Reincarnation and Karma
Topics:
“Reincarnation and Karma”
“Distortions of Truths”
Wednesday, April 5, 2000-2
© 2000 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and a new participant,
Pseudo (Nym).
Elias arrives at 9:23 AM. (Arrival time is 30 seconds)
ELIAS: Good morning!
PSEUDO: Good morning!
ELIAS: (Chuckling) And you have inquiries this day?
PSEUDO: Yeah, I guess you could say I have a few questions!
ELIAS: (Laughing) You may proceed.
PSEUDO: Well, first of all, I just wanted to say, I’ve never spoken
to a spirit before, especially an old spirit, and I might be a little nervous,
so bear with me!
ELIAS: Ah, very well! (Chuckling)
PSEUDO: I have a couple of questions just in reference to spirits.
Is there a specific amount or number of lives that spirits have in a span
of eternity, or however long?
ELIAS: In relation to one particular physical dimension?
PSEUDO: And how many times can a spirit ... I mean, does a spirit
ever not return?
ELIAS: Quite!
In response to your question, no, there are no specific numbers of manifestations
throughout different physical dimensions.
Within this particular physical dimension, you have designed the reality
of this individual physical dimension to be incorporating manifestations
in three different orientations. Therefore, you do agree to be manifesting
within this particular dimension at least three times.
PSEUDO: Okay. I know that some of your speech is different
because obviously you’re much older than I am, (Elias grins) or maybe you’re
not! But in this lifetime, I would say you probably are. When
you refer to manifestation, is that my definition of a spirit?
ELIAS: No. A manifestation would be your definition of a
physical lifetime.
PSEUDO: Okay, and so after three times, we may not return?
ELIAS: You may, or you may not.
Let me also clarify to you, it is not a question of returning.
This is an incorporation of the belief of reincarnation, and you do not
reincarnate within any physical dimension.
The action of essence, which is what you are, is to be focusing its
attention in many, many, many different directions simultaneously, and
each of those focuses of attention, where they are directed to a physical
dimension, creates a physical manifestation, which I term to be a focus,
which is you.
You term this to be a lifetime, which also reinforces your belief system
in reincarnation, but you believe the concept of reincarnation, for in
this particular physical dimension, you create the movement of linear time.
Therefore, moments move in sequence in what you identify as a forward
motion, and this reinforces your idea of reincarnation — that you are born
into one time framework, you continue, you die; you are subsequently born
again in a more future time framework, and you continue, and die, and so
on. In actuality, all of your manifestations, all of your focuses,
occur simultaneously.
PSEUDO: Okay, alright. I understand that. I’ve been
reading a book called The Tibetan Way of Living and Dying, and it’s based
on the Buddhist belief of reincarnation, and I’ve been finding it extremely
interesting and also very comforting, as I’ve recently been going through
some things with friends passing away or passing on or being reborn.
So, it’s been a great comfort in that. Now, is it possible that a
physical body can have more than one spirit in it at the same time? (Pause)
ELIAS: This is an intricate question! (Smiling)
PSEUDO: Well, just condense it for me.
ELIAS: (Chuckling) This type of questioning, I shall also
qualify, allows for an area of misinterpretation. Let me express
to you, if you are associating the term of spirit with the term of essence,
yes, it is possible that more than one essence may be participating in
the manifestation of one physical focus at the same time.
PSEUDO: Okay, alright. I understand that.
Can you tell me, Elias, what my essence is — who I am, who I was?
ELIAS: (Chuckling) Essence name, (deleted).
PSEUDO: And from what country?
ELIAS: This is a physical translation of essence tone, which may
be interpreted in a physical language in the location of Africa. (Pause)
This is merely the translation of the tone of essence. This is
not to say that your essence focuses most of its manifestations within
that particular location. It is merely an identification of tone,
which translates into a word, which also may be identified within a particular
language upon your planet. This particular name translates into a
language which is in existence, so to speak, within your physical continent
of Africa.
PSEUDO: And was my skin color black or white?
ELIAS: You are misunderstanding. I am not expressing to
you of another focus. I am merely offering to you an essence name,
which is the overall tone of your essence, which is the identification
of you.
As to a specific focus — another focus of essence that you hold within
this dimension — you hold many.
You do hold manifestations in this physical location of Africa, one
in the physical location of South Africa in which you manifest white male.
You also hold three other focuses within this continent in which you are
manifest one male black, two female black. (Pause)
PSEUDO: Can you tell me how old my soul is, my essence?
What century?
ELIAS: I shall explain to you, essence holds no age.
As to the identification of an old soul or a new soul in relation to
your manifestations in this particular dimension, this, in your physical
terms, is measured by the number of manifestations that you hold in this
particular dimension, not necessarily the time framework in which they
extend pastly. Are you understanding thus far?
PSEUDO: Yes.
ELIAS: In this, you may be deemed moderate in the measurement
between old soul and new soul; not necessarily an old soul holding an extensive
amount of manifestations in this particular dimension, but not a new soul
either, in which you hold very few manifestations in this particular dimension.
In this physical dimension, you hold the number of 302 physical manifestations.
PSEUDO: Okay. Was I always educated? Sometimes I feel
as though I was a teacher at some point in a lifetime.
ELIAS: You do hold a focus, which you may tap into and explore,
in which you are creating that direction of teaching.
As to your question — have you always been educated or participated
in education throughout all of your focuses — no. You do manifest
in some focuses in which you do not participate in formal education, and
in which you presently would identify or label as ignorant.
PSEUDO: Okay, I can see that. What was my occupation, say,
for example, when I was in my essence in South Africa as a white male?
ELIAS: This individual is what you would term to be originally
Dutch, and participates in an occupation as a merchant. This individual
exchanges fabrics, cloths, from different physical locations as his occupation,
so to speak.
PSEUDO: I have a couple of questions regarding some specific people
that are in my life that I feel have a lot more depth than just this lifetime.
One of them is my godson, who is a 30-year-old male, and also his mother.
His mother was at one point in my husband’s ... or she still is in our
life, and in my current husband’s life, in most of his childhood and all
of our adulthood.
I’m wondering if there’s some connection between she and I — I feel
extremely close to her — or her son and I. Did we share him at one
time? I have a very love/hate relationship with him. Sometimes
it’s very painful. I’m wondering if there might be something that
I have done to him or to his soul in another lifetime that causes this
type of relationship, where sometimes I just evoke animosity. He’s
a very troubled spirit, and I wonder if there’s some connection from before
that’s manifesting itself in the present.
ELIAS: To your first inquiry — as to the identification of this
individual of your godson and his position as old or new soul, in your
terms — this individual holds many focuses in this particular dimension,
therefore would be, in your physical terms, designated as an old soul.
You do participate in other focuses with this individual. There
are some elements of energy that bleed through from other focuses and are
being allowed to be influencing of your relationship now with this individual;
not merely that you allow bleed-through, but that he allows bleed-through
also, and this is partially influencing.
Another element of the influence of challenge between you within your
relationship is related directly to this individual focus and each of your
participations in the action of this shift in consciousness presently.
This individual that you identify as your godson rebels in some objective
expressions in relation to this shift in consciousness, and restricts his
energy and some elements of his movement, not allowing in some areas for
a free flow of energy. There is also a recognition inwardly with
this individual that he is creating this action, which also creates a frustration.
In this, he also views some of your movement, and this is reinforcing
of his recognition of the obstacles that he is placing before himself in
this particular focus. Therefore, there is a type of underlying resentment
which is created.
(Firmly) This is not your fault, and it is also not “because of”
any action that you are creating. It is the responsibility of the
other individual. He is creating his reality, and he is presenting
to himself situations and imagery to be gaining his own attention.
Now; in this, let me also express to you: You draw, each, energy
from a common focus that you both participate in, in this bleed-through
action, which IS influencing of your interaction with each other, but for
different reasons.
He draws that energy to be reinforcing in a justification of conflict.
This is not held within objective thought process, be aware. It is
an underlying action which occurs.
PSEUDO: And can he control it?
ELIAS: Yes, but the manner in which he shall alter this situation
is by allowing himself to be becoming aware objectively of what he is tapping
into.
As to your action, you draw energy from the same participating focus.
In actuality, this is the focus that you participate within in South Africa.
In this, your purpose, so to speak, or reason for drawing that energy
to you and allowing the bleed-through into this focus is that you may objectively
offer yourself information to be understanding what you are creating and
what you are participating within now.
Are you understanding?
PSEUDO: Yes.
ELIAS: Therefore, you are both drawing on energy that you participate
with in this shared focus in South Africa, but you are incorporating it
into this present focus in different manners.
Now; do not confuse yourself in the idea of karma. Let me express
to you that the establishment of religious beliefs throughout your globe
have been created with a base element of truth, but they have also all
incorporated belief systems which are distortions of those truths.
Now; two examples of the distortions of these truths are, one, reincarnation.
There is a recognition within you all that you hold more than one focus
within a particular physical dimension.
PSEUDO: You’re referring to he and I?
ELIAS: All of you throughout your planet. You all hold this
knowledge innately, and in this, you create a belief system which expresses
to you the concept of reincarnation, which is a translation in terms that
you understand in relation to your experiences and your creation of linear
time.
This is one example of the recognition of the truth that you do hold
many manifestations, and the belief which is added to that truth, that
the many manifestations move in a linear fashion.
Another example of a distortion of truth is the belief of karma.
The element in which karma is based upon in truth is that you, as an expression
of essence, shall draw to you what you believe, and you shall draw to you
like expressions and creations to which you are creating.
The distortion of this action is the concept of karma, in which the
belief is set forth that as you create any element of harmfulness, that
shall also be visited upon you, and that this is a law of the universe,
which it is not.
You shall draw that to yourself, for this is what you create, but you
are not locked into that action. You merely believe that this is
the natural flow of energy, and therefore this is what you create, for
the truth is that you shall create what you believe, not that the cosmos
or the universe, in your terms, visits these expressions upon you as lessons.
This is the element of the belief. Now....
PSEUDO: What is his essence?
ELIAS: You are inquiring to essence name of this individual?
PSEUDO: Yes. (Pause)
ELIAS: Essence name, Keale; K-E-A-L-E. (keel)
PSEUDO: And what was my relationship with him in this other manifestation?
ELIAS: In this one particular physical manifestation in South
Africa, as I have stated, you hold the position of a merchant, a white
male. This individual holds the position of a black male and incorporates
the action of a type of servant, being a tribal individual which has chosen
to be moving into township to be participating in employment.
The relationship that you establish between the two of you creates many
challenges, and is not expressed in what you identify presently as kindness.
There are many expressions from both individuals of judgment and anger,
not merely one individual. Both individuals express very similarly
in their individual justifications of their particular directions.
Each individual justifies themselves in their anger and their lack of kindness
to each other, in their perception of injustices which are exhibited in
behavior by the other.
PSEUDO: It doesn’t sound like I was a very nice person to him,
if he was my servant.
ELIAS: Neither is he very kind to you. As I have stated,
both individuals incorporate much anger and create many challenges, and
both individuals justify their behaviors to themselves. It is not
merely one individual which is expressing these types of behaviors.
PSEUDO: And you indicated that perhaps we had been in other focuses
together as well.
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct. I may express to you an encouragement
that you allow yourself to be investigating of these other focuses.
I shall offer to you clues.
In one focus, this individual holds the role of parent to you as the
mother, and you incorporate the role as the son. You also hold another
focus in which you create an expression of great affection in friendship,
which extends throughout the entirety of that particular focus. In
that focus, both individuals manifest as female.
Now; as to your relationship with the individual that you identify as
his mother, you hold several focuses with this individual also.
This individual you have participated with in some focuses that you
would now deem to be uncomfortable or hurtful. You also incorporate
several focuses with this individual in which you create a tremendous expression
of affection.
Now; this is also purposeful that you offer to yourself in THIS focus
relationships with these two individuals in this time framework, that you
may view the lack of absoluteness in relation to other focuses.
For in one example and situation, you draw to yourself the energy of
one focus which you allow to be influencing now in challenges.
In the relationship that you hold now with the other individual, you
have incorporated many challenges in other focuses, but you do not draw
that energy to yourself presently in this focus in relation to this individual.
You choose in this focus to be creating an amiable and affectionate relationship.
PSEUDO: Yes, that’s true.
ELIAS: Therefore, you offer yourself information in relation to
no absolutes, that you may understand that there is no karma in actuality,
and that you may be participating in challenges and what you identify as
difficulties or even hurtful actions within one focus, and that does not
necessarily manifest in a karmic manner — in a repayment of debt, so to
speak, or the restitution in a subsequent relationship with that same individual.
Are you understanding?
PSEUDO: I think so. I got a little bit lost in your last
paragraph, but I think I understand what you’re saying.
ELIAS: You present yourself with two individuals; with two very
different interactions. One creates many challenges. Although
you hold an affection for this individual, you also create conflict with
this individual.
PSEUDO: Absolutely.
ELIAS: In this, you look to other focuses and express questions
to yourself of, “What have I done? How have I wronged this individual,
that it now visits me within this focus, that I must be creating a repayment
to this individual and I must be creating restitution to this individual
in a karmic manner?” But simultaneously, you hold a relationship
with another individual in which you do not create these challenges.
You do not create this type of conflict, correct?
PSEUDO: Correct. I couldn’t handle two of those! (Laughing)
ELIAS: But you have created other focuses with this individual
also, in which you have created challenges and difficulties and hurtfulness.
Therefore, if the concept of karma were true, you would be creating this
restitution and the conflict in this focus with both of them, not merely
one. But karma is merely a belief. It is not a rule, so to
speak. (Chuckling)
PSEUDO: I understand. I am one of those people that believes
in karma. I believe that things you do from lifetime to lifetime,
that may have impacted someone else either negatively or positively, can
follow you. It’s what I believe.
ELIAS: Quite, and I am understanding of this, and this is why
we are discussing this particular subject matter, for I am expressing to
you that this is not correct. This is a belief system.
Now; I shall also express to you quite genuinely, this is not to say
that you shall not create that very action, for you DO create what you
believe, and if you are believing that hurtful actions shall follow you
and that you shall be placing yourself in the position of restitution to
those souls, in your terms, that you have harmed, you shall create this,
for this is what you believe.
PSEUDO: I see. I don’t want to have conflict!
ELIAS: And this is the point, and this is why I am speaking to
you of this subject matter, to allow you objectively the information that
you are not locked into this belief, that it IS merely a belief.
It is not an absolute. It is not a rule of consciousness.
It is not a law of the cosmos, and you hold the freedom to choose.
You may choose to believe this action of karma and you may choose to
create that, but you also may choose not to create that, and this is a
tremendous freedom!
PSEUDO: Yes. I’ve been doing some serious searching, trying
to discover if it’s worth it, or if I should just let him go and let him
be who he is and not who I want him to be, and let him be responsible for
himself, and me not always trying to fix him.
ELIAS: Ah! And I shall suggest to you presently that you
listen quite seriously and attentively to the very words you have expressed
now, for THIS is the most beneficial direction and the most efficient direction
that you may be incorporating.
This shall also offer you more freedom, offer him more freedom in your
expression of acceptance, and it shall eliminate much of your conflict,
and it shall be influencing in eliminating elements of his conflict.
What you have expressed now, in allowing yourself to discontinue holding
responsibility for his creations — for you do not hold responsibility for
his creations — in creating within yourself an acceptance of yourself and
of the other individual, in recognizing that you create your reality, he
creates his reality.
PSEUDO: He seems to be such a troubled spirit, and I’m just wondering
if he’s going to find any peace in this lifetime.
ELIAS: This is his choice.
Realize objectively, regardless of your perception and regardless of
your assessment of what any other individual creates within their focus,
they are creating their reality. It is purposeful and it is beneficial.
It matters not that you assess it to be difficult, unnecessary, broken,
sad. What holds importance is that the other individual is creating
their reality in the most beneficial manner and quite purposefully, regardless
of your understanding objectively.
PSEUDO: Are we going to have a peaceful co-existence in this lifetime?
ELIAS: This is also dependent upon your choices.
If you are allowing yourself movement into the very expression that
you have offered to me — in an acceptance of the other individual, in an
acceptance of yourself, in a realization that no element of this individual’s
focus is broken and therefore needs not be fixed, and that you do not hold
responsibility for the creations of this other individual — in actualizing
in reality those ideas, yes, you shall lessen and even eliminate many expressions
of your conflict with this individual in this focus.
But as you continue to move in the direction — in the camouflage of
concern and compassion — in wishing to be fixing what you perceive to be
broken in this individual, you shall merely perpetuate the conflict that
you are creating.
PSEUDO: Okay, I agree.
ELIAS: Let me offer to you one more statement in relation to this
situation that you may contemplate.
Each time you are expressing what you camouflage to be compassion or
concern for this individual, and the wish to be helpful, to be fixing what
you view to be wrong, this is an expression of camouflage, for in actuality,
each time you move your attention and your energy in that direction, the
reason you are creating conflict is that you are discounting the other
individual.
You are expressing inwardly to yourself that you shall create this individual’s
reality for them better than they are creating it themselves, and in that,
you are discounting of them....
PSEUDO: I understand. I try not to do that, but it’s just
that I can look at him and I can see, for me physically, I can see what
he has the potential to be, but he has not discovered that yet, and I guess
I just need to let him do that on his own. Is he going to be able
to have ... is he going to get it together in this lifetime?
ELIAS: (Grinning) Shall he “get it together” in this....
PSEUDO: I understand. That’s an older phrase....
ELIAS: I am understanding! (Laughing)
I may express to you, this is relative to the assessment of your perception.
Within his perception, yes. Within your perception, it is dependent
upon your movement now.
PSEUDO: Were he and I ever husband and wife? You said we
were mother and son, only he was the mother and I was the son.
ELIAS: You do hold a focus in which you participate in intimacy
in a romantic relationship, although you are not incorporating the institution
of marriage.
PSEUDO: Okay, and his mother, which she and I are having a very
peaceful co-existence this time around, what is her essence name, physical
name? (Pause)
ELIAS: Essence name, Ghi; G-H-I. (jee)
PSEUDO: And is she also of the African or South African manifestation?
ELIAS: Yes, this individual does participate in that focus also.
PSEUDO: Could you tell me what century that was? (Pause)
ELIAS: This may be identified within the time framework of your
18th century. (Pause)
PSEUDO: I have two more ... I don’t know how much time we have
left. I have two more persons I’d like to inquire about, and it might
take too much time at this moment.
One is my husband of 27 years, and the other is a friend that has been
in my life and that has been a very dear friend for 29 years. He
and I, I know go further back than this lifetime for sure. My husband
I’m not sure of. We have a good relationship, we’ve had a long relationship,
and for the most part, it’s been extremely pleasant and fairly conflict-free
until recently.
ELIAS: I shall express to you validation, in that with your partner,
you participate in several other focuses. With this other individual
that you identify as your friend, you participate in many focuses together.
PSEUDO: I could tell. Have they all been harmonious?
ELIAS: Not all, but many of them, yes. Many of them you
have created in what you would term to be close relationships.
PSEUDO: I feel like I was either his sister or his wife or someone
extremely, extremely close.
ELIAS: As I have stated, you participate in many focuses with
this individual, and in this you have created, for the most part, intimate
relationships with this individual. You have chosen to be creating
many different types of expressions of intimate relationships. Therefore,
you have participated as partners, as lovers, as siblings, as child and
parent in reversing roles. You have also created intimacy in friendships.
You have explored many different expressions of relationships with this
individual.
PSEUDO: Yes, he’s definitely a very important person, a loving
person in my life, as well as is my husband. This is just another
question in general. Do the same spirits find one another from lifetime
to lifetime? I mean, is that what they do? They stumble onto
one another again?
ELIAS: No. Be remembering, all of your focuses are occurring
simultaneously. Therefore, essences group together and choose to
be manifesting what you may term to be numbers of focuses together.
You are not “finding” each other throughout your linear time or throughout
your eternity, so to speak. The focuses are created all simultaneously.
Therefore, the essences non-physically group together and choose, in accordance
with their directions and their explorations, what they shall be manifesting
and in which manners they shall manifest focuses of attention. It
is quite precise and intentional that focuses are created in the manner
that they are.
Now; as to the individual focuses, each focus holds its own choices
also. Therefore, the essences may manifest many focuses together
simultaneously, and each focus of attention shall choose its interaction
in that particular focus.
PSEUDO: So this is why sometimes my relationship with my godson
is loving, warm, hateful, caring, uncaring....
ELIAS: Quite, for you are not locked....
PSEUDO: It’s that all of these focuses or all of these essences
are coming through at the same time.
ELIAS: Yes, and you are not locked into the expressions of destiny
or karma. Therefore, there is a fluctuation of energy. You
always hold choice.
PSEUDO: Okay. As far as my husband goes, what is his name,
out of curiosity? I would really like to know the essence physical
name of both he and my friend that I’ve known for 29 years in this lifetime.
ELIAS: Essence name of your partner, Centeel; C-E-N-T-E-E-L. (sen-teel’)
Essence name of your friend, Jachet; J-A-C-H-E-T. (zhah-say’)
PSEUDO: That’s very close to his name now. (Elias chuckles)
Okay, I think I’m at a loss. I have so much information, and now
I’m going to have to digest it. I guess it’s a good thing that we
are taping it.
ELIAS: Very well. We shall be discontinuing for this day,
and you may allow yourself to be assimilating information. I shall
be offering energy to you in encouragement in your challenge in relation
to this individual of your godson.
PSEUDO: Yes, thank you.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome. I offer to you today great
affection, and anticipate our continued interaction.
PSEUDO: Thank you.
ELIAS: To you, lovingly, au revoir.
PSEUDO: Au revoir.
Elias departs at 10:25 AM.
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