The Monkey Bible Project

While I can’t give a “thumbs up” to this project (the book isn’t out until Sept so I haven’t read it), I do like the direction of building bridges between religion and science.

“While The Monkey Bible can be seen as the latest chapter in the larger-than-life debate between Darwinists and creationists, the novel is respectful of both sides, …and strives to provide a gentle supportive bridge across which people who disagree can communicate.”

Independence Daze

Excerpt from Elias Session 2867:

“One very large attachment that will be being addressed to that you all share is the attachment that is the gem of yourselves and of your societies. This gem is very precious; you ALL very much value this gem. This ATTACHMENT is independence. You all want independence. You all value independence. You all want to be independent, and you will sacrifice for independence, for this is a very prized gem. And what do you equate independence with? Freedom.

“This term “independence” is almost synonymous to you with freedom. I will express to you presently, independence is NOT freedom and bears little resemblance to actual freedom. Independence is binding. For with independence, it incorporates its own tentacles, which create its own attachments. With independence comes responsibility and control and right choices. These are the foundation of independence. If you are independent, you must generate right choices. You must be responsible, and you must be in control of that independence to maintain it. And the maintenance of independence is an ongoing job! How do you perceive the term “job”? Work. Independence is a job. It requires considerable energy to maintain.

“In this, let me express that whatever the attachments are that you generate so very strongly with your identities, we are not discussing this subject to eliminate it. It is not that independence is entirely bad, for there are many aspects of independence, or any attachment, that are beneficial and that do serve you. But there are also aspects of attachments that are binding and that are obstacles and that are a hindrance.

“With independence, one of the obstacles and one of the hindrances is that independence is a moving away-from. You do not become independent-TO, you are independent-FROM. Independence is the action of moving away from some aspect of your reality. Generally, what you think of that you are moving away from is some type of obstacle or some type of restriction — but independence is a restriction. For one of the largest restrictions that is expressed in independence is that it discourages interconnection and it discourages receiving. For, why shall you receive? You can do yourself. Why shall you be interconnected? You can be yourself. You can accomplish yourself. There is no binding or holding upon you if you are independent — but is there?

“If you incorporate a home and you maintain this home for you are independent, this home now is your responsibility, and in that, those three factors are very much in play. When you are independent, all that is within your environment, all that is within your focus is within your charge. Whatever you associate with your independence is within your charge. You are responsible for it. Therefore, you are also in control of, and therefore, you must generate right choices in relation to what you control and what you are responsible for. What are those right choices? This generates tremendous confusion and conflict for many individuals, for it is a continuous struggle to decipher what are the right choices to engage in my independence.

“When you are entirely independent, you are less likely to allow helpfulness from other individuals. You are less likely to allow receiving gifts — unless the are warranted. But if they are not warranted, if they are merely offered freely with no reason, that is not entirely necessary. “It is not necessary for you to offer me a gift! I can offer myself a gift! I do not need from you. I can care for myself. I do not need help, for I can solve my dilemmas.” And even when you do allow for helpfulness, you allow that when you are more in the direction of desperate or when you perceive that you entirely cannot solve a problem yourself. Then you will engage or enlist helpfulness, on your terms.

“Therefore, there are many aspects of independence that are actually binding. But it is not merely independence; that is one attachment. It is a very LARGE attachment. It is one that all of you share and that all of you view as a very precious gem, but there are many different attachments. The point of this subject is to understand that who you are is not necessarily what you do. Who you are is not what you have learned. It is not what you have been taught.”

“I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now…”

Excerpt from Session 1881, December 4, 2005:

Question from DALE: Lately I’ve been watching the clouds float by the treetops, the rooftops, the scenery. Then I watch the treetops, the rooftops, the scenery, float by the clouds. The first time I allowed this I lost my balance as if I was not experiencing the equilibrium I am most familiar with. With practicing I am allowing myself to move from the one perception to the other more seamlessly. To me this is a brilliantly simple exercise to practice moving attention, to experience how moving attention alters perception, and to become more comfortable with unfamiliars. Please comment.

ELIAS: My comment is a validation and an encouragement to her in her allowance of herself to trust her ability and an encouragement of her to be continuing in her experimentation for this is another action of shifting.

Clear As Day

The other morning I watched as a mother emptied her child’s blow-up pool in order to fill it with clean water. The scene was nothing special; the woman pressing down on one side to allow the water to flow out, the child of about 3 years old watching from a few feet away. I was watching from a few backyards over. But in one moment I smelled the sun warmed summer greened grass and I was in another time, another place. I was still in my current life, but I was in a yard I moved from many years ago and my son, who is now in his 20s, was about the age of the child I was now observing. My experience was, as they say, clear as day. I was in both times and places at once, aware and observing them both.

This type of experience isn’t new to me, but I am creating it with more frequency recently. While attending a memorial service earlier this week, I was also attending a church service as a child. Earlier this morning I walked into the restroom at work and at the same time was experiencing me as a child walking into the rest room of my newly built elementary school. It’s all connected. We’re all connected.

“I shall briefly first explain to you that just as we have spoken previously of the connections within consciousness of many individuals en masse, and how they are affecting of each other continuously, your alternate focuses are continuously affecting of your private personal expression. Within your individual pools of probabilities and alternate selves, you are continuously interacting and affecting of each other; just as the analogy was presented to you of the flower, and the color, and the greeting card. Within different areas of location and different individuals seeming to be not connected to each other, they connect within consciousness and are affecting of each other.

“In this same manner, very directly and continuously, your alternate channels are continuously affecting of you. You do not recognize this affectingness, but you do, at times, recognize elements which you would view to be out of the ordinary; small activities or noticings; small; that you ignore. These are each direct affectingness of alternate probabilities and selves; your other channels. They are translated differently.

“You may incorporate one channel as a housewife, and within a daily scenario, you may be engaged in a very mundane activity of dusting. Within this activity, you merrily dust your house, and approach a stand upon which sits your family bible. Within one moment, you lift this bible to dust underneath the object, replacing it and continuing with your activity. Upon another alternate channel, a religious focus program is running. The religious program has directly affected the action of lifting the book. This may seem not to be a profound affectingness, but it is a small example of the many, many, many activities and ways that each channel intersects with each other continuously, within every moment.” Elias Session 122

Asleep is the New Awake

The other morning I woke up, stumbled to my kitchen, and started the coffee brewing. As I’d had a few glasses of wine the night before listening to the DjanGoners, I decided to have a little extra Vit B and dumped one of those energy shots into my juice. I took my laptop out to my porch, fired her up and began reading my emails. Got a cup of coffee, continued reading my emails, and then I woke up.

Yep, you got that right. I woke up. Again. Still in my bed.

Blue Man Sighting: Bom Tempo

Gotta love the blue boots….

Shift Sighting: ISM

“Documenting the little efforts that inspire lasting change. Everyone has a story, help spread the word. Redefine different.”

Call Me a Cheater

I don’t remember what the show was, but someone was saying they remembered how safe they felt as a child. All their needs were met; they didn’t have to worry about anything, etc. That got me to thinking about safety and if I felt safe as a child. I didn’t. I still don’t, or very rarely. And I realized this was a large part of the motivation behind me wanting to win the lottery. (Doesn’t everybody?) To me, one of the things money represents is safety, or a means to it. Yeah, whatever. It doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not; it’s my belief and beliefs are real to the believers. But then I recognized an almost unrecognizable belief; so inherent to me that it seemed true and not to be questioned. And a belief that most probably has been responsible for me NOT winning big in the lottery. I believe that using money to make myself feel safe is cheating. I mean, I know it’s not really money (or any ‘thing’ else) that makes me feel anything. That safety is something I choose to express. Or not. So even though having money may make me feel a bit of safety, I also feel using it is cheating. It’s not the real deal. It’s a substitute.

Session 1706:
OGE: One question that came to mind as you were talking, Elias. I was talking to Mary about this earlier. I’ve recognized a belief that I hold in relation to using what I call the inner abilities, like your imagination and that. One of the beliefs I recognize that I hold is that using those abilities is cheating. (Elias laughs) Last week I recognized that, but I haven’t been able to get to bottom of why I hold that belief. I haven’t been able to move forward from that in the way I’d like to. All I know is that I think that using those abilities is cheating. I do suspect it is based on a religious belief of some form. That is my initial gut feeling towards it. But how do I move beyond that? It is a boulder, one of my boulders that is in the way at the moment.

ELIAS: You are correct that it is associated with religious beliefs. In this, what the association with that is that to genuinely accomplish and to generate value in association with your accomplishment, you must express some effort or work to produce the desired outcome. Therefore, you generate an automatic association that incorporating your inner senses is cheating, for it requires no effort and no work. Ha ha ha!

I thought about this belief during my eye exam today. The doc asked me what number reading glasses I bought at the store. I said I try to keep myself to 1.00-1.50 cos I have a belief that if I make it too easy on my eyes, they’ll just get worse. He laughed. He then told me I have perfectly healthy eyes and don’t need a prescription. He suggested I might want to get some 1.75-2.00 reading glasses for things up close to give my eyes an easier time of it. OK, but I still believe it’s cheating.

Bio/obit

I took a stroll around the block just after the sunset – beautiful horizon blue sky with bright stars. I began composing my bio in my head and realized it’s not much different than an obituary — except more can be added to it. It’s strange, trying to define myself in 200 words or so. It seems limiting and too wide both at once. I am. That kind of says it all. When I think of how many people have lived on earth, and how many are actually remembered, it almost seems insignificant. Except I am a ripple that affects everything, and without me, my world wouldn’t exist. That kind of puts some punch behind “I am.”

It All Begins Now, Pt 1: Choice

*Each now is a choice chosen

*Each choice creates myriads of choices

*No choice assures or limits other choices

*Every choice is the perfect choice

*The action of choice is always for and never against

Years ago I spent some time in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital. They thought I might die. I knew I was just mulling over the possibility. It was one of my most extensive experiences of being totally, consistently present in the now-moment. I saw how each and every thing that was happening was a choice I had chosen. As I chose, so it was manifest. “And the word became flesh.” And I knew that whether I lived or died was just a choice. In fact, I knew that to live was a choice, and to continue living was a choice in every moment. It is that simple. Every moment that I live is evidence of my choice chosen.

I also experienced how each choice I make creates myriads of choices. It’s like navigating the streets of my existence.

Walking along my Existence Boulevard I may choose to walk into a shop. In the shop are myriad choices of experiences. I may buy something, or some things. Or I may steal something, or some things. I may ask for a job. I may simply browse. I may ask to use the rest room. I may strike up a conversation with the shopkeeper. I may trip on a rug. The possibilities are infinite.

Or I may continue strolling along my E Blvd. and then take a right, or a left, or go round a round-about. And each of these choices creates myriads of choices.

But none of my choices assures or limits any of my choices. Just because I’ve chosen to go into the shop doesn’t mean I will have any expected shop experience. Or that I cannot choose to leave the shop. Just like getting married doesn’t assure I will live happily ever after, or that I can’t get a divorce. That’s one of the wonderful things about choices; I’m always creating more. Even the choice to do nothing is a choice.

Another wonderful thing about choice is that every choice is the perfect choice. It has to be, because it was chosen. And because it was chosen, it was the one chosen. It exists. It exists as the only one chosen – the only chosen choice. There is no other choice to compare it to. I may want to change my choice, but I can’t, because it was already chosen. But I can always choose again, and again, and again. Nothing is every truly eliminated; it’s just not chosen anymore. Everything imaginable exists and it can’t be unimagined or eliminated. But I can always choose differently. Each choice creates myriads of choices, but it doesn’t create myriads of other choices, because I can’t change what I’ve already chosen into another choice. But I can simply choose again, and again, and again.

The true action of choice is always for something and never against anything. Think about it.

IT ALL BEGINS NOW is not simply a concept to me or a nifty little saying that makes sense and rings true to me. I know it because I experience it.