Saturday, May 27, 2000
© 2000 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Rodney (Zacharie).
Elias arrives at 2:14 PM. (Arrival time is 18 seconds)
ELIAS: Good afternoon!
RODNEY: Good afternoon, Elias! (Elias chuckles) Good to
hear your voice!
ELIAS: And what shall we discuss this day?
RODNEY: Oh my. Authority!
ELIAS: Ah!
RODNEY: And anger! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Very well!
RODNEY: It’s all connected in some actually marvelous incidents
that have occurred over the last week, and I’d like to point out that I
just received — or at least I just became aware of — , in which Mike/Mikah and you discussed authority at some length,
and I had an incident last week that I’d like to discuss with you.
I interact with an individual at my place of work who is in charge of
the computer system, and my computer system is malfunctioning at a considerable
frequency, which makes life a little bit irritating. I’ve complained
to her about it, and my perception is that she has ignored me. The
other day, I saw the engineer working on a computer system that’s worth
less than he earns or bills our company in thirty minutes, and I became
very angry. I became very angry that the company I work for wasn’t
willing to spend a relatively small amount of money to upgrade our system
so that we didn’t have to put up with the irritation. And my response
to her — or to the engineer, because I perceive him to be basically responsible
for this, whether he is or not — I became very angry, and I probably responded
automatically, although I was keenly aware of what I was doing. I
told him that I was angry that the company was spending a considerable
amount of money for what appeared to be useless work, and I think it was
the energy of my words more than what I said that really got a few individuals
upset. That was the end of it, or at least that was the end of it
for last week. There are repercussions coming up in the near future
which I will have to handle because of this outburst.
Then I had an interaction with a police officer, actually two police
officers, and discovered that I had a dream only two weeks ago about a
police officer. I’ve been totally surrounded by authority symbols
in the form of police officers and people at work.
I had to focus a great deal of my energy on not making myself wrong
for the outburst, but simply to let it go, because I’m really mindful of
the fact that you’ve told me and others that judging ourselves for doing
something that we don’t quote/unquote “approve of” simply creates even
a more difficult energy.
So I think my question to you ... and I would like you to comment on
this. At the bottom of this is my belief about how I perceive other
people perceiving me. I wouldn’t have become angry with the engineer
and with the woman who runs the system if it weren’t for the fact that
I have a perception of myself which at the present moment is not serving
me. It seems like perhaps I require other people to treat me in a
certain way. Otherwise, I get angry.
I’m really not sure what my belief system is that brought this outburst
to the surface, and I would like you to help me with that. Can you
do that?
ELIAS: Yes. There are many actions occurring in this scenario.
There are many motivations occurring in this action.
RODNEY: I’m aware of that, like I’m aware of the fact that I want
the company to change what they’re doing, and that’s one of the motivations.
But aside from what happens regarding the company, I think my real interest
lies in, what are my beliefs that created this or prompted this?
ELIAS: There are several beliefs in motion in this scenario.
You do engage a belief concerning what you identify as authority.
In your definition of authority, you create a separation of certain
individuals, and you attach the idea and the belief, as associated with
those individuals, that they hold the ability and the power to be creating
your choices, and therefore that they in some aspects create your reality.
You also engage an aspect of beliefs, associated parallel to this belief
of authority, that you create your reality in certain aspects, but that
you do not create ALL of your reality.
There are some areas of your reality — there are some situations within
your reality — that are NOT created by you, but are created by other individuals,
and therefore, you are in the position of being at the mercy of other individuals.
There are other aspects of beliefs which are employed in this situation
concerning your view of the behavior of other individuals and the responsibility
of other individuals and groups of individuals that you view to be companies
or corporations, that they hold a responsibility to the individuals that
they employ.
You also view that you hold a responsibility to them, and in this, you
create an assessment of behaviors. Certain behaviors are acceptable;
certain behaviors are not acceptable. You justify your actions in
expressing to yourself, were the other individuals to be creating behaviors
and expressing themselves in acceptable manners, you would in turn be reciprocating
with your behavior and your expressions.
There is also another aspect of belief systems in play in this scenario
in which you view your reality and the physical elements of your reality,
the corporeal aspect of your reality. Objects such as machines are
breakable or may be malfunctioning, and it is the responsibility of you
and other individuals to be maintaining these objects or machines, that
they shall be performing in a working function in alignment with your expectations.
You also engage views of your value and worth, in association with how
other individuals interact with you. In your perception, if individuals
are ignoring you, they are offering a communication to you, in their expression,
of their assessment of your worth ... or the LACK of your worth.
In this, you offer to yourself many, many, many different aspects of
beliefs in this one action, this one scenario.
You have engaged several individuals, you engage yourself, you engage
physical objects and your beliefs concerning them. You have engaged
your own assessment of your value and your worth. You have engaged
the assessment of value and worth of objects and other individuals, your
trust and acceptance of yourself, your trust and acceptance of other individuals,
and have provided yourself with an objective mundane situation which may
be an example to yourself, and to many other individuals also, of what
you term in your vernacular and your language to be normal movement, normal
interaction, normal life that occurs upon a daily basis, in which you may
allow yourself to view how very many aspects of beliefs are incorporated
into every action that you employ, and how very influencing these beliefs
are of your perception, and how your perception thusly creates your reality.
Now; which aspect of this scenario would you be choosing to address
to first? (Chuckling)
RODNEY: (Laughing) Wow!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: (Laughing) There are so many!
ELIAS: Quite, and they are all very influencing, and they all
mesh together to create a movement which influences your perception, and
you create a reality through that perception.
RODNEY: You know, in answer to your question, I would almost like
to say, where is the silver bullet, so to speak, of a belief that would
tend to make all of them ... would allow me to accept all of them?
ELIAS: Ha ha! Ah!
RODNEY: Because I’ve heard you speak in the other sessions about,
you know, there’s a lot of conflict with some, and there’s a lot of confusion
with others, and I think I fall into the camp of those who are confused,
although maybe not as much as others, but that’s not the point. Confusion
is confusion, and it’s like I don’t know where to begin. And I really
sense an incredible value in my being very objectively aware of this incident
and not allowing it go by without asking myself, why did I create it?
Which is something you’ve taught me. It would appear to me that the
foremost and most significant action for me to take — outside of writing
these all down in front of me so I could really, really see them — is to
accept myself.
ELIAS: And there is your silver bullet, my friend!
RODNEY: I hope so, ‘cause it appears to be a very, very substantial
list!
ELIAS: This is the element that ties together all of the different
expressions and directions of beliefs; not another belief that shall be
encompassing of all of the underlings of beliefs, so to speak. But
rather, the action of acceptance is the movement that shall become the
glue that pulls together all of these different aspects of beliefs, and
allows you to create a different perception which moves through all of
these beliefs.
Now; I shall also be acknowledging to you in this scenario, that you
HAVE allowed yourself to stop and to notice and to recognize certain aspects
of beliefs, and to be paying attention to your behavior and your energy
and your expressions, and in some aspects, you have also allowed yourself
to be paying attention and noticing your own expectations in this scenario.
Therefore, you ARE allowing yourself to be widening your awareness objectively,
and this is an element of the process which you engage to be moving into
the expression of acceptance.
I may also express to you, a key element of all of this movement is
the perception of separation. Your beliefs are tremendously reinforced
in energy through the continuation of the perception of separation.
As you view all of these different elements of your reality to be separated
from yourself, you also lend to an ease in creating these judgments and
lack of acceptance.
But I shall also be acknowledging of you in your expression within yourself
to be averting your automatic expression of discounting of yourself or
engaging guilt in association with your actions.
RODNEY: And that hasn’t been easy, but I’ve diligently noticed
my responses since the incident, and whenever I’ve had any thought of guilt
or judgment or self-deprecating thoughts or discounting of self, I’ve said,
no, I’m okay, you know?
ELIAS: Correct, and I acknowledge your movement in this expression,
for I hold an awareness of the difficulty that you engage, for this is
a very familiar and automatic expression that you have created throughout
your focus. And especially within this time framework, engaging this
wave in consciousness addressing to duplicity, there is more of an ease
lent to that automatic expression, in movement into the guilt or the discounting
of self. Therefore, it is quite worthy of acknowledgment that you
have diverted your attention to not be engaging that action.
RODNEY: Well, it’s taken me a couple of days to come to the ...
to try to get out from underneath that, to see that I may very well have
created a very valuable event for my own noticing, and after hearing all
the beliefs involved in this, I’m tending to see that I’m going to profit
a great deal ...
ELIAS: And so you shall!
RODNEY: ... from looking at this.
ELIAS: You are correct, and....
RODNEY: When you say the shift in consciousness lends ease to
the forming of judgments, is that also true of the release of anger?
I was a little bit surprised at the energy of my anger, you know, not that
I threatened to do anything, but just ... you’ve spoken in the past about
energy, and that it’s not really the words, but it’s the energy and the
intent.
ELIAS: Correct.
RODNEY: And I was amazed at the level of anger that was in my
words when I spoke.
ELIAS: (Intently) Now; be recognizing, I am not expressing
to you that the shift in consciousness is lending an ease to these types
of expressions. What I AM expressing to you is that this wave presently
in consciousness, which addresses to the belief system of duplicity, lends
an ease to these types of expressions.
RODNEY: So that we would be more noticing of them.
ELIAS: And that you may be creating them quite easily automatically.
The expressions of duplicity are extremely familiar to you, and in this,
as you engage addressing to this belief system and all of the aspects of
this belief system, there is energy lent to the expressions of all of these
aspects of this particular belief system of duplicity.
Therefore, as you have stated, you easily expressed anger, and in an
intensity. But you also are noticing what you are expressing and
what is motivating those expressions and behaviors. You are allowing
yourself to view not merely the automatic responses and noticing those
automatic responses, but you are also allowing yourself to view what is
motivating those automatic responses, and recognizing that the beliefs
that you hold are extremely influencing in all of these expressions.
RODNEY: Thank you, sir.
ELIAS: Let me also offer to you an additional aspect of information
in this scenario, one that you may otherwise tend to be overlooking, and
that is the element concerning the object, the computer, for this is an
integral piece of this scenario and is a significant player in this situation,
for how you view this object and how you interact with this object and
all that surrounds it is very mirroring of how you interact with individuals.
RODNEY: Really! You mean, how I interact with the computer
is symbolic of how I interact with individuals?
ELIAS: It is mirroring of how you interact with individuals.
It is quite similar. You view this in one aspect to be different,
but your interaction is very similar.
You view this to be an object. You make a distinction between
this object and living elements within your reality.
RODNEY: Yes, I do.
ELIAS: This object is not living. It performs a function.
It is what you term to be man-made.
RODNEY: Well, I conceptually have a notion somewhere that machines
are part of consciousness.
ELIAS: They ARE consciousness!
RODNEY: They ARE consciousness. (Laughing) I use that notion
quite to my advantage in my relationship to my automobile, but I must admit
that that’s probably the only place I truly remember that machines are
consciousness and will react to me or respond to me as I relate to them
consciously. That’s probably the only place I do that.
ELIAS: I am understanding. Now; let us view farther in relation
to the functioning of the machine, or this computer.
In this, as you interact with this computer, you view it to be an object
that performs certain functions, and you hold an expectation concerning
those functions that it shall perform, and if it is not functioning in
alignment with your expectation, you view it to be malfunctioning or broken.
In this, as you view this object to be malfunctioning or broken — or
even SLOW — you evaluate that it needs be fixed. And therefore, you
engage individuals that you define as AUTHORITIES, holding specific knowledge,
to be performing actions of fixing this machine, for those individuals
employ that ability and you do not.
Now; I express to you that the entirety of this scenario is ludicrous!
(Rodney laughs)
The machine itself is comprised of what? Atoms. Atoms are
comprised of links of consciousness, which bind together and create a physical
manifestation which is an atom, and groups of atoms bind together and create
physical matter, and physical matter is configured in the design that you
have created to become this object that you identify as a computer.
(Almost yelling) This computer — living or not living, within
your definition of life — IS comprised of consciousness, and functions
according to your expectation in agreement with you, but is also responsive
to your energy. Therefore, as you project energy, it is responsive
in agreement with you, for it is ALWAYS in agreement with you! Therefore,
if it is malfunctioning, it is creating that action in agreement with YOUR
dictates.
And it is NOT malfunctioning! It is merely functioning differently
than the dictates of your expectations.
It is not broken. It needs not be fixed. It is merely functioning
differently, and YOU assess it to be broken or malfunctioning.
Now; as you allow yourself to recognize the lack of separation of consciousness,
and you allow yourself to recognize that this object is not removed from
you ... this object is an expression of you.
Now; I shall express this in different terms which may be more easily
understood objectively. This object IS you.
As you allow yourself the viewing and the recognition and the knowing
of this lack of separation, you alter your perception. You turn your
perception, and this is the key, for as you turn your perception, you also
alter all of your reality.
You are viewing all of these elements of your reality to be THINGS OTHER
THAN YOUR CREATION. You view them to be outside of you, separated
from you, not of you, and not your creation.
Theoretically, you may express to yourself, “Oh yes, I create all of
my reality. I have created all of the universe. I create myself.
I create all of this physical dimension. I create all of my world.
I create everything within it.” But in actuality, in what you term
to be practical, realistic terms, this is theory. These are words.
This is not what you believe.
You look at this computer and you do not express to yourself, “I am
creating this computer now.” You express to yourself, “Individuals
have collectively created this computer by assembling parts and creating
substances in metals and plastics, and have formed together this object,”
and you have bought this object from another individual who ALSO did not
create it, (humorously) but who has sold it to you, and you merely interact
with it in its functions.
You look to the other individuals within your workplace, and you express
to yourself, you are not creating them. They are creating themselves.
In part, this is correct. In part, this is quite incorrect.
You ARE creating them, for you are creating another projection of them.
You are creating your own individual of them through your perception.
YOU are creating the object of that computer as it sits within your
presence, every moment that it exists. YOU are creating the interaction
of yourself and these other individuals, and you are creating THEIR interaction
with you also.
(Intently) For you are creating your perception of them, which
creates another actual, solid, physical, atom-and-molecule filled, matter-constructed,
individual person, which speaks to you, which interacts with you, which
physically touches you!
RODNEY: Understood.
ELIAS: And it is modeled from the blueprint of the creation of
the other individual, which is a manifestation of the other essence, but
it is NOT that individual. It is your OWN individual.
RODNEY: My own.
ELIAS: Yes.
RODNEY: The one that I’ve created.
ELIAS: Yes.
I express to you, and have been expressing to all of you from the onset
of these sessions, you create your reality! Every moment of it, every
aspect of it, EVERY element of your reality, you create! This is
not figurative. This is literal!
RODNEY: Thank you very much.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome.
RODNEY: This session is being very valuable for me. I have
to cope with the aftermath of this next week, and your comments are extremely
helpful.
ELIAS: In this, as you engage what you term to be the aftermath,
allow yourself to be recognizing the lack of separation, and in this, that
you are interacting with what you identify as other individuals, but you
ARE these other individuals also, for there is no separation within consciousness.
And this is not a concept — this is reality. You are they, and they
are you.
RODNEY: Well, that indicates to me that even though ... that my
only underlying guide in interacting with them next week is to accept them
as I would accept myself, and work from there.
ELIAS: No; reverse.
RODNEY: Reverse?
ELIAS: Accept yourself as you would accept them, for you are much
more willing to be accepting of them and excusing of them and offering
what you may view as tolerance to them than you shall to yourself, and
this is key.
For in actuality, what you shall express without the acceptance of self
is merely a projection of tolerance outside of self, for you shall interact
with other individuals in the manner that you interact with yourself.
RODNEY: And tolerance is not acceptance.
ELIAS: No, it is not, and be recognizing of what I have stated.
You shall interact with other individuals — and with all of your reality
— in the manner in which you interact with yourself. You project
that outward. How you interact with yourself is how you interact
with all of your reality. This is the reason that the acceptance
of self holds ULTIMATE importance.
RODNEY: Gotcha! (Elias chuckles) Thank you.
ELIAS: You are very welcome, my friend.
RODNEY: Wow. I think I’m gonna transcribe this session myself!
(Laughing)
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
Think to yourself also, as you are allowing yourself to be assimilating
this information, the recall of the aspect of the machine, the computer,
and how the interaction with that machine — that you view to be not living
— is so very mirroring of your interaction with individuals.
For in the moments in which individuals are not aligning with or meeting
your expectations, you also view them to be malfunctioning or broken, and
you also view them to be needing of assistance or fixing.
RODNEY: Right. Wow! I got more than I expected this
afternoon ...
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: ... Mister Elias! (Laughing) Hello?
ELIAS: Yes?
RODNEY: Oh! I thought I’d lost you!
ELIAS: Ha ha! You shall never lose me! Ha ha!
RODNEY: (Laughing) Okay! I am very thankful to hear
you say that!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha! I am not to be lost! Ha ha ha ha!
RODNEY: (Laughing) Very good! (Elias chuckles) Can
we move on to something else?
ELIAS: You may.
RODNEY: Do you think there’s anything else you would like say
about this?
ELIAS: You may continue.
RODNEY: Okay. As a follow-up to this, on Friday night on
my way home, when I’m working on not feeling guilty and not judging myself,
I get myself pulled over by a police officer, who stopped me for one reason,
for going through a stop sign, and then proceeded to discover that my insurance
card — that we carry in the car — was outdated, and that I wasn’t wearing
a seat belt.
So, we interacted on a not unfriendly basis, and after I pointed out
to him that if everybody drove as safely as I did through the stop sign,
we wouldn’t need a police department — but I said it nicely, I wasn’t throwing
stones, I meant what I said — he actually let me go without giving me the
two more serious tickets, and he did give me a ticket for driving without
a seat belt.
Now, I got up the next morning, went to work, and paid the fine.
I put it in the mail. An hour later, I get a fax from a policeman
who happens to be the chief of police in a totally different town, and
a brief letter which is addressed to Rod, R-O-D, which happens to be my
name. It says, “Not sure what article he/she saw, but it certainly
left an impression, in part. Gee, and I thought everybody loved me!”
Signed G.K. The G stands for George.
I called up this police chief, and when I explained to him what had
happened, he said, “This must be some kind of a cosmic joke,” because the
fax had actually been addressed to a friend of his called Rod at a totally
different place than my place of work, and the quote that was in it was
all about an individual being very, very, very angry that society passed
laws that said he had to wear a seat belt.
He ended it by saying things like ... I’ll read one or two lines.
“You don’t have to say that to me. Are you going to make me wear
diapers when I have diarrhea? Car phones are more dangerous.
People like you must wonder where people like Timothy McVeigh come from.
You create them!” He is talking to the police people, and then he
says, “Stay out of my car, stay out of my life.”
It was a real expression of anger directed at police, at authority,
and in light of what you’ve just gone over with me, I read this the other
morning, and it was an unbelievable example of how we get angry — how we
get angry at other people, and other people that we think of as authority.
It illustrates perfectly many of the beliefs which you’ve just cited as
working in my outburst of anger with the people of authority, or the people
that I perceive to be authority, at the place where I work.
Now, I think why I wanted to mention this incident to you is the quote/unquote
“coincidence” of this particular fax being sent to me the day after I had
this altercation with the police department, and it wasn’t until the following
day that it occurred to me how clever you are with electronic devices,
and I was just wondering if you didn’t rearrange a couple of electrons
in their fax machine.... (Elias chuckles) Could you hold a moment?
I’m changing the tape.
ELIAS: Very well.
RODNEY: ... if you didn’t have something to do with this, or whether
I created the whole event myself.
ELIAS: I express to you flattery, in your expression that I shall
be offering such explicit imagery to you! (Chuckling, and Rodney laughs)
But I shall offer to you that this is not a manifestation of my energy
which has created this imagery, but rather that you have drawn this experience
and this imagery to yourself through your own imagery and energy to be
reinforcing this subject — of perception of beliefs, of your identification
of authority and how affecting the beliefs are in association with this
definition of authority, and how this separation of individuals and placement
of certain individuals into a position and role of authority creates tremendous
obstacles within your expressions of your individual abilities, for you
limit yourself tremendously as you incorporate these separations of figures
of authority.
You allow these individuals — that you define as holding this elusive,
magical power of authority, as holding more ability in certain expressions
than do you — you allow those expressions of authority to dictate your
creations and your choices.
RODNEY: (Sighing) Okay. (Brief pause)
Let me ask you ... I’ve been driving for over fifty years, and I’ve
never had to wear a seat belt. Now, I know what I’m going to say
to you is trivial and mundane, but nonetheless, it’s a fact in my life
that I would prefer not to wear a seat belt. One of the reasons I
don’t want to wear a seat belt is because it symbolizes to me that I am
fearful of having an accident. In other words, it’s there in case
I have an accident. So, in my way of thinking, I’m almost saying,
“Okay, I’m gonna have an accident someday — better have a seat belt on
when I do it.” And if I leave the seat belt off, it’s a symbol that
I’m trusting myself not to be in an accident.
The state in which I live created a law which says that if you don’t
wear a seat belt, a police officer can pull you over and give you a ticket
and make you pay a fine.
Now, in accepting this, I am accepting the fact that I choose in the
future not to be paying fines for not wearing the seat belt, alright?
And it’s not such a great nuisance to put it on — it’s not the end of the
world that I have to wear this seat belt — and I can accept that that’s
the law, and I choose not to be breaking the law in a way that I’m gonna
be fined constantly. I suspect that by accepting that all of this
is my own creation, and in accepting that other people have done this out
of their own intent to help people, if I truly accepted myself in all of
this, and I truly accepted them as I do myself, I could probably go through
the rest of my life without wearing a seat belt and never have to pay another
ticket for it. I don’t know!
ELIAS: You are correct, for you shall create a perception and
thusly create a reality in which you need not be engaging this belt, and
you are also not breaking your law, so to speak, for within your reality,
it is irrelevant and it is not a law.
RODNEY: And I brought this all together in a couple of days last
week, as an example of where I’m not accepting myself, and having this
incredible conversation with him.
ELIAS: You have offered this to yourself as an opportunity to
view the influence of belief systems and to view the immense power of perception,
and how it does — in reality — create your reality.
In this, you offer to yourself more choices, for as you open your awareness
to what you are creating, that you ARE creating, and why you are creating,
you allow yourself to create less in automatic expression and open yourself
to your choices.
RODNEY: Thank you.
ELIAS: You are very welcome, my friend.
RODNEY: I’d like to read to you ... I’d like to ask you a question.
I had a dream about two or three weeks ago. I don’t have the entire
dream translated, so I don’t know the beginning of it. But in it,
I find myself in some kind of a vehicle that’s kind of long and thin, maybe
something like a bus, and there’s a driver up front, and he’s kind of like
behind a glass wall, and he’s young, like me. They call him to come
back so that we can see him, and he comes out. I dreamt that I think
maybe Michael called him — I’ll mention that — and that there was a woman
asleep in another room, and nobody looked in there because we didn’t want
to embarrass her. Then I covered my face. I covered my face
because the person who was driving the bus came back, and I took one look
at him, and it was me! He was there to take care of the people and
to drive this thing. And then I took my hands away from my face,
and he was flabbergasted when he saw that I was him!
As he bent down to take a better look, I just pulled him down and I
held him, and when I held him, Elias, my heart just exploded with love.
It was an incredibly beautiful dream.
Now, I remember that in another part of the dream — I don’t know if
this was before or after it — I was driving a car. I was very caught
up in traffic, and when I got out of the traffic, I saw that I was on a
wide, open road with no traffic. I began to drive very, very, very
fast. Then I saw a car up on my left, on a side road, with flashing
lights, a police car, and I saw that he was taking care of somebody else,
but I knew that he might have picked me up on some of his radar equipment
or whatever, so I pulled over to the side of the road and stopped at a
junk shop and walked around, just to kill time, and then when I went to
leave, I felt this hand on my shoulder, and I turned around, and I saw
a gray uniform. I knew by the cut of the overcoat — there was no
emblems, no insignias, nothing on this person’s attire that told me he
was a policeman — only the cut of the clothes told me that he was a policeman.
And when I looked into his face, I said, “Oh my god, it’s another one of
me!” I thought that was very funny, even in the dream and even still
— another me! And that was the end of the dream.
ELIAS: And what is your impression of this dream imagery?
RODNEY: My impression of the last part ... well, maybe of both
parts. But of the last part which I detailed to you, the traffic
congestion on the road is the entanglement I’ve created for myself all
my life, and that I’m beginning to untangle and to move forward in a more
leisurely and more rapid pace, as to going where I want to go with my awareness,
with my understanding of myself.
And the policeman that I saw very much stands for my own authority,
and it’s kind of like, I questioned whether I could go as rapidly as I
would like to go on this wide, open road, and it’s almost like I stopped
in order for the authority symbol to catch up with me, so that I could
see that it’s okay. It’s okay for me to go speeding down this wide,
open road as fast as I want to go, because I am my own authority, ultimately.
The other part of the dream is that I am beginning to accept myself.
I do not understand — in the first part of the dream — why I always create
a woman, and she’s kind of like there, but not there. Could you comment
on what I’ve said so far?
ELIAS: I express to you acknowledgment in your translation of
your dream imagery, and of your impression in your translation. You
are accomplishing well in allowing yourself the objective ability and expression
of translation of subjective information into the objective imagery.
RODNEY: Thank you. Your encouragement helps.
ELIAS: As to your image of the female individual, this particular
imagery serves a twofold purpose.
One is that this particular imagery is inserted into all of your dream
imagery as an objective recognition of the female qualities that are an
aspect of you, in a manner of speaking, therefore allowing you more of
a balance of a recognition of yourself within your imagery, in a manner
of speaking.
This also is presented within your dream imagery as another trigger,
a dream trigger, and in this, as I have expressed previously, you may engage
this dream trigger and merge into this dream trigger, if you are so allowing
yourself, and you may access other areas of consciousness and other information.
RODNEY: Would you suggest I attempt to do that within the dream?
ELIAS: Yes, within the dream. This....
RODNEY: In other words, give myself a suggestion that when this
occurs in my next dream, that I would become more aware of what’s happening
in the dream?
ELIAS: You may engage that action.
In this, as you allow yourself to approach any dream trigger and merge
into that dream trigger, it shall alter, and in a manner of speaking, transform
into a portal of consciousness.
RODNEY: Would it be possible for me to do this within meditation?
ELIAS: Yes.
RODNEY: Objectively?
ELIAS: Yes.
RODNEY: Thank you.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome.
RODNEY: Time is running on, so I do have another quick question.
Actually, I have a large sequence of questions! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Ha ha ha!
RODNEY: I think I’ll have to wait for another day!
I had another dream in which — to make it very quick — I was in the
basement, I came out of the basement, I think I went flying with a balloon
and came back down, and then there was a huge dirigible. It was at
night, and I thought it was purple-ish, and I thought it was rising, but
it wasn’t. It was coming down, and it crashed. I think it burned
up the woods and it burnt up the house.
And then many years later, I was back visiting the site. The old
house was gone and the woods were gone. The woods were planted in
spring growth, and there was a new house there that appeared to be old,
and in the house was a man I know, and I’ll only use his first name — his
first name is Dan — and it was very old, and around the house was memorabilia
that we had collected from our teachers. I happen to know that this
man and I, although we only met about a year ago ... it’s uncanny, but
we’ve read a large number of the same books and studied the same teachers
and had some very similar ideas about reality. He didn’t get up in
the dream because he was sick.
The question about this dream is, am I running a counterpart action
with this Dan, not only because of the dream, but because of what I know
of him? And do I have any other relationship to him? And is
the dream in any way descriptive of events that may take place or have
taken place?
ELIAS: The dream imagery itself is indicative of the action that
you engage with this individual. Yes, you do engage counterpart action
with this individual.
As to other actions that you engage with this individual, I shall express
to you, you do hold other focuses with this individual that you may be
investigating, if you are so choosing, or if you are employing curiosity
concerning your other interactions.
RODNEY: Symbolically, what is the ... can you shed some light
on the burning or the crashing of the dirigible?
ELIAS: This is merely a symbolic creation of imagery as to your
identification with the clearing of old established structures and areas,
so to speak, within your focus, and also within the focus of this other
individual, and the replacement of that expression of old with the expression
of new freedoms.
RODNEY: Very good. Elias, I thank you.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome, my friend.
RODNEY: This has been a most enjoyable afternoon — enlightening.
ELIAS: I anticipate our continuation futurely.
RODNEY: Please! Thank you!
ELIAS: I offer to you much encouragement, my friend, and an expression
of affection in energy, that you be continuing in your movement.
RODNEY: Thank you, sir.
ELIAS: To you this day, au revoir.
RODNEY: Au revoir.
Elias departs at 3:35 PM.
FOOTNOTES:
(1) This is a note from Rodney regarding his state
of mind when he got pulled over: “It happened going home on the day
of the angry outburst. I was in deep reverie of the day’s events,
and I was tired to an almost weary state. I was driving much slower
than the other traffic, and when I talked to the police officer, I was
speaking in the quiet tones of a tired, exhausted, and exasperated individual.
I had the feeling of, ‘God, just give me the tickets so I can go home,
lay down, and sleep.’”
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