Issues of Adequacy
Topics:
“The Camouflage of Humor”
“The Belief System of Sexuality”
Friday, March 12, 1999 © 1999 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Frank (Christian/X-Tian).
MARY: This is too funny! Okay, I just have
to say this on the tape:
Frank is now live from the New York stock exchange, sneaking
out to his favorite phone booth to do a session with Elias. No one
knows that he’s secretly talking to a dead guy on the phone in the middle
of the trading at the New York stock exchange. Okay everybody, the
secret is out! (Cracking up)
Elias arrives at 11:58 AM. (Arrival time is 20 seconds)
ELIAS: Good morning! (Smiling)
FRANK: Good morning, Elias! How are you?
ELIAS: As always, and we meet again! (Chuckling) And what
be your concerns this morning, Christian? (Grinning)
FRANK: Okay, I guess I just wanted to pick up from the last session
that we had, and I wanted to just get your opinion on how I’m doing so
far with my expressing of, I guess, attention to self and personal engagement,
which I needed to improve on!
ELIAS: (Laughing) And you ARE addressing to this situation, although
I encourage you to continue in this area, for you are continuing, AS YOU
KNOW, to be blocking of your expression many times in this area.
What you are addressing to in this situation is your own fear of self
and how you shall be perceived by other individuals, for you place judgments
upon yourself, and you anticipate and expect that other individuals shall
mirror this to you and shall perceive the same “defectiveness” within you
that YOU view within you.
FRANK: Okay, so from the last time I spoke to you, I thought I
was doing okay, getting better, and then all of a sudden I got pneumonia
and was very sick again. Is that all the same thing?
ELIAS: Yes. Now; look to this imagery that you present yourself,
for illness is a very efficient tool to remove yourself from other individuals
and interaction, and it also is quite reinforcing of your own issues in
this area. You are reinforcing your own lack of acceptance of yourself
in this area.
FRANK: By becoming sick, I’m reinforcing those beliefs?
ELIAS: Yes, for you hold belief systems in this area that illness
is bad and unacceptable and weak. Therefore, you are reinforcing
your own aspects of belief systems by creating this type of situation,
and you are also removing yourself from interaction with other individuals.
FRANK: Okay. Well, I do understand that. I know I
have those beliefs about illness and everything. Last time, we talked
about that because I have my heart condition on
top of that, it was also me, I guess, trying to get my own attention to
focus on these issues.
ELIAS: Correct. Now let me also offer you another piece,
so to speak, of information in this area.
FRANK: Okay.
ELIAS: As to the situation that you create with this condition
of this organ of your heart, what you are creating also is imagery to yourself
in the area of a lack of an emotion that you perceive in your focus.
You are preoccupying yourself in certain areas with the search or the quest
for a type of relationship that you view shall be fulfilling to you in
this focus. This involves your emotion of love, and as you view that
you are lacking this expression, you are also continuing to be creating
of an affectingness or a hurtfulness in the area of your heart.
Let me express to you that any imagery that you present to yourself
is indicative of more than one area that you are presenting to yourself,
but as I am aware that individuals may be assimilating more efficiently
one explanation within one time framework, that be what I shall generally
offer to them. I have offered you one explanation already, and now
you hold the readiness within you to be addressing to more than one situation
which you are creating simultaneously with one expression. Are you
understanding?
FRANK: Sure. So, what are they?
ELIAS: This would be, as I have expressed to you, one situation
of your lack of interaction with other individuals, another situation of
your beliefs in the area of physical health and masculinity and strength,
another situation that you present to yourself in the area of relationship
and love, and another situation of how you view yourself in certain elements,
in viewing yourself to be inadequately expressing yourself.
All of these areas move together within this one expression of how you
have chosen to be physically affecting yourself.
FRANK: Okay.
ELIAS: This presently is also reinforced by this wave in mass
consciousness that addresses to the belief system of sexuality.
In this, I am not expressing to you that you are creating confusion
with yourself in the area of how you identify yourself in the belief systems
of sexuality, but how you view yourself in your own adequacy in relation
to the belief systems of sexuality.
FRANK: Can you give me more detail on that?
ELIAS: Yes. This particular belief system of sexuality encompasses
a very vast area and very many aspects. Therefore, in more simple
terminology, there are very many birds in this particular cage.
In this, one of the aspects of the belief system of sexuality is how
individuals view themselves in the area of their own view of adequacy —
how they view their physical form, how they view themselves in the area
of their expectations, their performances in relation to other individuals,
how adequately they may be expressing their emotional qualities in the
area of acceptance of other individuals, love, relationships ... there
are very many aspects of this particular belief system that you do not
necessarily automatically associate with the terminology of sexuality.
The belief system of sexuality addresses to how you perceive yourself
and how you perceive and interact with your world, so to speak. This
is a very large aspect of this belief system.
How you are interactive with other individuals and how you THINK they
are perceiving you is another aspect of this particular belief system,
and is very affecting. In this area, you individually align with
these aspects very strongly, allowing the coupling of duplicity in this
area, which reinforces your own discounting of yourself, viewing yourself
to not be adequately expressing yourself in the area of your emotions and
in your ability to be efficiently creating an intimate relationship.
This ALL moves back to the issue of acceptance of self. It is
merely being reinforced within mass energy — alongside of your own reinforcement
— as this wave in consciousness continues presently.
What I am expressing to you — that you may be viewing and paying attention
to presently — is your view of yourself and how efficiently you camouflage
yourself with regard to other individuals.
Now; I shall be specific in this area, in that you present a camouflage
to other individuals to be protecting of yourself.
This camouflage that you present to other individuals allows you to
be disguising yourself behind the mask of jovialness. You present
yourself as jovial, jokingly, and creating a lightness of air about you,
and in this action, you perceive that you are being protective of your
expression of vulnerability, viewing yourself as needing this type of protection,
for you view situations as unsafe with other individuals if allowing them
to perceive the openness and sensitivity and vulnerability of yourself.
Therefore, you create certain physical affectingnesses which offer you
an excuse to not allow other individuals to view you as yourself and allows
you permission to be pushing other individuals away from yourself, and
when you ARE allowing yourself to partially be interactive with other individuals,
you continue this pushing away by camouflaging yourself with humor.
Now; let me express to you that humor may be an expression that holds
great healing qualities, but this is not the expression that you individually
create. You are creating the situation that you use this element
of your reality to be disguising yourself and presenting a camouflage to
other individuals, that they may not view yourself in your genuine expression
of yourself.
I express to you that there is no element of you that is so very repulsive
that other individuals may not appreciate the genuineness and the gloriousness
of your expression, for you hold great sensitivity in many areas of your
individual expression and may be quite interactive with other individuals
and quite helpful, not merely to them but to yourself also, in allowing
yourself to be expressive of your own sensitivity and vulnerability.
Therefore, I express to you that you may find, within your own expression
in this focus, much more of your own value fulfillment and much less of
your own conflict if you are allowing yourself to drop your own veils of
camouflage in your interaction with other individuals, and open yourself
to the wonders that you may discover in relation to yourself and other
individuals.
FRANK: Okay. In the last session — and again in this one
— you did mention the issue with humor and camouflaging, so I’ve been trying
to actually cut down on that, and I’m trying to interact more with other
individuals, I think, anyway. Obviously I haven’t been doing a good
job, but I still feel like I’m in such a huge rut, like on the wheel, as
you would put it.
ELIAS: Let me express to you, Christian, that I am not chastising
you, and I am also not expressing to you that you are not accomplishing,
for you are!
I am merely expressing to you an encouragement to be continuing in this
area, for you shall be offering yourself much more of your own freedom
and much more of your own opening to your awareness if you are continuing
to be accomplishing in these situations.
FRANK: Okay, I understand that. I don’t mean to sound like
I’m getting defensive here, but I think maybe I’m just frustrated in trying
to un-express all that I have expressed over the last four or five years,
and even probably before that.
ELIAS: Let me also express to you that this situation, as is the
case with many situations ... this is not a matter, as may be expressed
through your psychology, of undoing what you perceive to have been done.
It is merely a situation of choosing a different choice; moving aside from
the choices that you have been creating which are creating conflict, and
finding new choices within yourself to be expressive of a different type
of behavior.
It is unnecessary for you to be “fixing” your situation. It shall
automatically, in your terms, fix itself as you turn your attention in
different directions.
FRANK: Okay. That’s a lot to digest right now. In
order to turn my attention in a different direction, does that just mean
that I just go out and ... again, I don’t know the words, but physically
engage physical interaction, direct interaction with people more?
ELIAS: Let me express to you that you may be engaging our no
conflict scenario and exercise, and this may be helpful to you in your
practicing.
FRANK: Okay.
ELIAS: You are quite aware that the lack of interaction with other
individuals is creating conflict.
FRANK: Right.
ELIAS: Therefore, within the now, within the moment that you are
experiencing conflict, you may also offer yourself another choice which
shall eliminate your conflict.
In this, I am aware of the simplicity of this statement, but I shall
also express to you that this action is as simple as it is expressed.
This is an easily accomplished exercise, but it is also a very affecting
exercise, for it offers you the opportunity to practice your own acceptance
of self, and in this practicing, it becomes more and more automatic to
you.
In this, you begin to recognize more easily each time you are experiencing
conflict, and as you recognize your own conflict, you also offer yourself
the opportunity to move outside of your conflict. But if you are
not recognizing your conflict, which many times you are not, you shall
not offer yourself the opportunity to move outside of this conflict.
Therefore, I express to you to be noticing each time within the moment
that you are creating of any type of conflict, and as you notice this conflict,
offer yourself the inquiry as to what shall create no conflict in that
particular situation, and as you identify what shall present no conflict
to you, engage that action.
This may be much more efficient for you to be expressing presently than
more complicated actions, for within your movement of complicating many
of your thought processes, you also confuse yourself, and this many times
is blocking of your own movement also.
FRANK: Okay.
ELIAS: You may be inquiring of Michael in this area, and he may
also be offering you information as to the accomplishment of this particular
exercise of no conflict. Lawrence also....
FRANK: Okay. Actually, yes, I spoke to Michael last night
and he did bring this up and it was a very interesting topic, so I will
pursue that with him.
Okay, we also spoke last time in reference to other
focuses, what I would still call past lives, and we had a situation where
there were many bleed-through beliefs, similar to the ones I’m holding
now, also influencing me and getting expressed in that manner. Can
we elaborate more on that now?
ELIAS: These aspects of belief system that I have identified to
you presently are the same aspects of belief systems which are held in
these other focuses. Therefore, they are reinforcing of the strength
of the belief systems in this particular focus.
Now; as I have expressed to you, it may be helpful to you to be connecting
with these other focuses and identifying those situations in your addressment
of these belief systems within this focus. Let me offer you a small
example.
FRANK: Sure.
ELIAS: You may be noticing, within any particular interaction
with another individual, that you may identify certain aspects of belief
systems that THEY hold and that are very affecting of them.
Now; as you are removed from their experience in being affected by their
belief systems, you allow yourself to view more clearly how they are allowing
themselves to be affected by their belief systems, and you may be offering
advice or helpfulness in your interaction with them to be clarifying to
them certain elements of their own expression. You may view this
within yourself and within the expressions of many other individuals.
You all are quite efficient in these types of expressions. It is
easy for you to identify the behaviors and the affectingnesses within OTHER
individuals.
In this, there is at times an ease in viewing another focus of your
essence, for you view this to be a similar situation. It is another
individual that you may be viewing. Therefore, it may be easier for
you to identify the behaviors and the aspects of belief systems which are
affecting if you are viewing them within another focus.
Therefore, as you allow yourself to view another focus and the interaction
which is occurring and the behaviors that are affecting, you may subsequently
turn your attention back to yourself and view the parallels, and this may
allow you more of an ease in moving into a more efficient identification
of your own actions, your own behaviors, and your own affectingnesses.
Are you understanding?
FRANK: Yes, yes. I see that a lot at work, and I notice
it. When you say to notice the parallels ... when somebody else does
something and it’s similar to what I do, I can identify it. I see
it right away, like especially the humor issue and things in that area,
and I perceive it in myself and I don’t like what I see, or I see it and
I feel uncomfortable about it.
ELIAS: Ah, but let me also express to you that the reason that
you do not like what you see is that you do not feel yourself to be worthy
and adequate and you are not liking of yourself. I express to you
that this is not bad in its expression. It is merely limiting.
In this, as YOU perceive this to be bad and are placing judgment upon
these types of expressions, you are also perceiving yourself to be bad.
I express to you that you are a wondrous creature, a wondrous individual
with tremendous creativity and much to be expressive [of] within this focus!
In this, as you view the camouflage of other individuals, you may be
allowing yourself to be accepting of this and recognizing that this is
merely an expression of their own fearfulness, and this also may be helpful
to you in your acceptance of yourself within your own fearfulness.
FRANK: Okay, very good.
ELIAS: (Intently) Express to yourself what you would be
expressing to another individual in compassion, in the recognition of their
fearfulness.
FRANK: Okay, that’s very good. To get back to the issue
with other focuses, is that kind of the same issue in past life focuses
also? Is that why I’m so ... like, I was trying to pursue that for
a long time, I guess, to identify the focuses and find them in history
...
ELIAS: Yes.
FRANK: ... just to see what was going on there.
ELIAS: Yes. You hold your attention in this area, for you
also hold subjectively a recognition of their affectingness in this focus.
This also enters the situation of your attention to certain elements
— as I have expressed in this session — that you view to be lacking in
this particular focus. This is the expression that you view to be
missing — in your terms — your “split-apart.” This is quite common
within physical focus and is creating also of many elements of conflict
within individuals, yourself also, for this is another expression of inadequacy
that you reinforce to yourself. For if you be adequate, you would
be discovering your split-apart, but as you are not adequate, you are not
finding this individual and allowing yourself the bliss of shared relationship.
(Smiling)
I express to you that first of all, you shall be addressing to self
and the acceptance of self, and in this acceptance of self, you shall draw
to you other individuals which shall be allowing you the expression of
relationship in the manner that you seek.
FRANK: Okay. (Pause) Alright. In going from the split-apart
to specifically — and excuse my being transfixed on this one focus from
the past — but the one who we identified as Lillian Buseau, is she a split-apart
from me?
ELIAS: Yes.
FRANK: Okay. Now, on two occasions ... on one occasion I
was at a plantation in New Orleans and I heard a voice which I believe
was hers, and on another occasion I had a dream, which was a very lucid
dream, where we actually met very, very lucidly. My question is,
did we actually meet, or is that just another one of my creations, trying
to get to my beliefs? Am I creating the imagery of us meeting ...
ELIAS: No. (Smiling)
FRANK: ... in the subjective, or hearing a voice?
ELIAS: In one manner of speaking, it is a translation of imagery.
In another manner of speaking, it is an actual contact, so to speak, of
two aspects of consciousness, yours and the expression of another essence.
You may translate this contact, so to speak, into your own creation of
imagery, but this is not discounting of the actual interaction which is
occurring.
What I am expressing to you in this is that within your own imagery
to yourself, you may present yourself with a specific image of a specific
type of individual, which is your own imagery, but this is the translation
element of the interaction.
This is not to say that the interaction has not occurred or that you
have merely created this singularly yourself. You have engaged the
interaction, and that is reality. You merely also have created your
own imagery in a physical form or type of physical form.
Therefore, I express to you that within your actions in this physical
focus, you may be disappointing yourself if you are looking and searching
for this particular body form, for the expression of this individual may
not necessarily be manifest in that particular creation of physical form.
FRANK: Right.
ELIAS: But this is not to say that that essence is not manifest
and that you do not hold the ability to draw yourself to that individual
focus within this now.
FRANK: Right. Okay. At first, I didn’t really particularly
feel like I was searching for that physical person in this present focus.
I think I felt like I wanted to subjectively have interactions with this
person on like a meditative level or a dream level, just to prove to myself
that I can.
ELIAS: Quite! And this offers you also an expression of
safety, does it not? (Grinning)
FRANK: (Laughing) I guess so. Very sneaky of me!
ELIAS: (Chuckling) You need not be fearful of your physical
expression if you are not engaging an individual physically!
FRANK: Can you express that again?
ELIAS: You need not be fearful of your physical expression or
how you may be presenting yourself to another individual if you are not
engaging another physical individual. Therefore, you are creating
once again a very efficient protection and safety net for yourself!
FRANK: So this is not my pursuit of my spiritual abilities or
my ability to transcend myself. I’m just reinforcing my belief systems.
ELIAS: You ARE offering yourself the objective awareness of your
abilities within this physical focus. You ARE allowing yourself to
view your ability to be accomplishing in certain actions in connecting
with other elements of consciousness. But you are also simultaneously
allowing yourself a safety net, and not addressing to the physical objective
interaction within this focus.
Let me express to you that you yourself,
as very many other individuals in like manner, express a false sense of
spirituality to yourself, in moving in the direction of concentrating your
attention and your energy in the expression of exploration of other aspects
of consciousness and ignoring many of your objective physical aspects of
your expression.
Actual, genuine spirituality encompasses ALL of your expressions, physical
and non-physical, objective and subjective, belief systems and not belief
systems.
FRANK: Okay....
ELIAS: Were this not so, I would not be expressing to you or to
any individual to be pursuing fun and pleasure! What shall fun and
pleasure matter if the expression of spirituality is not encompassing your
physical objective expression? Pleasure and fun within physical focus
is the experience of physical sensations!
FRANK: Right. Alright, I guess I’ve limited myself for such
a long time that that was my only outlet, and I was looking for some sort
of encouragement from there, I guess, to get back out.
ELIAS: Let me be encouraging to you! And I express to you,
allow yourself to break free and experience pleasure and fun, and you shall
also be experiencing a great liberation!
FRANK: I will be experiencing a great liberation shortly?
Or upon my action of....
ELIAS: Within your pursuit of pleasure! (Grinning, and a pause)
FRANK: Okay. I was just trying to ... like what is ... pursuit
of pleasure is ... what? Just being spontaneous and enjoying myself
and everyone around me?
ELIAS: Pleasure is any element, any action that you view to be
offering you no conflict and a stimulation that YOU identify within your
belief systems as good!
Now; there are many pleasures that are stimulations of your physical
senses that you also perceive to be bad, but I express to you that if you
are removing the element of bad, you may view that there are many different
expressions of stimulation that are pleasurable.
You, within yourself, already hold a knowing of many, many different
expressions of pleasure that you may be engaging within your physical focus.
This is not to say that you allow yourself the participation in these pleasures,
but if you are genuinely examining within yourself, you shall hold no difficulty
in identifying pleasurable activities to yourself.
FRANK: Okay. Alright, I wanted to ask you to be specific
to me on those aspects, but I guess maybe I should do that myself?
ELIAS: I have been specific with you in the area of the aspects
of these belief systems that you are engaging battle with within yourself,
and in this, as you allow yourself to be reconnecting with this particular
session, you may be more efficiently identifying these aspects of belief
systems to yourself.
Be remembering that much of the interaction that we hold together within
the forum of these sessions is occurring subjectively. This be the
reason that you hold difficulty in the objective remembrance of all that
is offered to you within this forum.
FRANK: Okay. Alright, I think we are probably at the end
— we ARE at the end — of this session. So what I’m going to do is
review everything, and then just get out there and try it, and if you have
any final words, I’d appreciate it!
ELIAS: I am very encouraging to you, Christian, and once again,
I offer my encouragement to you and my expression of energy to you, and
I shall continue to be offering you expressions of energy to be helpful
in your movement. Be remembering that I am interactive with you regardless
of our objective interaction within the forum of these sessions.
Although I anticipate our next meeting in objective terms, I continue to
be interactive with you subjectively, and allow you at times a knowing
of my presence with you objectively.
As you view certain affectingnesses futurely in twinges, so to speak,
that you may physically feel, you may notice this as a confirmation of
my interaction with you. Therefore, you may be validated that you
are receiving helpfulness from other essences, and you may be accomplishing.
I extend to you a great lovingness and a tremendous affection, and in
this, I also am quite acknowledging of your continuation in your movement.
FRANK: Okay, Elias. I thank you very much, and I’ll be looking
forward to those twinges and our next meeting!
ELIAS: Very well!
FRANK: Okay, thank you.
ELIAS: To you this day, Christian, I express a very fond au revoir.
FRANK: Au revoir.
Elias departs at 12:55 PM.
FOOTNOTES:
(1) I rarely include any pre/post session conversation
or comments in the transcripts, but this one was too funny! I have
transcribed Mary’s intro verbatim from the tape, but here’s a note from
Frank in which he offers clarifying info:
“Mary says I’m at the New York stock exchange. I’m actually at
the American stock exchange, in a phone booth directly underneath where
they trade. I work at both, so IT MATTERS NOT!!”
© 1999 Vicki Pendley/Mary Ennis, All Rights Reserved
Copyright 1999 Mary Ennis, All Rights Reserved.