Perceiving Pain Differently
Topics:
“Perceiving Pain Differently”
“Dolphins and Whales as Essence”
“And Now It Begins, In Physical Terms”
Wednesday, February 9, 2000
© 2000 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Bobbi (Jale).
Elias arrives at 2:22 PM. (Arrival time is 22 seconds)
ELIAS: Good morning!
BOBBI: Good morning, Elias! (Elias chuckles) Good to speak
to you again!
ELIAS: We meet again!
BOBBI: Ha ha, yes! After all, it’s been a while! (Elias
chuckles) Well, I have various different questions for you today.
I guess I’ll start out with some of the more personal ones about other
focuses.
ELIAS: Very well.
BOBBI: Gosh, it was about a year ago when I woke up with the names Catullus
and Hecate. That was it. I think I had some sort of a feeling
that my friend Diane was involved in that in some way. In investigating
that, I have come up with very different impressions each time, and nothing
that is very clear. I think I have a focus named Catullus, but I’m
not sure who Hecate is. My impressions were the clearest the first
time I was investigating this focus, and the person I identified as Catullus
would be in Roman times. He was sort of a shortish guy, curly black
hair, very dark intense eyes, kind of a prominent Italian nose. There
was an older man there who was watching that person, and that person was
larger, sort of jowly, short dark hair, sort of serious. But in my
investigation, that person, the older man, turned and looked directly at
me almost, with a recognition. So anyway, I haven’t really got any
clear-cut ideas about that particular focus. Am I going in the right
direction?
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
BOBBI: Okay. The older man, was that a teacher or a mentor?
ELIAS: A teacher, but also what you would term to be a relative.
This individual holds the role of an uncle to yourself, but is also in
the capacity of a teacher with you.
BOBBI: Okay. The name Hecate, was that a person that I was
involved with then? I think that’s more of a Greek name than Roman.
(Pause)
ELIAS: This is another individual that you have established a
friendship with. This individual, you are correct, is not of the
location of Italia, and in actuality, this individual may be viewed by
your comrades as an enemy, although you have established a relationship
of friendship with this individual, regardless of the identification of
those individuals that you surround yourself with. Therefore, there
is also an element of secretiveness in this friendship.
But this particular relationship provides you with much information,
and many times offers you much clarity in sharing information with you,
in allowing yourself to be viewing situations and interactions slightly
differently than would you be otherwise.
BOBBI: Hmm. Would this be around the time of the Caesars,
or just previous to it? (Pause)
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
BOBBI: Okay. This all came about when I was wondering about
my attraction to that particular period of history. Okay, thank you.
ELIAS: You are welcome.
BOBBI: I’ve made actually a lot of connections with the one focus,
the artist focus ... if I could verify them with you?
ELIAS: You may.
BOBBI: I think my husband Ken was my father in that focus. (Pause)
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
BOBBI: Okay, and I believe that my friend now, Diane, whose essence
name is Anita, was my friend Maurice — I think this is pronouncing it correctly
— Joyant in that focus? (Pause)
ELIAS: Maurice; yes, you are correct.
BOBBI: Okay, and I had a dream impression of Jenaro as being the
cancan dancer, La — again, my pronunciation is probably a little wanting
— La Goulue, but her name was Louise Weber. (Pause)
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
BOBBI: Okay, and my daughter Melissa, I believe, in that focus
was a cousin and close friend, Gabriel Tapie de Celeyran?
ELIAS: Yes.
BOBBI: Okay, and this is something that I think is probably correct.
I think I had this impression before, but misinterpreted it. I think
Sue, as in Sue/Catherine, was again another cousin and close friend, Louis
Pascal. (Pause)
ELIAS: Ah, Pascal! You are correct.
BOBBI: Ah! Okay! Yes. I viewed her as a tall,
blond, very good-looking young man, and myself as shorter and darker.
There was a little misinterpretation as to the location at the time, but
that got all cleared up. Great! Thank you. (Elias chuckles)
The last time we spoke, you made reference to another focus of mine,
and I believe I’ve identified him as Michael Haydn. Is that correct?
(Pause)
ELIAS: Yes.
BOBBI: Okay. Is my husband now my spouse then? Maria
... gosh, I don’t recall her full name.
ELIAS: No. This individual would be identified as an in-law.
BOBBI: Oh? Male or female?
ELIAS: Female.
BOBBI: I’ll have to look into that a bit more. Thank you.
Okay, that does it for the focuses.
I have a question about my son’s girlfriend Kristin, essence name Stephonee.
What is her family and alignment? (Pause)
ELIAS: Essence family, Sumari; alignment in this focus, Zuli.
BOBBI: Zuli, okay. Thank you. As far as our color
of our essence tone, what color would my husband Ken/Sheena be?
ELIAS: This may be translated into the identifiable color of umber.
BOBBI: Thank you.
ELIAS: You are welcome.
BOBBI: When you have physical symptoms, when a person has physical
symptoms, generally ... well, let me start off in a different direction.
I’ve been having a lot of tension in my lower back for about two months.
This has gone into actually creating pain going down my leg, and sharp
pain in my foot oftentimes.
I’ve been trying to connect to what I’m creating there, what I’m trying
to draw my attention to, and at one point, at the end of December, I really
thought I’d connected to it because it was gone. It was just gone.
It’s returned now, and aside from noticing that I’m just holding energy
in that area, which I don’t normally do — I’m not a backache kind of person
— I’m having difficulty connecting with the reason or the underlying issue
in what I’m creating there.
ELIAS: Let me express to you that within this time framework,
many, many individuals are moving in similar directions, in conjunction
with your beliefs and with the movement of energy of this shift in consciousness,
and in this movement, you are creating many different types of expressions
that shall gain your attention efficiently.
Now; many, many individuals, yourself also, are choosing to be incorporating
actions that create certain manifestations within your physical focus that
are precisely what you have expressed — not a creation that you generally
or what you may term to be normally may be expressing — and you create
this precisely for the reason that it shall be quite obviously noticed.
Now; the underlying movement of energy that is generating this type
of manifestation, in a manner of speaking, is that which shall draw your
attention to self. This may appear initially to be quite simplistic
in response, but what you are in actuality accomplishing in this type of
manifestation is to be expressing to yourself a physical element within
your reality that you shall be noticing, that you shall allow yourself
to pay attention, and that you shall allow yourself to turn your attention
to self singularly in a different type of expression or manner than you
have moved into previously.
The action of this shift in consciousness — now that you enter this
time framework — is inserting itself into your officially accepted reality
in objective terms, and in this action, you each individually are addressing
to the action of redefining your reality.
Therefore, it is, in a manner of speaking, essential that you turn your
attention to yourselves. Physical manifestations provide an obvious
and very easy method to move your attention to self. As you create
pain, you shall automatically focus upon self, and you shall hold your
attention upon self even if you are merely holding your attention upon
that element of self which is experiencing pain.
In this, what you are allowing yourself to address to is the element
of perception. You create an element of painfulness, for this is
not merely an obvious expression of perception, but it is also an accepted
expression of perception in similar manner, throughout your mass belief
systems.
For the most part, you all view pain in a similar manner. Be it
physical pain, emotional pain, [or] mental pain, you identify the word
or the term “pain” as an element of discomfort and as negative, and as
you begin to address within your thoughts to the creation of pain, you
recognize the negative aspect and you attempt to be discovering the issue
or the belief that is, in your assessment, causing this pain.
This is the element that is different within this time framework to
what you have created previously, for previously you may have created an
element of pain to be allowing yourself to turn your attention, to be viewing
aspects of your beliefs, or to be addressing to issues that you hold or
elements of blocked energy. Now you are creating this type of manifestation
to allow yourself the opportunity to view differences of perception, and
how perception is creating of your reality.
In this, all of you that are choosing to be creating any expression
of painfulness to be offering yourselves this example of perception may
allow yourselves to view that the creation itself — the element of physical
affectingness, the physical manifestation — matters not.
Your perception of your creation holds tremendous importance, for your
perception of the creation is that which shall be your reality, and this
is key: the movement from the viewing of your reality as an outside element
or as a creation which is outside of you — even as it may be inside of
you (chuckling) — the movement of this perception into the perception of
viewing that perception itself is what is creating of your reality.
BOBBI: Okay. Alright, yes, I can really see that explanation
in conjunction with how this has been working. As I get these symptoms
and take a moment to try to do something about them, the method I was most
successful at was noticing the sensation that I had identified as the ache
or the pain, and just sort of examining it as a feeling, and it sort of
became devoid of the annoyingness or something. When I was able to
do that, I noticed that it would automatically start to fade. It
was as effective as if I had taken an aspirin or something. My perception
of it had changed. Instead of defining it as pain, I was looking
at it as a sensation, and examining it in that way.
ELIAS: You may offer yourself the opportunity to view that there
are many different expressions that you may focus your attention within,
and in this, your perception may be creating of many different types of
sensations with the SAME manifestation.
BOBBI: In all areas.
ELIAS: Correct.
BOBBI: Thank you. That explains that experience. Thank
you.
ELIAS: You are welcome.
BOBBI: I have actually several questions here about dolphins
and whales. You had said a while ago that they had made a decision
to become essence.
ELIAS: Correct.
BOBBI: This raises a lot of questions in my mind then. If
they are essence now, does that mean that we, as essence, can have a focus
as a dolphin or a whale? (Pause)
ELIAS: If you are so choosing.
BOBBI: Okay. They are on this planet ... but are they part
of this dimension? Is their experience as essence, in that capacity
of being a whale, would that be considered part of this dimension?
ELIAS: Yes.
BOBBI: So their experiences are based on emotion and sexual orientation
also?
ELIAS: Yes.
BOBBI: Oh, really! I also have questions about when that
change occurred, from a group of consciousness to essence. Were new
essences formed in that action, or were essences waiting there for that
decision and they sort of stepped in, or how did that occur?
ELIAS: New essences have been formed; yes, you are correct.
BOBBI: Oh, really! So that would be a way that essence is
created?
ELIAS: Within the action of fragmentation and the development,
in a manner of speaking ... this is, of course, figuratively speaking,
in relation to nonphysical aspects of consciousness and their translation
into an explanation presently.
(Slowly) As essences merge, the element that may be fragmented
is an element which desires to be fragmented, holding specific qualities
of those essences which it is fragmented of.
Now; be remembering that each new essence, in a manner of speaking,
holds all of the qualities of the fragmenting essence, but also creates
a type of emphasis upon certain qualities that it chooses to be exploring.
(Slowly) And as essence is consciousness and consciousness is
essence, those qualities of essence which are consciousness — which create
the manifestations in your physical dimension of these particular creatures
— have chosen to be fragmented into their own expression of essence.
Be remembering also, I have expressed to you, your creatures are a creation
of you. They are consciousness; they are also a creation of you.
They are not essence in themselves. They are a manifestation of you
as essence; a projection of consciousness that is designated to specific
functions and forms within your physical dimension. But as not essence
in themselves, they also do not necessarily align with or manifest the
base qualities of this particular physical reality and dimension as you
as essence have designed it.
Therefore, a tree does not necessarily manifest its reality incorporating
the base elements of expression of emotion and sexuality. YOU identify
the tree through elements of sexuality and emotion, but the tree does not
necessarily identify itself in this manner, for it is a creation of yours.
But it is also an expression of consciousness, and in this, the qualities
of that tree in consciousness are held by you as essence.
Now; in the choice of certain expressed qualities of essence, those
being the qualities of consciousness that move together and create the
physical manifestations of those creatures which you identify as dolphins
and whales ... have expressed the desire to be creating new essences, holding
those qualities of essence as their particular direction of attention,
in a manner of speaking.
And in this, through the mergence of essences, there is an action of
fragmentation which occurs, which has thusly created new expressions of
essence which are already manifest within your physical dimension as these
expressions of dolphins and whales.
BOBBI: I understand. I see what you’re saying. Do
I have a focus as a dolphin or a whale? (Pause)
ELIAS: Within this present now, no. But I shall express
to you also that within the qualities expressed, in another manner of speaking,
yes. For you within your essence do not focus a manifestation of
your essence as a dolphin or a whale, but through fragmentation, an aspect
of your essence — which combines, in a manner of speaking, with other essences
to be creating of a new essence — does focus as both.
BOBBI: Thanks. That’s interesting! I have a question
now about a dream I had just recently, sort of just a bit of it, but in
a way, I found it a little disturbing.
I was going to a new house, and we drove up to where it was, and right
next door was a large, wood-paneled hotel. It had pine trees and
was in the woods, but it was all deserted. That really bothered me,
that we would be moving into this house next to a big deserted hotel.
I really didn’t want to live next to that. I’m aware that there were
other portions of the dream that I just don’t remember, but what bothered
me on waking up was that I recognized what that hotel was. It was
from another dream that I had a while ago, and that was, I went to the
exact same building, and many focuses of my essence were in that building,
and someone told me that I was going to be coming there too.
Anyway, I’m unsure of what that represented in this particular dream,
the fact that this same place was empty now, and that I was fearful of
living next to it.
ELIAS: What you have offered to yourself in this particular dream
imagery, and also in conjunction with the previous dream imagery, is an
identification of what you have previously viewed as the larger element
of you symbolically, which houses or holds all of your focuses.
Within the previous dream imagery, your reluctance to be joining with
that larger element was an expression of holding to your individual identity
within this focus, allowing you to be recognizing that this individual
focus holds its individual identity and is in itself all of essence, and
in this, you need not move into directions that it shall be threatening
of your individual identity within this focus.
Now; as you have moved into the subsequent dream imagery, you view this
structure, which previously housed the focuses outside of you, as being
empty. This holds significance, for the reason that you feel this
aversion, so to speak, for this structure, and wish not to be incorporating
residence next to or in conjunction with it, is that you have allowed yourself
to be recognizing that this association is empty; that all of essence and
all of these focuses that you hold of essence are you, and are not separated
or outside of you.
You ARE essence, and therefore, as you are beginning to turn your attention
and widen your awareness into viewing and perceiving your reality differently,
you are also recognizing that those elements that you associated in certain
manners with pastly hold an emptiness in definition with you presently,
and therefore you choose not to be associating yourself any longer with
certain types of definitions.
This moves quite in conjunction with what we were discussing previously
in this session, in conjunction with the redefining of your reality in
this time framework, which also involves a redefinition of terminology
and of symbols.
BOBBI: Okay, and that would be more in conjunction with the shift
generally than with this wave in consciousness specifically?
ELIAS: Correct.
BOBBI: I see. Okay, thank you! (Laughing) That’s a
reassuring interpretation. I don’t know what I thought was going
on, but it wasn’t good!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha!
BOBBI: I’ve had a couple of experiences
that were sort of spaced apart, but were quite similar and fairly vivid.
Both times, I was out shopping, pretty much focused on grocery shopping
or whatever, and someone came up behind me quite close and bumped me on
the left shoulder. I had the impression that it was kind of a short
woman, and both times I turned to say, “Oh, excuse me,” or to look, and
no one was there. (Elias grins) What was going on in those situations?
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha! Ah, and I shall express to you, yes,
another individual WAS there! (Chuckling, and Bobbi laughs) This
also moves in conjunction with this action and movement of this shift presently.
As I have expressed to you, in quite realistic terms, in a manner of speaking,
you are inserting this shift in consciousness into your officially accepted
reality, which is objective!
BOBBI: And these experiences would be what? Demonstrations
of something? (Laughing)
ELIAS: Quite, in that you allow yourself momentary interactions
with other elements of your reality IN PHYSICAL TERMS.
I shall express to you, Jale, it has been quite amusing to us in viewing
the interpretation of many individuals of the action of inserting this
shift in consciousness into your actual physical objective reality.
And in this, as you may allow yourself to be connecting with the different
elements — which have been expressed as what you shall be allowing yourselves
to be interactive with in the action of this shift OBJECTIVELY — the perception
is projected that (humorously) you may elusively and hauntingly be interacting
with ghosts and spirits, in fog and mist, that you shall easily move through,
but you shall be moving through it in a type of astral body which holds
little solidity, and the ghosts and spirits that you shall encounter shall
be wispy and speak in low tones to you, and they shall not tap you upon
the shoulder within your supermarket! (Bobbi laughs) For they shall
not hold solidity and you shall not be interactive with them in any manner
other than spiritual expressions, which we all hold an awareness of are
not solid and QUITE are not physical, for physical and spiritual are a
paradox!
I have expressed many times to you all that you shall be amazed and
you shall experience trauma, as you allow yourselves to awaken one morning
and all of your reality may be different! And this be the reason
that you ease yourselves into the actualization and the materialization,
in physical terms, of this shift in consciousness into your officially
accepted objective reality, but it shall be quite solid!
BOBBI: I see. So this was kind of an introductory jostling!
(Laughing)
ELIAS: Quite! And you may be anticipating more of this type
of interaction futurely, for this IS what you have chosen and this IS what
you are manifesting in your movement into this shift in consciousness;
not merely that you may, in your terms, allow yourselves to become more
sensitive to energy that you may feel, but that you shall in actuality
be interactive with more of your reality and consciousness IN PHYSICAL
TERMS.
BOBBI: It’s just something that ... I hadn’t ever looked at it
that way. So this individual/person, is this the same person both
times?
ELIAS: No.
BOBBI: No. Really! So there wasn’t any more purpose
in this except that it was the beginning of noticing that type of thing?
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct.
BOBBI: That’s interesting! I DO look forward to that kind
of thing. It was interesting and sort of funny! (Laughing)
ELIAS: (Chuckling) And I shall express once again, and now
it begins! Ha ha ha ha!
BOBBI: I have a question about focus names.
You have said in the past that the entering essence chooses all.
Now, would this also apply to the focus name? Or just in some cases,
in some instances?
ELIAS: The entering focus is influencing of the physical naming.
In some situations, it is what you would term to be entirely the choice
of the entering focus. In some situations, the entering focus may
choose to be in agreement with the focuses that participate in facilitating
its entering.
At times, the essence, in the manifestation of the entering focus, may
be not in agreement as to the physical naming of that focus, and may be
quite demanding of its own expression.
Many times, within a focus that incorporates the physical naming which
is the translation of the essence tone, the focus has individually chosen
that particular naming and shall be manifest as that physical name.
I shall express to you, even within certain situations in which it may
appear initially that the focus may be acquiring a different name, it shall
create the name that it chooses in these situations, and it may accomplish
this in its own physical altering of its name itself, or it may choose
to be incorporating what you identify as a different family which shall
rename it.
BOBBI: Hmm. Okay.
ELIAS: (Chuckling) In like manner to your feline!
BOBBI: I see what you’re saying. I guess my question also
goes in the area of if you don’t care for your focus name, which I don’t.
It’s not that I don’t like the name itself independently of me. I
just have felt that both my given name and my nickname have never quite
fit, and I was wondering about that. Is that an expression of non-acceptance
of self, or is it just ... I don’t know. I’m not sure where to put
it! (Laughing)
ELIAS: I am understanding of what you are expressing, and I may
express to you that in your physical terms, you are embarking upon the
correct track, so to speak, in your investigation within your thought process
of this subject matter.
Some individuals may be allowing, through agreement, a physical naming
which they may not be entirely suited to, so to speak, within their choice
of their energy expression. But through the influence of belief systems,
they may be retaining that particular given name, and shall be noticing
that there continues to be throughout their focus a nagging, so to speak,
in a type of uncomfortableness or unsettledness in conjunction with that
physical name.
This is the agreement to be not altering of the physical name — which
is your choice, as you are aware — in conjunction with the mass beliefs,
and in this, I may express to you that each individual that may be experiencing
of this type of recognition may also choose to be responding to this or
not to be responding to this.
It is not necessarily what you may term to be a negative expression
that you choose not to be responding, but merely recognizing that this
is an influence of mass belief systems — that you have been given, so to
speak, a name physically, and that this has been the choice, within your
beliefs, of your parents, and that it is not for you to be choosing of
your physical name.
But I express to you, this is a mass belief system. At times,
some individuals may arrest their restlessness or uncomfortableness with
the subject matter of the physical name merely in the recognition that
they ARE aligning with the mass belief systems in the retaining of that
physical name. In other situations, some individuals shall not hold
satisfaction in that action, and shall incorporate an alteration of the
physical name.
BOBBI: Well, I’m aligning with the mass belief systems in that
area! (Laughing) I’m holding on to it, anyway.
ELIAS: Which is quite acceptable. This is not an expression
of wrong or blocking. It is merely an allowance of yourself to be
recognizing that you have participated in an agreement in conjunction with
mass belief systems, and that it matters not.
BOBBI: Okay, thank you.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome.
BOBBI: I have a couple of other things for other people.
One is a tile that Vicki would like to enter into
the game.
ELIAS: Very well.
BOBBI: This is what she wrote: “I saw a tile very clearly.
It’s a four-tined fork with a stem that protrudes slightly. It’s
an exchange tile, and it’s connected to the Ilda family. It seemed
important to enter it, but I don’t know why.” (Pause)
ELIAS: Acceptable....
BOBBI: Okay, and the second one is from Lisa. She would
like to make an entry into the game: “Under movies, I’d like to enter ‘Instinct’
under Milumet.” (Pause)
ELIAS: (Chuckling) I shall express, reassess family.
BOBBI: Okay, thank you very much!
ELIAS: You are quite welcome. In this reassessment of family,
express to the individual that they may view the other essence family which
is quite commonly confused with this family of Milumet, in certain expressions
in conjunction with it. (Chuckling)
BOBBI: Okay, got it. Okay!
ELIAS: Very well! I shall express to you this day much affection,
and a welcoming of our continued interaction.
BOBBI: Thank you.
ELIAS: I offer to you encouragement in energy as you also allow
yourself to be moving objectively in the force of the energy of this shift
as you objectify it. (Chuckling) And in this, remember playfulness!
BOBBI: Yes! Thank you. (Laughing)
ELIAS: Ha ha! To you this day in great lovingness, au revoir.
BOBBI: Thank you, Elias.
Elias departs at 3:24 PM.
FOOTNOTES:
(1) Bobbi’s note: This reference surprised
me when I typed it, as it blew right by me during the session! Elias
is referring to our renaming of a cat we got a couple of years ago.
Her name was Julz, and it is now Peanut. But she is called The Baby
most of the time.
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