Is that a correct observation or would you comment on it?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. In the general sense, we would agree with your summation of the experience of change, for as you perceive change occurring within yourself this change has in many cases already seated itself within the deeper portions of your being and this change is now making itself apparent to your emotions and your senses, and you begin to analyze with your mind that which you experience. It is much like the aftereffect that you see as the change within the daily round of activities. As you experience the calmer waters in your daily activities you may also assume that there are inner preparations being made for future change as current catalyst is accreted, and as it is well or not so well processed there is the building of momentum so that at what you would call a future time there can be another shifting of perception that will allow you a clearer view of your path to love.

Is there a further query, my brother?

Questioner: I will ask your comment on this concept. When a change is occurring that is already being processed by the deeper self, and it only comes up to manifest as an aftereffect through the conscious mind, is it then to any advantage trying to use the conscious mind to process whatever comes up in it? What is the place of those concepts coming up in the conscious mind in the overall picture of experiencing and processing this catalyst?

I am Q’uo, and I am aware of your query, my brother. As in so much that you experience in this illusion, acceptance is the key in all of your growth and service. Thus, as you experience the washing about and spinning chaos that change brings to the outer self and which is perceived by the conscious mind, this conscious mind is best used which opens the self to acceptance of that which is occurring. There is little that the conscious mind can add to the deeper changes that occur within. The conscious mind can inhibit and make more difficult the seeking of change. The conscious mind is much like the entity—we give this instrument the picture of the one who surfs the great waves of your ocean upon a small board, and which places the self at the crest of the wave when it begins, and shoots for the tunnel of the breaking wave in order to continue the experience of surfing the wave. The conscious mind, as it accepts the balance necessary to remain on the board and the board within the wave, can enhance the experience by moving with it. To fight or overexert the analysis is the equivalent of shifting the weight to inappropriate position upon the board, and to risking potential capsizing, shall we say.

Thus, it is well to be able to move with any experience, whether one feels that a valuable change is occurring or not. One does what one can and what feels right and well and balanced within the heart of the being, then one releases all responsibility for action and reaction and moves with experience as the swimmer upon the board moves with the power of the waves.

Is there another query, my brother?

Questioner: No, Q’uo, I would just add that I appreciate your tireless encouragement and kind words that bring in light, especially to me sometimes when I seem to be falling off the board all the time.

I am Q’uo, and we are extremely grateful to you as well, my brother, for the opportunity of speaking to those areas which are concerns in your path of seeking.

Is there a final query at this time?

[Pause]

I am Q’uo, and we thank each of you for inviting our presence to your circle of seeking this day. We realize that each of you is a diligent and conscientious seeker of truth, exerting every effort, applying every resource, and experiencing all that confronts you with the greatest amount of courage and honor. Yet we know that you feel, from time to time, that failure is your lot, and that you miss the mark far more frequently then you hit the mark. We would suggest to each of you that this may or may not be true. However, it is unimportant, for what is important is that you engage your experience with a whole heart and attempt to make some sense of all that occurs, knowing that all that occurs and all that exists, exists within the greatest mystery one can imagine, and that there is at the heart of this mystery infinite love and support for all children of the one Creator that seek to return to their place of beginning, never knowing for sure until they have returned that they have never left.

Your experience is your glorification of the Creator and the food for your own soul that you engage your experience with a whole heart and with all of your strength is the most important quality of your illusion and is that which shall serve you well in all of your learning and serving.

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 went outside and began using the trimmer to trim back the weeds in various portions of the yard and also to trim around the pathways, trees, and bushes in the yard in preparation for cutting the grass tomorrow afternoon. Just before lunch I took a break and drove down to the city clerk’s office to get a permit to put our DIAGONAL PARKING sign up in the parking area in front of the pet cemetery so more attendees to our Homecoming Gathering this coming weekend will have a place to park.

This afternoon I went back outside and finished the trimming around the yard. Then I cleaned the filters for the fountain in the fishpond as the height of the fountain was reduced enough to let me know that there is still a carpet of mud in the pond that the Quickfix solution I bought is not working as well as I had hoped that it would. My next application of this solution is tomorrow, so I hope that its effectiveness gets better with time.

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

May 20

Sins Flee Before Love

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

This instrument has little awareness of true holiness this morning. This is the state of almost every spirit who dwells within the earthly bonds of flesh. It was some time before we were even able to make ourselves known to the instrument, and this is an instrument trained to recognize coherent spiritual vibration.

The reason for this is the in-turning of the eye of spirit upon the self in order to bemoan what the spirit feels is sinful or full of error. When each spirit causes the flow of generous Love to turn in upon itself in judgment of the self, the flow of Love is forced to a standstill within the judgmental spirit.

It is true that there is no earthly body which is not a creature of flesh. And it is further true that many are the follies of flesh and countless their encumbrances. However, to unstop the flow of Love it is well simply to release each sin perceived and turn with a glad and simple heart towards the direction of the full consciousness of Love. For Love does not come into the sinful being but, rather, sins flee before the full consciousness of Love.

Do not attempt to groom the self to be ready to receive the Spirit of Christ but, rather, open to the Spirit of Christ in the knowledge that every strength will be given by that Spirit for all errors to be removed in due time.

We leave you in the peace of the positive and radiating Love of Christ, now and ever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from April 25, 1993:

Group question: The question today concerns how we get ourselves back in balance when we feel out of sorts physically, emotionally, and metaphysically. What techniques could we use to regain our center so that we can get a sense of purpose and direction in our lives when we feel there are difficulties, whether it is illness, or money problems, or insecurity about what the next day will bring? What can we do to regain balance, or is it possible to live in a metaphysical balance; is it necessary to be somewhat out of balance to continue making progress? If so, this “angst” as it has been called, is the driving force, but then what is the proper proportion? Is there a need to be concerned in the area when we are out of balance. Is there an action we can take to regain this metaphysical balance?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are so delighted to be within your circle of seeking this day, and to be sharing in your fellowship and in the experiences which you have at this time of your year as the blooms fill the garden.

For us to discuss being in balance is to move first into a perception of the balance of the sphere. It is only human, shall we say, to think of balance as having the characteristic of balancing between two legs, as you do when you walk. In actuality, balance is more a characteristic of realizing the center of one’s orb of beingness so that all of the happenstances of incarnational catalyst simply cause one to roll with the energies which are being manifested and expressed by the environment in the self. It is helpful for you to place that model of the self as the sphere in the mind simply in order to see that, metaphysically speaking, balance is not a matter of falling far, for the metaphysical being, when self-realized to any extent, is infinitely curved and not that with protrusions which catch one and bias one.

Perhaps one may see the stresses and harsher experiences of incarnational catalyst as being that which tends to more and more compactly press into the center all parts of the circle or orb of being. Perhaps from this beginning you may see that we do not have the opinion that to be in balance is to be static or fixed in position. Indeed, when all is well there is the feeling of process, the experience of ongoing energy flow. This feeling of beingness constantly moving and evolving in kind is the hope of one who sets out to know peace while seeking the truth. Such a nature is certainly not going to be fixed even if value is still held in the kind of peacefulness which is stationary. The desire to seek the truth quickly removes the probability of remaining in metaphysical place for long.

So we offer you the image of yourself as a spiritual being, as a sphere of energy which will always be rolling, yet whose center is more and more accurately and gracefully sensed so that as the abrasions of experiencing the illusion more and more refine the near-perfect roundness of your spirit you become more and more of the nature of the Infinite and less and less of the nature of that which is concerned with limitations.

What keeps a sphere from rolling? What would cause the seekers of truth to find themselves stuck? There are two categories of difficulties, the first being the declivities of the happenstances of your incarnational catalyst. There are small and large valleys into which this entity moves, only to find that there is no further downhill route, and happenstance alone shall not aid in the process of moving onward one iota. Then it is that it is easy to fear, for in order to smooth the metaphysical self and be able to roll with the punches, as it were, work has not then been done on being disagreeable with circumstance, the impulse having been trained over and over to see what is occurring, to cooperate, to adapt to what is occurring and to act within the situation as you find it. Occasionally this excellent behavior lands one in a hollow and fear is very quickly offered a place around the campfire with you.

Not to feel fear when feeling trapped by circumstance is unlikely. Therefore, let us look at what kind of companion fear may be. If fear be seen as an enemy, then it must be fought, and there are no true winners in a fight with fear, for it feeds upon itself, and if great attention be paid to it, it grows even greater. If fear be seen to be a guest, then the trappings of civility are found to be wise as well as courteous, for fear is after all a familiar friend, one to be greeted, offered a drink, a bite to eat, a warm place by the fire. “Of course you are here, fear,” you say, “Welcome to my world.” Fear then flowers into a true friend and says, “Thank you. You see me and honor me. For that, thanks. In return, I communicate to you that you may stay here for a rest, for you may get ready to climb out of this hollow, and I will help you.” Then brother fear can get behind that rolling self and aid in the climb out of that hollow circumstance.

The group question for this session was: “How do we get ourselves back in balance when we feel out of sorts physically, emotionally, and metaphysically?” Q’uo began their response by saying that we should look at ourselves as an orb of beingness that utilizes our daily catalyst in a way that we could see ourselves as infinite beings that are self-realized to the extent that we are curved and without any protrusions that would catch or bias us. They went on to say that to be in balance is not to be static but to have an ongoing flow of energy that keeps us moving and evolving as we continue to seek the truth as spiritual beings. Then Q’uo said that the catalyst of our illusion more and more allows us to increase the roundness of our spirit to become more the of the nature of the Infinite Creator without limitations. Q’uo also said that we may have difficulty rolling forward on our path when we come to valleys that do not contain a way for us to roll out of difficulties, and then we may succumb to fear that we shall not move any further on our path. So Q’uo said that if we see fear as an enemy and attempt to fight it, it will simply multiply and become greater whereas if we see fear as a friend, then it grows as our friend and offers to help us to climb out of the valley of hollow circumstance. On March 23, 2024, Q’uo described a way to make a friend out of fear:

Within the one infinite creation, there is only the power of Love that manifests as Light. And in the universe, galaxies, stars, planets, and entities this is the overriding and undergirding quality that is true, whole, and perfect. In your third-density illusion, you live with other qualities that are aspects that have been, shall we say, worked with in a fashion that may be conscious or unconscious by individuals in groups to create what you have called fear: the fear of not being love, the fear that there is a place where love is not, the fear that this may infect you.

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

[Pause]

I am Q’uo. We are having difficulty with this instrument. We ask your patience. We would appreciate a further tuning as this instrument deepens its state. We are those of Q’uo.

[A tuning song is sung by all.]

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo, and we thank you for aiding this instrument. We are again with this instrument in love and in light.

There are also those times when within the self there is the inner hollowing with inner stagnation or distress, the feeling of being stuck, this having not to do with circumstance or any outer manifestation. These are seasons of the soul and although they seem difficult and endless, they are extremely productive or potentially so. During these times, there is no true sense of balance, for the simple reason that the inner balance point, after a great deal of catalyst has been processed, is changing.

Often it puzzles those who experience these seasons of desert within, for the outer planes are halcyon and lovely, yet within all is certainly an arid waste. The negative reaction to this is often not true fear but rather a cold and [inaudible] discomfort, a feeling that one is truly unworthy, thirsty, and unfed, in the spiritual sense. Again, it is well to make a friend of this discomfort, even to allow some focus upon the discomfort, a writing in a journal, or telling to oneself of just how this feels, for by doing so, by being attentive to these feelings of discomfort within, one helps one’s own process of recentering according to one’s emerging character.

We are attempting to give this instrument a vision of how the incarnational experiences compact more and more beingness into the sphere of being so that the balance point does shift as entities become more polarized. We can only go so far with this imagery, and apologize for the limitations of this form of communication, but if you will picture a ball or field of energy in which there are shells of more and less density, and then see that this sphere has its cross-hatchings of energy and focuses of energy where lines cross, one may see that the learning that is done in an incarnation may compact one set of nodes of experience-gathering or another at different times, putting those portions under more pressure, and thus changing to some extent the way the sphere gets balanced.

The hope of entities who attempt to accelerate the rate of their evolution in spirit is to so live that the maximum amount of pressure is exerted upon the orb of self so that more and more and more of love may flow into or within the sphere or field of that which is your unique spiritual entity. Were you upon the path of service to self it would be important to study how to manipulate experience so that the balance point was not moved, but rather all energy would go to the perfection, or sheen, and the regularity of the sphere of being, these being attractant qualities. Because we speak to those upon the path of service to others, however, we assure each that it is not the point to attempt to look graceful or to seem centered, rather, dealing with times of feeling off-center or unbalanced the point is to make friends with this situation and involve the self in accepting and assimilating the growth, not with an eye to appearances but solely with the goal of so accepting and loving this discomfort of self that the stage is set for the process continuing.

After all, if you are scrambling out of a huge pothole in your spiritual road you cannot hope to look very graceful. Consider, you are being pushed from behind by Brother Fear, you have grown what little legs spheres might hope to wear so you may scrabble your way up to the surface of your spiritual path again. Where is it written that this posture is graceful? No, my friends, laugh and accept the sometimes-grimy nature of the spiritual road with all its potholes. We mean by this to affirm that there is great use indeed in the disquieting experiences of being off balance, of being upset with the self, right up to the point where you as an entity have absorbed fully the material of the discomfort, have chewed through those issues that were part and parcel of removing you from your center. Indeed, to the spiritual seeker the straight and level road is a lovely thing but if it is endlessly peaceful and there is no perceived challenge the seeker turns and questions its path: is it learning enough? And it does well to do so for the seeker that asks, “Am I learning?” or, “Am I taking it easy?” is also moving into a potentiated desire for further catalyst, and that which is desired shall be received.

We encourage each to rejoice at the broad and pleasant landscape when the spiritual path is such. We encourage questioning this peace as means of potentiating any further learning that may be available. This is the way of accelerating the rate of spiritual learning. When difficulties strike and one is in the potholes of the spiritual path we encourage moving in a very conscious way into a closer rapport with the difficulties of that pothole, whatever they may be, and a friendly alliance with fear. See it, accept it, and it will not limit you but be your friend.

Above all, whether on the broad and beautiful sunny path or in the depth of a dry, rocky waste we encourage the consciousness that the Creator is with you, for this is the true center at all times in or out of balance. The seemingly smooth and the seemingly rough both alike are manifestation of perfect love. No matter where your curiosity and your sense of adventure move you in spiritual seeking you are the same distance from love that is no distance. All you experience is love, all with which you experience is love; you are love perceiving love. Yet within your illusion there is subject and object and the verb between. Use this illusion, use this separation and allow the verb between to be love, allow yourself to enter into loving relationship with good times and with bad, with positive and with negative. Become involved and active within each portion of your spiritual seeking. The more you can embrace your condition the more you shall radiate that love which is of the essence of you, of the situation, and of any and all agencies whatsoever.

And my friends, what a service this is. To be able to bear witness in good and in bad weather, to the sun which forever shines, to the warmth of love which never grows cold, this is to be a sun to those who may share your circumstances, this is to radiate through your physical, mental, and emotional beings that spiritual truth that you are love and you are surrounded by love.

Then Q’uo said that there are times of feeling stuck, which are seasons of the soul where there is no sense of balance and which seem endless, but there is great potential for growth in being stuck. Q’uo said that in these times of distress we may feel spiritually unworthy, but if we tell our self how we feel, this aids in the re-centering of our self as a new self begins to emerge. So Q’uo said that it is helpful to accept and love the times of discomfort so that the process of change may continue because we move forward on the spiritual path by facing such challenges, and this is the way of accelerating spiritual growth. Q’uo completed their response by saying that we should accept the good times and the bad times as the Creator is with us in all times, and as spiritual, mental, and emotional beings that all we experience is love; that we are love; and that we are surrounded by love. On February 27, 2010, Q’uo described how we all are love:

And so you, a being made of love, begin to give your love and to receive love. And this is the meaning of your incarnation, the reason you are here: to give love, to receive love, to share being the one infinite Creator with each other, and to rest as a being of love in the arms of love. And then to go forth again and to have adventures in which you find love, and find where there is not love. And in those places where there is not love, you find that you may yearn to give those places your love. And so you reach out to be of service to others. And as you reach out you find that you receive ten-fold, a hundred-fold, a thousand-fold, of the love that you give. And if all is calm and rhythmic in this particular season of your life, you may begin to feel that wonderful feeling of being part of all that there is, this breathing universe which breathes out love and breaths in love. And so you begin to shine and to be a light. And even when you are sorrowful, even when part of you is lost in the thickets of intellectual thought, yet fundamentally you remember that you are creatures of love.

This instrument is asking us to finish our speaking, and we realize we must do that. We thank each for the privilege of speaking with you and encourage each in the sometimes-difficult process of seeking the truth. We are with you in that search, and we share love with you in each and every moment. We would close the channeling for this session through the one known as Jim. We would now leave this instrument. We are those of Q’uo.

This morning I went upstairs and cleaned Benny’s rooms. I began by using the carpet sweeper on the hall runner, and then I used the broom and dustpan to sweep up all of the kitty litter in her room. I completed the cleaning by using the dust mop to mop all three rooms and the hall. Then I went outside and weeded all of the gardens in the back yard.  

This afternoon I weeded all of the gardens in the side yard and the front yard. Then I weeded the area beside the bird bath and took all of the geodes and fossils out of the area and put down fresh topsoil. Then I put the geodes and fossils on the topsoil.

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

May 19

The Spirit Of Adventurous Space

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

This instrument has been anxious this morning, wondering if the Spirit came and went in the night, marveling that rather than feeling porous and full of the Spirit she feels hard and flinty as a rock.

Are all who seek so full of fears in the night watches and the mornings when all is not just as would be wished?

We encourage in all who are timid the spirit of adventurous space. Allow the self to expand, not to include new territories but to include space: space within the self; space within the personality; space within the day.

Those spaces may be filled by those whims and hunches which come to one who has allowed space; those hunches and whims that cause one to reach out and express the spirit of love.

It is in small things that the Spirit is transmitted from one to another of the children of God. And there is never any holiday from the Spirit’s promptings, not in the night watches and not in the morning nor any time whatsoever.

We leave you in the peace of the constant presence of divine Love, now and always.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from April 18, 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 to any further query if there may be service in it. Is there a query with which we may begin?

Carla: I was wondering about . . . I know that you said that there wasn’t one method of prayer better than another. But I was wondering, still, if there might be something you could say about—especially about various visualizations: visualization of the color of the energy center, or visualization of the healing taking place, visualization of the person as a healthy person that you’re praying for. Could you say something about that group of techniques? Or do you feel that they truly are one is as good as another?

I am Q’uo, and I am aware of your query, my sister. In many respects, each of these techniques of prayer is effective, in that there is the focus of desire and the experiencing of the opportunity to serve freely given as the breads cast upon on the waters mentioned in your Holy Bible.

We find that the general qualities of being able to see and accept the diseased state of the one to be healed as it is, and then being able to see this entity full of light, whole and harmonized in its energy flow, is most helpful to anyone who would seek to send healing vibrations of the highest level to another. Thus, the ability to visualize is quite helpful and adds another dimension to prayer.

The normal or most generally used means of prayer by most of your peoples in this particular country and religious heritage is to invoke the name or names of guardians, saints, and the one known as Jesus, to be with the entity seeking healing. This is also quite helpful, in that there are indeed entities of just these named and the Source of being available to assist those who would pray for another entity. By such repeated invocations, a path or trail is made and traveled as often as the prayer is offered. Thus, such ritualized prayer is enhanced in its efficacy by the regularity and degree of desire by which the prayer is offered.

To be able, in addition to this more frequently used kind of prayer, to also visualize is to add another dimension to the praying and intercession. This dimension is that which tunes, shall we say, the prayer in a more usable fashion, if the entity to be healed is full enough of its own desire and has reached the point of processing of catalyst that is sufficient to welcome the new, more healthy configuration of mind, body, and spirit that the healing process has as its goal.

Carla asked Q’uo if various kinds of visualizations could be used together with prayer in order to help to heal another person. Q’uo began their response by agreeing that all of these techniques of visualization were effective as they focused the desire to freely serve another person by seeing and accepting the diseased state and then seeing the person full of light and healed in its flow of energy. Then Q’uo reaffirmed the use of prayer to call upon various guides, saints, Jesus, and especially the Source of all, and to feel this desire on a regular basis. Q’uo suggested that it was also helpful to combine prayer and visualization, so that healing was possible, especially if the one to be healed was effective in their processing of catalyst so that it could welcome a healthier version of its mind, body, and spirit. On May 8, 1993, Q’uo described how visualization can aid in the process of healing:

My sister, the subjective nature of a healer’s individual method of perception creates for that one healer the needs and requirements of that healer’s work. One healer might find the need for the grasp of a system of visualizing which involves only seven colors in seven simple bands. Another healer might find that the seven times seven, as you mentioned, of the bodies, each color existing in a band of ever finer material, one for each chakra, to be that visualization which makes that healer feel able to heal and therefore this is necessary information.

In effect, as long as the healer has a consistent and compelling individual method of visualizing the movement of light this system of visualization is virtually and functionally accurate. We are not attempting to be obscure but are saying that almost any consistent method of visualizing the passage of energy will work for the one which has healing gifts and the desire to manifest these gifts. The healing ability is not raised by these visualizations or managed or controlled in their nature because of this system of visualization, rather the healing energy is channeled through the instrument, and what occurs as the healer does its work is that the healer discovers a way of visualizing the procession of this light in motion or this energy in such and such a way which does not interfere with the healing energy’s own intelligent movement.

The goal here is for the healer to become transparent to this energy so that it is completely calm and is functioning as conscious catalyst. However, in order that the mind of the healer be stayed and comforted some method or system of visualizing the traduction of this energy is necessary. Therefore, we urge that each healer—however modest or great the healing gift, each is a healer—that each healer find that level of detail and informative embroidery which is wholly sufficient and satisfactory for the self, knowing that the purpose of this visualization structure is to so secure and quiet the instincts of reason and so sweeten and make cooperative the nature that the infinite energy of the one Creator may flow freely and intelligently to do its work.

Is there another query, my sister?

Carla: Yes, I have two people coming to this contact from interests in working with healers. They both want to ask questions about various points, chakras—questions on healing, basically—that they are interested in various techniques of healing the body, and I suppose healing other things, too, but the mind is really on healing bodily conditions. Are these questions that can be put to you without causing the tuning that makes the contact between the channel and you good to falter in any way? Are these questions that can be safely asked in a stable manner, without disturbing the nature or the strength of the contact?

I am Q’uo, and I’m aware of your query, my sister. We are quite happy to speak upon these topics, weighing the kind of information we share with the continual suggestion that the healer must first heal the self and see the healing process as that which is possible when the realization of unity takes place deep within the one to be healed. This realization may be aided by one serving as healer. The one serving as healer will serve most efficiently when it is able to find this unified point of being within itself as a result of its own work of an inner nature and persistent reapplying, shall we say, the techniques of looking within for the balance and sense of wholeness, from which all healing efforts must proceed.

Thus, we are happy to speak to any specific topic or modality of healing, and will add that information which we feel is important in precisely placing the focus as the healer does its work of offering the potential for healing to another.

Is there another query, my sister?

Carla: Yes, there is Q’uo, but I want to thank you for the clarity of that answer. That helps a lot. I can really see where the realization of the healer being healed first is critical. If it’s possible for you to comment at all, I have also noticed my energy is just almost nonexistent, and I don’t know why. I mean, I never have physical energy, but I usually have vital energy. And I haven’t felt very vital this week. I feel alright, just not with it. Could you comment at all on what’s going on?

I am Q’uo, and I am aware of you query, my sister. For each seeker, there is the cycle of experience which manifests in mind, body, and spirit energy levels, and their continual shifting from strength to weakness as catalyst is processed within the environment of your third-density illusion. Thus, there are times when each seeker will find that it is more fully infused with this vital energy or the combination of energy of mind, body, and spirit.

There will be times when the seeker finds itself low and somewhat disabled by its lethargy. There will be far more times where the seeker will find itself moving between these extremes, as the cycles of each energy complex move independently and harmoniously of each other—we correct this instrument—with each other. We find that there are many factors which may be commented upon in relation to your current condition. However, the most fundamental feature of your experience of lowered energy levels is that you are within the trough or downward portion of the overall experience of your mind, body, and spirit energy levels or, again, as we have called this combination, the vital energy level.

Of secondary importance is the pushing of the self to accomplish work, shall we say, while the energies are low. We note here that, though the short run effect of this pushing of the bodily and mental complexes, especially during the low energy, is to increase the feeling of deficit, but the longer run view, shall we say, is that the pushing of the self to a certain degree, which you are discovering, helps to strengthen the overall ability to generate vital energy. Thus, we suggest a lack of concern and a keeping on, as you would say.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: So, you’re suggesting that there’s no real value in accepting that it’s time to take some time off and just taking some time off, if you can? But the better path, when you’re faced with a feeling like this, is to just carry on, keep on keeping on, as you said. Is that right?

[Side one ends.]

I am Q’uo, and I greet each again in the love and in the light of the One Infinite Creator. We are again with this instrument. We spoke to a balance which you are discovering, and again return to that statement with the suggestion that your choices of late have been well balanced between work, which has wearied you, and rest, which has rejuvenated you. Thus, during the low energy period, and indeed at all times, no matter the level of energy, it is well to push at some times and rest at others. We commend your choices, and continue keeping on as you have with these choices.

Is there another query, my sister?

Carla: No, I think that’s all for now, but I really appreciate the opportunity. Thank you.

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

[Thirty-second pause]

I am Q’uo, and we thank each once again for inviting our presence and bathing us in your great desire to be of service and to know that which can be known about that service which you offer and those difficulties that you experience. We salute your valiant efforts to move through this third-density illusion with as great a sense of grace and harmony and wholeness as you can experience and as you can offer to others. We move with you as those who rejoice at your every step and who witness your joys and sorrows as brothers and sisters. We are in good company, and we thank you for inviting us there.

We are known to you as those of Q’uo and would leave each and this group at this time, as always, in the love and in the light of the One Infinite Creator. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I was on a zoom meet with Hamed Golafshani and the study group at the Monroe Center. They have recently began reading the first of the Law of One books and had some good questions about some of Ra’s concepts that I enjoyed attempting to answer. We will probably have another zoom meet in the next few months. After the zoom meet was over, I went into the garage and cut up all of the cardboard boxes that contained my new generator and various of its parts so that I can eventually put them on top of the recycle bin to be picked up next Thursday.

This afternoon I made an errand run with my first stop being Walgreen’s Drug Store where I picked up a prescription for myself and a birthday card for a friend. Then I stopped by Paul’s Fruit Market to buy more deer repellent. My third stop was at Feeder’s Supply to buy some bird seed and cat food for Benny. My fourth stop was at Thieneman’s Nursery to buy two more hanging baskets of flowers to hang around the fishpond. When I got home I weed the flower garden on the Ruins Mound.

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

May 18

Turn From Your Books

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

Behold, my children! There is a boundless curiosity in you, a drive to know the wisdom and understanding of the universe. And to this end you bestow many long hours on study and contemplation of the divine mysteries.

And yet the language of the spirit is not wisdom but love, and it is through ecstasy that teaching is done. Thus, turn from your books, you students of the consciousness of life, and stretch out your arms to joy. Moved by the infinite rejoicing echoing throughout the creation, the seeker will finally come to know wisdom by being that which wisdom is, whole and complete, in the consciousness of love.

We leave you in the peace of that love, now and always. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The Q’uo quote today comes from April 18, 1993:

Question: We would like to ask a question about prayer. We would like to know how prayer is related to healing—how it might facilitate healing of mind, of body, of emotions, and of spirit.

(Carla Channeling)

We are those of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and the light of the Infinite One. It is a special pleasure to be with you this day as you celebrate your season of renewal of life force in your beautiful environment of flowering bushes and blooms. We thank each for calling us to you this day and would address your query concerning healing and how prayer may affect the various kinds of healing.

We would say also that we find this instrument quite low in energy and are needing to speak slowly. We thank you for your patience. The contact is a good one, but we must gauge our delivery according to the instrument’s limitations.

To speak about healing, we would first look at what that word means. The usual meaning of this word healing is that there has been a disease or toxic condition which has been cured. Thus, healing is the cessation of whatever agent—be it germ or another kind of agent—that has lived to the destruction of the body, mind, emotions, or spirit. It better suits our purposes, however, to look at that which is healed as that which has rectified and made again active and viable the movement of energy through the energy pathways or meridians of the physical vehicle and the finer vehicles, when working with mental, emotional, and spiritual healing.

The difference, basically, is that it is our perception that in health, there is a fullness of appropriately regulated activity. Whereas, when there is ill health or negative health, the energies do not continue flowing, but become confused and, in many cases, blocked at some level or energy center within the natural progression of energy flow of the vehicles which carry your consciousness. These vehicles lie together and are only separated in order that we may give you some idea of the richness, depth, and complexity of your structural makeup as not only consciousness, but consciousness within a physical vehicle which interacts and is part of third density.

When an energy is baffled, striated, diverted, or stopped in a certain place within the physical vehicle, the result of this irregularity of energy flow is usually seen first in the emotions. However, your peoples often do not give attention or respect to the messages which the emotions offer, feeling that it is more proper to hew to a schedule and be the same each day. Therefore, much discomfort which the emotions could, at the onset of disease, balance effectively, the unmanaged peculiarity in energy flow continues and thus engages the mind.

However, once again, those within your culture tend not to accept thoughts concerning theoretical or metaphysical implications, if such implications might suggest that one root up and discard the normal or scheduled routine. The key here is lack of respect and attention. It is only at this point that the physical body is assaulted with some diagnosable disease.

So, you see, the primary blockage that causes the unhealed condition may begin in any energy center, but the healing is offered first to the emotions, then the intelligence, then the physical body, which in the absence of other healing, is forced to play, act, or express and manifest physically the distress.

So, we see health as the clarity, radiance, and coherence—if not brilliance—of the energy centers. As is often the case with us, we use the colors of the rainbow to describe and visualize these centers of energy.

The group question for this session was about prayer and how it might be used to heal the mind, the body, the emotions, and the spirit. Q’uo began their reply by defining healing as the rectification of energy that moves through the body, mind, emotions, or spirit. They said that in the state of health there is a fullness of these energies that is appropriately regulated activity, and then they said that ill health is when these energies become blocked at one of the energy centers. Then Q’uo said that these blockages usually are first experienced in the emotions, but that, in general, most people do not give enough respect to the information that emotions have to offer so that at this point the body is affected by some diagnosable disease. Q’uo went on to say that the disease may begin in any energy center, and then is offered to the emotions, the intelligence, and then the body which manifests the disease according to which energy center represents the disease. On September 23, 1990, Q’uo related various types of diseases to different energy center areas:

There are many other stresses through which one may put the body because of concern of an overactive imagination of a personality that swings in its attitudes and needs to a greater extent than is comfortably handled by the physical vehicle. Thusly, it is quite obvious that in many cases the mind is the parent of the illness, and the illness is the acting out of that which was refused as catalyst by the mental/emotional complex of the self. There is the cancer of anger that grows upon itself. There are the lung diseases of those who have not said the words that they must say to be healthy, have not told the truths that must be told to be free of misunderstanding at a deep level in relationship. There is the acidic condition brought about by sheer overwork, which ruins your gastrointestinal tracts. Many are the illnesses that are the outworking of mental imbalance or emotional imbalance. We do not use the word unhappiness, because we, in our experience, have not found that concept helpful. Joy, not happiness, is a spiritual concept.

Now, we may turn to prayer. Prayer interacts with the distribution of energy flow in such a way as to tend to regularize flow. We do not feel the need to define prayer because any vocalization, conceptualization, or other means of organization in which prayer is intended is functionally prayer. One cannot try to pray and fail. The attempt to pray is the prayer.

What causes a person to pray? What lies so deep within an entity that spontaneous prayer rises to the lips? Each of you knows that, in some few situations in your life, prayer was an activity which you discovered while in the process of doing it. There is an instinct to ask for help when all else fails. This instinct is the gift of distant memory—the memory of their being oneness betwixt created and Creator. Through all the veils of forgetting, this instinct is so deep as to persist inevitably.

When the infinite intelligence of the Creator is invoked, a thought is called forth. That is the one original thought – Love itself. And any situation into which Love is introduced will tend to be affected positively by Love. Love is a vibration which equals the true or full vibration, which is the line of original energy flow.

Thus, prayer creates the introduction into the mind/body/spirit totality of an entity of the original flow. However, this flow is moving along the spiritual, rather than the physical, of the bodies. It therefore moves through blockage, confusion, and so forth, wherever it finds it. This free flow of the energy sought and found in prayer has the tendency to entrain the flow of the physical vehicle, so that the physical energy of flow tends to be restored.

Now, when an entity wishes to be a healing presence, not only for one physical vehicle or one mental, emotional, or spiritual aspect of a consciousness, but for the world at large as this instrument would say, or for some group larger than one entity, the prayer is working upon the mental, or in some cases, emotional vehicles of that group entity, and in some few cases, on the physical manifestation of that group entity. So, whether the healing is for an individual or group consciousness, the prayer has in its answer an equally effective agent of health.

Were entities to turn, whenever they found themselves in a worried or puzzled state, to intercession thanksgiving and praise, that is, to various forms of prayer, they would find, over a period of time, two things: firstly, that their frame of mind had become more balanced; secondly, that the problems that were so worrying somehow had taken a turn for the better in that they begin to be perceived as less worrisome. Turning to prayer is an appeal or shifting of the attention to that original pattern, which is forever mysterious but is also forever unified and whole.

It is a habit hard to cultivate, difficult to regularize, and impossible to adjudge in any provable way. However, that instinct of consciousness is a gift which may remind each in time of trouble to ask for help. Asking, praying—this is the secret. For as one devoutly hopes, has faith, and prays, so shall one’s health be established.

Now Q’uo spoke about prayer and said that any attempt to pray is prayer, and it functions by regularizing the flow of energy because it is an instinct within us that comes from the deep knowing that we are one with the Creator because there is no other place to turn when all else fails. Q’uo went on to say that when the Creator is invoked through prayer one is calling upon the original Love of the Creator to move through the spiritual body to clear the blockages of physical body so that the physical energy flow is restored. Then Q’uo said that when one wishes to pray for a group, then the prayer is working upon the mental, and sometimes the emotional and physical manifestation of the group. Q’uo continued by saying that when one turns to prayer and praise that their state of worry or confusion is balanced by turning to the original state of mystery and unity. Q’uo completed their response by saying that in times of trouble one should exercise the instinct to ask for help through faith and prayer that one’s health be restored. On May 9, 1994, Q’uo described how prayer works to restore health:

The one known as D has offered the information that although the spiritual illness can now be to some extent determined or found, yet there has not been a corresponding mode of healing with the exception of prayer. Again, this is because the spirit, while acting as a shuttle for energies into the physical and mental and emotional bodies, is not in direct contact with energies within the instinctual body and mental frame of individuals upon planet Earth, but rather can be reached roundabout, or so it seems to those within third density. The praying seems roundabout because one is praying to forces or essences within the world of spirit. And then that energy which lies without the sphere of Earth is persuaded to enter into the tangle to breathe balance into it. However, in actuality prayer is the most direct way of healing, for true healing is the restoration of all energies to their rightful balance.

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

This morning I did my weekly vacuuming of the first floor of the house. Then I took a look at some of the questions that I will be asked tomorrow on a zoom meet with a group that I don’t know the name or location of.

This afternoon I went to visit my friend, Connie, who has been in a care home in southern Indiana now for almost six years do to experiencing two strokes. I took her some black berries, strawberries, and raspberries to snack on. I showed her some pictures of my gardens on my cell phone as well as some pictures of Carla and some of the cats we had. Then I read more of Dianne Aprile’s book The Things We Don’t Forget to her, and we stopped occasionally to talk about the concepts being discussed. We did our meditation for about 15 minutes before I left for home.

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

May 17

Hope Is Always A Choice

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

This contact is very weak, as this instrument is very weak. A great deal of the strength or weakness of a person’s essential being hinges upon its desire to be strong.

Why would one wish to be weak? Because one is lacking in hope. Why would one wish to lack in hope? It is not seen that this is open to the process of choice. Yet hope is always a choice. Despair is only one side of the coin which may be turned by the will, at any moment, by anyone, in any circumstance, to hope. Thus, we say to you this morning, “Hope! Hope in little things! Hope in grand things! Fill your hearts, your bodies, and your minds with the strength of hope.”

For hope is unending and is that which guides the weary spirit to its place of rest where it may gain strength. And hope shall be turned into joy.

This is part of the grace of the spirit of love that lives amidst each conscious entity. This is part of the comfort that may astound and transform your experience. This is for you! These are not vain words.

You who despair, turn your mind to the power of hope. Gaze upon it as upon a star and affix your intentions upon it with perseverance. And so shall you be made strong, to be the will of the Father.

In love and peace unending do we leave you. 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.