Shifting Experiences, Black Quartz Experiments, the Art of Living Consciously
Topics:
“Environmental Energy”
“Black Quartz Experiments”
“Living Artfully”
“It’s Easy”
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Markus (Markus)
ELIAS: Good afternoon!
MARKUS: (Greets Elias in German) How are you?
ELIAS: (Laughs) As always, and yourself?
MARKUS: Better and better every day.
ELIAS: Excellent! And what shall we discuss?
MARKUS: I would like to continue our conversation from last time, which I want to say was extremely pleasant. I tremendously enjoyed it. I even listened to it again two days later maybe, which is something which I usually don’t do. It just lit me up like a Christmas tree the second time. (Elias laughs) It was just wonderful. And, like every addict in the world, I would like to have more of that.
ELIAS: (Laughs) Excellent. And what have you been engaging? What have you been doing since our previous conversation?
MARKUS: Well, I have been re-listening to it, and I noticed a few of the subtleties which you did weave into the conversation, which I actually did even notice when you did weave it in and just put it up for later because I developed a sense for those situations. When you say something which at the moment I immediately think, “Well, that’s not so relevant here,” and then I know, “Uh-oh! This will come back to you. This will be very relevant.” So I’ve been thinking about the patterns which you mentioned which we talked about, about different rooms and engaging people in different rooms. And I even had a candid conversation with my girlfriend [inaudible], and during that conversation I was at least consciously aware of the room, in which room it was happening. And during the conversation we even moved from one room to the other, and that was a quite helpful thing that you made me aware of, last time we talked.
ELIAS: Congratulations. And what did you notice, when you moved from one room to another?
MARKUS: Well, it’s basically that happens kind of automatically. And I noticed that it happened in her apartment, and it happened in the hallway of the apartment which connects to four different rooms. And I noticed that I had long conversations with a bunch of people in this hallway, which I found kind of odd because I would associate a hallway with some kind of, let’s say, transitory situation or intermediate situation where you move from one point to the other. But I noticed that coming from the living room and dining room, which is a combined room, I had a couple of times good conversations with her daughter or a friend of her daughter or a guest.
And so it was a good starting point. For a moment I was considering to follow your advice and go to the dining room or sit at the dining table, but then I remembered that this basically… You know, in belief systems, conventional terms, maybe the hallway has just good feng shui, it has just good energy and is conductive for a focused conversation, and it was actually a good conversation. And then we moved to the kitchen, which was basically counter to your general advice, but that conversation was constructive. And I figured that the kitchen is actually one of the rooms where we are doing things together, like we are cooperating, preparing a meal or something like that, so I thought this would also be a good place to continue the conversation and work for a solution or something like that. And it did work out pretty well.
ELIAS: I would say that is excellent, because in that, you are objectively, intentionally generating choices to change the energy in a particular room and to intentionally make it something that you WANT it to be. I would say congratulations. That is excellent, my friend.
MARKUS: Thank you.
ELIAS: But when you moved from one room to another, did you notice any slight difference in the feel of the room?
MARKUS: (Sighs) Mm, I’m not really aware of that. I mean, I moved to the kitchen because I wanted a glass of water, so she followed me so we stood there. What do you mean? A change in the room compared to the same room in other situations, or…?
ELIAS: No, that I merely was expressing the question, whether you were noticing any slight difference in the energy in the room as you moved from one room to another.
MARKUS: Oh, I don’t think so. No.
ELIAS: Ah. Perhaps that may be another subject that you could be paying attention to. Just as you might be aware, if you were looking at different houses or you were looking at different apartments, you would pay attention to the energy of that house or that apartment, and you would notice differences from one to another, the same happens in one house with different rooms.
MARKUS: Uh-huh. That was something we talked about last time.
ELIAS: Yes.
MARKUS: I said when you moved from one room to another, it’s basically you’re a different person. You brought up an interesting thing, which I also added to my herd of cats of things (Elias laughs) to be aware of, and that was the expectation of myself, and I didn’t have that on the radar. It wouldn’t have occurred to me that this is something I could pay attention to. So this is something: different rooms create different environments and change the person. Like I said, a hallway is a room that prepares change to move into another room, or the kitchen is a more, let’s say, creative and constructive room, where the bedroom is more self-focused or something like that. And I’m aware that different bedrooms in different houses, based on the location and the form and even the furniture, are entirely different environments, so not every bedroom changes me in the same way.
ELIAS: Yes. I would say this is excellent.
Now; I would ask, what are you noticing if you AREN’T in a room?
MARKUS: You mean if I’m outside?
ELIAS: Yes.
MARKUS: Um… I did tie this project to your mentioning of expectations—like when I’m outside, I mean. One thing, my… I don’t have a word for it. My whole attention opens up because the environment is bigger. It’s like not so focused. It’s like it’s…
ELIAS: That is actually very accurate. And I would say in that, you might actually notice that you have less expectations because there isn’t a specific designation for something or for a particular action, and that that changes in association with where you move outside. Therefore, if you are on the street and you move to cross the street, momentarily your expectation changes.
MARKUS: Yeah, it’s like… I’m just trying to speak, to mention this. So it would contract and focus forward towards the destination, and then we’re, let’s say what we talked about last time, about the conscious creation, like I focus and create an intent and let it happen. Like I don’t know which muscle to engage to move even a small toe or much less maintain balance and move forward, and I just focus forward. In a way it’s like… There are now superhero movies where the person or the superhero can teleport to another destination, and just as you spoke I was envisioning this. It’s like you’re on one side of the street and then you kind of blink out and reappear on the other side of the street, and then the awareness opens up again and then there is a lot of choices to make, maybe halfway predetermined because crossing the street is maybe one step to accomplish an overarching intent, but when you are there you could get distracted or decide otherwise. But I’m seeing this as like contracting, almost creating a tunnel across the street and emerging at the other side.
ELIAS: I agree. But also, when you are crossing the street, your attention shifts. That is part of the reason that you might have a sensation that you begin on one side of the street and then it appears that you are suddenly at the other side of the street, because moving to the destination of the other side of the street, in a manner of speaking momentarily becomes lost in your focus. Because while you are crossing the street, your attention shifts away from the destination and away from your intention of what you are doing, to be present and to be paying attention to being in the street and being watchful in relation to other people, vehicles, anything that could possibly come into being in your path. And therefore, while you are in the street you are actually more present.
MARKUS: That is possible, yes. It’s just… Yeah. Yeah.
ELIAS: Because you are not necessarily in that moment thinking about your destination and where you are going. You are suspending that momentarily – and only for a few seconds, but for those few seconds your attention shifts to precisely what you are doing in the moment to assure that you are safe and that you are aware of everything around you. And in that, you notice immediately if you AREN’T doing that.
MARKUS: That’s interesting.
ELIAS: Because generally speaking, if you AREN’T doing that, if you DON’T shift your attention to be present, then you likely stumble, in one manner or another.
MARKUS: I have quite often noticed a stumble or a slip or letting something drop in some way to catch my wandering attention, and I pull it back to the now. It just occurred to me, though—another interesting thing maybe—that when you cross the street and you create the intent, you’re basically focusing away from the moment because you’re projecting into the future. And the way you describe it, then you focus back into the moment, into the process that leads towards this intention or towards this goal, and then you reach it and then – this is my imagination – and then you open up again to the multitude of possibilities which exist.
ELIAS: Correct. Correct. But you do pull yourself into the now automatically with certain actions, that you don’t even realize you’re doing that.
And what were you noticing in your conversation with your partner as you moved from room to room?
MARKUS: Oh, let me tune into this for a moment. (Pause) Well, I just noticed the moving, although it was not intentional. It happened because I wanted a glass of water. And during the conversation I tried to be aware why we had the conversation, of some of my cats in this point, one of the more elusive things, which was my awareness of wanting to be completely open, which is pretty hard for me, especially in a conversation like that. And—
ELIAS: Why?
MARKUS: Ah, that is a good question. That is a very good question. Because it’s unfamiliar. I don’t know why I developed this habit, but I’m more of a person now which doesn’t share experiences so openly and keeps thoughts, especially if I anticipate a potential conflict so I’m also keeping that to myself. But this, in a partnership, isn’t especially helpful because it creates a distance or some buffering, which then moves into or develops into another kind of dynamic.
I haven’t put much thought into the question actually why I am how I am in this regard. I just at some point – it came from one of your sessions – noticed about the full openness. This goes back to an old session of yours with people having to tell a secret. And this came up, it’s on a piece of paper which I pinned to a board with some of those things to be aware of, like be aware of you’re here now and yes and no and why and those things. And two of the things that are on top of this list are not reacting, making intentional choices and being fully open. During this conversation I tried to maintain the not reacting and the fully openness.
And now that I’m speaking, since you’re asking—and this is quite likely not a coincidence that it occurs to me now—I think in the kitchen I was more open than in the hallway.
ELIAS: Ah!
MARKUS: I was able to express more emotion and let more things happen than in the hallway.
ELIAS: Ah. And would you say that that was because you were paying more attention? Or because inside you were feeling more safe and comfortable?
MARKUS: Hm. Before you had asked this question I would have attributed it to my being or to having the intention of being more open, so there were some situations where I caught myself holding back and then consciously decided no, I am not doing this this time, this is habitual, and being more open is unfamiliar but I’m doing it this way. I wasn’t aware at that point that the room had an influence to that, but it’s quite possible. I would attribute it to the fact that the kitchen, in my view, that particular kitchen is a more cooperative room. So…
ELIAS: So it was more comfortable.
MARKUS: Ah, yes.
ELIAS: And safer.
MARKUS: I will have to let that simmer. It’s not entirely obvious for me at the moment.
ELIAS: Very well.
MARKUS: It’s possible. And I will think about it.
ELIAS: Very well.
MARKUS: Okay. Yeah. Another thing which is quite cool, because we were speaking of creating miracles last time, large miracles: Mikah did also listen to the session, and he totally liked that I said “the daily miracle of pooping.” And today I changed the weather.
ELIAS: Ahhh! That is significant.
MARKUS: Actually, I did change it last time already; I just was aware of it or just noticed it at the outskirts of my attention, because when we had this conversation I’m standing in the middle of the room and I’m looking out the window in a certain direction where I can look towards the horizon. And we had a couple of days of totally cloudy weather, where you couldn’t see a patch of blue sky. And last time I thought, “Oh it’s nice, it’s Elias session day, we have good weather.” And today when I left the apartment in the morning I thought, “Oh, today is not Elias weather. We’ll see if I can change this until the afternoon.” And it’s not entirely blue sky, but before we started the conversation I could even see the sun and I can see the horizon, which is pretty cool.
ELIAS: I would say that that is considerable. Congratulations!
MARKUS: Thank you.
ELIAS: That is significant. (Laughs) I would say you have excellent reason to be quite pleased with yourself, my friend.
MARKUS: I am quite pleased. I’m so pleased with myself that I’m kind of… well, let’s say I’m 90% joking, that I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop.
ELIAS: (Laughs) Now, THAT somewhat defeats the purpose.
MARKUS: Yeah, I know.
ELIAS: (Laughs) And I would also say that that is somewhat automatic. (Laughs)
MARKUS: I know. Yes. (Elias laughs) And I think as long as I’m aware of it, it’s not a big deal. It won’t happen. I am catching myself doing these things.
Since you asked what else I did, or what I did since we last talked, it’s actually something I did before we last talked, but it’s something I’m keeping doing. And that is, let’s say six or eight weeks ago I was listening to one of your sessions, two of your sessions actually with Nuno, where you talked about the black quartz.
ELIAS: Yes.
MARKUS: And it’s interesting, because I’ve never been too much interested in minerals, but a longer time ago, like last year maybe, I read a session from him that he was meditating with a normal quartz in order to facilitate his revealing process, and basically, I would say, that wasn’t me. I just bought a quartz without knowing why. That was a normal, somewhat clear quartz with a perfect color, and I integrated it into a setup with my toy figures of which we also spoke in the past. It’s like this quartz in this setup, which is basically symbolic, represents essence for me, with the focuses lined up around it. And when I listened to the session with the black quartz, I thought, “Oh yeah, it’s interesting but that’s nothing for me.” And basically, within three or four days I could watch myself going to the computer and ordering a black quartz. (Elias laughs) So, that was kind of significant. There were the nudges, so I noticed them and I let them happen. So, okay, this is maybe “you didn’t come across the session by coincidence,” and we know what coincidence means.
And what happened then is I received an object, which I’m not even sure that this is a black quartz. I mean, I didn’t know what to expect, and in one of the sessions Nuno was asking if black quartz is like the same as the smoky quartz, I think he said. And this is a completely black, opaque stone. It’s pretty hard. I know that because it’s still embedded in some of the originally surrounding stone, and I used the hammer to take away part of the excess material in order to… It’s pretty hard. It could probably be an obsidian; I have no idea, and it’s actually not really important for the purpose of this discussion. But when I sat in the quiet of an evening holding this object I had the intention to experiment with it like the way Nuno has described, like placing it in a jar with tea and imbuing it with intention and using the tea as a tool to facilitate this intention. And I was focusing on something that also ties into what we talked about last time, about the refrigerator and I have an assortment of smoothies there, also more than I need, so picking up one of those smoothies every morning – and this is basically a not exactly cheap item; it’s not exactly expensive also, but let’s say it’s a luxury item and I have more of them than I need. So this is also one of my morning routines, reminding me to focus and experience the energy of abundance.
ELIAS: Yes.
MARKUS: So I kind of connected this stone with this image of the smoothies in the refrigerator, and it was like… I don’t know how to describe it. It was like an intense pull from this object, which basically…it felt like it would be eager to suck up some kind of intent. It was like an intensity that I hadn’t expected.
ELIAS: Ah.
MARKUS: And I was like, “What?” (Elias laughs) And I tried to feel intuitively into this object, and I don’t know, this has some other-worldly qualities. It feels like…I don’t want to say it’s from another planet—well, maybe it is, but it has a quality of like maybe a black hole, or…
ELIAS: It has a quality of its own!
MARKUS: Yes. And it’s like it’s been sitting there for millions of years probably, waiting for me, or waiting to…I don’t want to day serve me, but it’s a bit like a genie in a bottle. It’s an interesting energy around it, or an interesting energy that I’m building around it. I’m not even saying that’s it’s an objective quality of the object itself, because another aspect of it—and we have talked about it two or three sessions ago was like my consumption of alcohol, and you were saying I could use a different… what’s the word you were using there? Something that triggers an experience. It’s a focal point, and that I could use a different focal point to produce a similar experience. And I found that I’m partially using the key that I produced using this stone in the same way in the evening as I normally use a glass of wine or a glass of spirits.
ELIAS: Ah! That is an interesting manifestation. I would say that that was an action for a time that Lawrence did.
MARKUS: Mm. You mentioned that Lawrence did something similar and even recommended me to get in touch with Lawrence, which is something I haven’t done so far. But it’s like…
And yet another aspect: I was holding this stone all the time in my hands during the last session, and I’m even holding it now at this moment and I’m finding myself sitting on the sofa with a mug of tea in one hand and this stone in the other, and it’s like the process of imbuing tea through the stone and then drinking the tea holding the stone is like so accelerating of the intentions that I put into the stone. It’s astounding!
ELIAS: (Laughs) I would say that is tremendous, my friend. I would say that it also is tremendous because you surprised yourself.
MARKUS: Definitely. Definitely.
ELIAS: I would say that in that, you likely didn’t even realize the extent of what you may have been expressing in skepticism.
MARKUS: Yes. Maybe not the full extent, but I was aware that there was some skepticism.
ELIAS: Yes. In that, not necessarily entirely believing what may have occurred or what was involved in this situation, and in some manner somewhat expecting nothing to occur. (Laughs)
MARKUS: That is quite true. Maybe this is a topic which we may revisit today also. I would have expected maybe the effect to be far more subtle.
ELIAS: Yes. I understand. And I would express that this is excellent, that you surprised yourself. I would say congratulations!
MARKUS: Thank you. (Elias laughs) And I mean these results or experiences are far from subtle.
ELIAS: (Laughs) And that is actually the point, that [inaudible] aren’t actually very subtle, and that it is an action that can be used to be enhancing your experience—which then, in that, makes it more intense and much more obvious.
MARKUS: Yeah. It was as I described. The initial intent was abundance—it was while I was still trading in the stock market—and it put me in an imaginary place which is probably another focus, but I saw myself for a moment and had a quite specific feeling as someone who is basically the ruler of multiple galaxies. And I mean (laughs), this is big. And that was interesting by itself, because also it had different aspects. It was like a symbolism that I am the “ruler,” quote, of my own world, and also basically the ultimate symbol probably [of] physical abundance in power and money in conventional terms. And that actually didn’t feel much different than I feel now. It was like a powerful ruler, but it wasn’t like fireworks and unicorns. (Elias laughs) It was a quite subdued experience. And yes, maybe you want to say something about that.
ELIAS: (Chuckles) I would say that, in a manner of speaking, it is somewhat moving you in directions of, once again, surprise, that you are surprising yourself in manners that you don’t expect, that what you DO expect doesn’t actually play out in that capacity. And in that, also the factor that you are presenting yourself with this type of experience, this imagery—which is actually more realistic than you may assign to it, that you are the ruler of the universe in a manner of speaking, or the ruler of A universe—but in that, what you are doing is you are giving yourself the experience of placing yourself in the center, therefore placing yourself in the position of being ultimately important, but then also generating somewhat of an experience with that of being something subdued or anticlimactic, in a manner of speaking, because it is (pause) simply what you are. Therefore, in one capacity it can be surprising and it can be seeming to be almost unrealistic, but then in another capacity it seems mundane.
MARKUS: Mm-hm. Yeah.
ELIAS: Because it is.
MARKUS: [Inaudible] Yeah, I think I… Yeah. I didn’t make that connection, but now that you mention it, I think I can see your point. (Elias chuckles) And—
ELIAS: And have you engaged this action with the infusion again since that first expression or that first experience?
MARKUS: Yes.
ELIAS: And what has your experience been subsequently?
MARKUS: I pretty quickly figured out that physical abundance is, let’s say, not my most important goal, because basically I’m living this. Maybe we’ll come back to this later when we speak about the stock market, but subsequent to this experience I had an experience in the stock market where within two hours I made $170,000 and they disappeared again, and I wasn’t even bothered. And I mean, if this isn’t a situation of physical abundance, then I don’t know what it is. I mean, okay, there are people which are billionaires and who own airplanes, but I have two old cars that I love and I don’t even buy a new car because it’s unnecessary, so I have everything that I need and…whatever. Based on that, I did it pretty quickly, and this wasn’t even part of the initial intention; it was like a mix of abundance and being more able to create intentionally.
ELIAS: I understand. I would say partially materializing the apple in your hand, in a manner of speaking. But also, I would say that sometimes, especially for someone such as yourself, my friend, the experiment is more important than having something.
MARKUS: Absolutely.
ELIAS: That simply showing yourself that you can is expressing more value than actually having certain expressions that other individuals would view as abundance.
MARKUS: Uh-huh. This is so cool that you mention this, because I will elaborate on this experience a little. This first imbuing with intention was basically a mix of physical abundance and being able to be more proficient in intentional creation, and while I was playing in the stock market, at one point I was envisioning a specific number which I put out as an intention or a goal and where I thought I want to see this number on this location on the screen, which represents the money that I have in the brokerage account, etc. And the fun thing was that it took basically, I don’t know, less than a week probably, that I manifested this specific trade which just netted me the amount of money within the short time. And during this experience I saw this number in the upper right corner of my screen where I had made it my goal or my intentions. And then it went away, and this even heightened my sense of attention towards this, because if I had achieved this number through a sequence of successful trades and incrementally would have arrived at that point, it wouldn’t have had the same feeling of an intentional creation out of the blue than this single trade which just zoomed in on this number and then took it away. And I mean [by] “take it away,” it’s not a sense of loss; it’s just even a sense of highlighting how specific this achievement was.
ELIAS: Yes. Yes. And that is tremendous, because that actually validates to you precisely that: how specific you are, how precise you are.
MARKUS: And subsequently I was joking with Mikah about this and he said, “Yeah, well next time imagine more precisely with not just the number on the screen but the money in the bank.”
ELIAS: (Laughs) But in that, now YOU can see yourself that that wasn’t the point.
MARKUS: Yes. Not at all. And—
ELIAS: And that that is an understandable response that would be expressed by most individuals.
MARKUS: Well, even I expressed it within myself, jokingly.
ELIAS: I understand. But in that, you also recognized that that wasn’t the point. The point was an experiment and giving yourself an experience simply to show yourself that you could, and to give yourself that validation of your own power and how important that is and that you actually CAN do what you choose to do intentionally--that that idea that we spoke about in our previous conversation of manifesting that apple in your hand, that even though there is a part of you that would express that that isn’t tremendously important, there is another part of you that wonders if you actually could do it.
MARKUS: That’s true. That’s absolutely true.
ELIAS: And therefore testing the waters, testing your abilities: “Can I actually do this? Do I have that ability? Is that simply concept, or could I actually make that a reality?” And doing it with something that is appearing to you to be equally as impossible as manifesting that apple in your hand.
MARKUS: Yes. Let’s say – and I think this is what is happening, because I have like a sequence of these out-of-the-blue manifestations which are hard to ascribe to coincidence. But what I’m seeing – and this is something that I noticed with intentional creation. I might have even mentioned it briefly when I talked about it last time. It’s like, the way I see it, you set the intention and then the gears of consciousness or existence are getting in motion, but they have to follow the existing beliefs. It’s like water flowing along ridges and tubes and not across a barrier, or you need a lot of water to get over the barrier. So, like this specific creation, it’s not quite as impossible as manifesting an apple out of thin air, because as much as I acknowledge that it’s very unusual and very surprising and in conjunction with my previous intent certainly not a coincidence, it still follows my beliefs of what is possible and what is not.
ELIAS: I understand. I definitely understand. And I acknowledge that you may have the perception that this creation might be SLIGHTLY more possible than the apple in your hand, but it still is something that you don’t believe is probable or likely.
MARKUS: Uh-huh. Exactly.
ELIAS: Therefore, there still is that element of chance, that it might not actually be true. (Laughs)
MARKUS: Can you express this in a different way? I’m not sure if I understand what you’re saying.
ELIAS: That, as I expressed, it was an experiment, and that in actuality the experiment is actually more valuable than the thing itself, because it validates to you what you can do, and it expresses to you what is not only possible but what is true. Because it doesn’t matter whether it is myself expressing to you or some other essence or another individual or a philosophy, within yourself you for the most part believe what your senses tell you.
MARKUS: Yes.
ELIAS: And what your experiences have been. That is what you believe. And therefore, even though you might WANT to believe something else, you don’t actually. And therefore, that is the piece in which the skepticism is a part of the equation. But then, when you experiment and you actually do it, and you show yourself, you validate to yourself that this isn’t simply possible, it actually is true, that this actually CAN happen, you actually CAN do it, and you’ve actually shown yourself that you can. And in that, that becomes very valuable, because then what that shows you is that it isn’t actually chance.
MARKUS: Yeah. Okay. I understand now. Yes. Yes, one thing is clearly that knowing that I can, or the showing me that I can, is far more valuable than the amount of money that was involved.
ELIAS: Precisely. But the piece in that about the element of chance is if you had presented a different number, then you could have expressed a rationalization to yourself that yes, you manifested something momentarily that was very unlikely—
MARKUS: Yeah, and then was taken away, so I would have measured it against a different set of values, like I would have assumed I had tried to make an amount of additional money and then I had it and then it was taken away, and I would be—
ELIAS: Not only that. Not only that. It would have included that element of chance, because it wouldn’t have been precisely that number. Therefore, it would be within the realm of what you believe, that you are not actually manifesting an apple in your hand, you are playing with the stock market and it is—although improbable—it is possible to manifest some tremendous number and to generate some significant abundance, and that it is possible for you to create that, BUT—that would be the element of including that element of chance.
MARKUS: Chance and skill, in conventional terms. Yes.
ELIAS: Yes. Yes. But manifesting the exact number, that takes away the inclusion of an element of chance. This is no longer random. It isn’t something that is simply possible in probabilities, but that you actually created something intentionally that doesn’t include that factor of chance. And that is also one of the reasons that it is so surprising and exciting.
MARKUS: Indeed. Yes.
ELIAS: Actually, [inaudible].
MARKUS: And I think, like I said, that the creations are somewhat governed by the beliefs. There is this element of surprise, but it’s like the beliefs are drawing a circle with maybe not exactly precise outskirts but with a grey area in the outskirts that limits the practical application of this intentional creation. Even though it’s theoretically possible, I won’t manifest an apple in my hand yet because it’s too far outside the circle of what I actually believe—not what I’m telling me that I believe, but what I actually believe. But what these experiments are doing is like they are expanding the circle, like they give me more room of actual experience and actual belief of what is possible, so I’m moving forward to probably more and more expansive or even more, in my terms, in my perception, improbable creations intentionally.
ELIAS: Correct. Precisely. And THAT is tremendous, my friend.
MARKUS: So it’s like… basically like yes, every essence and ghost and philosopher who is pursuing this says you have to start small, you can’t just imagine that someone drops you the key for Fort Knox, it will not work because you don’t believe it’s possible. It’s actually maybe possible, but it will not happen for you because you don’t believe it. You don’t even believe that someone is giving you freely $100, so you will have to do with $1 and with $10 and then with $100, and then you maybe believe you can have a job where you earn thousands and then you expand. And this is just another version of this, I think.
ELIAS: Yes. I very much agree. (Laughs) But I would say that it is a significant accomplishment.
MARKUS: Thank you.
ELIAS: You are very welcome.
MARKUS: I think so too. Although I’m almost in the situation where I’m beginning to downplay it a little. Not – no, downplay is not the real word. I am taking it almost for granted already, which is a good sign.
ELIAS: (Laughs) And you express that that is good because that symbolizes to you that you are accepting it as normal?
MARKUS: I think I’d say it’s good because it symbolizes that I’m expanding the circle of what I believe is possible.
ELIAS: Ah! Excellent.
MARKUS: And this basically moves the grey area where I think it may be possible (Elias laughs) a bit further outward, while there are other things which I believe are so definitely possible that I hardly recognize them anymore.
ELIAS: (Laughs) But I would say that you are definitely beginning to pay even more attention to details and to what you are doing and what you are engaging. And in that, I would express that that also gives you much more freedom.
MARKUS: Ah, that is an excellent thing that you said. (Elias laughs) I adore you for how you weave things into one sentence and express it and lead me towards what I wanted to tell you next, and push a button about a thing about which I have been thinking about. And this is like the embodiment of a pleasant conversation. (Elias laughs) And yes, what did you say? (Both laugh) It was so pleasant I forgot. No. No, actually I didn’t. (Both laugh)
Initially you were asking what I did next, after putting abundance into this stone, into this focal point. And I pretty quickly after this experienced, after this creation, noticed that physical abundance and even this kind of intentional manifestation of physical things isn’t actually what is most valuable for me. I mean, it is valuable, I have it, I appreciate it, but it’s not my most desirable goal. I was basically just aiming low. It was an experiment because I didn’t expect the outcome, and I pretty quickly changed the intent for the stone into basically what we were talking about last time during most of the session, which is my widening and deepening and expanding inward and outwardly awareness, and deepening my…skills is not the right word, but I will use it anyway – my potential for being aware of different things in each moment and understanding basically this process of human life or human consciousness or consciousness expression through human life. So—
ELIAS: And moving in that direction of being more self-aware and more aware of living and creating intentionally, which allows you to live artfully.
MARKUS: Living artfully is a wonderful expression, because creating intentionally goes way beyond I would say physical things, although this is a physical life, but also inside are things that you create or that I create. Or basically I paint the world, the physical world that I see, with some kind of, let’s say, atmosphere. I think there’s no real, established word for what I want to say. But maybe, I think Seth was speaking of feeling tones, and this is a term that comes to my mind when I think about these things. And it’s like the physical world is a paint book, and not the emotions but the feelings and insights and projections and associations are the colors with which you paint your own picture of your own life.
ELIAS: Most definitely.
MARKUS: And that is much more impactful for living an artful life.
ELIAS: I agree. I definitely agree.
MARKUS: So, what I did was, since I was holding this stone in my hand during the last session anyway, I just put it in a new jar with new tea. The types of tea I put in there, I had some nudges. I was just doing intuitively different things, like a few parts green tea and a few parts dried fruit, and I was even at some point quite particular about what kind of dried fruits I would put into there. So now I have a new jar during this – we talked last week – which I drink daily here; and the other jar, which was more focused on abundance and monetary accomplishments is in my office, so that’s a good environment for the other jar, to drink a few cups and to implement that intent. And I don’t know, this thing is so powerful, because I even… It’s like it’s imbued with new meaning or made with new intent.
ELIAS: Yes.
MARKUS: And then the first cup is like a strong alcoholic beverage. It has a strong effect. But it appears to me, or I have the impression it’s like lifting me up a notch towards where I want to be. And on the second day the effect is not quite as strong anymore. It’s the difference between…Let’s say where the tea is and where I am is no longer so far away, so the surge is not as strong. And after three or four tea days, it’s like this tea is who I am.
ELIAS: I would say (chuckles) tremendously, congratulations.
MARKUS: (Chuckles) I’m doing nothing. (Chuckles)
ELIAS: Ah.
MARKUS: It’s just having intents (chuckles) and letting them unfold. It’s so easy! (Chuckles)
ELIAS: But that is the point, my friend: It IS easy. (Laughs) It isn’t about that everything you do is so difficult and therefore it is more valuable; it IS actually easy when you are simply allowing and being. And in that, I would say, actually this is tremendous.
MARKUS: Okay. (Chuckles) Thank you. I mean, I’m moving so quickly.
ELIAS: I agree.
MARKUS: Even when we talked in, I don’t know, February, before spring even, I actually expressed it this way and said, “I’m shifting at breakneck speed.” And I’m now doing this in even exponential capacity. It’s just… It doesn’t feel as breakneck anymore.
ELIAS: Correct. It begins to feel natural.
MARKUS: Yes. Absolutely.
ELIAS: Because that is what you are, that you begin to experience yourself AS essence. Does that mean that you lose your sense of your identity in this focus? No. But—
MARKUS: No, absolutely not. Yes, you’re right.
ELIAS: But that you are expanding in the capacity of allowing yourself to experience more as essence. This is moving in a direction of what I am expressing to all of you about being self-aware, and in that, knowing your abilities, knowing your power, knowing your abilities and watching that flow, being aware of that interconnectedness, that flow of how each action flows into the next action and how YOU are making that happen. YOU are doing it with every choice that you engage.
MARKUS: Mm. It’s like… It doesn’t feel like I’m doing it. It’s like I’m directing it; I mean I’m making the choices, but like I said last time, I set the intention that I want to take a sip of tea, but I don’t know how I do it.
ELIAS: Correct.
MARKUS: I mean, I don’t know the mechanics. I’m not aware of what is happening that is presenting me with the result.
ELIAS: Because you don’t have to be. You don’t have to work at it. You don’t have to be aware of every single aspect of every action that you are engaging. Just as I have expressed to all of you previously, you aren’t necessarily aware of every action that every organ in your body is doing. That doesn’t mean it isn’t doing it. That doesn’t mean you aren’t creating this physical manifestation simply because you aren’t objectively aware of every action that you are engaging, but you are aware that you have the ability and the power to be intentionally creating. And in that, that doesn’t mean, also, that every moment you are thinking about, “What do I want to create in this moment?”
MARKUS: (Laughs) You are such a rascal. (Elias laughs) You told me last time—
ELIAS: It is that your entire life is being created moment by moment and that you are doing that in relation to what I have expressed to you as the formula of creating reality: that whatever it is that you are paying attention to and that you are concentrating on, you automatically create more of. You don’t have to think about abundance, you don’t have to have a mantra that you recite to yourself fifty times a day and express over and over and over again the intention that you want to create abundance; all you have to do is be you, and be aware of what you are paying attention to. And even if you aren’t automatically aware of what you are paying attention to, you definitely are aware when you deviate—
MARKUS: (Laughs) My potholes. Yes.
ELIAS: Yes. Yes.
MARKUS: If you are aware, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. But—
ELIAS: And then readjust.
MARKUS: Yes, of course.
ELIAS: You become aware very quickly that you have deviated and that you stepped off your path of paying attention to what you appreciate, what is satisfying to you, what is comfortable to you and what you have. And you acknowledge that when you do step off of that direction. You see it, YOU DON’T FOLLOW THE FEELING (Markus laughs), and then you step back into your direction.
MARKUS: Yes. It’s so easy.
ELIAS: It actually is very easy.
MARKUS: I know. I know. I know. I know.
ELIAS: I would say that THAT is one of the most significant difficulties or problems for most people.
MARKUS: I remember it myself, and I can tell you—
ELIAS: That you constantly complicate.
MARKUS: Yeah. I’m guilty of that, too, but I sometimes even like it. (Elias laughs) But I’m so glad that I accomplished this special day or this turbo boosting of this development last year. Because the person before a year ago feels… I’m losing more and more remembrance of how that was, but I can still remember and I can still empathize with people who are there, and I am so glad that I accomplished this before our mass event (Elias laughs), because I can imagine what I would have been in this situation. I mean, this would not be fun.
ELIAS: I understand.
MARKUS: Maybe it would kick me in the ass to move forward, but this situation, with my old self, it would not be fun.
ELIAS: And this also, my dear friend, is the reason that there are so many people in your reality presently that have been experiencing trauma.
MARKUS: Ah, yes.
ELIAS: And that they are NOT having fun. And that it has been a very difficult and challenging time and situation, and even it continues still.
MARKUS: Yes, it does. I’m curious how this will play out forward.
ELIAS: I would say I agree with you. I would say that we are all curious how this will play out and what you will do with it. (Chuckles)
MARKUS: But—
ELIAS: I do see, as you see, that you are continuing to move again in these directions of expressing the fear and distress—not quite the amount of panic that you did initially, but still moving in that direction of fear and uncertainty.
MARKUS: Yes. One thing I notice is that the fear is… This is different country by country, but in our country and even, I think, in the United States, the fear is moving up the hierarchy of conventional power. Like here in Germany, I have the feeling that people more or less got used to the situation and, for the most part or for some part, are less fearful, but it looks like the fear is creeping into the upper echelons. And they are trying to implement more and more desperate measures to control something that is far outside their realm of control.
ELIAS: I would agree. I would definitely agree.
MARKUS: Which then creates new challenges, because they are trying to impose more restrictions on their population, etc., etc. This will be interesting, how it plays out.
ELIAS: [Inaudible] I would say that that also is not necessarily as easy as it was in the beginning, because the masses are not quite as compliant as they were in the beginning. Therefore, even though there remains a factor of fear, there is a different dynamic now. This is the reason that there is the last-ditch attempt to control. Which, in a manner of speaking, is somewhat ludicrous, because you are moving in the direction of a vaccine, which is your solution to the problem, and therefore it is somewhat ludicrous to be moving in the direction of this last-ditch attempt at control.
MARKUS: This happened more recently for me, because probably I was too preoccupied with other things and also because the effects of the mass event have been subdued during the summer. But now I understand better how a mass event works. Like I’m to some extent active in our social media, the computer networks, and one nice thing in these is that you can basically partially look into people’s minds, which was not possible years ago without those tools, because you couldn’t see the thoughts or the expressions of so many people combined to one topic at one time. And I’m seeing how a mass event like this—it’s like I had today the impression of metaphor—it’s like having a large beach or an immense sandbox and setting a bunch of kids loose with shovels and see what happens. And some will maybe build a castle and the others may build a river or a ditch, or maybe they will build houses or they will landscape, and this is a sandbox within this sandbox and this limited set of tools, like the sand and the shovels.
[The timer for the end of the session rings]
Everybody creates maybe a different experience. Groups create a similar experience, but within the group everybody has their own experience or jumps between different groups. And I can see how this mass event is not a monolithic thing but something millions of people contribute to, based on their intent and how they react or how they behave or what they do. And the sum of those creations, this creates the mass event. The mass event has just a trigger like the virus, which is like the shovels or the sand, and everybody uses their own creativity even to create experiences around this.
ELIAS: Yes. Yes. I agree.
MARKUS: And this is also very cool too, because this is the first time. I’ve read about mass events a long time, like even the old book from Seth, and it was explained in those terms. I think if I would read that again I would have like light bulbs go over and over in my head. (Elias laughs) “What? You read that then? Why didn’t you understand anything?” But today I had a visceral insight or experience, or a more tangible intuition about how this plays together.
ELIAS: I understand. (Laughs) And I would say again, congratulations!
MARKUS: Thank you.
ELIAS: That is tremendous.
MARKUS: I mean, I’m kind of curious where this will lead to. I mean (Elias chuckles) I can see my, quote, “progress” or development or expansion from here to last week and half a year ago, so this will be amazing to see what happens next. I will have to make a new tea from the session.
ELIAS: (Laughs) I very much agree and am joining you in that observation, my friend.
MARKUS: But my goal—
ELIAS: You definitely are an interesting species.
MARKUS: (Laughs) Yeah. (Elias laughs) We do so many things and we have no idea what we are doing. I mean (Elias laughs), I’m even creating a deeper understanding of the word or term self-awareness.
ELIAS: Ah! Excellent!
MARKUS: We are so—
ELIAS: Now it is a matter of creating even more understanding of interconnectedness.
MARKUS: Ah. Okay. I hear the homework. (Elias laughs) But that self-awareness, this word alone has such depth.
ELIAS: Ah, yes.
MARKUS: If I just look into it, and just as you used it a few times today and I mean, it’s… So far, I had always termed it as expansion of… What’s the Shift an expansion of? Consciousness, or awareness? But basically it’s a deepening of the idea of being aware of what and who you are.
ELIAS: Yes.
MARKUS: And basically, this may at some point – I’m not saying that this is my goal – but this may at some point lead to being even aware of what each organ is doing and why it’s doing this in each moment. Because this is also self, and I could maybe become aware of it or other mechanics. It’s not that I’m saying this is a goal I’m working to, but It’s basically self and the deepening of the awareness of self would maybe include this also.
ELIAS: Yes. Knowing you: who you are and what you do and why you do it.
MARKUS: (Laughs) How many words is this? Less than ten? (Both laugh) Amazing.
ELIAS: Ah, my dear friend. I greatly anticipate our next meeting.
MARKUS: This will be so much fun.
ELIAS: (Laughs) I agree.
In tremendous, tremendous love to you and exceptional support and encouragement in what you are doing, and great anticipation of sharing that with you at our next meeting.
MARKUS: Yes.
ELIAS: To you, my dear friend, in exceptional love and affection, au revoir.
MARKUS: I love you too. Bye-bye.
(Elias departs after 1 hour 35 minutes)
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