Answering Your Own Questions
Topics:
“Answering Your Own Questions”
“Exploring Dream Triggers”
“Reflections of Self”
Saturday, November 25, 2000 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael), Joanne (Gildae), and Marj (Grady).
Elias arrives at 2:56 p.m. (Arrival time is 21 seconds)
ELIAS: Good afternoon!
BOTH: Good afternoon! (Elias chuckles)
MARJ: Nice to talk to you again!
ELIAS: And how shall we proceed this day?
MARJ: Well, I thought instead of saying ... this is Grady.
I was thinking perhaps instead of asking you how you are, I might ask you
how I am!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha ha! And I shall turn the inquiry to
you and express, how ARE you? (Grinning)
MARJ: Well, I think I’m traveling on down the road towards becoming!
ELIAS: (Laughing) And I shall correct you in this and express
that you already ARE becoming!
MARJ: Oh, I know that!
I have one quick question, if I may, about this election that we’re
having here now, and all the problems surrounding it. I know it’s
a mass event. My impression is that possibly these two major players
have an agreement to pursue this, so we can really see that we do not have
enough power with the people — we have too much with government and courts
and the like. Is that possible?
ELIAS: In a manner of speaking, but not precisely. You are
moving in the direction of recognizing some of the elements of the expression
of this mass event.
In this, it is not the expression that there is not enough power within
the people or that there is too much power within the expression of the
government, but that you are offering yourselves an example en masse of
duplicity, and how you deny YOURSELVES your own individual empowerment,
in a manner of speaking, by denying yourselves your individual choices.
As to these two individuals that you identify as the focal points, as
the politicians, yes, they are in agreement to be participating as the
focal points. But beyond that, this is genuinely a mass event in
which you are all participating equally and you are all creating the scenario.
It is not these two individuals that are creating this scenario or orchestrating
it, but that you all each are orchestrating it. You are each players
in this mass event in equal measure.
MARJ: Okay. That makes sense.
ELIAS: This offers you a clear example, in objective imagery and
movement, of this wave in consciousness addressing to duplicity and many
different aspects of this particular belief system of duplicity.
It offers you the opportunity to view how easily and automatically you
view yourselves as victims.
It offers you a clear example of how you genuinely believe that other
individuals or institutions hold the power to dictate your choices, and
therefore you once again become victim, for you are not creating your choices.
It offers you the opportunity to view the divisions that are created,
inwardly AND outwardly, in the expressions of duplicity and the judgments
that are created.
It also offers you clear, objective evidence in imagery of the change
that is occurring in individual and mass and societal expressions, as you
continue to insert this shift into your objective reality.
I have expressed that you are redefining your reality, and so you are!
And in this, I have also expressed, it is not merely viewed within the
context of the individual that you may observe this shift in consciousness,
but en masse and in your governments, in your societies throughout your
world, you shall view and are viewing the alteration and redefining of
your reality, individually and en masse.
This particular mass event offers in example, in what you view to be
outside of yourselves as your government, a clear reflection of what you
create within yourselves individually.
MARJ: That is so fascinating, Elias. I just wonder, when
some people get so upset, I think oh my god, we’re not gonna have a big
fight over this, are we?
ELIAS: (Chuckling) And shall you move in the direction of
that type of conflict, in even physical expressions, you shall continue
to be reflecting in this mass event what you create individually within
yourselves.
At times within yourselves, you create physical violence and conflict
individually in your expressions of judgment and lack of acceptance, do
you not?
MARJ: Oh, yes!
ELIAS: And you may view within yourselves how very often you create
these similar types of struggles and conflict and fighting — and even the
expressions of physical affectingness, which may be interpreted as violence
to yourselves — all in the expressions of duplicity.
MARJ: Hmm! I’ve met that person!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
MARJ: (Laughing) It’s so funny ‘cause I’ve had a lot of
problems with my right knee. So I’m
saying, why does my knee hurt? There’s nothing wrong with my knee.
Then I realized I needed to slow down and pay attention to things, and
my knee got better. I was looking at my automatic responses and my
lack of self-worth, and I’m moving along, I’m doing pretty good, and then
I go to a religious ceremony, and after it was over, my knee was killing
me, and I’m riding home saying, now what did I do? And then I realized
that I had sat there and judged everybody — their hypocrisies, their this,
their that — I tore everybody to shreds! Then I said to myself, why
don’t you mind your own business? You don’t know what they felt in
their hearts. And then my knee got better!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
MARJ: So then, all of a sudden my knee hurts again, and I’m not
fussing about one person, and I noticed that I kept noticing, and I read
one of your transcripts where you were reminding the individual that what
we are doing is constantly noticing, but we are not going deeper and looking
at identifying so we can address to things, and that gave me a light bulb
moment, and I realized that the feelings I had were all a lack of self-worth
again. And so I identified where duplicity came in there, and boy,
we’ve had a hand-to-hand combat! But my knee is fine now, ever since
I identified that, and I’m just so pleased with myself!
ELIAS: (Laughing) And....
MARJ: And I’m getting to the point, Elias, where I can’t wait
to talk to you, but I don’t always have a question to ask you anymore.
I think — am I right? — I’m beginning to rely on my own perceptions and
impressions, and giving myself the answers before I talk to you.
ELIAS: Yes, and this is the point.
In this, you and many other individuals are moving yourselves into a
position of reinforcing your trust of yourselves and your choices in allowing
yourselves to be participating with myself merely in validation rather
than extensive inquiry, for you have inquired and you have allowed yourselves
to assimilate the information that you have asked for.
This is not to say that I may not continue to be offering more information
to be helpful in insightfulness into more areas of yourselves futurely,
as you continue to become familiar with yourselves and move yourselves
into the genuine state of remembrance. But you are inquiring less,
for you are offering your questions to yourselves and you are offering
your answers to yourselves, and allowing yourselves to trust your answers.
MARJ: Oh, Elias, that is so wonderful! I’m sure you’re just
as excited for me as I am! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Ha ha ha! Quite, for this is the point!
MARJ: I wouldn’t know what to do without you!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
MARJ: The last three years have had a lot of ups and downs, but
I wouldn’t trade them for anything, because of the changes that have come
about through the association with you.
ELIAS: And the new association with yourself!
MARJ: Well, that’s for sure! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
MARJ: I’m not such a bad person after all!
ELIAS: Quite, (laughing) and may be moving yourself genuinely
more into an expression of believing that you are a glorious being, shall
you not? Ha ha!
MARJ: Oh, I can’t wait! Yes! In fact, that is the
final question that I do have for you, and that is, would you be so kind
as to tell Gildae and I how wonderful we are?
ELIAS: And so you are!
In this, I have expressed recently of the genuine gloriousness of what
you have designed and created in this particular physical expression in
this physical dimension.
You yourselves participate in a wondrous action that YOU have created,
in this movement of this shift in consciousness and the insertion of it
into your reality and the intricacies of design of this particular physical
dimension. Look to yourselves and view the gloriousness of all that
you create, and amaze yourselves in wonderment at how efficient you are!
You create an expression of separation to offer yourselves the purity
of experience in your exploration of this physical dimension of consciousness,
and you compensate for that expression of separation that you have created
individually by providing yourselves with a reflection of self in every
aspect of your reality. In every other individual, in every expression
of consciousness, in every design around you, you reflect an aspect of
yourself, therefore providing yourself with a clear image of yourself through
all that surrounds you, and is this not a wonderment in creativity?
MARJ: Yes! I’ve always looked at the human body and thought
what a wondrous creation that was, and didn’t realize that we did that.
And then if I propel that outward to look at everything and think that
we created all of this, it just blows my mind, literally!
ELIAS: Quite, and this is all a reflection of what you are!
MARJ: Thank you, Elias.
ELIAS: You are very welcome, my friend.
JOANNE: Hi, Elias. How you doin’?
ELIAS: As always, and yourself?
JOANNE: As always! (They both laugh)
I’ve had such a tough time trying to figure out how to talk to you
about the things I want to talk to you about. I’ve had some really
incredible experiences with showing myself how fascinating a creature I
think I am, and really kind of getting into that, and realizing that I
could spend eternity just experiencing me!
ELIAS: Quite! And what shall be the difficulty in your discussion
of this subject? (Laughing)
JOANNE: Well, it’s sometimes very difficult to find the words
to express it. I know I talk to you all the time, and that’s different
than this kind of communication, so I find it difficult to talk to you
on the phone. And I guess I worry sometimes, when I have these feelings
of how absolutely incredible I am and everyone else is ... it sounds funny
when you say it out loud.
ELIAS: Ah, merely for it is unfamiliar to you, and your beliefs
have dictated to the contrary for a considerable time framework.
JOANNE: Right. Yeah, that’s it. I mean, when you’re
feeling these incredible things and you have impressions about who you
are and what you really are, and then all of a sudden you step back from
it for a second, and you look around and think, oh my god! I’m really
losing it! I’m suffering from like delusions of grandeur! (They both
laugh)
How can you tell somebody how absolutely fascinating you find yourself
and everything you create, and have them understand what you’re saying,
and maybe experience it for themselves?
ELIAS: It matters not that another individual may be understanding
objectively of what you are expressing. But let me express to you
also that in the genuine discovery of yourself and the realization and
recognition of the wondrousness of yourself, why shall you not express
this outwardly?
And as you allow yourselves to genuinely recognize that what you express
genuinely within yourself is also what you shall draw to yourself ... for
what is created outside of you is also you. Therefore, what shall
be the fear that you express in this manner to another individual, lest
you be recognizing that the fear is the expression of your own judgment
upon self that this be an arrogant and self-centered expression?
And in that projection of energy, which is created within you, not outside
of you, you also shall create it outside of you as a reflection of what
you believe. But in your genuine knowing of aspects of yourself,
what is arrogance or self-centeredness but a knowing of yourself and a
lack of fear in its expression? And in that, what you shall create
outwardly shall also be a reflection.
In like manner to what I have expressed with Grady, all that is surrounding
you is a reflection of you, a clear and crystallized reflection, a mirror
of yourself. It is your offering to yourself that you provide yourself
with to allow yourself to be familiar with you. For the only individual,
the only aspect of consciousness that you do not allow yourselves to know
and that you are unfamiliar with or that you are confused by or conflicted
with is you!
This is an aspect of your expression of separation. Every other
aspect of consciousness, every other individual, you know. You view
them clearly. You need not be questioning of other individuals, for
they are known to you already. YOU are the only expression that is
objectively NOT known to you, and this is the reason that you provide yourself
with this grand expression of reflection in every aspect of consciousness
that you surround yourself with.
Therefore, in the genuine expression of self-centeredness or the “centering
of self,” (chuckling) and the genuine expression of arrogance or the knowing
of self, and the genuine expression of selfishness in the focusing and
concentrating upon self, and the recognition of the splendor of yourself,
as you express that and radiate that outwardly in genuineness, what shall
you draw to yourself but like expression? For what you draw to yourself
is reflection.
JOANNE: I’ll have to spend some more time thinking about that,
because I was just so amazed at the feelings themselves, because they’re
so different than anything I’ve ever felt before. And to think that
at times I find myself so fascinating that I really don’t care what’s going
on in the world! I could spend all of my time just thinking about
me and what I’m feeling and who I really am, and I really wouldn’t care
what the rest of the world was doing! (Laughing) And that’s a surprising
turn; it’s different.
ELIAS: And this is allowing yourself to become familiar with YOU.
This is a wondrous action, for it offers you the avenue to be expressing
trust and acceptance of yourself, and in that, the acceptance of the entirety
of your world is a byproduct.
MARJ: We want more!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha! (Laughter)
JOANNE: It’s funny, but the very physical things that we do to
take up our ... well, to take up my time, is becoming very irritating now.
I find myself not wanting to do a lot of the normal, everyday things that
I always did. I just want to spend my time inward and thinking about
things and how fascinating everything is.
But it goes even deeper than that. It’s like the center, the very
core of me, and I could really just spend eternity exploring that and feeling
it, and it’s such a wonderful, wonderful thing! I can’t even describe
how magical that is.
ELIAS: I am quite understanding. (Chuckling)
JOANNE: What did you say?
ELIAS: I am quite understanding of what you are expressing, and
why shall you deny yourself this expression?
JOANNE: Oh, I wouldn’t! No, that’s not gonna happen! (They
both laugh) I just won’t tell anybody about it. I’ll just quietly
go about experiencing it without sharing it with anyone! (Laughing)
ELIAS: And why shall you deny yourself the sharing also?
JOANNE: Well, I was just sort of playing around about that....
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha!
JOANNE: (Inaudible) But I think that’s where the Ilda comes
in. You have to run around and tell everybody! (Laughing)
ELIAS: (Laughing) And to be expressing a free flow of your
energy, and exchanging and sharing experiences and concepts and BEING.
JOANNE: Right. (Elias chuckles) Lately I’ve spent a lot
more time thinking about my alignment with Ilda. Milumet I just fell
in love with, as soon as I heard that word and the description of the family.
But I’ve never really paid any attention to the Ilda. I kind of wanted
to be Sumafi. I like that lack of distortion thing.
ELIAS: HA HA HA HA!
JOANNE: And now I don’t care! (Laughing) Ilda suits me perfectly
right now!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha ha! And you may not quite be as disposed
to some of the qualities of the Sumafi as you may have imagined yourself
to be! Ha ha ha!
JOANNE: Well, you know, everything I read ... you’re Sumafi, and
it just seemed so wonderful to be Sumafi, you know. But now, the
more I think about Ilda and that family in relation to myself now, I think
that’s wonderful and fascinating, and it suits me perfectly!
ELIAS: Quite!
JOANNE: I like that. But like I said, I’ve never paid too
much attention to it, but with what’s been going on with me recently, it
all fits perfectly, the Milumet aligned with Ilda. I really like
that I chose that, and it just suits me perfectly. (Elias chuckles)
I also want to talk to you ... I know Mom asked you about Charlotte,
and if I understand correctly, that’s another aspect of my essence?
ELIAS: Yes.
JOANNE: Okay, is that an aspect of ... I don’t know how to phrase
this. It’s not physically focused? I don’t know if that’s coming
out right.
ELIAS: Not within this present time framework.
JOANNE: What is it that’s going on with that? Was I just
presenting myself with another aspect of me to investigate, or is there
anything else that’s like going along with that?
ELIAS: Now; allow yourself to recognize and to be responding to
your own question. What have you been discussing and expressing with
me presently, but of your exploration and your discovery of you, correct?
And the wondrousness of that exploration, correct?
JOANNE: Yes.
ELIAS: And in this, shall you not also incorporate the exploration
and the presentment of other aspects of you? For they are all you!
JOANNE: Yeah, but that was a little surprising, that one, because
the tone is so much deeper.
ELIAS: Which is expressive of what, in your impression?
JOANNE: Well.... (Elias grins) Okay. In my impression,
it’s like if you have the whole range of, say, tone of my essence, I’m
in one place, and Charlotte is like a deeper tone. It’s still me.
It just has a deeper tone to it, a deeper feeling. I don’t know how
else to express it.
ELIAS: I am understanding of what you are expressing.
In this, you provide yourself with this introduction objectively, so
to speak, that you may allow yourself further exploration of self, in the
recognition of the expansiveness of you and the depth and breadth of you.
JOANNE: That makes a lot of sense. That kind of goes along
with some of the dreams I’ve been having lately, about going deeper into
me. That goes along with that. It was just surprising because
the first aspect of myself, I would say now — Didi — had or has a very
similar tone to me, to this focus of my attention. But Charlotte,
that aspect has a very deeper tone.
ELIAS: I am understanding, and this also is you.
JOANNE: Yeah. I had this dream one night. I was in
a room with a lot of people, and we were all talking, and first I was one
person, and then I was the other person, and then I was kind of like in
the background looking at them all, and then I was one person, and then
the other person, and just kind of bouncing from person to person.
And I went, no, wait a minute! Now, which one am I right now?
I kind of lost track of which character in the play I was playing. (Elias
chuckles)
And then I went to this really wonderful place where I had just a small
experience or a small taste of exactly who I am, and it was absolutely
incredible! It was the most wonderful experience I’ve ever had in
my entire life, and I felt, in that moment, I wished I could have stayed
there, but I knew that if I did stay, I would’ve completed shifted my focus
of attention here, and I probably would have disengaged. But I’m
becoming more and more aware of the core that runs through all of my focuses,
that is my essence, that is me. I can feel that in whichever person
or focus I come in contact with.
ELIAS: Yes.
JOANNE: And it’s just an incredible experience. And now,
more and more of my dreams are like that. Sometimes I’m the individual
in the dream. Sometimes I’m standing right behind them. We
switch back and forth, trade places. It’s just really different.
ELIAS: And is this not a wonderment at the presentment of your
tremendous versatility?
JOANNE: Oh, definitely! It boggles my mind, the things that
I can create and be a part of and feel and experience, and it’s changed
my whole outlook, in a way. I always thought, like when I first started
reading that it was our choice to come here, I kept thinking, what kind
of idiot would choose this? (Laughing)
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
JOANNE: But now it’s becoming more obvious to me that it’s such
an exciting thing, and we’ve just forgotten the joy that we came here with,
and the excitement!
ELIAS: Ah! And this is a key within your statement, that
you have forgotten what you already possess — what you ARE.
JOANNE: Right — the joy, the fun, the excitement! We’re
just not paying any attention to that part of it. We’re just thinking
about ... I got so used to thinking this was all just a horrible mistake,
and it’s just so wonderful to look at it from a different point of view!
(Elias chuckles) And to know inside that yes, I did choose to come
here, and I was really excited about the whole prospect, and I thought
it was a really good idea! That’s a big change.
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha! And an offering of acknowledgment to
yourself!
JOANNE: Thank you! (Elias chuckles) I love all of this!
Mom wants me to ask ... we were talking about dream triggers earlier.
Is my dream trigger a stove?
ELIAS: First express to me your impression.
JOANNE: Well, I kinda think it is. It came up in conversation
today. Mom was reading Rodney’s paper where his dream trigger is
a cloud, and we were talking about that, and I said, “Well, I think my
dream trigger is a stove,” and she said, “What do you mean, a stove?”
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha! A dream trigger is merely a creation
of imagery, and it may assume any form. You are correct in the identification
of your dream trigger. (Laughing)
MARJ: I was looking for something more ethereal!
ELIAS: Ah! More cosmic and spiritual!
JOANNE: She was thinking that mine would be a book.
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha! The imagery itself matters not.
It is the placement of the imagery and the consistency of that imagery
within your dream state, so to speak.
In this, a dream trigger may assume the form of any object within your
reality. It generally is associated with some object within your
waking reality that is continuously available within your waking attention.
Even in the expression that you are not thinking of that object or interactive
with that object, it is present, so to speak, within your objective waking
reality, and the presence of it has become very familiar to you, and in
this, you insert that object into your dream imagery easily, in association
with its familiarity.
JOANNE: Yeah. Without even realizing it, a lot of my dreams
happen where there will be something, where I’ll be in the kitchen talking
to someone, without even paying attention to the fact that I’m in a kitchen
and there’s a stove there.
ELIAS: Quite. This is very commonly expressed in the creation
of dream triggers. You choose an object that is familiar to you and
that does occupy a presence within your waking reality and offers you a
sense of comfortableness within your waking reality. It may be a
rock, it may be a vase, it may be a plant. It may be an object of
brass or lead, glass, a book. It may be water, it may be a creature,
it may be a single piece of paper. It matters not.
It is an association that you have created with some object of familiarity
that you translate into your dream imagery recognizing that familiarity,
which creates an ease within your dream imagery, for it requires no thought
— it requires no reaction or responsiveness — but [is] an ease in which
you allow yourself to approach and merge with and move through, as the
portal.
JOANNE: It only happened once, but I do, in dreams, keep finding
myself standing in front of the stove and thinking, okay, what am I doing
here? And once I heard this little voice say, look! Will you
just look?
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
JOANNE: And I found myself in a completely different place.
ELIAS: (Chuckling) I have expressed many times, allowing
yourselves to engage these dream triggers creates a tremendous ease and
an automatic transportation, so to speak, of your awareness from one area
of consciousness to another area of consciousness. It is, quite literally,
a portal.
JOANNE: That’s exactly what it was. It was like, one minute
I was looking at the stove, and then I was like REALLY looking, and then
I was somewhere else. (Elias chuckles) The funny part of it was that
the whole time I kept thinking, why didn’t you just look to begin with?
Because it’s all right there anyway.
ELIAS: Ha ha! And this is another aspect of the point.
ALL is present and within you.
JOANNE: Right. I’m finding that more and more. It’s
just a matter of looking and noticing, but really looking. It’s a
different kind of looking.
ELIAS: (Chuckling) It is a noticing and paying attention.
JOANNE: I have a couple of focus questions. We’ve been
trying to help Ben figure out his Oscar Wilde connection.
ELIAS: HA HA HA HA!
JOANNE: We’ve all ... well, I don’t know about Ted and Luanne,
but I have a feeling I was there, and I think Mom pretty much knows she
was there. My question is, I know Oscar changed his name to Sebastian.
Where did he get the name Sebastian? Was it from a friend? (Pause)
ELIAS: An association.
JOANNE: Was that by any chance me? (Pause)
ELIAS: No.
JOANNE: Oh, okay. Because I know I have a focus of Sebastian.
ELIAS: Yes.
JOANNE: Okay, and I thought ... well, the information I’ve gotten
is that the name Sebastian was the favored son of Dorian Gray. But
that doesn’t really make any sense because Dorian Gray was a character,
correct, in one of his books?
ELIAS: Correct.
JOANNE: So I’m kinda clueless where to go with this! (Laughing,
and Elias chuckles) Well, it does ... I mean, was Dorian Gray based
on a real person in Oscar’s life?
ELIAS: Not necessarily.
JOANNE: I get someone who has some of the characteristics.
ELIAS: Yes.
JOANNE: Okay, and my focus as Sebastian, is that a current focus?
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha! Interesting question! All of your
focuses are current!
JOANNE: Okay, in this particular time framework!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! No. It would not be within
this particular time framework, although what may be viewed as a partially
overlapping focus in time frameworks, for in linear terms, that focus overlaps
this focus.
JOANNE: Okay. Was he in Greece? (Pause)
ELIAS: Cyprus.
JOANNE: Cyprus, okay. Was I in your focus of Oscar Wilde?
ELIAS: Yes.
JOANNE: Okay, so I’ll have to work on that some more. (Elias laughs)
Another interesting focus that I think I uncovered was Rasputin.
ELIAS: In relation to yourself?
JOANNE: Yes.
ELIAS: Yes; not that you are that individual, but are associated
with that individual.
JOANNE: Okay. How about Gustave Flaubert? I know that’s
a focus of me. (Pause)
ELIAS: Correct.
JOANNE: Now, in that focus, was I in touch with this focus of
me? Because when I read Madame Bovary, I had such a difficult time
reading that, because in a lot of ways, when he described what she was
feeling, I felt those things, and I just thought that maybe on some level....
ELIAS: It is not a question of “being in touch with,” so to speak,
or in communication with, but an experience of, for you ARE. Are
you understanding?
JOANNE: Yeah, I do understand. I guess I was just surprised
when I read it. I felt the connection to him, but I think what surprised
me the most was that he was so objectively aware of what a woman would
feel.
ELIAS: I am understanding, and this is an ability in tapping into
other aspects of self.
JOANNE: Right. I was just wondering if that’s what he was
doing when he was writing that book.
ELIAS: Yes.
JOANNE: And his traveling companion when he traveled through Europe,
was that Patel?
ELIAS: No.
JOANNE: No? Hmm. For some reason, that just sort of
popped into my head.
ELIAS: You offer this to yourself in recognition of a familiarity
of energy of essence, but it is not that particular essence.
JOANNE: Okay, so it’s an essence that I’m very familiar with?
ELIAS: Yes.
JOANNE: Oh, one other thing that’s kinda funny. There’s
this band. It’s called Creed, a rock ‘n roll band, and the first
time I saw the lead singer in the band, all I could think was, he looks
so familiar, and I’ve never really been a groupie, but I find myself becoming
a groupie! (Laughing) And he just ... I mean, at first, I would have
sworn it was in some way connected to you, but everything I’ve read says
that you don’t have a focus in this particular time framework.
ELIAS: You are correct.
JOANNE: So....
ELIAS: Your familiarity is a recognition that you participate
in other focuses with this individual — in several focuses with this individual
— and in your exploration presently of self and allowing yourself to become
more familiar with you, you are also allowing yourself to become more aware
objectively, and open, so to speak, objectively to the associations that
you hold with other individuals throughout many different focuses, and
allowing yourself to more easily recognize the familiarity that may be
experienced in that opening of your awareness.
JOANNE: Oh, one more quick question. With the people that
are around me in this particular focus — my husband, my brothers and sisters,
my children — I kinda get the impression that I’ve never held close relationship
with these individuals, that they’ve been maybe acquaintances, friends,
distant relatives, but not real close in relationship, and I was wondering
if my impression of that was correct.
ELIAS: For the most part, yes, you are correct.
JOANNE: So I might be hiding something from myself! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Which you are not, although you have created a few relationships
of some intimacy with some of these individuals. But more often —
you are correct — you have created the types of relationships with these
individuals that does not express objectively a quality of intimacy.
JOANNE: Like with my brothers and sisters, I’ve always kind of
felt like they have more going on between them.
ELIAS: I am understanding.
JOANNE: I always used to think I was adopted! (Laughing)
MARJ: She felt like she just dropped in here!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha!
JOANNE: Because they all seemed to have like this other stuff
going on between them all that didn’t include me. I was wondering
if that feeling was because I don’t normally focus with them or because
there weren’t any bleed-throughs of other focuses affecting.
ELIAS: Partially, and partially not. Partially there is
some influence in not creating intimacy in other focuses with these individuals,
and partially not.
For partially, it is also an expression of reflection, as we have been
speaking of this day, in that you have created a perception within yourself
of separation and difference between yourself and these individuals, and
therefore you also project that energy and it is created.
JOANNE: Oh, so I was even doing that as a child?
ELIAS: Yes.
Let me express to you, you begin creating and directing your focus from
the onset of your manifestation. Even within infancy, you are creating
specific directions. You create that within the accepted expressions
of developmental stages, so to speak, of your physical incorporation of
growth. Therefore, you incorporate the expressions that may be associated
officially with particular age groups.
But this is not to be discounting that you are creating expressions
of your intent, and you are directing of your movement and of your intent
and your desires — and even associations with beliefs — in infancy, in
young childhood, in every moment of your focus.
Individuals in infancy create events that are quite directing of relationships,
of interactions that they are establishing within their choice of the family
unit. You are not helpless and dependent as an infant. These
are dictates of your beliefs. You are quite efficiently and purposefully
and directedly creating your reality, and participating in interaction
with other individuals.
MARJ: What dynamic little buggers these babies are!
ELIAS: Quite! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Do not be discounting
of these small ones and infants! (Laughing)
JOANNE: Okay! Do we have time for one more quick question?
ELIAS: Very well.
JOANNE: When I was younger, I think I was about nine or ten years
old, I know I was in touch with my essence. Now I know what that
feeling was that was going on, when I would wake up in the morning and
feel that energy. I didn’t know what it was at the time. But
there was one particular time when I woke up and I saw Jesus. I was
very religious when I was little. I very much believed in God and
Jesus. And I know I woke up one morning and he was there, and I was
really happy, and I just rolled over and went back to sleep, and I just
knew that we had had this conversation about things, and things to come,
and everything was just wonderful, and I’ve always kind of wondered what
that was all about.
ELIAS: In relation to your beliefs in that time framework, you
presented yourself with a viewing of your own expression of divinity, and
in this, you image this in the form that you associate with this religious
figure.
JOANNE: That makes a lot of sense, because I wouldn’t have thought
that was me that was so divine at that particular time! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Correct. (Laughing) Therefore, you offer the presentment
in relation to your beliefs.
JOANNE: Right. I picked the one person I knew was really
divine!
ELIAS: Quite! (Laughing)
JOANNE: Okay, I think that’s all I have. (To Marj) Do you
have any more questions?
MARJ: Oh, I could come up with something! No, I’m fine.
ELIAS: I shall express to you each tremendous affection and great
encouragement in each of your movements, for you are allowing yourselves
to become familiar with you, and this is a wondrous action and a tremendous
presentment of freedom, and this is the point of this shift in consciousness.
JOANNE: Thank you, Elias.
ELIAS: I express great acknowledgment and encouragement to you
both, and anticipate our next meeting ... in validation! (Laughing)
MARJ: Oh, thank you so much! That was a hug and a kiss!
JOANNE: Yeah, and if you have any questions, you can ask us!
ELIAS: And so I shall!
MARJ: That’ll be the day! (They all laugh)
ELIAS: To you both in tremendous lovingness this day, au revoir.
MARJ: Au revoir, Elias!
JOANNE: Goodbye!
Elias departs at 4:08 p.m.
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