Dwelling on Dwelling
Topics:
“Soft: Dwelling on Dwelling”
“Do Dead People Hear You?”
“Catching Up With Time”
Monday, September 11, 2000
© 2001 (Private/Phone)
Participants: Mary (Michael), Dawn (Sarah), and Michael (Delal).
Elias arrives at 3:09 p.m. (Arrival time is 19 seconds)
ELIAS: Good afternoon!
BOTH: Hello! (Elias chuckles)
ELIAS: And what shall we engage in conversation this day?
MICHAEL: Well, I was going to ask a question about my grandfather
first, if that’s okay.
ELIAS: You may proceed.
MICHAEL: Alright. I have a few questions about my grandfather,
now that he has transitioned. Mainly, I guess they are simple questions,
like did he hear the poem that was read at his funeral, what kinds of things
is he doing, things like that. Can you comment on that?
ELIAS: Let me offer to you that the energy which is expressed
by individuals within physical focus, in moments such as the commemoration
of an individual at a funeral or within moments that you may be expressing
certain elements to the individual in what you term to be private moments,
these are expressions that are received in energy by the individual, but
not necessarily conveyed in the manner that you identify.
The energy is projected and it may be received by the individual that
has chosen to disengage physical focus, but they are not receiving that
energy in the configuration of speech or the type of communication that
you are familiar with, and in this, they are not listening, so to speak,
for they are not engaging the same type of energy configuration that you
engage within physical focus. They are not allowing a participation
of physical senses, nor are they engaging an objective interaction, for
the most part, with the energy projections which are manifest from individuals
that continue within physical focus.
Therefore, in response to your question, I may express to you that the
energy has been received which has been projected by different individuals
concerning this individual, but it is not received in the manner that you
associate with.
As to the activity of this attention of consciousness presently, (pause)
this attention is interactive with different configurations of energy within
different types of expressions of consciousness.
Now; in a manner of speaking, it may be translated into an objective
identification in what you may understand as a similarity to engaging an
activity of experimentation, in which energy is being manipulated in relation
to that individual focus of attention and its ability to be manipulating
its own energy configuration in relation to some physical dimensions, so
to speak, without manifesting within them but merely being interactive
with the energy configurations of them, and in a manner of speaking, creating
a playfulness in the manipulation of that energy in nonphysical expressions.
These are difficult questions to be responding to within a translatable
identification of action that may be understood within your physical objective
awareness, for you recognize reality in terms of physicality, and the activity
which is occurring with this particular focus of attention is not a physical
action and does not translate accurately into objective terminology or
concepts, so to speak. But I may assure you that this focus of attention,
that you identify as this particular individual, is creating a playful
experimentation with energy within its activity presently.
MICHAEL: I think I understand. I guess when I’m not in physical
reality, I’ll understand it completely, but I get it, what you’re saying
about energy. I guess all the imagery I’ve been seeing is my own
feelings of guilt about it.
ELIAS: Ah! Now, I may express to you, this is quite a different
matter! (Chuckling) For in this, you are correct that YOU create
imagery that shall allow YOU an expression of comfort and reinforcement,
which allows you also at times to become less concerned, so to speak, with
yourself, not necessarily with this individual.
For the reason that you provide yourself with imagery concerning another
individual that you perceive to have died is not to be comforting yourself
concerning that individual, for inwardly you do hold a knowing underlyingly
that the individual needs no expression of concern, and the action that
they engage is quite acceptable. It is merely the configuration of
your beliefs that are influencing you to be creating any of these feelings
of concern or loss or confusion.
But in this, you create objective expressions that you offer to yourself
to be reassuring of yourself in the recognition of your own creation of
participation in physical focus, and your agreement to be discontinuing
that participation within the physical focus at some point.
Therefore, you create this type of reassurance, so to speak, within
yourself concerning other individuals, that allows you less fear in relation
to yourself.
MICHAEL: Fear is my next question, but I’m gonna let Dawn go first.
DAWN: I have a question about ... I call it brooding or dwelling.
Sometimes something will affect me in a way that while I’m thinking about
it and tossing around possibilities in my head, I’m thinking that dramatic
actions need to be taken, and I realize I’m doing this, and maybe traditional
wisdom says that it’s not productive, but then the next day or the next,
you know, situation, things have turned out without any struggle or effort.
They’ve turned out in a better way. Can you explain what goes on
in these periods? Am I shifting energy or perception?
ELIAS: Both.
Now; let me express to you, at times it may be creating of obstacles
within self to be continuing the action of what you term to be dwelling
upon a certain situation or creation within your focus.
In this, at times you may be creating the action of batting your dead
mouse, so to speak, but let me also express to you that this is not a rule.
Therefore, it is not an absolute, and not all individuals are creating
that type of action as they may be focusing their attention upon a particular
experience or situation or creation that they have engaged or participated
within.
In this, some individuals choose to be concentrating objectively upon
certain situations and experiences, for this is the manner in which they
have chosen to be objectively offering themselves opportunities to be noticing
and to be opening to more of their choices.
In this, I may express to you that you — and several other individuals
that engage conversation with myself, ha ha! — do engage this type of action
in which you allow yourself to be concentrating your objective attention
upon certain situations, for this is the manner in which you have chosen
to objectively present yourself with avenues for opening to more of your
choices. This is your method, so to speak, which you have allowed
yourself to create, in offering yourself a means in which you may look
to self and examine your participation, and therefore familiarize yourself
with you and your actions in objective terms.
Now; let me express to you also, many individuals that have chosen to
be manifest with this same orientation as yourself create a very similar
action. Therefore, in a manner of speaking, this is not an uncommon
expression in association with this particular orientation.
DAWN: I think that was one of my questions from our other session.
Is this kind of action in a soft person because the objective and subjective
happens at the same time? Is it a way of bringing it to our attention
so we can maybe see it or understand it objectively?
ELIAS: Not entirely. I shall express to you, what is in
actuality occurring is a type of natural flow of energy.
Every individual, regardless of their orientation, holds a participation
of subjective and objective awarenesses simultaneously, and both of these
aspects of awareness are continuously in harmony with each other, regardless
of orientation. The difference of each of these orientations is the
affectingness that it creates in association with perception.
Now; in individuals such as yourself, there is an underlying continuous
awareness of the subjective movement and activity, so to speak. In
a manner of speaking, individuals of this orientation are so very accustomed
to and familiar with the movement of their subjective awareness that it
becomes a type of background, in a manner of speaking. It becomes
the landscape, so to speak, in which is inserted the objective activity.
Therefore, figuratively speaking, we may express that the individuals,
or the viewing of individuals and the interaction of them, may be the subject
matter which is placed into the landscape.
Now; the attention automatically focuses upon activity and interaction
which is directly affecting of the objective physical awareness.
But the movement of the landscape is not merely present, but there is a
continuous awareness of its movement and of its presence. This is
not to say that you focus your attention upon that landscape, but you do
hold an objective awareness of its presence and its movement.
Therefore, (pause, and then speaking slowly) in being objectively aware
of this movement and this activity in energy, although you may not recognize
that movement in an objective translatable term, so to speak, you are aware
of an aspect of interaction of that aspect of yourself, and in this, it
moves with your objective awareness in a similar manner to superimposing
a dream upon your objective reality, a translucent haze, in a manner of
speaking, that is ever-present and is continuously mingled with your objective
awareness.
Now; at times, you may be creating an experience which you focus your
attention upon objectively. The subjective, being so closely expressed
to the objective awareness in the perception of this particular orientation,
creates a different type of input. Your attention focuses in an objective
manner upon you, more so than it focuses upon what you term to be outside
elements.
Now; (chuckling) I am understanding of the confusion that may be ensuing
in this discussion, for this is a turning of perceptions in relation to
the information that I am offering to you. I am not offering you
different information. I am merely offering expressions in helpfulness
to turn your perception, that you may allow yourselves to incorporate a
wider viewing of what is occurring in actuality, which incorporates difficulty
in discussion concerning this particular orientation, for it is easily
distorted or misunderstood.
In this, although it may appear that you, in like manner to all other
individuals within your reality, focus your attention outwardly — and to
an extent, you do — the interaction of the subjective movement and its
closeness, in a manner of speaking, to the objective awareness creates
a type of action in which although you may hold your attention in what
is seemingly an outward direction, there is also an underlying knowing
which is expressed quite strongly in the identification that that element
that you identify as outside of yourself is not in actuality outside of
yourself, but an aspect of you.
Therefore, your perception is held differently than individuals of the
common or the intermediate orientations, for in the interaction with any
other expression of consciousness within your reality — which may be another
individual, it may be a creature, it may be an object, it matters not —
in your interaction with any expression of consciousness, there is also
a recognition and an interplay of energy from the subjective awareness
that is interactive with the objective awareness, which creates this underlying
feeling or sensing, so to speak, of interconnectedness between yourself
and whatever you happen to be engaging.
Now; in the recognition of this expression ... which holds tremendous
significance in relation to the orientation of soft, for this is a tremendously
motivating factor in why you create what may be perceived as dwelling upon
certain situations or experiences, for you are creating a time framework
in which you are allowing the exchange of information between objective
and subjective, and in that interaction, what you are in actuality creating
is a translation.
In this, you hold a type of recognition — not within thoughts, but you
hold a recognition — that the configuration of energy which is expressed
subjectively or objectively individually is not what shall provide you
with your avenue of choice, for this is not the manner in which you flow
with your energy. Therefore, the manner in which you access your
availability of choices and create what is translated into an objective
direction is to be allowing both of these aspects of awareness to intermingle
and create another type of translation [that is] not in identification
with merely one or the other of these awarenesses, subjective or objective.
This is the reason that you incorporate these time frameworks in which
you engage this action that appears to you at times to be not beneficial
or what may be identified as a negative expression, for you view yourself
to be not letting go of an experience or a situation or a subject matter,
and therefore you create a judgment upon self that you may be holding to
your energy and blocking your energy. This is not the situation many,
many, many times.
For were you to be manifest with the orientation of common, I may express
to you, yes, you ARE engaging an activity which is creating obstacles and
holding your energy in a position and not allowing for your movement in
free flow. But you are not manifest with the orientation of common,
and this is not the manner in which you configure your free flow of energy.
This may be helpful also to other individuals that hold this orientation
of soft, for I hold the awareness that many times, individuals holding
this orientation are discounting of themselves, expressing that they are
creating obstacles or blocking their energy by identifying that they are
“dwelling,” in objective terms, upon certain situations or experiences.
And I say to you, many times this is not the situation. You are incorporating
your natural flow of energy in conjunction with your orientation, and allowing
yourself to be moving in relation to your physical expression of time configuration.
Now; as you practice in this action and you allow yourself an expression
of trust and acceptance of your natural movement, the time configuration
that you incorporate may appear to you to be less, and you may move in
relation to the time expression more swiftly in your creation of your translation.
But I shall express to you that you shall continue to incorporate some
aspect of your time configuration, for this is a natural flow of your energy.
DAWN: Well, that’s useful to know. The last time this kind
of thing occurred, I had a sense that it was a purposeful activity.
ELIAS: Yes, quite. Therefore, I may express to you that
you may be acknowledging of yourself in this type of action and not discounting
of yourself, for it is beneficial and it may be purposeful, and in this
also, you allow yourself to be acknowledging your trust and your acceptance
of your perception, and how your energy moves in its natural flow.
This may also be helpful to other individuals, such as yourself, Delal,
(chuckling) in offering yourself more of an objective understanding in
the movement of the perception of an individual holding this orientation,
for it is configured differently from your own.
MICHAEL: I might have to become soft so I can accept my dwelling!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
MICHAEL: My next question is about fear, and sort of, I guess,
more of an affirmation of some things I’ve been thinking about in the last
few days this week. I’ve been realizing that what I’ve been noticing
is a lot of my fear from the past, and a lot of the actions that I’ve been
taking lately, such as going to the doctor and having all of the medical
influence, while momentarily frightening are actually to help strengthen
my understanding of fear. And the sword that I got is to help align
myself with Daniel, whose energy I align with quite a bit, to help give
myself some strength. Is this kind of on the track? I feel
like I’m making a lot of progress in that area.
ELIAS: Yes. I am acknowledging of you, for allowing yourself
to be addressing to the expression of fear may be quite helpful in your
movement in addressing to issues that you have created and held for much
time framework.
MICHAEL: Along those lines is a question about the artwork that
I used to do ... drawings that I used to do quite a bit. Sometimes
I feel like that is something I need to recapture, but other times I feel
like it isn’t, and that it’s something that held a purpose at the time,
and that my creativity is in a whole different place that doesn’t require
it, but still acknowledges the memory of it. I’m kind of confused
on that, and I was wondering if you could give me some guidance in that
area.
ELIAS: I may express to you that what you are offering to yourself
is the opportunity to view how you associate with absolutes and the expressions
of either/or.
MICHAEL: That makes sense, actually.
ELIAS: In this, you are not limited to the choices of expressing
or not expressing, moving in one direction versus moving in another direction,
and if you are incorporating one direction, you may not be incorporating
another direction simultaneously. These are expressions of your beliefs
and of mass beliefs in singularity and separation, and in this, you limit
your choices and your expression of yourself in creativity. You allow
yourself to be bouncing with this idea, so to speak, that you may present
to yourself your identification with absolutes.
MICHAEL: That actually helps quite a bit, because I can parallel
it to what I’ve done with computers and with the certification I’m going
after right now, because I’ve always felt like there’s a level that I can’t
get to, and I either have to do it all ... or not!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha HA!
MICHAEL: It’s been a belief thing, so I’ve been doing really
well with the computers, but I believe that artwork is something I still
want to do, but I haven’t really had a chance.
ELIAS: And why shall you not engage this activity?
MICHAEL: Time! (Laughing)
ELIAS: Ah! And I have anticipated your expression of that
word! (Michael and Dawn crack up) Ha ha ha ha ha!
Ah, the enemy of time! That entity in itself which is the monster
that gobbles your abilities and your expressions, for it dictates to you
in limited supply! Ha ha ha ha ha!
Let me express to you, my friend, allow yourself — in the “time” that
you are incorporating now and within your brief future, so to speak, (grinning)
— and in this, allow yourself a playful exercise in which you merely notice
different expressions of time and its movement, and how you in actuality
are manipulating it, for you are!
I have expressed recently within this forum that in actuality, en masse
through individual expressions, you are in actuality, in association with
this shift in consciousness, reconfiguring your expression of time, as
you are reconfiguring ALL of your reality in association with this shift
in consciousness. Time is not exempt from this action, and in this,
as you are reconfiguring it, you are in actuality accelerating your expression
and your perception of it, which accelerates it itself, in actuality.
Now; this is not to say that you incorporate less of it than you have
incorporated previously, but this may be a tidbit of information for your
objective consideration in your exercise that you engage in noticing within
this next week, shall we say, and as you are noticing, allow yourself the
recognition that you may be participating in your expression of accelerating
the movement of time, and one of the reasons that you perceive and feel
that you do not incorporate enough of this time is that you continue to
configure your objective movement in the familiarity of slower movement
of time. (Chuckling)
Many of you are expressing quite often in many directions that you need
be “catching up” with information or activities or experiences. Now
I may playfully express to you that should you be incorporating the idea
of catching up in any expression, it may be catching up with yourselves
in your configuration of the acceleration of time, and allowing yourselves
to move in equal measure! (Chuckling)
MICHAEL: These are two things that I’ve been thinking about.
I was also going to ask you for an exercise, and now you’ve done it!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
MICHAEL: And the other one is that for the last few days, studying
for my class, I’ve been thinking, if I allow myself the opportunity to
not be blocked by my perceptions of how good or bad I’m gonna do, it will
move more freely, and I got the imagery of like light moving through me
easier than I normally would let it, and that I’m not as solid as I have
been, so that’s a good thing.
ELIAS: Ah! And I shall say to you, my friend, if you are
creating the allowance of your perception that you are not quite as solid
as you have perceived yourself to be previously, you are well upon your
way in your movement into your exercise, in catching up to yourself in
your configuration of time! Ha ha ha ha ha!
MICHAEL: I think I see myself in the distance there!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
MICHAEL: Well, Dawn went to go answer the door, so I’m gonna ask
another fast question, something that I’ve been wondering about, a verification.
My friend Dana and I, do we share a lifetime in what we call the early
1920s, 1930s? (Pause)
ELIAS: Yes, briefly.
MICHAEL: And for her, it hasn’t happened yet, but for me it did.
That’s the other thing I’m getting.
ELIAS: I am understanding of your identification; yes.
MICHAEL: Okay, ‘cause you can’t say that out loud very easily,
but for me it’s especially difficult. (Elias chuckles) Okay, I think
I was the male and she was the female, right?
ELIAS: Yes.
MICHAEL: Names and time?
ELIAS: Ah, you create such disappointment in myself in your lack
of trust of yourself that you may be accessing this information, and you
were doing so well! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
MICHAEL: I do trust myself, but I backtracked!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha!
MICHAEL: I’ll let Dawn take the next one. Thank you.
ELIAS: (Chuckling) You are welcome, my friend.
DAWN: This question combines things that we’ve discussed in other
sessions about sneezing, and about being more directly connected to essence.
In relation to our cats, the creatures we have discussed previously, one
of them almost always meows when I sneeze, and I’m curious as to what’s
going on when this happens.
MICHAEL: She’ll even run up to you and lick you.
ELIAS: (Chuckling) Be remembering that your creatures do
not incorporate the belief systems that you incorporate, and therefore,
they also do not participate in the degree of separation that you design
through your perceptions. Therefore, as you create certain actions
within your physical experiences, your creatures may be responsive to what
you are creating, and what they allow themselves to view in what you are
creating.
Now; in this, in the action of this moment, you are, in a manner of
speaking, in a brief momentary expression, disassociating yourself with
your objective interaction of this one reality. In a manner of speaking,
it may be likened to the action of blinking out, and therefore, what you
allow is a momentary openness of energy.
Now; in that momentary openness of energy, you also express no barriers
of yourself in expressions of separation. The creature is recognizing
of this action.
Now; let me also express to you, not all creatures shall be responsive,
objectively speaking, to this action, although they hold an awareness of
what is being engaged. Some creatures may be interactive with you
in these types of moments of recognition and viewing.
Now; they are interactive for the reason that you are in agreement with
them to BE interactive. Were you not projecting an energy that creates
a flow with the creature in which it is responsive physically to your expression
and offering you an avenue to be noticing and gaining your attention, you
would not be viewing the response of the feline. But as you ARE in
agreement and you ARE interactive with this creature’s energy, and it has
chosen to be compliant with your energy, it merely expresses a response
physically to be reinforcing your desire to be noticing.
DAWN: Okay.
MICHAEL: (Inaudible, but obviously funny!)
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha! And I shall express to you — ha ha
ha ha! — your creatures are reinforcing your desire to be expressing noticing
of yourselves! (Chuckling, and a pause)
MICHAEL: I have one last question, if you have a moment.
ELIAS: Very well.
MICHAEL: I was going to ask about the perception from Delal’s
perspective of me, but that’s gonna go along with what we talked about
with my grandfather, I think, and energy, so I’m gonna ask about something
else instead.
I’ve noticed in a lot of areas, like programming, for example, and instances
and sessions, that a lot of the programming structures go along with what
we’ve talked about, in theory at least. Is that by internal design,
or is this just something I’ve offered myself as a recognition of what’s
going on?
ELIAS: (Humorously) Ah, I may express to you, my friend,
quite accidental and purely coincidental. Ha ha ha ha ha!
MICHAEL: Ah, yes.
ELIAS: HA HA HA HA HA! And is this not your objective evidence
of your collective movement?
MICHAEL: Yes, actually.
ELIAS: I have been expressing to you, throughout this time framework
of our five years together, that you shall, more and more, be viewing this
movement objectively, and offering to yourselves evidence of this shift
in consciousness. It is not merely those of you which speak to me
that are incorporating the action of this shift, but all individuals throughout
your globe.
In this, as you are all participating in this shift in consciousness,
you are also manifesting evidence of it, and you also, as I have been offering
within this particular time framework of this year, [are] beginning to
be inserting this shift into your objective reality.
Therefore, you shall be and ARE experiencing more of an expression of
the manifestation of this shift in consciousness within objective terms,
in physical terms, for each of you is contributing to its objective manifestation
within your reality.
You shall also notice, those expressions that previously may have been
perceived as odd or unusual or uncommon are becoming quite the ordinary!
MICHAEL: Very true. I’m personally excited about this shift
thing!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
MICHAEL: Just gotta catch up to it!
ELIAS: Ha ha ha ha ha ha! And I shall be moving in encouragement
with you, in spurring you on, my friend! (Laughing)
MICHAEL: That’s it for today then. We’ll do it again tomorrow.
ELIAS: Very well, and I shall engage conversation with you on
the morrow. To you both in tremendous affection, and in great anticipation
of our meeting in short works, (chuckling) I express to you each, au revoir.
Elias departs at 4:13 p.m.
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