Characteristics of a Designated Final Focus
Topics:
“Characteristics of a Designated Final Focus”
“Inspiration, Motivation and Stepping Back”
“Connection With a Counterpart”
“Core Beliefs of Integrity and Image”
“Experience Makes Concepts Real”
“The Balance Between Obligation and Pushing Energy”
Session 200070318 (2228)
“Characteristics of a Designated Final Focus”
“Inspiration, Motivation and Stepping Back”
“Connection With a Counterpart”
“Core Beliefs of Integrity and Image”
“Experience Makes Concepts Real”
“The Balance Between Obligation and Pushing Energy”
Sunday, March 18, 2007 (Private)
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Fran (Sandel)
ELIAS: Good morning!
FRAN: Good morning!
ELIAS: (Chuckles) And what shall we discuss?
FRAN: Well, you know I have this long list of questions, but I might just scrap ‘em, I don’t know. (Laughs) Yesterday’s session was really on the mark. I know that every single person that was there felt that you were talking directly to each of us. [1]
And my list that I had made before I came, right at the very top in big letters it says “ALLOWANCE.” (Chuckles) Basically that’s what you were talking about yesterday, and I wanted to do a little bit of patting myself on the back because I’ve been doing some allowing. And, as you know, since you’ve probably been looking in and blinking my lights and stuff, I have made some major changes in my life. Everything is the same, but it’s not the same. The whole thing that I’ve whined to you about for about three years with my business has just been completely changed. My relationship with my old business partner, who has now retired, completely changed. And I don’t know what else to say other than I really thank you for helping me clarify the direction that I needed to take.
ELIAS: You are welcome. And congratulations!
FRAN: Thank you. (Both laugh) I will take that. So, then I will look at my list and see what’s here.
One thing I have never asked you before is whether I’m a final focus. I always had the sense that maybe I was not, but recently I have been feeling like maybe I am a final focus because I feel like this focus of Fran is kind of a culmination, and that maybe I’m understanding more what a designated final focus is.
ELIAS: I would express to you, no, you are not a final focus.
FRAN: Okay.
ELIAS: But a misunderstanding that many individuals generate in relation to the identification of a final focus is certain associations with feelings and motivation, and associations with their connection and their energy with other focuses, generating an idea that a final focus will stereotypically exhibit certain associations and behaviors and feelings, which in actuality is incorrect.
For, every focus, in a manner of speaking, can be considered a final focus. For, no focus remanifests, and therefore, each focus continues. That personality, that identity of that individual continues in other explorations once they choose to not be continuing within this particular reality.
Therefore, in a manner of speaking, you could identify every focus as being a final focus. And I can understand your association. As you expand and as you widen and as you shift, you offer yourself more information. You generate more of a connection to other focuses of you, which expands your awareness of yourself as being greater than one manifestation. And that, in a manner of speaking, brings you closer to an understanding of yourself as essence, as the whole of essence. And in that, it is understandable that you might question now whether you would be a final focus.
The designation of a final focus is merely a position. And it does not carry with it necessarily any associations with a lack of motivation or wider awareness or fatigue of many focuses, for each focus is individual, and the designation of an initiating focus and a final focus are merely positions in association with the participation in a particular reality itself as a whole. [Inaudible]
There are many final focuses that engage this reality as a wonderment, as an experience of what you would term to be brand new and intriguing and exciting exploration. There are many initiating focuses that do not display the behavior that you would expect, that may display behavior that appears to you to be an old soul or a sage. It is merely the choice of each focus and their individual exploration that determines how they associate with their reality.
But you have generated considerable movement and considerable expansion, and in that, you offer yourself much more information and much more of a connection to yourself.
FRAN: Which is why I still have a sense of culmination.
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: That I’m bringing stuff to here.
ELIAS: Yes. Yes. Which is the action that occurs when you are expanding and opening yourself to more aspects of yourself; other focuses, other dimensions, other areas of consciousness all being elements of you. Whereas previously, your perception of you was much narrower – merely this one manifestation, this one individual, this one identity – and that creates more of an isolation.
But as you offer yourself more information, you pull together all of those other aspects of you and recognize that they are you.
FRAN: I sat listening yesterday to what you were saying. I thought, “God, you know I’m starting to get this stuff.” (Both laugh) I completely understood – well, I think I completely understood – the whole idea with lack, because, as you know, you’ve taken me through this for about three or four years of just really struggling with concentrating on what I don’t have and constantly comparing myself to people that have more or are more, in my perception. And it’s just… You know, I sit there thinking, “God, this shit works!” (Laughs)
ELIAS: It does!
FRAN: I have other areas of my life that I now need to move the same information into, but I think it’ll be a little bit easier. (Laughs)
ELIAS: Yes. For as you offer yourself experiences and evidence, it validates you, and it increases your strength and your confidence within yourself, and you begin to recognize that you can accomplish and that you are actually doing this, and that YOU are actually manipulating, and if you are paying attention, it will BE successful. It is a matter of genuinely paying attention.
And in this, just as with the example of the bills upon the table, yes, all that you do is interconnected, and therefore, when you accomplish in one direction it will be affecting of your ability to accomplish in other directions. But generally speaking, although your energy is projecting outward in that analogy that I offered, you are not a nuclear bomb that is exploding in all areas [nor do] all directions within your focus immediately alter when you generate one step. But each step is important, for it validates you. It reinforces your strength. It reinforces your confidence within yourself that you actually DO have these abilities, you actually CAN accomplish. And, it inspires you.
FRAN: Yes. I wanted to ask you to define inspiration, because I know that that’s something that I really hook into a lot. I use it, and I love being inspired. Have you defined it before, or is this something…?
ELIAS: Inspiration is a presentment of an attraction that sparks a significant motivation.
FRAN: It’s how I function. If I’m working on a project and I’m not motivated, I try to just set it aside, knowing that at some point there’s going to be this thing that’s going to hit me in the head. (Laughs) And so I just sort of wait until I get there, and then I am like a buzz saw. So to me, inspiration is one of my favorite tools, if you will.
ELIAS: Yes! And I am very encouraging of that, for it can be exceptionally motivating. And I would also acknowledge you in your method. If you are engaging some action and you begin to draw a blank, and you cannot generate that motivation, it is much more beneficial and purposeful to allow yourself to move away from that expression temporarily.
I have expressed to other individuals, many times what occurs with individuals is that they fixate upon a particular action or subject, and they may be generating a block and they attempt to push. And what occurs is they begin generating repeat: repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. And in that repeat, they do not allow for any new information, and therefore, they continue to move in a circle of repeat and offer themself no solution.
FRAN: Well, you don’t have to refer to it as “they.” That’s me, too. (Both laugh) I do that a lot, but the difference now is that at least I notice when I’m doing it. I may not—
ELIAS: Which is significant.
FRAN: — change it, but at least I notice it.
ELIAS: That is a significant step in itself, for that allows you choice. For if you notice, you may continue to be generating that action but you are aware of it, and that allows you that window of choice in which you can stop. Whereas if you are NOT noticing, that window does not appear, and you generate the feeling of being stuck and that there is no solution and that you cannot move forward, and that perpetuates that circle.
Whereas, if you ARE noticing, you can choose that method that you have generated of allowing yourself to step away temporarily and reminding yourself that when you generate that action the inspiration will appear. For what you are doing is you are stopping the concentration upon the repeat and the frustration and the block, distracting yourself, and in that action you are allowing an opening. And when you allow, you generate information and you offer yourself the inspiration.
FRAN: Mm-hm. And the motivation. (Laughs)
ELIAS: Quite so!
FRAN: I have another question regarding energy. I’m not particularly sensitive to – or I’ve not allowed myself to be sensitive, or I’m very focused in a different direction is, I think more what it is – to feeling other people’s energies. Or it is so subtle that if it doesn’t hit me on the head I don’t notice. But I have for the last… I don’t know, it’s probably been a couple of years now, every morning when I wake up – almost every morning – I have the sensation of electricity and energy going through my torso and down my arms and back up my arms. And I always associate that with you. Is that your energy? Combined with mine, or just your…? Is that us? (Laughs)
ELIAS: Combined.
FRAN: That is us.
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: So, it’s a “Good morning, Fran.” (Laughs)
ELIAS: In a manner of speaking, yes.
FRAN: Because I always think, “Good morning, Elias.” (Both laugh) And I think I had, about a year ago, another of your pop-ins, and I love those. (Both laugh) Were you wearing a blue camouflage fleece jacket, walking across my path in the state of Washington near my mother’s house?
ELIAS: Superimposed.
FRAN: Superimposed. Well, I recognized (Elias chuckles). I was in the middle of talking to my son and didn’t want to break the conversation, but it was like it just… “That’s Elias.”
ELIAS: (Laughs) I do enjoy offering small reminders at times to individuals that I am present. (Chuckles)
FRAN: Well, you are ever present, that’s for sure. (Both laugh) And by the way, I talked to Lou P. this morning, and he said to say hi to you and quit fucking with his lights. (Elias laughs) And I said, “I will tell him exactly that.” And he said, “Well, you can clean it up a little bit.” (Both laugh) I said, “No, not necessary.” (Both laugh)
ELIAS: It matters not. (Both laugh)
FRAN: This is one of those little things that just absolutely blew my mind away. Speaking of Lou, his first girlfriend, Susan, started writing us letters, and a card came in the mail. And I picked it up, and her middle name is Sandel, and it just blew me away. And I asked him, “Did you know that Susan’s middle name was Sandel?” And he said, “Well, I think I did.” And I said, “Well, you don’t think that’s unusual?” And he said, “Oh no, it’s just a coincidence.” What is this? (Elias chuckles) Is she like a fragment? Or why does she have the middle name Sandel?
ELIAS: She is not a fragment, but she is a counterpart.
FRAN: A counterpart.
ELIAS: Yes. And it is not an accident or a coincidence that you would notice. For all that you draw to yourself is quite purposeful and, as I have expressed, it is all interconnected. But in this, the presentment of that to you generates what?
FRAN: Well, it generates surprise.
ELIAS: And?
FRAN: And awe.
ELIAS: And connection.
FRAN: And connection, yes – my intent. (Laughs)
ELIAS: It allows you to move in a different direction than an automatic direction, as more accepting.
FRAN: Uh-huh. Well, I don’t feel that I was not accepting of her.
ELIAS: No, I am understanding. But—
FRAN: It makes me more open to her.
ELIAS: Yes. It does. And that generates more of an allowance. Not that you perhaps would not have been accepting of her regardless, but the possibility of you also moving into some automatic expressions in relation to your role, those are less of a factor, for you generate this imagery of connection, which generates more of an allowance, and therefore, you do not merely view her as the girlfriend.
FRAN: The other woman. (Laughs)
ELIAS: Correct.
FRAN: Oh, I’m so smart. How about that? (Both laugh)
And I have a tile I would like to insert.
ELIAS: Very well.
FRAN: I believe it’s a tile. It’s white, and it has a black X across both corners diagonally. So, it’s basically broken into four equal parts, and I think it’s a balance tile.
ELIAS: And what would you associate that with?
FRAN: Sumafi.
ELIAS: Correct.
FRAN: (Laughs) Okay. Am I in transition?
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: So that’s why I can’t finish a sentence. (Both laugh) How long have I been in transition?
ELIAS: Approximately one and one-half of your years.
FRAN: Yeah, that feels about right. I start getting forgetful and… Well, not that I’m forgetful; it’s just that my attention is somewhere else. It’s just how I’m operating on more than one level these days. (Laughs)
ELIAS: I am understanding. (Chuckles)
FRAN: Another thing I wanted to talk about was my core beliefs and the most important ones to me, and I believe that they are personal integrity and then followed by a very close second of image.
ELIAS: I would agree.
FRAN: And I actually see them… If anybody questions my integrity, it affects my image.
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: It affects the image I have of myself, the image that I am projecting to them, and sometimes I can hardly even separate them.
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: And on the one hand I appreciate having a strong belief and a lot of beliefs around image because it’s helpful to me, and I’ve utilized it in my work because basically what I do is design images for other people. But it really gets in my way a lot of the times with regard to body image. I struggle with my weight, and the first thing I think of is, “I am fat. What do other people think of me?” And I can’t seem to… I shouldn’t say I can’t. To this point I haven’t been able to really break away from that.
And I would like to clarify that a little bit, and… I try to do things like, “Well, it shouldn’t matter.” But the truth is, it does matter to me. It matters a great deal. (Laughs) So, okay, now it matters, but it doesn’t seem to matter enough for me to do something about it, because it seems like, for some reason right now, I still need to not be the best that I think that I can be or whatever. Because it is involved around with whether or not I’m working at my best, which is the issue that I’ve always had. Well, was that my best effort? Well, no, that wasn’t my best effort, keep pushing, (laughs), keep pushing. So the weight, which feels a bit ponderous, manifests itself around the… Now I’m just mumbling, so please comment. (Laughs)
ELIAS: All of what you are expressing is precisely what we were discussing in our session of yesterday.
FRAN: Yes.
ELIAS: For this concerns where your attention is, what you are concentrating on, what energy you are projecting in each moment, what you are doing, what you are feeling, the association, and how you are thinking, which is the translation. And in that, some of what you are doing is precisely what I was expressing in relation to an individual that generates the affirmations “I recognize that I am creating this, I recognize that I do not like this, therefore I shall generate these affirmations and I shall repeat this to myself, and in that manner I will change my thinking.” And perhaps you WILL change your thinking, but you are not addressing to the other two factors, which is the association and the doing – the feeling and the actions.
And in that, you are also generating what I was discussing in relation to the individual views, what they are actually doing, and thusly question themselves and express, “Yes, well, I do want this but perhaps I do NOT want this, for I am not creating it, therefore I must NOT want this.” And that generates that confusion in relation to what you actually want.
And as I expressed, generally speaking you do know what you want. You may not necessarily know how to accomplish that – and one element of that is experience. This is a significant point, for you may incorporate information in concept and intellectually understand that information to an extent, but not necessarily incorporate the experience, and therefore it is not real yet. When you do not incorporate an experience, you also do not incorporate what you may term to be a reference point, for what you know is what you have experienced. Therefore, there is no other experience to weigh it against or to understand a different direction.
Let me offer an example. Perhaps an individual may recognize that they express a belief of obligation, and they recognize evidence within themselves of how they respond to the subject of obligation. And they have what you would term to be a lifetime of experiences of generating responses to obligation, feeling obligation, acting in obligation —
FRAN: You wouldn’t be talking about me, would you? This individual? (Both chuckle)
ELIAS: Now; this is a type of experience that is generated upon a daily basis in different degrees and is experienced in relation to many, many different expressions. It may be underlying in some expressions; it may be more overt in other expressions. And the individual may not have ever within their lifetime actually incorporated an experience of not feeling that sense of obligation for even one entire day. Therefore, they do not know what that experience is to not express that obligation. Therefore, there is no reference point, which creates an obstacle for the individual, for they do not know what the experience of no obligation is. And therefore, the individual does not know how to create in a different manner.
Now; also, with that same individual, that sense of obligation may be a motivating factor many of the times, and it may be serving the individual quite well for the most part. But at times it becomes uncomfortable, and at times it becomes a hindrance. But the individual does not understand how to generate in any other manner, for they have no reference point of a different experience.
If you have never seen a yellow sky, you can accept the concept that one exists but you have never experienced it, therefore you do not know what that feels like and what that is as a reality, for you have not experienced it. And in that, you would have no reference point of how to create one.
And in that, you would generate the thought process, “I believe I can generate the sky as being yellow.” But within you, you do not know that. There is no knowing [that] “yes, the sky IS yellow.”
The same holds for the example of the obligation. As I expressed, the obligation itself may not necessarily be a blocking or a negative expression. It may be a natural motivator and in keeping with the individual’s guidelines, and therefore provides a natural flow of energy. But it is those infrequent time frameworks in which the individual is not comfortable with certain situations and is forcing, “I must do this. I do not want to do this, but I will, for I must.” And you generate considerable discomfort, and subsequently you generate frustration and anger with yourself that you forced yourself to engage an action that you did not want to do and that you did not do well, for you did not want to do it. Therefore, you compound the situation.
If you offer yourself even one day in which you relinquish – in your terms, you give up – even one day of generating a new experience can offer you that reference point and can emphasize to you what pushing energy actually is.
I am aware that many individuals express to themselves and to each other the statement that they are pushing energy. But were you to inquire of those individuals, “Define pushing energy. What is pushing energy? What are you actually doing?” generally speaking most individuals would be at a loss to actually define that.
When you are pushing, when you are forcing energy, you are doing precisely that action in this example. You know you are not comfortable. None of this is hidden from you. You are quite aware that you are uncomfortable, that you do not want to be engaging some action. You can even be extremely aware of your discomfort, but you override it. And you attempt to ignore it, even though you do not, but you push through, you force energy. You generate MORE of an intensity than even the intensity of the discomfort by increasing the discomfort in forcing yourself to do precisely what you did not want to do in association with that obligation.
It is a matter of recognizing the balance, that there are some expressions that do serve you, that do motivate you, that within the conversations that I have had with individuals it may appear in black-and-white terms as you are connecting to a certain subject that “Elias expresses obligation is bad. Therefore, if I am experiencing obligation, I must change that. I should not feel any obligation to any situation or any other individual ever.” No, when I am expressing to a particular individual that they are experiencing obligation in a manner that is destructive to them, I am identifying that with a particular individual and with a particular situation. I am not expressing obligation is absolutely bad.
FRAN: Well, I understand that, because within my own guidelines of integrity (laughs)…
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: And image.
ELIAS: And image.
FRAN: There is a tremendous amount of obligation that I really don’t object to.
ELIAS: Correct. And therefore, it serves you, and you ARE comfortable with it, and you allow it. But at times—
FRAN: It gets overwhelming.
ELIAS: Yes. And if you were to evaluate, percentage-wise, the greater percentage of time framework in association with obligation IS comfortable. It is a much smaller time framework in which it is uncomfortable. But the uncomfortableness is intense, and therefore it appears larger.
In this, I would express to you that you are not necessarily an individual and a personality type that would generate a necessity to immobilize yourself to experience that letting go for one day. Some individuals are that type of personality, that it would require that. But you could actually accomplish allowing yourself a new experience in not feeling that obligation by removing yourself for one day from every individual and every situation that is familiar to you, allowing yourself to disconnect yourself from every individual that you are familiar with or that you know—
FRAN: And that I feel obligation towards. (Laughs)
ELIAS: Yes. Which is a lot of individuals.
FRAN: Yes. (Chuckles)
ELIAS: For it is not limited to the individuals that you physically interact with; it is also expressed with individuals that you interact with, with your computer. Any individual that you generate a connection to, you generate that sense of obligation. But you also do this in association with individuals that you do not necessarily know: a waiter, an individual in a shop.
In this, I would express to you if you incorporated one day in which you allowed yourself to be entirely alone, perhaps upon a beach, in which you have no expectations of yourself within that day, you have no plan, there is no action that you must do or that you have to do, --
FRAN: And I don’t have to call anyone?
ELIAS: No. (Fran laughs) It is not necessary to connect with any individual. You can allow yourself to let go and do whatever action you want to do, even in just one day.
If you do not choose to dress yourself, you do not have to. If you do not choose to comb your hair, it matters not. If you choose to walk upon the beach, you can, for whatever time framework you want. There are no limitations in this one day. There are no obligations. There are no expectations. You can generate whatever action you want to generate in any moment.
Allowing yourself to do that provides you with that reference point in which you can subsequently draw upon that feeling when you ARE uncomfortable, and you can offer yourself permission to recognize and to reinforce yourself in reminding yourself, “I am not benefitting myself or any individual if I am forcing; or I am genuinely not connecting with any other individual in that time framework, for I am much too busy being obligated and being frustrated with myself to allow for genuine connection when I am uncomfortable with my sense of obligation. Therefore, it is pointless to force.”
FRAN: I think it’s really interesting how you segued this question that had to do with image into obligation. (Laughs) Very interesting. And also, the fact that I have a question to you as to whether my consistent desire to maintain indebtedness was a huge symbol of obligation. So, thank you for that.
ELIAS: (Chuckles) You are quite welcome. (Both chuckle) Remember also, my friend, as we discussed energy yesterday, remember the element of importance. When you generate an importance in relation to an expression that you do not like, you perpetuate it.
Therefore, if the importance becomes your dissatisfaction with your body consciousness, the body consciousness becomes secondary. The dissatisfaction with it becomes primary. That becomes what is important, and that does not allow you the freedom to manipulate energy in the manner that you want in relation to your body form, for you are too busy concentrating upon the dissatisfaction and the importance of that.
Therefore, if that becomes less important, that allows you more freedom to concentrate in different areas.
FRAN: Well, and I have a really good example of it just in my life right now with the change of attitude toward my financial situation. I mean, it’s like I just go to the post office and there’s money there. (Laughs) And I pretend like I didn’t work for it. I just imagine that people are just sending me things. I haven’t had any problems with clients not paying; they just immediately write me checks, so I look at that. And then, of course, what I do is I compare it: “Well, you’ve had success in this. What’s wrong with you that you can’t carry that success over to this other area?”
ELIAS: You can. The comparison is detrimental.
FRAN: I see that.
ELIAS: Comparison is a very strong opposing energy, and it creates significant obstacles and holds you in certain positions. I am very discouraging of any type of comparison – although not in absoluteness, for in certain situations comparison can be a useful tool, but not in situations such as this.
And in that, it is more beneficial to you, rather than expressing to yourself, “I am accomplishing in this area; why am I not accomplishing in THIS area?” to be acknowledging, “I AM accomplishing in this area, and as all is interconnected, I am beginning to accomplish in all other areas, for they are all interconnected with each other. Therefore, if one is being accomplished and successful, the others are already beginning.”
FRAN: Thank you. (Elias chuckles) Wonderful. (Laughs)
Recently I noticed that in a recent session with Ioanna that she had asked you about smelling essence, and this is a question that I’ve had for quite some time and I just keep forgetting to ask about it. It came to me that if you could see essence and you could feel essence that you could smell it too. And I have an odor that comes that I smell, and I’ve noticed that it’s mostly at times when I feel really content. And I can smell this sort of woodsy, herbal smell that to me is so pleasant. And I say, “Oh! Can you smell…?” and it finally hit me one day that I might actually be smelling myself. (Laughs) Is that me?
ELIAS: As essence.
FRAN: I love me as essence. (Elias laughs) Now I just have to translate that into loving me as Fran.
ELIAS: Ah! (Both laugh)
FRAN: It is so pleasing to me. Great. Well, that answered that one!
Let’s see how we’re doing here. Oh, my goodness! I have to do this really fast, because I have obligations, you know.
ELIAS: Ah! (Both laugh)
FRAN: Is Paulette Goddard a focus of Cynthia?
ELIAS: Observing.
FRAN: Observing. And is Hesiod a focus of Camden? The poet, Hesiod?
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: It is. Okay. Well, she’ll be pleased about that. Can you tell me what Jovan’s girlfriend Dani’s essence name is and her families?
ELIAS: And your impression as to families?
FRAN: Well, I think I pick up Borledim and maybe Zuli.
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: So, which is which?
ELIAS: The first is the belonging.
FRAN: So, she is Borledim/Zuli.
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: What a nice combination. Lots of babies?
ELIAS: Perhaps. That would be a choice.
FRAN: I think that would be her choice. (Elias chuckles) And what is her essence name?
ELIAS: Essence name: Shylo.
FRAN: Ooh! Nice.
ELIAS: S-H-Y-L-O.
FRAN: That’s very nice. That fits her nicely. And is Jovan, is one of his focuses Sam Brown, the Rastafarian musician? Or Jamaican Rastafarian or whatever?
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: It is. Okay. He doesn’t believe any of this stuff, but he said ask if Sam Brown is one of my focuses. (Both laugh) And I have another… I think we’ve got about five minutes, and I had a bunch of other connections that I’ve made with myself, and sometimes I get through these and sometimes I don’t. But I had a recent one of Judith Gauthier.
ELIAS: Observing.
FRAN: Observing. Okay. Diogenes.
ELIAS: Observing and counterpart.
FRAN: Bruce Chatwin.
ELIAS: Mother.
FRAN: Oh! So that’s why I feel so connected to him. He really looked familiar to me. And then I asked you about the transcendentalists in Walden Pond area and whether I had a focus there, and you kind of chuckled and said that it was a struggling writer. And I’m always suspicious of your chuckles. It’s like they feel like a clue to me. Is it Nathaniel Hawthorne?
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: Wow! I’m impressed. That ties in beautifully with the Salem witch trials and the connection I’ve always made to “The Scarlet Letter” and also to “Pandora,” and… (Elias chuckles) I love this stuff! Oh, I love that!
How about Bion of Smyrna?
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: That’s what I thought. And I have some interesting… All I have to do is walk around my house and look at the stuff I’ve put on my walls and the things I own and I can… And you gave me a clue on Bion, and that was Adonis (Elias chuckles), the “Lament for Adonis.”
Are you Adonis?
ELIAS: No.
FRAN: Oh, okay. (Elias laughs) Are you in my focus in Padua?
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: Because I know that when I was doing research on that, on Padua, that I found online a really obscure play that Oscar Wilde had written about Padua which was occurring at the same time. Are you Francesco Scorcioni?
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: Oh. I think I hated you. (Both laugh)
ELIAS: (Wryly) I may express we are not always friends in all focuses.
FRAN: Well, I just think that that particular focus, that Sandel was not a particularly likable person. (Both laugh) Yeah, probably butting heads with just about anybody that tried to tell him what to do, and you were one of them. (Elias chuckles) And I think he felt really… Well, anyway, we won’t go there.
Jane Austen?
ELIAS: Observing.
FRAN: Observing.
I’ll make this… Okay, we’re right at… But I have a question about the name Frances again. I know that I have a focus that wrote about Fannie Brice. Then Jane Austen wrote a thing with Fanny Price, and about the same time as I was watching “Funny Girl” and also saw the movie with Fanny Price (laughs), I ran into a woman whose name was Frances Price. And when I do that, I figure that there’s some information here that I’m not… either that, or I’m just entertaining myself; I’m not sure what it is. It might be a little bit of both. Is Fanny Mendelssohn a focus of mine? Felix Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny?
ELIAS: Yes.
FRAN: Okay. That’s why. Because it… That was happening all at the same time. So…
Well, you know what? This has been wonderful. I still have tons of stuff that’ll all work its way through. I so appreciate myself for having connected with you.
ELIAS: And I am greatly acknowledging of you in that statement. (Chuckles)
Very well, my friend. I shall be anticipating our next meeting.
FRAN: There will be another one – now that I can afford them. (Both laugh)
ELIAS: And I shall be encouraging to you in energy, and offering my acknowledgments to you—
FRAN: Thank you.
ELIAS: — periodically. (Chuckles) In tremendous appreciation, and in great lovingness to you, au revoir.
[1] Session 2227, the “Leprechaun” group session in which Elias discussed “not enough,” “attention” and “importance,” all subjects of this individual session.
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