Complicating Simplicity,
Topics:
“Complicating Simplicity”
“Orientations/Mental Genes”
“Exploring the Inner Senses”
Wednesday, November 24, 1999
© 2000 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Paul (Caroll).
Elias arrives at 2:40 PM. (Arrival time is 19 seconds)
ELIAS: Good morning!
PAUL: Good morning, old friend! Our conversations continue!
(Elias chuckles) I have some questions, as always, for you today.
I think I’d like to begin with some friends, and a request to get essence
name, essence family traits, and orientation.
ELIAS: Very well.
PAUL: The first person is Lynda. (Pause)
ELIAS: Essence name, Lisa; L-I-S-A. Essence family, Sumari;
alignment, Vold.
PAUL: Thank you. Could you offer her orientation, please?
ELIAS: Orientation in this focus, common.
PAUL: Thank you. The next one is Michael. (Pause)
ELIAS: Essence name, Butler; B-U-T-L-E-R. Essence family,
Zuli; alignment, Sumari; orientation in this focus, common.
PAUL: Thank you. And the last one is Mary. (Pause)
ELIAS: Essence name, Lyn-Wi; L-Y-N-hyphen-W-I. (lin-wee)
Essence family, Tumold; alignment, Milumet; orientation, common.
PAUL: Thank you very much.
Moving on to some other questions today, when we last left our hero,
we were talking about the dream mission, so to
speak, and we had talked a little bit about what you had called “the efficient
language of translation of subjective into objective imagery.”
We discussed an equation, so to speak — relay the force pattern as a
source of tension — and I just wanted to review my understanding of our
interaction with that, and ask some further questions about that.
Listening to the tape of that session, it’s my understanding that the
“force pattern” aspect of that equation deals with the subjective source
energy. Is that correct? (Pause)
ELIAS: In a manner of speaking, yes.
PAUL: Okay, thank you. The “source of tension” aspect of
that equation, I understand as a translation process. Is that correct?
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
PAUL: Thank you. And the “relaying,” then, is the knowing
and perception in objective terms of the translation process?
ELIAS: The relaying is the action.
PAUL: Okay, thank you. It is the action of knowing, in objective
terms?
ELIAS: It is the action of the accomplishment of the translation
into objective knowing.
PAUL: Great. Thank you.
So, moving on, in one of the early session books by Seth and Jane Roberts,
in session 23, Seth introduces some terms that I think are kind of similar
to this equation, and I wanted to bounce that off of you and get your feedback
on that.
Seth used the words “source energy,” and he talked about actions of
receiving this source energy as received by our
inner senses, and is transformed by mental genes into camouflage patterns,
and in a sense, that maps onto this equation very nicely.
So I guess one question I have is, what is the role of the inner senses
in this language of translation? (Pause)
ELIAS: Your inner senses may be enhancing to your outer senses,
and offer you more input in the direction of your objective perception.
They offer you more of an objective assimilation of information, in a similar
manner to your outer senses.
Your inner senses need be creating no translation in the direction of
subjective recognition and awareness.
But at times, you may be engaging a translation of information that
you incorporate through inner senses to allow you an understanding in objective
terms, for you may be assimilating experiences that you do not hold within
your creation of experiences.
Therefore, in a manner of speaking objectively, they are foreign to
you, and in this type of expression, there is a translation which is required,
that you may be understanding in objective terms what you are assimilating
and what you are incorporating in experiences, for just as with your outer
senses, they assimilate information through direct experience.
Your inner senses also incorporate information through direct experience
in a different function, but it is a direct experience which is being accomplished
and offering you information. But in objective terms, the information
which is being incorporated through inner senses is unfamiliar to you.
Therefore, it may be at times requiring of a translation process.
What you have offered in this other equation basically is a very similar
equation to what we have been discussing within our previous session.
PAUL: Great. So I have some further questions then, because
it offers a new angle, so to speak, to look at this equation, at least
in objective terms.
I’m struck by this statement of “transformed by mental genes,” which
is an early term that Seth used, and the closest thing I can come to understanding
mental genes ... Seth does go on to later talk about consciousness units,
which you have termed links of consciousness, and he’s also discussed a
concept called EE units or electromagnetic energy units, and I’m wondering
... the first question is, are these concepts of links of consciousness
and electromagnetic energy units, or whatever you would term it, the same
as mental genes?
ELIAS: In a manner of speaking, yes, although I shall also express
to you no, for within the context of what is being expressed and explained,
no. This is not the information that is being offered.
Therefore, be not confused in the thought process that this teacher
is expressing the same concept in different terminology, for it has not
been offered in that manner.
As to links of consciousness or what you term to be consciousness units,
this constitutes EVERY expression of consciousness.
Therefore, in a manner of speaking, I may express to you in response,
affirmative; that yes, you may incorporate links of consciousness into
this explanation. But as I say to you, within the context of the
information offered, this is not what is being referred to.
In this, it may be expressed in other terms in the statements of energy
and energy signatures.
Each of you, in your uniqueness and within your individuality, as I
have expressed previously, are so very highly individual and unique that
you each possess your own energy signature, in a manner of speaking, just
as we have discussed within previous sessions in comparison to your physical
fingerprints.
Your individual expression of tone and vibrational quality and personality
are so very highly unique and individualized to you yourself that it may
be compared to physical fingerprints not being duplicated within the physical
expression of any other individual throughout your history within your
physical dimension.
There are no two identically the same, and in this, you each hold a
particular energy signature which is unique to yourself.
Now; in this energy signature, you also incorporate certain qualities
that appear to be in alignment, in a manner of speaking, with other individuals,
although you express, as I have stated, within yourselves uniquely.
In this, you may be incorporating the similarities of orientations also,
which place you in a type of general expression of a group, so to speak.
But within the group, you continue to be highly individualized within your
expressions.
Now; as you look to your physical identification of gene pools, gene
pools are not unique to one individual, although they ARE unique to each
individual.
Your genetic makeup, so to speak, is individualized to yourself, but
also simultaneously, it incorporates hereditary factors and the similarities
to other individuals within your physical dimension, which creates a commonality
in one respect between yourself and other individuals, but retains your
individuality and your uniqueness within the group.
In a similar manner, through the incorporation of orientation, you hold
similarities to each other in each of the designations of the different
orientations, but you also each hold your individual energy signature.
Therefore, these may be likened, in a manner of speaking, to the manifestation
of your physical genetics, and this may be translated in terminology that
may be more easily assimilated by individuals objectively as a concept
that is expressed as “mental genes.”
It is a different manner of expressing the same concept as commonalties
and uniqueness in your energy signature and your orientation, within physical
terms.
These are influencing factors in your translations. How you translate
different elements of subjective movement or imagery into objective movement
and imagery — how you create the bridge in objective terms between the
two that you may view objectively — is quite influenced by your energy
signature individually and also by your orientation, for this is a construct
of your perception.
PAUL: That’s incredible! I have like a hundred questions,
and I’m just trying to formulate the most efficient next one!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
PAUL: (Laughing) Very interesting! Just give me a
second here; we’ve covered a lot of ground.
I guess I just want to make the observation that I didn’t realize ...
connecting all this orientation information that you’ve offered this year
within this concept of an efficient language of translation. It’s
obvious now that you’ve put it in those terms to me; the role of energy
signatures too. Maybe that’s where I’ll go.
I have a sense, as a physical being in linear time, of my body, of my
mind and body as — in terms of tone, in terms of energy and vibration —
thick, slowed down in terms of light energy and faster than light energy,
and so I have an objective sense of this energy signature, so to speak,
as it manifests objectively.
However, subjectively, in the context of this term of mental genes,
commonalties and uniquenesses in the context of how we translate, there
is a subjective manifestation of the energy signature also, and that is
on the subjective side of this equation that we’re talking about, and maybe
that’s good enough to know at this point!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha! You are correct!
As I have expressed to you previously, your objective and subjective
awarenesses move in harmony with each other and are not independent of
each other, in a manner of speaking. Therefore, what is being created
subjectively is also being created objectively.
What you are attempting to be moving into is the translation, is the
objective awareness of BOTH creations of awareness. You wish to be
objectively aware of subjective movement.
And in this, we concentrate our subject matter upon the objective movement
and objective noticings and recognitions and translations, for you need
no translation of the subjective — the subjective needs no translation
of the objective — and you have no motivation to be translating any objective
imagery into subjective awareness.
But as you HAVE created veils and separations objectively throughout
your history in manifestation within this dimension, you DO hold a curiosity
and a motivation to be creating a translation of that which you view presently
— or perceive to be illusive — as the subjective imagery and movement,
that element of yourself that continues to be suspect, and you wish or
desire to be creating a translation, that you may hold an objective awareness
of the movement of the subjective imagery and awareness; not that the subjective
movement or imagery or awareness is being created in any different manner
than the objective in terms of direction, for it is not.
The direction is the same of both the objective and the subjective,
but the imagery presents itself differently, and therefore there is a fascination
in the area of investigating that which is unfamiliar to you objectively.
Therefore, we DO concentrate our discussions in the direction of the objective
terms of translation.
PAUL: Great. That’s very clear.
So for now, in my present understanding, I think if I proceed in terms
of this equation and its three aspects in a general sense of subjective
source energy, translation, and objective imagery — the accomplishment
of objective imagery — that will be helpful, to continue in that framework,
for me. Is that correct?
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct. You may identify force pattern
or source energy as quite the same.
PAUL: Great.
ELIAS: They are merely different terms for the same concept.
PAUL: So, just one further question in this general area.
Seth does mention this concept
of electromagnetic energy units, which he says, in his terms, are made
up of consciousness units. I’m clear that in your terms, links of
consciousness make up these other units of energy that are involved in
translating into objective physical imagery from a slightly faster, higher
vibrational speed than is physical. You’ve never really commented
on this concept, and I’m wondering if you would just comment on that notion
of electromagnetic energy units in this translation process.
ELIAS: This is an objective translation that may be more easily
assimilated by individuals.
In another manner of speaking, it is a complication of the concept of
consciousness, for it is the offering of what you objectively may term
to be an extra piece or an extra element.
It has been offered purposefully, for as you are aware, within physical
focus you incline objectively quite easily in the direction of complication
and of creating processes, within your thought patterns and within all
of your objective imagery that you create.
You move in the direction of not allowing yourselves to be accepting
of the simplification of concepts or of movement or of consciousness, and
in your exploration of consciousness, within physical terms, you choose
to be creating complications for many of the aspects of consciousness within
your physical dimension.
(Firmly) This is not bad. I am not expressing this in any
terms of negativity. It is merely an action that you create, and
that you have created quite purposefully.
It offers you the ability to be examining every area of physical manifestation.
It offers you a tremendous labyrinth of exploration within physical dimensions,
and allows you to be examining every aspect of what you may be creating
within this physical dimension.
Therefore, it is not without purpose that you have created this direction
of complication, but you have also incorporated this complicating element
into your language quite efficiently.
Therefore, as you receive information, it is easier for you to be assimilating
information offered if it is complicated. It is more difficult for
you to be assimilating information if it is offered to you too simply.
Therefore, it has been quite purposefully complicated and offered to
you in information, that you may easily assimilate the concept of movement
of energy, and as I have stated, an extra piece has been inserted for your
benefit, that you may be understanding the information efficiently.
In this, I express to you, links of consciousness create ALL manifestations.
You may complicate this, and you may express different categorizations
for these links of consciousness. You may group links of consciousness
in different manners, and in this, you may label and identify and classify
them, and this may be efficient for your objective understanding, and this
is acceptable if this offers you an ease within your objective understanding
in movement.
But I may express to you, in actuality, links of consciousness group
together in different configurations and create all actions and all movements
and all manifestations of consciousness, and it need not be complicated
further.
But as I have stated, I am quite understanding that this is the development
of your language and how you move within your thought processes, and as
I express to you the statement that links of consciousness create all of
your reality in different configurations within physical dimensions and
within nonphysical areas of consciousness, this is a simplification, and
appears to you to be missing a piece. Therefore, you may insert your
piece! (Chuckling)
PAUL: Thank you. That was really clear. I’m scaring
myself these days that I’m actually following you, and I mean that with
all due respect! (They both laugh)
So just to summarize my understanding of your answer, it’s clear to
me, in what you’ve offered thus far in terms of consciousness units, that
there’s a large, perhaps infinite spectrum of configurations, groupings,
and so forth, and within our objective terms, there’s a certain observable
way of breaking those down into pieces, and that certainly aligns with
our scientific belief systems and so forth.
So, that’s interesting. My personal interest in this area is not
classifying all of these configurations and publishing books about them
at all, but to simply see what your answer and your feedback is in that
area, and for me, it’s very clear. Thank you.
ELIAS: You are very welcome.
PAUL: Another question then, in this area of the equation and
the three aspects, the general orienting aspects here, types of force patterns
or source energy that you’ve discussed to date ... I just want to summarize
my understanding and see if there’s any that are missing, or other aspects
that I’m not clear on.
So, my understanding is that in terms of source energy, certainly our
essence and all of our aspect selves, which includes focuses of essence
and all the probables, alternates, splinters, counterparts, et cetera,
is one. You’ve talked about source events found in what you term
Regional Area 2. That certainly seems to be another area of source
energy that impacts what you term our Regional Area 1. And then what
some call psychic blueprints or world views, you term energy deposits,
aspects of focuses in transition found in Regional Area 3. So, would
you comment on the accuracy of that assessment? Are there other types
of source energy that I’m not aware of?
ELIAS: (Deliberately) Let me express to you that the force
pattern — or the source energy — may be classified quite simply as ALL
of the energy and movement, imagery and creation, collective and individual,
which may be designated within Regional Area 2, or any regional area of
consciousness that may be translatable into objective awareness within
Regional Area 1.
PAUL: So that would include this energy exchange with Regional
Area 4.
ELIAS: Correct.
PAUL: Interesting.
ELIAS: For in this phenomenon also, [there] is a translation which
is occurring, and in this, it may also in part serve as an example, for
there is a force pattern which is projected in what you may term to be
a filtration through subjective energy, in a mergence with subjective energy,
and is translated in energy through, and relayed into objective expression.
PAUL: That’s clear from where I’m at, at the moment. This
is fascinating stuff, Elias! I just have to say that. Sometimes
I can’t believe I’m having this conversation with myself! (Elias chuckles)
Okay, moving along, another question about this area of translation
and the use of inner senses — my own inner senses — in the context of my
own what I term to be out-of-body experiences, or projections of consciousness,
and you and I have discussed some of these experiences I’ve had, and I’m
just beginning to be able to formulate some further questions for my own
understanding, based on my own experience.
So, I think I’d like to ask about the three primary or fundamental inner
senses that you’ve talked about — conceptualization,
differential time, and the empathic sense — and try to look at some of
my experiences and get a handle, a sense of using them. I guess in
essence, I’m talking about what would be analogous to my physical senses
of vision and hearing, which I have plenty of examples that I can recognize.
But in this state ... and you’ve told me that these experiences occur in
Regional Area 1, and that it’s a much wider area than we’re presently aware
of in terms of time frameworks and other dimensions that are very closely
related, but in a much wider way and in an exciting way to become aware
of, that they’re there for further exploration.
So, one question specifically about the sense of conceptualization.
I had a dream decades ago, twenty years ago perhaps, in which I believe
I merged with Igor Stravinsky, the composer, the twentieth century composer’s
world view. And the reason I say that is because when I woke up and
was still half asleep/half awake, I had the sense that I could orchestrate
in terms of Stravinsky, that I could compose music like him, and that it
was WAY beyond my — at that time — present ability to understand those
concepts. So I’m wondering, in that experience, did I actually merge
and bring back, translating, so to speak, using my conceptual sense?
ELIAS: Yes, this is an example of engaging conceptualization.
Conceptualization is quite a different action from your empathic sense.
Your empathic sense, as you are aware, is a mergence with any other element
of consciousness, and creates an allowance for you to be objectively assimilating
the experience of that aspect of consciousness, regardless of how it may
be manifest.
Now; within conceptualization, this is an allowance of mergence with
action; an enabling of yourself, in a manner of speaking — as you identify
yourself within this physical dimension — to be merging with the action
of a creation.
(Intently) Concepts are a creation, and in this, as you allow
yourself to be merging with the action of the creation — or the concept
— you experience the action itself, and this offers you a different type
of information. This offers you the ability to be creating different
elements objectively within your physical focus without instruction, so
to speak.
In a manner of speaking, hypothetically I may express to you that as
you offered yourself that moment of conceptualization — as you created
the translation into objective awareness — were you to allow yourself in
that moment an expression of freedom, you would have allowed yourself the
objective manifestation of the creation without the necessity of objective
understanding or learning.
PAUL: So in objective terms, what would that mean? Would
that mean I would be able to sit at the piano and perhaps play....
ELIAS: Create.
PAUL: Create. Improvise in the style of Stravinsky?
ELIAS: In the design.
PAUL: In the design. Interesting! In that conceptualization,
was that a mergence — you talked about action, creation, concept — with
what you’ve talked about as a world view or energy deposit?
ELIAS: You may engage this action in that type of energy configuration,
but you may also create this mergence in conceptualization, not necessarily
in conjunction with an actual individual or world view, so to speak.
PAUL: So what would I be connecting with? I’m trying to
identify.
ELIAS: In objective terminology, you would be connecting with
a concept, an idea.
PAUL: And that concept or idea has a ... is it a counterpart or
a blueprint or ... I’m connecting, conceptualizing with a subjective energy?
ELIAS: You are, but you may also incorporate an objective energy
in that action also. It is not limited to the subjective awareness.
PAUL: Okay, that’s clear. Thank you. Another question
then about the empathic sense.
I have been for years merging with objects. This is just something
I do for fun; for example, just diving through a floor, sticking my arm
in a wall, literally, in out-of-body state, so to speak, and moving and
feeling the resistance of the energy of this wall, or diving into a lawn
and breathing the dirt, so to speak, the earth. I just wanted to
get your feedback, perhaps validation, that that is the sense that I’m
using primarily during those actions.
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
PAUL: Great. Okay, so that’s a good example of that.
And then, differential time, this third fundamental sense, I guess I
look at it in two primary ways, such as when, when/where, in terms of perhaps
objective terms, but also duration, and I know you’ve talked a lot about
compressed and expanded time, and certainly in this state of projection,
the time sense is very different.
There’s one scenario I want to bounce off of you today in which I connected
with a focus of mine — I suspect it was a woman — and in the moment, it
just seemed ... I was asking her, “What time do you come from?” I
guess that’s where I was at, at the moment. In other words, I sensed
she was not from this present now or time framework that I live in.
She did not answer me, but I’m wondering if that is the sort of thing,
in terms of time sense, that I was attempting to engage in that action.
ELIAS: This inner sense is not necessarily merely the identification
of differences within time frameworks or sensing differences within time
frameworks, but the actual allowance of yourself to be recognizing the
flexibility of time and your ability to be manipulating it; that time is
an invention or a creation of your perception within this physical dimension,
and that it is quite elastic and that it is also quite changeable, and
may vary considerably between individuals.
You look to the element of time as being an absolute, as you look at
many elements within your physical dimension as absolutes, but I express
to you that it is not an absolute.
In this, it may be quite changeable and bendable by each individual,
regardless that you may be participating in an officially accepted reality
within a particular physical dimension. Even within the guidelines
of your officially accepted reality, the configuration of linear time may
be altered.
PAUL: Interesting, and clear.
So one follow-up question to that would be, I have experiences where
my objective memory may or may not contain lots of specifics, but I wake
up from the experience with the sense of bigness or vastness. Would
that be an example of manipulating time — the sense of having experienced
an entire book’s worth of experiences in several hours?
ELIAS: Indirectly; not ... not directly. But indirectly,
it may be identified in conjunction with this inner sense.
This is an identification of a momentary recognition of the being of
essence, and not necessarily an action which is engaged through this particular
inner sense.
As I have stated, the action which is incorporated by this inner sense
is to in actuality be manipulating of time itself, and creating the translation
of that manipulation of time in energy into objective terms, in which you
hold an objective recognition that you have bent time or that you have
altered its configuration.
You DO this action quite frequently, and you express and experience
it in objective terms, but you do not allow yourself to be noticing.
You ARE accomplishing this reconfiguration of time or manipulation of time
very often, and you are accomplishing this in objective terms, but you
are not allowing yourself an objective awareness of it as you are creating
it.
And this would be an element of what you move into now within the action
of this shift, to be becoming more aware of what you are creating objectively
and to be noticing what you are automatically creating already.
ALL of what you hold in abilities is being expressed already.
You merely do not allow yourself an objective recognition of the abilities
that you hold.
It is not the situation that you are creating this shift in consciousness
to be allowing yourselves new abilities or to be creating new abilities,
or abilities that you have not held previously. You already hold
all of these abilities and are already exercising them! You merely
do not allow yourself to be noticing or to be objectively aware of what
you are already creating.
And I am not expressing to you that you are creating entirely subjectively.
I am expressing to you that you are already creating objectively, and you
are not allowing yourself an awareness of what you are creating.
This be the reason that I am expressing to individuals so very often
that there is no element of your reality that is hidden from you.
There is no subconscious or unconscious or beneath conscious or below conscious
or removed consciousness from you. You merely do not pay attention.
You merely do not notice what you are already creating. It is all
available to you objectively, and you ARE objectively creating all that
you seek to be creating effortlessly. You merely do not notice and
you do not pay attention.
And this is the point — allowing yourselves to be dropping the veils
that you have created and to be allowing yourselves the objective recognition
and noticing of what you are already creating, and in this, you allow yourselves
to be expanding what you are creating, for you allow yourselves more of
your expression of creativity in what you are already expressing in ability.
PAUL: Thanks for the reminder! (They both laugh) It would
seem that in terms of this shift in consciousness, in a sense, that we’ve
been the sleepwalkers and that we’re beginning to awaken, so to speak,
in terms of this noticing that you’re talking about, and noticing how we’re
creating these things automatically and effortlessly, so that we have greater
ability to explore and manipulate.
ELIAS: Quite! You are correct.
PAUL: Just to finish up on my inner senses questions, I wanted
to make sure ... to date, you have also discussed four other characteristics
of inner senses that you’ve termed telepathy, tone and touch, and clairvoyance,
and I just wanted to make sure that I haven’t missed any. Are those
seven basically what you’ve offered thus far?
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
PAUL: Thank you.
ELIAS: (Grinning) Although I may also express to you that
once again, this is a complication of the simplistic element!
All of these may be expressed within the three initial inner senses
that I have offered to you, but within the recognition of your desire for
complication and classification, that you may hold objectively an understanding,
I have also offered further classification of the simplification! (Chuckling)
PAUL: (Laughing) That’s very clear, and I thank you again for
that.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome.
PAUL: I do have one more question about my projection
adventures. You’ve mentioned using the inner senses objectively.
An example of that is involved with processes that go on in our physical
bodies, like digestion or hair growth or our heart beat and breathing,
and that’s clear to me, that at least experientially, evidentially ...
examples of inner senses in very objective and useful terms.
So, I have a sense of no thought process being involved in my heart
beating presently or my breath and so forth. But in out-of-body state,
in this projection state, I’m still quite objectively present. I
very much have an objective thought process. Are there analogous
no-thought aspects of inner senses that are still happening in this state
of projection?
ELIAS: Yes. (Pause)
PAUL: Can you give me some further information on those processes
that ... of those no-thought processes in terms of inner sensing in that
state?
ELIAS: Think to your pond once again. In this, your action
of projection is similar to your physical body diving into your pond, and
the movement of the water all about you — as an element of you, not as
a separate entity — is comparable to the movement of your inner senses
as you engage projections, for as you are creating any type of projection
activity within consciousness, your inner senses are engaging what you
may term to be “feelers,” so to speak, in objective terms, that spread
as fingers out from yourself, or ripples through your water, or currents
that you create within your water.
And these movements of energy within your inner senses connect with
different elements of the action of your projection, allowing you to be
engaging different elements of expressions of these inner senses, which
offers you more information. You engage empathically, you engage
conceptually, and you engage the aspect of altering time frameworks.
PAUL: Thank you. One final question — I just realized I
had another one.
In one of the Oversoul Seven books, Grandpa George is a character who
experiments with out-of-body states, and he had a technique — and I recognize
it’s a method — where he would project, and he would issue a mental command
to the environment that he found himself in, of “Hallucinations be gone.”
I wanted to talk a little bit about this condition of what we might
term hallucinations that we as a focus personality project into this environment,
and also in an attempt to reduce ... well, to make them go away, to get
to what is present in the environment that is not just a projection of
ourselves, but a projection obviously of other aspects that are inside.
So, I wonder if you would comment on this action of what we project
as so-called hallucinations when we do project, and the utility or usefulness
of those, and the action perhaps of diminishing them to pursue other activities.
ELIAS: (Chuckling, and Paul laughs) I shall express to you,
quite simply, there are no hallucinations!
PAUL: (Cracking up) Oh great! Thank you!
ELIAS: You are quite welcome. (Chuckling)
PAUL: Okay. Let’s see here....
ELIAS: We shall be disengaging this day, and we shall be continuing
futurely. I offer to you encouragement in your continuation of your
exploration and your objective offering of discussion and information with
other individuals.
PAUL: And I wanted to just thank you so very much for offering
more information for me to think about.
ELIAS: You are very welcome. I express to you this day great
affection, and offer to you a very loving au revoir.
PAUL: Au revoir!
Elias departs at 3:50 PM.
FOOTNOTES:
(1) The actual quote is :
“Therefore, it would be helpful to you if you allowed yourselves to
train your objective consciousness, your thought processes, to mingle with
your subjective activity and create an efficient language for translation
of subjective activity into objective knowing.”
To access Paul’s footnotes [(2)—(7)], see addendum “Notes506.”
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Addendum
These are Paul’s notes regarding this session
(1) Paul’s note: in my previous , Elias and I discussed this efficient “language for
translation” in the context of the dream mission, out-of-body states, and
engaging the remembrance of essence.
The following exchange between Norm, a retired physicist, and Elias
from an earlier session led me to ask about a “language for translation,”
as this relates to HOW we create our reality, through the action of translating
“source energy” into physical constructions:
NORM: One of the questions is in regard to the relationship of
the brain, and not using parts of the brain, and our thinking mechanism.
And then, what happens when we have out-of-body experiences in the waking
state, and then we have out-of-body experiences in the dreaming state?
It seemed to me that, and I think I did have an out-of-body experience
when I was fifteen or sixteen years old, that I was able to think as well
in that out-of-body experience. I looked down on my body and there
it was. I’m trying to figure out what the relationship is between
my physical brain and my real ability to think. It felt like I had
some kind of a spiritual essence or a spiritual form that came out of my
body and moved with me in my bedroom, in Sioux City, Iowa in 1945 or 1946.
So is it true that my thinking has really nothing to do with my brain?
ELIAS: (Chuckling) This engagement is quite amusing!
Once again, we shall take your questions in order, of questions within
one question!
RETA: That’s how he talks all the way! (Elias is still chuckling)
ELIAS: You engage the action of what you term to be out-of-body
experiences within waking state, within sleeping state, consciously, unconsciously,
in your terms, within altered states, in your terms. You may experience
out-of-body action, so to speak, within what you term to be a daydream.
Within missing time, as you experience, you are experiencing an out-of-body.
You experience this action much of your time. You are not aware objectively
of this action, for you do not translate into your objective language the
action that you are engaged in.
As to your thinking while you are engaged in this action of out-of-body;
the action of physical thought is quite valuable if you may train yourself
to be consciously, objectively consciously, aware within the action of
out-of-body experience. Thought processes are a creation of physical
focus. You think in terms of language, which is symbolic. Thoughts,
within physical focus, are symbolic energy. They are symbols.
They are a language. Therefore, it would be helpful to you if you
allowed yourselves to train your objective consciousness, your thought
processes, to mingle with your subjective activity and create an efficient
language for translation of subjective activity into objective knowing.
You do not remember your experiences out-of-body, for you have not created
this language to be translating subjective activity. Therefore, you
have no frame of reference within your objective, waking state. You
then are left with “blank space.”
NORM: Not even feelings or intuition.
ELIAS: You are attempting to translate non-physical, subjective
consciousness action into objective consciousness; this being the same
as what you expressed earlier within the action of Regional Area 3, and
wishing to know the mechanics of this area of consciousness. You
are attempting to label experiences which do not fit within this area of
consciousness. Therefore, they must be translated. All that
you view is a translation. All that you think is a translation.
Within other areas of consciousness, thought is not what you “think!”
RETA: So we have to learn, or find steps to take, to get more
of that subjective material into our life.
ELIAS: Notice Michael’s dream mission! This shall be your
key. [session #135, November 24, 1996]
(2) Here’s the excerpt from The Early Sessions, Book
1 of the Seth Material by Jane Roberts and Robert Butts that I was referring
to:
SETH: The only reason the whole self is not much more conscious
and accessible is your own stubborn refusal to admit it. I cannot emphasize
this more strongly. The camouflage pattern world is formed by the mind,
and I am using this now in its true term as a part of the inner world.
Energy is received by the mind through the inner senses and transformed
by use of mental enzymes into camouflage patterns.
There is no reason why mankind cannot be made aware of this transformation,
if once he admits into existence the whole self which makes this possible.
[session #23, February 05, 1964, pg. 168]
The sentence above in italics maps nicely onto the equation we discussed
previously – relay the force pattern as a source of tension.
I should also mention that I switched the words “enzymes” and “genes”
from the above Seth excerpt in my question to Elias, as Seth discusses
both “mental enzymes” and “mental genes” in the Early Sessions books. However,
my “switch” didn’t seem to faze Elias at all, as he used the opportunity
to deliver more information on genetics, orientations, and energy signatures,
all in the context of this equation’s “language for translation.” I suspect
that the action of Seth’s mental “genes” and “enzymes” both map nicely
onto this equation.
For those interested, here’s the equation excerpt from session #148
that I was referring to:
ELIAS: We continue.
CAROLE: Elias. Relay the force pattern as a source of tension.
ELIAS: No! You relay the force pattern as a source of tension!
(And we all crack up. Elias is grinning widely)
CAROLE: Does that sentence have something to do with the electric
light show I saw blinking on and off when I got that sentence? Is
that the energy that we have to be able to access to create?
ELIAS: Accessing energy! Very good beginning!
CAROLE: And then we need to engage action with the energy?
ELIAS: This is a sentence presented to you objectively, in description
of subjective activity. Your question is, “How do I create my reality?”
Your answer is this.
CAROLE: Create the force pattern as a source of tension.
ELIAS: You must be engaging your periphery and allowing yourself
a wider explanation and definition of these words, for these words indicate
the action which you engage within Regional Area 2 in creating your reality,
and also within your dream mission behind the imagery. It is the
same.
CAROLE: How would I consciously move my consciousness to the place
in the dream imagery where that information becomes clearer to me?
ELIAS: You do not move your consciousness to a place. You
allow yourself to understand your imagery which you have created for your
symbolism; recognizing that you create symbols to explain action to yourself,
and also recognizing, as I have stated previously, that each symbol, every
symbol, is a symbol, and also holds its own integrity and therefore is
a reality. [session #148, January 14, 1997]
(3) According to Seth, electromagnetic energy units
(EEs) are faster-than-light units, found just “beneath” all physical matter.
EEs are manipulated by what he terms “the inner ego,” which is analogous
to Elias’ concept of “subjective awareness.”
EEs change constantly, pulsing, expanding and contracting. They have
variable polarities and an innate propensity to form into vast arrays of
“larger” groupings and intensities, ultimately transforming into physical
spectrums of energy and matter. They are the basis for “normal” perception
(five senses) and extrasensory perception (inner senses).
According to Seth, it is “the inner ego, that organizes, initiates,
projects and controls the EE units of which we have been speaking, transforming
energy into objects, into matter.” [session #509, November 24, 1969]
In later sessions, Seth refines the function of EEs within the context
of another concept – “consciousness units” (CUs). He says that all EEs
are made up of these “more” fundamental CUs. Elias uses the term “links
of consciousness” (LCs) to represent the same concept.
Seth introduced this concept of “electromagnetic energy units” in The
Seth Material by Jane Roberts, Appendix sessions, #504 September 29, 1969
- #509, November 24, 1969. There is more information on this concept found
in additional Seth books.
(4) Just to clarify my intent in this statement; I have
come to think of my private conversations with Elias as a mirror action
occurring within “the mirror of Self.” This is my own metaphor for the
perennial notion that there is no separation within consciousness.
In this metaphor Elias represents subjective areas of “my” wider consciousness
objectively translated for my own benefit. The mirror imagery is further
reinforced by the fact that Elias consistently “reflects” all inquiries
back to me in terms of noticing, accepting, and trusting self.
Don’t get me wrong here, I don’t consider myself to be Elias or anyone
else for that matter, but realize that our conversations occur WITHIN a
living web of consciousness. In that multidimensional context, I am “talking
to mySelf.”
Oftentimes these conversations are accompanied by a sense of wonder,
discovery, and indescribable beauty! So I would use the following spelling
in this sentence, “Sometimes I can’t believe I’m having this conversation
with mySelf!”
(5) And just to complete the loop here; the reason I
asked this question was even though Elias has been clear about the three
primary inner senses from the beginning, he also has used the terms, “telepathy,”
“tone and touch,” and “clairvoyance” in various sessions when discussing
them further. So I was curious if they were additional primary inner senses
or just aspects of the three primary inner senses of empathic, conceptualization,
and differential time. It seems clear that they are secondary aspects in
the context of this explanation.
Here’s an excerpt from an earlier session (#336 October 27, 1998) that
may shed some additional light on my intent in this line of inquiry:
PAUL: I do have another question about some information you’ve
given on the inner senses, and it’s from session 162, and you say, “You
have been offered exercises to exercise your empathic sense, your sense
of conceptualization, and also your inner sense of tone and touch, this
being what you have exercised with our example of clarity.” That
sort of confuses me, and I wonder if you would clarify — in the clarity
exercise — the inner sense of tone and touch. What do you mean by
that? (Pause)
ELIAS: Tone is different from sound. Tone is a vibrational
quality, and in this, your outer sense is a physical mirror image in its
quality of connecting with sound. Within, in the inner senses, tone
is the vibrational qualities that are held within consciousness, which
you may access, and this may offer you information to the different qualities
of different expressions of essence, although this particular type of tapping
into within inner senses is more difficult for your understanding, for
this is requiring of more translation within your thought process, for
if you are allowing yourself to be accessing in conjunction with your conceptualization,
you may more easily be understanding what you are accessing.
Certain elements of consciousness are much more difficultly translated
into your physical language. Your thought processes are also a form
of physical language. It is a translation of energy, and this is
your means of communication to yourself and to other individuals, within
physical terms. But much of consciousness is expressed through tone,
and this is not so very easily translated into your thought energy.
Therefore, it is not as easily accessed, although it is possible and you
do hold the ability within physical focus to be accessing this information.
The point of the exercise in clarity is to be allowing you the opportunity
to be manipulating outer senses, which may also offer you more of an understanding
of how to be manipulating inner senses more efficiently and to be using
your inner senses in conjunction with each other as you use your outer
senses in conjunction with each other, but you do not allow yourselves
to be efficiently manipulating your OUTER senses, which you are quite familiar
with!
Therefore, I have offered that particular exercise, that you may become
more familiar with manipulating these senses that you hold familiarity
with, and in this you may offer yourself the opportunity to more efficiently
manipulate your inner senses, which shall be offering you more information
within consciousness, and also, it shall be helpful to you in manipulating
energy within the action of this shift.
PAUL: Great. That was very helpful in terms of tone, Elias.
That clears up your reference there in the sense of tone, but could you
comment on the comment you made about tone and touch? Touch seems
so physically focused, and tone doesn’t. I can understand the word
tone in terms of subjective state, but touch seems so physical. Is
the word touch connected to an inner sense somehow?
ELIAS: Yes. This also moves in the direction of empathic,
although it is slightly different from the empathic sense, for it moves
more in the direction of the allowance of connection with other aspects
of consciousness and other essences in mergence.
Just as within your objective physical terms, you look to your sense
of touch as an expression of connection with another individual or any
other object or element within your physical focus, within inner senses
this also would be the case, but within the expression of mergence, which
allows you to be accessing more information through experience. This
may be, as I have stated, moved into in conjunction with your empathic
sense and may be offering you more fullness in the area of experiencing
other elements of consciousness, not merely other essences or other individuals
as focuses of essence. [session #336, October 27, 1998]
(6) The character “Grandpa George” Brainbridge is from
Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, Jane Roberts’s Oversoul Seven trilogy.
George is a late 19th century dentist who uses nitrous oxide (laughing
gas) to explore out-of-body states.
The following excerpts were in the back of my mind when I asked this
question about the action of “hallucinations” within the out-of-body state:
“Without thinking about it, Seven hallucinated a pipe for George, who
didn’t realize that he was still in his dream body; then Seven said moodily,
“I’ve got to think my way out of this because your grandson – he must be
your grandson – needs me and I don’t even know what trouble he’s in.”
“Ah,” said George, dreamily.
“Ah?” said Seven, a bit loudly. “A lot of help you are; sniffing gas
and hallucinating demons and God knows what….” [Chapter 2, pg. 436]
And later …
“The room was the same, but again the furniture was different. Soft
lights emerged from the ceiling, though George couldn’t see their source.
A group of people, looking as if they were on a trip, stood looking at
the room in which he stood. There were ohs and ahs, but no one saw him.
Was he hallucinating all this? George wondered. “Let all hallucinations
vanish,” he commanded mentally, with more confidence than he felt.
“Nothing happened. George gasped; if he was right, then the people and
room would have vanished if he were creating them himself. So he must have
outdone himself. But where was he, and what was going on?” [Chapter 13,
pg. 509]
(7) You never know what direction Elias will take during
a session. Usually he builds on previous concepts and interactions. However,
he occasionally goes into what I perceive to be “the Zen of Elias.” By
that, I mean Elias will use paradox and/or contradiction in the form of
unexpected responses. These nudge and even force the rational mind into
a non-rational area, as the rational mind alone can never provide ALL of
the answers. The initial results are intentional confusion that eventually
give way to further understanding.
I had covered mostly rational ground to this point in the session, and
the moment he went into that “there are no ...” direction, it made me belly-laugh,
as I am beginning to recognize the intent behind an unexpected response.
Still, Elias’ timing was perfect. I was caught off-guard and fumbling for
another question to ask. He immediately ended the session as if to emphasize
this “final” exchange. And I must say, it made quite an impression on me
as a reminder of those times when I think too much.
End of Paul’s notes.
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