belief systems; an overview, pt. 2
Note: this is the second of two parts on belief systems. Go to belief systems; an overview, pt. 1.
ANON: “You’ve talked a lot about the belief systems we have. I read in one of your transcripts that if you believe you’re going to get sick, you actually become sick. So if you get sick and you really don’t want to be sick, how do you change that belief system?
ELIAS: Interesting question, and not so very easily accomplished within that particular creating. Many individuals move in this direction of inquiry also.
First of all, your creation and the uncreating of your creation is dependent upon the individual and the reason that they are creating of their illness. Individuals at times create these illnesses quite purposefully, and they objectively at times wish to be uncreating of that particular situation, but underlyingly they are NOT wanting to be uncreating of the situation. In moving in the direction of uncreating an element of dis-ease or what you may term to be illnesses, it is important to be viewing the issue which has created the illness to begin with.
Many times individuals are creating of illnesses merely to be excusing themselves, in a direction that they may be allowing themselves a time framework of a sort of relaxation and disconnection from areas that they view to be obligations. Therefore, they offer themselves a break, so to speak, and they are creating of an excuse, that they may offer themselves permission to be creating of this break.
At other times, individuals are creating illnesses or dis-ease for the reasons of blocking energy within them or not addressing to certain issues that they hold, and in this they hold the energy in certain areas of their physical body.
Therefore, each situation, although it may hold similarities to other situations and other individuals and their creations, is unique to the individual who is creating it. The one common element that may be addressed to is to be looking to the reasoning behind the creation.
If you have created a situation of dis-ease merely for a break, it matters not that you are uncreating of it, for you shall uncreate this situation when you feel you have accomplished enough of your break. In other situations that you have created dis-ease in relation to issues, it is necessary to be viewing these issues and evaluating why you are creating this and addressing to the belief systems influencing these issues, and this shall be lending energy to you to be uncreating of these situations.
Now; you also hold your physicians that offer you what you may term to be ‘quick fixes,’ for they have moved in the direction of your medical sciences and your pharmaceuticals, which are temporary inventions of cures, so to speak, and you move in the direction of believing that these cures shall be accomplishing their purpose. Therefore, YOU uncreate what you have created temporarily, in compliance with your belief that these pharmaceuticals are alleviating of what you have created. Your belief is so very strong in this direction that you accomplish quite well in uncreating within very short time periods any element that you have created that your pharmaceuticals hold the ability, within your belief systems, to be curing.
In other situations, you may be creating of physical ailments that you do not hold medications for to be curing of your ailments. In this situation, you move outside of an allowance of the belief system to be helpful to you in energy, therefore continuing within your creation and only allowing yourself to be uncreating of these particular situations.
As I have stated, it is quite dependent upon the individual and what they are creating and for what reason they are creating of each situation. Many times though, I express to you, the mere identification of the issues and the belief systems involved with these issues may be enough to begin to be uncreating of certain ailments. At other times, this may not be enough. You may be identifying of your issues and your belief systems, but you may also be holding to these issues and not addressing to them even in your awareness of them, and in these situations you shall perpetuate the physical ailment that you create in conjunction with these issues.
Many individuals that create physical ailments as their individual expression of held energy create repeatedly in similar fashions in conjunction with the same issues, and even when they have addressed to those certain issues, their creation of physical ailments is a familiar creation to them. Therefore, as they move into addressing OTHER issues, they shall be creating of very similar types of ailments, for this attains their attention.
You create physical affectingness to attain your attention in different directions. If you are not attempting to gain your attention, you shall not be creating of physical ailments, for it is unnecessary. This is a method, so to speak, to be gaining your own attention in certain areas, to be addressing to certain situations.
ANON: ... I know that like we have these belief systems, and we’ve got the good and the bad and we sort of judge things here in this focus, and I’m wondering if like part of our shift in consciousness is for us to neutralize those beliefs, like to become less judgmental? Or is that just a part of our experience, where it’s okay to like think something’s bad or not like it or not have an affection towards something?
ELIAS: This is the point of this shift in consciousness, to be neutralizing these belief systems and moving into the direction of accepting these belief systems; not eliminating the belief systems, but recognizing them for what they are, belief systems, and neutralizing their power, therefore eliminating the element of judgment.
The acceptance of a belief system is the elimination of the judgment which stems from the belief system. Therefore, you continue to hold an opinion or your own view in certain areas, but it is no longer affecting of you and you hold no more judgment in these areas.
This action is quite insidious, for I have been speaking of the bird cage of belief systems and all of the aspects of the belief systems, which are all the birds that are contained within the cage, and many of these birds are quite camouflaged, and in this they are not so very easily viewed. And although you may objectively move in the direction of expressing to yourself and to other individuals, ‘Oh, I hold no judgment in this area in connection to this belief system,’ this may not necessarily be the situation, for until you have examined all of the birds contained in each of these cages of belief systems and allowed them to fly free and not be contained any longer within the cage, you shall continue to hold judgments, and as you continue to hold judgments, you are not accepting a belief system. And this is the point of this shift in consciousness, to be accepting of the belief systems.
This analogy of this bird cage serves its purpose quite well, for in this individuals inquire, ‘How may we continue to hold a belief system, but not hold a belief system?’
The bird cage is the belief system. The birds contained within the cage are all of the aspects that are affecting of you, all of the actions of the belief system, all of the manifestations and all of the expressions of the belief system itself. The belief system itself is neutral, but all of the birds are not neutral, and the birds are those that are affecting of you in conjunction with the belief system. And as you open the door to this cage and allow the birds to fly free, you empty the cage. And what you are left with is the cage, which becomes ornamental, but is empty and holds no affectingness any longer.
Just as the cage in physical terms is merely an object, but as it contains birds, it contains what? In your terms, it contains life and it contains affectingness, for you must be feeding of these birds and tending to these birds, and they are interactive with you, for they are not merely statues! They flutter, they sing, they create sounds, they move about, they shed feathers, they make a mess at times! Therefore, you see there is much action occurring within this cage, but if the cage is empty it is merely an ornament, and no action is occurring within it. It may merely be viewed as an ornament that you may hold an opinion of: ‘I view this cage; I see it as yellow.’ Another individual may express, ‘I see it as gold.’ And your response may be, ‘I am accepting of your perception that it is gold. It matters not.’
ANON: What about things like killing people in our society, which has some pretty serious consequences to it?
ELIAS: These are actions which are also very influenced by your belief systems, and in this, if the belief systems are neutralized and there are no judgments placed upon the actions and choices within your creations, there also is less motivation to be moving into areas that you view to be undesirable. (Pause)
Look to small children. Small children move automatically in the direction of expressing of their impulses, but they also respond quite intensely, as we have discussed at a previous session, to be directed and ordered. If you are attempting to be dictating to them how to be creating their reality, they shall be rebellious temporarily in this area, for they are closer to their subjective awareness and have not fully moved into the totality of their objective awareness. Therefore, they do not hold tightly to the belief systems that they shall acquire as they move more and more into their objective acceptance of reality.
But if you view the actions of small children, if you are moving in the direction of dictating to them how they shall be creating of their reality and enforcing your belief systems upon them and your judgments, they shall be quite rebellious with you initially. They shall eventually comply, for the most part, for this is your officially accepted reality, but initially they shall not be in compliance with you and they shall automatically move in the direction of rebelliousness.
In this, they are expressing a natural movement into a lack of acceptance of other individuals dictating their reality for them, but they are also demonstrating another aspect of your reality, which is quite efficiently being created and has been created for millenniums, in that if you are being dictated certain behaviors, your curiosity shall be sparked and you shall automatically challenge what you have been dictated to.
The underlying action in this is that you are expressing a knowing of self and the desire to be trusting in self, but objectively you do not hold this awareness of this motivating factor. Therefore, the actions may be distorted and move into areas of creating events that are not officially accepted, and they are created merely to be opposing the officially accepted rules.
But if there is no judgment placed and individuals are not blocking their own impulses and are allowing themselves to be listening to their own language, there is not so very much motivation to be moving into these areas that you view as negative. It is unnecessary to be challenging the officially accepted reality, for your understanding becomes reality to you, that you hold the knowing of self. Therefore, it is unnecessary to prove yourself to any other individual.
All of these elements stem from fears, and fear is an expression of a lack of acceptance of self and a lack of trust of self. The action of this shift is to be allowing you the remembrance and the awareness of self, the acceptance and trust of self, and therefore be eliminating of many of these dead mice (20) that you insist upon batting around and allow yourselves the freedom to move into new areas of your own creativity and exploration, for this dead mouse has become boring. Now you open your awareness to new avenues of creation and stimulation in these areas.” [
ELISABETH: “Yes. I think the difficulty is to identify the belief systems, to see them and to identify, ‘Oh, this is a belief system.’
ELIAS: ALL that you move within, within physical focus, is influenced by a belief system. It is ... regardless of what you create, you are operating within the influence of a belief system.
You choose to be adorning yourself with certain attire. This is influenced by a belief system. Your appearance is influenced by a belief system. The way you walk, the way you comb your hair, how you sleep, how you eat, even how you breathe many times is influenced by your belief systems. This may be sounding quite extreme, but I assure you, there are many individuals that are quite noticing of their own breathing process, especially as they are creating of what they term to be a meditation! They shall be quite attentive to their breathing, which is also influenced by a belief system.
There is no action that you engage within physical focus that is not influenced in some manner by a belief system. Therefore, each action that you choose, as you allow yourself more information you may be offering yourselves the identifications of which belief systems you are identifying with and which are influencing of you. As we move on within our discussions futurely in the area of belief systems, it may become more easily identifiable for you in the areas of belief systems, for I have opened the discussion of this belief system of relationship not merely for the reason that it is addressing to this particular wave in consciousness which is occurring now, but also to be offering you all more information in the area of belief systems, that there are fewer actual belief systems than you realize, but there are many more aspects to each belief system than you realize.
In this, so to speak, there are fewer bird cages but many more birds within these cages, and this shall be continued within our discussions, that you may all realize many more of the aspects of belief systems [rather] than attempting to move in the direction of classifying every action that you create within physical focus as an individual belief system in itself.
For in actuality, although there are several belief systems – or few more than several – within your physical focus, there are not countless belief systems within your physical focus. There are NUMEROUS aspects to each belief system, but the belief systems that encompass the aspects are fewer than you realize.
You shall be more noticing of your own belief systems and you shall be recognizing more of the aspects of these belief systems as you allow yourself to be connecting and interactive more with yourself and noticing more of your own actions, events, and behaviors within your focus. Interactive with other individuals is quite helpful also, for they may be identifying of aspects of belief systems that you may not necessarily allow yourself to view, and this shall be helpful to you also.”
(Vic’s note: Elias did say ‘interactive,’ not ‘interacting,’ in the above paragraph. He seemed to have a bit of trouble selecting words during this session. A less ‘interactive’ focus of Elias, perhaps?) [session 319, September 17, 1999]
EDWARD: “I want to see if I’ve understood something that you’ve said here correctly, about our belief systems and the other focuses’ belief systems and how we’re not immune to them. So if I’m understanding this correctly, if I’m aware of self and I’m comfortable with myself, this is how I would be able to make my belief systems change if I wanted them to? In an example like the mending of the foot: I decide that I’m going to mend my foot, and it doesn’t work because really I haven’t made myself immune to other belief systems of my other focuses because I’m not fully aware of myself? Is that correct?
ELIAS: You are moving in the direction of eliminating belief systems, and I am expressing to you that this is not the point.
EDWARD: Oh!
ELIAS: You do not move in the direction of eliminating belief systems, but accepting belief systems, recognizing that within physical focus, your belief systems ARE YOUR REALITY. Without your belief systems, you do not engage physical reality. They ARE your reality. It is not a question of eliminating the belief systems, for in eliminating the belief systems, you eliminate the physical reality. Therefore, this is not the point.
You choose to be creating this physical reality for experiences, and within this physical reality, you hold belief systems. Acceptance of these belief systems neutralizes the belief systems. The belief systems are not good or bad, but as you place judgments upon the belief systems and upon all of the aspects of belief systems, you create much power within the belief systems, and therefore all of the aspects of them are very influencing and affecting of you, for they have been lent much energy. But if you are not placing judgment and you are accepting of the belief system, you are not lending energy to all of its aspects and therefore neutralizing its power, and in THIS action, you allow yourself tremendous freedom to be accomplishing much more of your creativity.
You may be concentrating upon your foot and your bone which is broken, and as you are placing a judgment upon any of the aspects within the belief system of healing and you are struggling and creating conflict in this, you shall not be concentrating upon this bone and mending this bone by your mere concentration. But if you are accepting of the belief system, you have neutralized its power, and it matters not. And in this, you may choose whichever direction you are wishing to be creating within, and it shall create. If you are choosing to be creating of healing through concentration, it shall be affected.
EDWARD: Thank you.
BEN: So, you can’t fix your foot by concentrating on it if your belief is that you can’t do it. But if you decide, ‘Okay, I accept the fact that I can’t mend my foot myself,’ then it will mend??
ELIAS: No.
EDWARD: No, then you can choose the way you WILL then mend it.
ELIAS: You are continuing with a judgment.
BEN: Okay.
ELIAS: Listen to your own words and what you are expressing: ‘I accept the fact that I cannot concentrate and mend my foot.’
BEN: And that’s a judgment.
ELIAS: Absolutely.
BEN: Okay. Thank you.
ELIAS: You MAY mend your foot. You hold the ability, but you do not believe that you do.
BEN: But you also hold a belief that you can’t.
ELIAS: Correct.
BEN: Stronger.
ELIAS: Correct, and you have created a conflict of beliefs.
BEN: Because you think you can and you think you can’t.
ELIAS: And THIS is the belief system of duplicity, which is intermingled with ALL belief systems.
EDWARD: Sort of the idea of good and evil, that one can be good and one can be bad, and those are the judgments that we put on our belief systems? ‘This is a good one, this is a bad one,’ and it doesn’t matter. There’s not a good one or a bad one.
ELIAS: Correct.
EDWARD: You should be moving in the direction of accepting the belief systems as they are for you.
ELIAS: Correct.
EDWARD: These are what they are.
ELIAS: Correct, and in this, it matters not.
EDWARD: Which puts a big kink in one of my major belief systems! (Laughter)
EDWARD: ... One of my main duplicitous belief systems, or one of the hardest things I have, is the non-acceptance of God and then this overwhelming feeling towards God, and it becomes very ... I don’t know. It becomes very much like a war inside, almost.
ELIAS: This in actuality is an objective outward expression in mirror action to the duplicity that you hold within self, for God is a mirror image of you.
God is not a cosmic entity, sitting and passing judgment upon you from some distant area of consciousness! God is YOU. Your ideas, your concepts of God are all your own projections, mirror images of what you know yourselves to be, and you project this knowing outwardly in an objective manner and create the perception of an element outside of you which you term to be God, and as you battle with self, you also battle with God, for they are synonymous.
EDWARD: Thank you.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome.
EDWARD: Well, that would explain a lot! (Ben cracks up) No, I’m just thinking that if time is simultaneous and the self is God, to me, that brings forth somewhat of an explanation, from the cave man that’s painting on the wall to the Egyptian who raises the pyramid to the person who builds the Vatican, that it’s the ongoing battle with self projecting outward.
ELIAS: Correct, and this is the creation of your gods.” [session 327, October 03, 1998]
DAVID: “I guess the first big question I have is about my mother. Yesterday we had a big fight, and essentially we’re two really different people. She’s Christian, and she really wants me to be in some kind of conventional field, and ever since I started reading Seth and getting into a lot of spiritual things, I have been in her opinion too idealistic, and maybe ... I don’t know, not doing what she wants me to do. And yet, her view of realism has merit. I’m just not sure how to handle our relationship. I don’t know what she wants me to do! (Elias chuckles) I just want something general to work with here.
ELIAS: An interesting concept that you have developed within physical focus – realism versus idealism. Interestingly enough, they are all one in the same. They are merely different aspects of the same concept.
Within religious belief systems, there are many elements of idealism in what you THINK of as idealism, but they place these ideals into a philosophy that they believe to be realism. And within idealism, you place those same concepts of realism into the area of ideals, and place your ideals into the area that you think of as reality.
Let me express to you that this particular subject matter correlates to our recent discussions in the belief system of relationships, and also may be instructive in the area of acceptance of different perceptions of individuals within their given creations of their individual realities.
Many individuals align very strongly with religious belief systems. You have created your reality for very many centuries in this direction of attention, placing much of your energy and focus in the development of these religious belief systems. Therefore, they hold much energy and great strength within your societies and mass belief systems. They are an intricate part of your officially accepted reality and not so easily abandoned, so to speak.
As we move into the action of this shift in consciousness, there becomes a struggle which is created with the acceptance of these religious belief systems by the individuals that hold them very strongly and the masses that lend energy to them, and those individuals that find themselves moving more easily away from the official religious belief systems.
But let me also be reminding you that ALL of you are influenced by underlying religious belief systems.
In this, I shall offer to you, in helpfulness, the suggestion that you be approaching this situation in an acceptance of this individual’s expression and alignment with her own held belief systems, recognizing that it matters not which direction you are choosing to be moving within. Each individual is moving within their own value fulfillment and their own intent. Their expression of this matters not.
In this, you may also allow yourself the opportunity to be realizing the similarities between your own held belief systems and that of this individual and the belief systems that she holds very tightly, for underlying, many of the principles, so to speak, are the same. The information within its basic core is not so very removed. It is just presented in different language and in different manners.
It matters not that one individual looks to what they think of as a god, per se, and that another individual allows themselves the awareness that they themselves are in actuality what you may term to be the god. Underlying, the information is basically the same.
The one main difference that is held in this area is that individuals that align very strongly with religious belief systems look outside of themselves for their abilities and their creative sources, so to speak, whereas individuals that are allowing themselves a widening of their own awareness within this physical focus begin to recognize the lack of separation and begin to understand that this concept of god and religious belief systems are merely mirror images and projections of that which you already know within you of yourself. They are projections that you create of what you know to be as yourself, being essence, and in this you have created belief systems to surround those elements which you have forgotten within physical focus.
It is unnecessary to be moving in the direction of judgments placed upon the belief systems of other individuals or the choices of other individuals, and is also, in a manner of speaking, defeating of the point of this shift in consciousness presently. You need merely offer yourself the information that you are all – upon your planet within this dimension – moving in the direction of actualizing this shift in consciousness, and that all individuals within this dimension shall be moving in this action regardless of which belief systems they hold or align with.
Now; I am also understanding that individuals hold emotional attachments to other individuals within very many different expressions of relationships, and in these relationships they wish to be helpful to other individuals that they hold fondness for within physical focus. I may express to you that your most helpful action in this regard is to be focusing your attention upon self, addressing to your own belief systems, and to be attempting the acceptance of other individuals’ belief systems, not placing judgments in the area of right or wrong with regard to their belief systems.
In this, you display the action of the straight little sapling, which shall be much more effective in influencing other individuals than would it be were you to approach these types of situations by being argumentative with another individual or moving in the direction of attempting to be altering of their thought process or their beliefs or their emotional attachments to certain beliefs.
In actuality, you may not be altering of another individual’s reality. You may be influencing of other individuals’ realities, but many times, the expression that you engage in attempting to be influencing of another individual’s reality is creating of the very expression that you do not wish to be creating, for within your judgments of other individuals’ expressions and belief systems, you are lending energy to the very element that you are opposing.
Are you understanding?
DAVID: Yes. Yes, that makes a great deal of sense. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. But one of my other questions is concerning, what about when my mother’s interests concerning me and my own interests conflict, when they contradict? For instance, if I have – and we’re interdependent too – so if I have something that I wish to do that is against her belief system, but she has to pay for it ... I mean, it’s her money. So, that seems like a really big conflict that I’m not sure how to resolve.
ELIAS: These are issues that are involving a very large aspect of belief systems, which you term to be within physical focus of control.
This is a very strong element that individuals project within physical focus, for within the held belief systems, individuals move in the direction of focusing their attention upon many different elements of their reality that they feel they need be in control of, and are not quite understanding of the reality that no individual within physical focus controls any element of physical focus or of consciousness. It is not a matter of control. This is a deception, and in this you ALL participate, for one may not participate in this situation of exerting control in any direction if another is not compliant with that situation. Therefore, there must a participation and an active cooperation to be enabling this type of situation.
These are difficult areas for individuals to be addressing to, for within your belief systems you automatically move in the direction of looking to all of the aspects of your belief systems and aligning with them. This be the reason that you create your concepts and your realities of individuals that are within the role of victims. I express to you that there are no victims, and that you always hold choices.
If you are placing yourself within a position that you find uncomfortable and unsatisfying, for you feel that you are allowing another individual to be controlling of your choices, I express to you that you may be focusing your attention upon self and questioning yourself in the direction of how you are participating in this creation, for no other individual may be creating of your reality. YOU are creating of your reality and all that occurs within it, and if you are moving in directions that you are not satisfied with, you hold the choices to be altering of this reality.
Now; I am also understanding that these belief systems all hold tremendous energy and that it is quite easy for myself to be expressing to you that you need merely be stepping off of your hamster wheel and creating of new choices, but within the creation of the participation of these belief systems within physical focus, this may not always be accomplished quite so easily with yourselves. I hold great understanding in this area.
Therefore, I express to you that you may be moving in the direction of two actions simultaneously. Be aware and addressing to your participation, your motivation in your participation, and how you lend energy to the creation of the situation that you view as distasteful. Also, simultaneously you may view the participation of your mother and the motivation of that individual, and in looking to the motivation and the situation of your parent in this cooperative creation, you may allow yourself the opportunity to be accepting of that expression, knowing also within yourself that YOU hold the free will to be creating of YOUR choices regardless of the influences or of the wishes of another individual.
Now; this is not to say that you may disengage this session objectively with myself this day and be engaging your mother and expressing, ‘I wish not to be participating with you any longer. You are wrong and I am right, and I shall create my reality how I am so choosing regardless of your wishes.’ Very, very, very incorrect! I am not expressing that you be creating of conflict and that you be creating of confusion.
The point is to be accepting; to be recognizing your own creation, not to be concerning yourself with the creations of other individuals but to be concerning yourself with your own creations and your own participations in these belief systems which perpetuate the very situations that you attempt to eliminate.
(Intently) The more you move in the direction of conflict and friction, the more you are creating of friction.
Are you understanding?
DAVID: Yes, That addresses my question very, very well. Okay, I think that’s all for that issue.
My next question is about something ... it’s about love, and I guess finding my soul mate. That’s something that I’ve been obsessed with on and off for several years, and I’ve been trying to create a long-term, intimate relationship for a very long time, and I thought I’d dealt with limiting beliefs that had been blocking me, but it still hasn’t manifested in my reality. I would like to know, what’s blocking me in the area of bringing love into my life?
ELIAS: Let me express to you that within your individual situation – and this shall apply to many other individuals that move in a very similar direction – one of the most affecting elements in this area is your very concentration upon a specific belief.
There is a great preoccupation with the concept of soul mate, and as you allow yourself to focus your attention so very intensely in this direction, what you are creating is a narrowing, more and more and more, of your vision and of your focus of attention.
You are blocking out your periphery. You are creating in this particular area what you may term to be the opposite type of expression as you would be choosing to be creating in widening your awareness. As you open yourself to more elements of consciousness, you incorporate more of your periphery, so to speak. You open and widen your vision. You widen your awareness. As you concentrate upon one particular subject, one particular direction, you are creating of an opposite effect, in a manner of speaking. You narrow your periphery and you narrow your vision.
The more energy that you project into this type of action, the more you are narrowing your vision, and in this you limit your choices, and just as you may limit your physical vision by placing physical blinders upon your eyes, you are creating of a very similar type of action within your objective awareness as you concentrate so intensely in one direction. In this, you do not allow yourself to notice all that may be presenting itself to you.
Now; let me offer you a small analogy that I have offered previously to individuals. You hold this metaphor within physical focus of your ship of opportunity coming to port, and that you may be missing your ship if you are not paying attention, and you may miss your opportunity for that which you seek within your individual focus.
I have expressed many times that your ship, so to speak, arrives at your port many, many, many times throughout your focus, and continues to return. It is merely a question of whether you are focusing your attention and vision to be viewing this particular ship. You may be standing upon your dock, and you may be focusing your attention upon the pretty little shops and all of the trinkets that are offered within the shops, and to your back, your ship arrives, and you do not notice.
In this, as you focus your attention so intensely in the direction of attempting to be creating of this situation of finding and creating a relationship with what you term to be your soul mate, you are creating of the same action. You are focusing your attention upon the trinkets, and you are not noticing as the individual may be approaching you.
Let me also express to you that this is, in its camouflage, another expression of this same aspect of belief systems which we term to be control.
As you focus your attention in attempting to be manipulating of energy intentionally in this direction and creating of this type of relationship, you are placing expectations and conditions upon the flow of energy, and in this you are exerting your attempt at controlling your creation and the creation of another essence. In this attempt to be controlling of the flow of energy, you thwart your own efforts, and you are once again, in like manner to the situation with your mother, you are creating of the very expression that you wish not to be creating, and you are also creating of MORE elements, for you are frustrating yourself and confusing yourself and creating of much conflict.
DAVID: Oh, wow. So essentially, I’m frustrating my own efforts by trying too hard. How can I get more in touch with my own flow of energy and get out of my own way?
ELIAS: Ah! Now you move in the direction of inquiring as to the expression of more efficiency. In this, as you move your attention more in the direction of focusing upon self – addressing to self, exploring self, allowing yourself to move into the direction of acceptance and trust of self, and addressing to your own held belief systems – you automatically emanate energy that shall draw those elements of your desire to you.
Be remembering, in this particular type of situation you are looking to be fulfilling your desire in the area of realization – in objective terms – of your connection with what you term to be a soul mate, and to be creating of a type of relationship within this particular focus in that direction. In this, you are forgetful that this is a participation, not merely of your own creation, but a shared creation. Therefore, it is an agreement that you create to participate within, a shared creation with another essence.
In this creation, as you are focusing upon yourself and addressing to your own belief systems, widening your awareness within yourself, you shall project within consciousness outwardly a beacon, so to speak, in figurative terms, that shall be recognized by those individuals or those essences that manifest within physical focus that may be considered to be your soul mate, and that one which engages like intent and focus within this particular manifestation shall be drawn to you within this focus.
Let me express to you as I have expressed many times previously, in many of your clichés and sayings, so to speak, within physical focus, there is an underlying truthfulness, for there is an element of known workings of energy and of consciousness. In this, you hold an awareness that individuals may express many times that they are finding the very element of their desire when they are not looking.
What is meant by this underlyingly, in the knowing of consciousness, is that when you are focusing your attention upon self and addressing to your own acceptance and trust of self, this shall be recognized by other individuals within physical focus which shall automatically magnate to you as they share like intent, which you may term to be like spirit. And in this, the very object of your desire shall be realized, not by your overt manipulation of energy in controlling and intentionally attempting to be creating of this desire, but as a byproduct naturally expressed, as other individuals shall naturally hone to you in the recognition of the very energy that you express.
In this, individuals within physical focus hold much greater knowing than they hold an understanding objectively of. I have expressed previously that there are no secrets within essence, and in this, individuals within physical focus ARE aware of energy, regardless of their thought processes or their beliefs within objective terms.
They automatically draw themselves to each other within like spirit, in your terms. This would be expressed differently in our terms, of like intent or like desire. These types of expressions are expressed automatically within energy and within projections of your very energy field, and this transcends physical locations and proximities.
As you term this to be ‘moving out of your own way,’ as you address to your own acceptance of self and are moving in the direction of trust of self, you also project throughout consciousness this beacon, so to speak, which allows a window for other essences to view more of your expressed energy. As you are not accepting of yourself and not trusting of yourself, you are holding to your energy and therefore blocking the message, so to speak, and in this, thwarting your own objective efforts.
Movement in this area is quite effortless. You move together, in objective terms, to be incorporating soul mates in a very effortless manner. In this, individuals that allow themselves these types of connections within objective terms and realization within physical focus shall express to themselves, to each other, to you, great surprise in their connection with this soul mate, for no effort has been exerted. They have merely come together within an effortless manner and they are amazing of themselves that they have created such probabilities to draw themselves together, regardless of situations, circumstances, creations, or physical locations.
And THIS is the wondrousness of consciousness, that it DOES move in the direction of effortlessness.
You draw to you those of like expression. Presently, within your individual creations and your situation and the belief systems and the held energy that you create, you draw to yourself individuals that shall mirror your own expression and shall be projecting of controlling elements and situations that you find to be undesirable, for this is your expression and your own creation. You shall draw to you individuals that mirror the same expression to you. You do this purposefully, that you may be focusing your attention in areas that you choose to be addressing to. As you allow your energy to flow freely, you also shall draw to you other individuals that allow their energy to flow freely, and this shall create much more of an effortless situation within the area of relationships.
Are you understanding?
DAVID: Yes. With reference to this kind of creation of greater experience, I’ve noticed that creating differences or changes in the physical body often seems to be much simpler or easier than creating something like a relationship. It often happens more quickly and with more efficiency, and I was wondering why there’s a difference.
ELIAS: First of all, let me express to you that your physical form is your individual expression. Therefore, you individually may be manipulating of it in any manner that you so choose, and this needs no involvement of any other individual or any other essence. Therefore, you may quite easily be expressing any type of alteration within your physical form that you are so choosing, although there are many individuals within physical focus that find this manipulation quite difficult, for their belief systems move them into expressions of a lack of ability to be manipulating in this area. In actuality, as you are choosing to be manipulating of any element of your physical form, this may be expressed quite easily. In the area of relationships concerning other individuals, this would be a cooperative expression. It is not singular to yourself.
The most affecting element of relationships, in every and all directions and areas, is the expression of expectation. As each individual moves in the direction of placing any expectation upon another individual, you are affecting of the relationship and you are blocking energy, and in this you are creating of judgment, which is also a lack of acceptance and is quite affecting in the area of relationships. This is affecting in the area of relationships with yourself also, for as you create an expectation of yourself and a judgment upon yourself, you also move yourself more into the expression of duplicity. But within the area of relationship of another individual, this may be quite affecting in what you term to be negative terms, for it is creating of much conflict. It also perpetuates the belief system of duplicity, within yourself and within other individuals.
DAVID: I see. In that case, when it comes to mass realities and global challenges – for instance, things that involve a great many people – how can we understand it in those terms? Instead of reading the newspapers and what the politicians and the media say, are there any ways for us to understand these things in terms of mass beliefs?
ELIAS: Look to your individual belief systems, and you may compare these with the mass belief systems, for mass belief systems are created by individuals collectively. You may not create groups without individuals. Therefore, the mass expressions are collective reflections of the individuals’ expressions. In this, they are not quite so very difficult to be understanding. You may also view within the mass expressions that there may be movements in these societal expressions that surfacely appear to move in one direction of great judgments in certain areas, but underlyingly, they may also be affecting quite strongly in alignment with this shift in consciousness, bringing to individuals’ attention the inefficiency of many of these belief systems and lending energy to the individuals in moving through these belief systems and moving more in the direction of acceptance of these belief systems.
You experience within this present now many expressions within your societies upon your planet, mass expressions of very strongly held belief systems which are being addressed to and are affecting of the individuals and how they are beginning to view these belief systems, not necessarily in alignment with these officially held belief systems. In this, as you continue to examine the individual belief systems, you offer yourselves more information in understanding how you have created mass belief systems.
You may also look to your religious and scientific belief systems and view how very strongly they have been accepted en masse throughout your globe and are very aligned with. Even individuals that express that they are moving away from the religious belief systems hold many underlying religious belief systems, and move themselves into an alignment with your scientific belief systems very much as strong as they have held religious belief systems previously. In actuality, your scientific belief systems are merely a different type of expression, different language of the same types of belief systems as your religious belief systems.
In this, let me be reminding you also that belief systems in themselves are not right or wrong. Therefore, I do not encourage you to move in the direction of placing more judgments upon the very belief systems that you hold, for you occupy your attention within physical focus, and this physical dimension is created with the basis of belief systems. Therefore, it is a basic element of your reality, and without your belief systems, this particular dimension and reality shall not be physically expressed. This is not the point. The point is to be examining of these belief systems and to be accepting of these belief systems, that you may render their power, so to speak, neutralized and you may not be so very affected by them, and in this, you may open your window for greater creativity.
All of this information shall circle ‘round to the base point in every area, in looking to self, addressing to your own acceptance and trust of self, which within your language and within this objective expression may APPEAR to be sounding very elementary. But this, in its basic element, is your most difficult challenge, for you have created your officially accepted reality for millennium in the direction of not looking to self and in the expression of projecting outward to all other elements and looking to other individuals and other sources, so to speak, for your directedness. In this, I express to you within this concept an entirely different direction of your attention, in looking to self for your acceptance and trust and recognizing that YOU are creating of your reality, not looking to any other outside element to be expressing to you how to be creating of your reality, for you already possess the blueprints for creating your reality, and all is within your disposal. You need merely be focusing upon self to be accessing all of this information.” [session 330, October 11, 1998]
DALE: “Recently I read a book by Jeff Stern about Taylor Caldwell, and under hypnosis, she said that during the stoning of Mary Magdalene, Jesus said, ‘Let him who had not lain with this woman throw the first stone.’ If this is true, there was no implication of man as a sinful self. Is that true? I mean, was that a distortion?
ELIAS: (Chuckling) Ah, you incorporate two different subject matters within this questioning! First of all, in the direction of the truth of the statement as an expression of actual occurrence, I shall express to you that this is a story.
DALE: Oh, okay. I get that.
ELIAS: As to the concept in your reference, there is no sinful self. This is a belief. This is a religious belief that stems from the idea of the projection of a mirror image of self, which has created a separate being of God, which resides outside of yourself and holds all of the power that you do not hold, and also holds the judgment that you DO hold. This is a projection concept which mirrors what you know subjectively, but what you do not allow yourself to remember objectively. Therefore, you create this projection.
You project yourself into the image of this god, and you attribute to this god all that you know within your subjective awareness, that this god holds all of these abilities. But you also project what you know objectively, and you attribute your objective qualities to this entity that you have created.
In actuality, this is merely a projection, a concept of yourselves, as you have created this separation of objective and subjective awarenesses. It is, as all other belief systems, another explanation to yourselves of that which you have forgotten.
DALE: So that’s why it seemed so relevant to me? Actually, I want to make sure that I’m getting this correctly. The reason why this seemed so relevant to me is because I was ... not because. I am projecting subjectively what I know, but also objectifying it in my belief systems too?
ELIAS: Correct.
DALE: Okay.
ELIAS: You are correct.
DALE: It was very relevant to me!
ELIAS: These are very strong aspects of belief systems that you hold, in expressing to yourselves this element of duplicity: that you hold this aspect of self that is glorious, but you also hold this very distasteful element of self, this base instinct which is quite lowly and an aspect of self that must be attended to, to be eliminated. This be the sinful self, and this....
DALE: I’d like to get rid of it!
ELIAS: No!
DALE: It’s accepting it instead of....
ELIAS: Your attention in this direction merely is perpetuating! (Pause, staring at Dale)
Each time that you are placing a judgment upon yourself in ANY area, you are perpetuating the belief system of duplicity, and you are reinforcing your own strength in energy in holding to this belief system. You are not accepting of this belief system. (Pause)
DALE: Isn’t even rejecting it giving it power too?
ELIAS: Absolutely, for you are continuing to be creating of a judgment.
DALE: So is it more like acknowledging, and then letting go?
ELIAS: Quite, recognizing that this is a belief system, that you hold choices within this belief system, that you are not eliminating this belief system but that you are placing no judgment upon this belief system or its expressions. You may continue to create within the belief system, and you SHALL continue to create within the belief system, for you create your reality within this dimension with belief systems!
I have expressed over and over again, you shall not be eliminating your belief systems! This dimension that you have created within a physical focus is based in your belief systems. It is an intricate element of your physical manifestation within this particular dimension. It has been created purposefully. If you are eliminating of your belief systems, you are also eliminating of this particular physical dimension expression! Therefore, this is not the point.
Your belief systems within themselves are not bad or good. They merely are. They are your own explanations. They are influencing of your perception, and your perception is your tool that you use to be creating of your reality within this dimension.
Let us momentarily all visualize a game. You are the object of the game. Within your hands, you hold a stick. I shall inquire of you if any one of you is placing judgment upon the stick presently.
DALE: Yes!
ELIAS: Ah!
DALE: Of course!
ELIAS: A very bad stick! (Laughter)
DALE: Oh, no, no, no! Actually, no!
ELIAS: A very good stick! (Laughter)
DALE: No, I wasn’t placing judgment on it. I described it to myself though, which I immediately – of course – thought that I was a BAD person for even thinking what the stick looked like! (Laughter)
ELIAS: Now we shall clear this energy (blowing once) and we shall begin again! (This ‘blowing once’ is Elias’ ‘clearing energy’ joke)
(Humorously) You are holding a stick. It is not a good stick; it is not a bad stick. You are not good or bad. You are merely standing, holding a stick.
Now, you move in the direction of engaging a game. You place a ball upon your ground, and you push the ball with your stick. The ball is not bad or good either, and it matters not which direction you are pushing the ball with the stick. You are merely pushing.
You are also not racing with another individual, for no other individual is playing the game with you. You are playing the game yourself. Therefore, there is no competition, there is no race, there is no winner, there is no loser, and there are no rules.
You may push the ball for as long as you desire or as short as you desire, and in whichever direction you desire. It is merely the action of pushing the ball with the stick.
You are you, the expression of a focus of essence physically manifest. The stick is your belief system, and the ball is your perception.
CATH: Can I just throw something in here? What if you get bored with the stick and you want to pick the stick up ... I mean the ball up in the air, or you want to aim it toward a little hole? Or, you want to make life more interesting?
ELIAS: It matters not. You may be moving the stick and the ball in whichever direction or expression that you are so choosing.
CATH: Trying to accomplish something, you’re setting up goals for yourself? ‘I want to get that, and I want to hit it just right.’
ELIAS: If you are so choosing. It matters not.
The point is that the stick is neutral. It is a tool to be creating of an action. The ball is accomplishing the action. The stick is facilitating the ball. The ball is accomplishing the direction and your intent. YOU are manipulating and directing the stick to be moving the ball in the direction that you choose. The stick is not good or bad. It is a tool. The ball is not good or bad. It is an expression within a motion, to be accomplishing your direction.
Now; you may become frustrated with the ball if you are pushing the ball with the stick, and the ball is moving in a direction that is not matching your thought, and you may stomp upon the ball and you shall be creating conflict, for you shall be irritating yourself.
CATH: I see it as being competitive with yourself. I’m very competitive with myself. Not with someone else; with me.
ELIAS: Which you very successfully camouflage as motivation. In actuality, it is merely a camouflaged expression of the lack of acceptance of self, that if you are not challenging yourself, you are not creative enough to be motivating.
CATH: Hmm!
ELIAS: You are automatically motivated, for you are essence, and your natural movement and expression is to be becoming. Therefore, in becoming, you are continuously in motion and motivated. But your belief systems ... even those that you consider to be good, for good is a judgment also, quite equal to bad!
Therefore, even in your expressions of GOOD aspects of belief systems, you are camouflaging the birds, and you are creating an acceptable expression of these bright birds that you may play with, and they continue to hold their power within energy, for you continue to lend energy to your belief system of duplicity. You merely do not pay as much attention to your expressions of good as you do to your expressions of bad, for bad is your dead mouse!
DALE: And paying attention to our bad parts is good!
ELIAS: Ah!
DALE: Or so we think!
ELIAS: And you shall quite convolute yourself in this expression, shall you not?
DALE: Yep!
VICKI: ... Okay, I have a question based on the first part. So, when somebody else’s ball connects up with your ball, then there can be an altering of your perception, correct?
ELIAS: Correct.
VICKI: My question goes back to this allowance/penetration/buffer thing ... if you could maybe give some information about how to create this buffer a little more efficiently than I seem to be able to create presently.
ELIAS: This is in actuality directly related to your own acceptance of self. I have expressed to you all many times that your initial direction is to be concerning yourself with self, and subsequently you move in the direction of the acceptance of other individuals, for this automatically is a natural byproduct of your own acceptance of self, for in the areas that you are not accepting of self, you also are not accepting of other individuals.
It may take different forms, but your lack of acceptance of self is that which you project outwardly to other individuals in the expression of lack of acceptance of them and their expressions.
You may express to yourselves that you are quite accepting of another individual’s expression, but you are not accepting of your own expression within this same situation. This may hold true – in a manner of speaking, in your terms – but underlyingly, your lack of acceptance of self shall project to another individual in a lack of acceptance of them within a similar area. It merely appears camouflaged, but it is a mirror action.
Therefore, although you are all influencing of each other, you are not creating of each other’s reality, and that influence which is projected may be discriminated upon within your physical focus. You may choose what influences to be accepting and what influences to not be accepting, in the manner of penetration.
Not that you are not accepting of the expression of another individual – you are allowing the allowance of the other individual pushing their ball – but you do not necessarily need be allowing their ball to collide with your ball. This is the penetration action. As you allow their ball to collide with your ball, you have allowed the penetration. But you may, as you view the approach of the other ball, move your ball, in physical terms.
In terms of energy and consciousness of self, you do not necessarily move your physical self away from an energy projection of another individual – which is an expression of another individual – but you do not allow the penetration of the energy into your energy field. You allow your energy field to be the buffer.
Now; the action of allowing your energy field to be the buffer that the energy expression projected shall bounce off of is the action of acceptance of self, and therefore not holding to your energy field; not holding to the movement, the motion of your energy centers within you which are creating of your energy field which surrounds you. But as you hold tightly to your energy field ... let us continue with our example of your stick and your ball.
You stand with your stick and your ball. Another individual enters your area – not your game, but your area – and engages playing their game. They push their ball with their stick, and you view this ball approaching your ball.
In this, you move quickly, snatching up your ball and your stick and holding tightly to your ball and your stick, and in this action of holding so very tightly to your ball and your stick, you are quite occupied, and the other ball strikes your toe! (Laughter) For you are preoccupied with holding to your ball and your stick, that they may not be struck, and you are guarding them preciously, and your attention is fixed, and therefore you create the allowance for the other ball to strike you.
But if you are not snatching your ball and your stick, and you are not holding so very tightly within your grasp, you may respond to this approaching other ball by pushing your ball with your stick in another direction, for your attention is not fixed upon your grasp. It is allowed the periphery. It is allowed the openness of view, to be watching the approach, and also viewing within your periphery all of the other area available to move your ball.
CATH: Can I ask a question? It’s exactly the opposite of what she asked. What if the ball enters your area willingly, but plays a kind of dances with wolves with you? You want to engage the ball, the other ball, and it comes closer, then backs off and comes closer, and you want the energies to meet, but they can’t quite. You’re talking about keeping separate. I’m saying, how do you come together? Do you follow me?
ELIAS: Quite! This involves agreement, for you are not manipulating of the other ball.
CATH: Right.
ELIAS: You may manipulate your ball, and you may push your ball with your stick and you may be colliding with the other ball, but it is also the choice of the other individual playing their game to be colliding with your ball subsequently and to be engaging your ball.
This is an agreement that you may enter into, and you may push your balls together for a time period if you are choosing within that agreement, but you may not be manipulating the choice of the other individual pushing their ball, for each individual holds their own choices and is manipulating of their ball in their own expression.
You may influence by colliding with their ball. They may be traveling a straight direction and you may collide with their ball, which shall be influencing of their ball to veer in another direction. But this may be temporary, for they may choose to replace their ball upon their line and continue within their straight direction, or they may choose to be creating of a new direction. These would be agreements that are created within shared experiences of individuals.
(Intently) You do not engage experiences with other individuals without agreements.
CATH: But what if you have a half-agreement? The other ball wants to play, but keeps pulling back, afraid. As I said, the dances with wolves, where they come closer and then back, come closer and back, where they can’t quite make it. It seems to be short-circuiting. The connection between the balls doesn’t quite make it. It almost comes together, and then back....
ELIAS: And are you expressing an inquiry to a solution of this dance?
CATH: I suppose, on how to handle it, how to approach this particular situation.
ELIAS: To be addressing to your own wants, recognizing that the expression of the other individual is their choice and is their expression and needs not be affecting and is not dictating of your direction, and in this, you may be focusing your attention upon your want in the action of the dance and examining your motivation, so to speak, in the area of your want.
I am not expressing desire, for this is a different action, for your desire follows your intent, and this is a different subject matter.
But your wants many times are expressed by your lack of trust and your lack of acceptance, and this is creating of wants.
You WANT an element that you perceive you do not have. Therefore, it is an element to be acquired, but there is no element for you to acquire, for you already hold all of the elements. Therefore, the want is the expression of an area of lack of trust and acceptance within yourself, and this is YOUR expression of the projected energy to another individual or situation.
This also involves our very famous little aspect bird of control, which we are all so very fond of and are quite engaging of this little bird! For within physical focus, within this particular dimension, you have created feeding this little bird of control quite well, and it is becoming quite fat and also very demanding, for you are quite insistent upon playing with this bird, and when you may not be playing with this bird with another individual, you shall play with this bird with yourselves, and you shall be controlling of yourselves and of all that you perceive surrounds you, for this feeds another bird, of safety.
If you are feeding the nice fat bird of control, it in return is quite obliging and feeding the little bird of safety, and these are all more aspects of belief systems that you have lent much energy to.
And what do you perceive that you shall be needing safety within or from, if all is you? If there is no separation, there is no other essence that is not intermingled with you. Therefore, in a manner of speaking, all-that-is, is YOU. And what shall you require safety from within yourself? For how shall you betray you, and how shall you be hurtful to yourself? In actuality – other than through your perception of your belief systems – but in actuality, there is no hurtfulness. It is merely a perception.
CATH: Thank you.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome. (Pause)
VICKI: So what about when somebody else is in your area and their ball gets really stuck in the mud, and they’re yelling and screaming and asking for some help to get their ball unstuck from the mud, and in the action of focusing on their ball being stuck in the mud, you realize that you’re altering the direction of your own ball? How does this work with what you’ve been talking about with ... well, for example, the sapling story?
ELIAS: This is not inconsistent with the sapling story. If you are engaging an action of compliance with another individual, with their ball as it is stuck within the mud, so to speak, they are asking for helpfulness, and it is your choice to be offering or to not be offering. It is your choice, if you are engaging helpfulness, to be entering into agreement with this individual. You ARE altering of your game and you ARE altering of your direction, for you are engaging joint action in helpfulness to another individual as requested, but you have CHOSEN to be offering this helpfulness. You have CHOSEN to engage this agreement. This is your choice.
I express to you once again, NO OTHER ESSENCE MAY BE CREATING OF YOUR CHOICES. No other individual within your entire dimension is creating of ANY of your choices. YOU are creating of your choices. YOU create your probabilities. YOU create your choices. YOU direct your energy. THEY do not direct your energy ... the infamous ‘they,’ which is you!
These are all areas of agreement, and you hold the choice to enter into these agreements or to not enter into these agreements, and there is no judgment, for it matters not. It is merely a choice of experience. The judgments appear as they are influenced by your belief systems, which is influencing of your perception. Therefore, your perception is that which is creating of your judgments.
VICKI: Well, I think my entire question was phrased within making a judgment on perpetuation of one’s own belief systems or another person’s belief systems, and in actuality, that would be unnecessary also, I suppose.
ELIAS: Quite, but these are beneficial areas for you to be observing within this subject matter of addressing to belief systems and all the aspects of belief systems, that you may offer yourselves the opportunity to view how very automatic you have embedded these aspects of belief systems within yourselves, and you have lent so very much energy in this area that you have created automatic responses.
You hold no thought process in many of these responses. It is unnecessary to be projecting energy in the area of thought. You may move in these directions automatically.
This dimension is created based upon what physical manifestations of expressions? (Staring at Jen)
JEN: Is that a question? (Laughter)
ELIAS: What physical expressions of manifestation is this particular dimension based upon? (Still staring at Jen)
JEN: Well, it seems to be based on our belief systems.
ELIAS: Your belief systems are a manifestation. They are explanations to yourselves. They are an intricate element of your creation of this dimension, but they are not the base element of your manifestation. They are not the reason that you have created this particular dimension.
JEN: Oh. Physical and emotional experience.
ELIAS: Emotional and sexual.
JEN: Oh, sexual. Excuse me.
ELIAS: And what shall be the first expressions of experience in response to your perceptions and your belief systems before you are even creating of a thought? You shall respond emotionally, or you shall respond sexually.
JEN: If we’re to get to a place where we’re able to neutralize our belief systems so that we’re aware – just a basic or a higher level of awareness, if you will – does that mean that we will have more experience of emotions and sexuality on a different level? I mean, perceptions and belief systems are clouding that experience?
ELIAS: It shall open to you more elements of your expression of creativity in these expressions and within the exploration of these experiences.
Therefore, in a manner of speaking, there is an element that you DO cloud, so to speak, or block your experiences and your expressions as influenced by your belief systems, for these belief systems shall dictate to you that certain elements of the expressions are bad, and therefore you shall not engage, and in this lack of engagement you limit your own creativity and your own expressions within your experiences, for you deny yourselves your own abilities in the area of your own creativity and your own abilities.
BOBBI: ... So in letting go of those aspects ... I guess I’m concentrating on accepting those aspects, thinking they’re belief systems, but in actuality, I would be letting go of those, hopefully working back to....
ELIAS: This be the reason that I have offered the analogy of the bird cage, for the cage itself is the representation of the belief system, an element that is neutral within itself, merely what you may term to be an object which holds no quality within itself but is a thing within itself. But the birds that are contained within the cage are the aspects of the belief system, and THESE are quite alive and moving and fluttering and demanding, and they ARE requiring of your attention! You shall not pay very close attention to the cage, but you shall pay very much attention to the birds within the cage!
CATH: Do we have more than one cage?
ELIAS: Yes.
VICKI: There’s not very many though, huh.
ELIAS: Not as very many as you think, but there are many more birds within these cages than you think!
BOBBI: So in acceptance, that’s accepting the bird cage, not the birds that are aspects? Is that correct?
ELIAS: No. The cage you are already within acceptance of. The birds you are NOT accepting of! Within your acceptance of these birds, you are opening the door to the cage and you are allowing the birds to fly free and empty the cage, and as the cage is empty, it holds no power, for it holds no more motion, and you may place the cage wherever you choose. You may manipulate the cage in whichever area you choose, but you need not tend to the cage, for it in itself does not demand of you. The birds demand of you!
CATH: What if we enjoy the birds? You said something about losing the power. What if we accept that as part of our artistic creation?
ELIAS: And you DO, and you place a judgment upon this and you express that it is good, and where you place a judgment that these birds are good, you automatically – within this physical dimension – also place a judgment upon other expressions and other birds that are bad, and you lend energy to the very elements that you wish not to lend energy.
CATH: Going back more to the thing where you said, ‘If we didn’t have beliefs, we wouldn’t be manifesting in this dimension.’ So we need beliefs, right?
ELIAS: Quite, but you need not hold judgments upon the beliefs. You shall continue to hold the cages, and you may manipulate the cages and you may reform the cages. You may melt the metal of the cages and you may reform these cages into new cages if you are so choosing, or you may divide these cages and be creating of many more cages, but the cages themselves are neutral. They are merely tools in your creating within your reality, as your stick.
CATH: Where do emotions come into this? Where are they in relation to the birds and the cages? Which comes first, the birds or the emotions?
ELIAS: (Chuckling) The birds or the eggs? (Laughter)
Emotions are not belief systems. Emotions are an element of your expression that you have chosen to be the method, so to speak, of your expression within this particular physical dimension. This is not to say that other physical dimensions do not incorporate emotion, for some do, but within this particular dimension, it is one of the base elements of your creation of expression.
In this, the emotion exists regardless of the belief system. The experience of emotion is created and exists and is expressed with or without the belief systems, but you are incorporating belief systems into this particular dimension. Therefore, it is not necessarily a question of which you have created first, for you create them together, but they are functioning differently. The belief systems are influencing of your emotions, but emotion is a translation of a tone quality of essence. It is a translation into a physical dimension for the reason of physical experience. Belief systems are not an aspect of essence. They are a creation, a tool to be manipulating perceptions within physical dimensions that influence and create your reality.
CATH: Thank you.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome.
BOBBI: I have to go back to the birds again. Okay, the birds are aspects of belief systems.
ELIAS: Yes.
BOBBI: So if I look at this bird and I find I want to let it go ... I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be accepting that bird or letting it go. I see that as a difference somehow.
ELIAS: There is no difference. The acceptance of this bird – of any bird – this action of the lack of judgment upon this bird creates the action of opening the door, and as the door is unlocked and opened, the bird itself shall fly free. Therefore, it shall be let go.
BOBBI: Okay. That just sounds so much like eliminating the bird.
ELIAS: This is merely what you may term to be diffusing energy, and in this action, the energy is allowed to be reforming. You are not holding the energy. Your ball may not roll upon your ground if you are holding your stick and your ball! You may not play your game in manipulating your ball in any direction, upon your ground or within your air, if you are holding your ball. But if you are letting go of your ball, you are also re-engaging your game and allowing yourself to engage your ball and manipulate it in many different directions.
In like manner, if you have locked the door to the cage, you are holding the cage. You are quite in control of the action of the cage and of the birds, and the birds are subject to you. And therefore, in translation, the energy is confined to you in the same manner as your ball is confined to you as you hold your ball, but as you place your ball upon your ground, it now holds the ability to roll. You may push it, but it shall roll. It shall be within its own momentum. You are not continuously touching your ball, pushing. It shall roll. You shall tap and it shall roll, and you need not be controlling its roll. You have directed it already, and you have allowed it to roll. This is the action of probabilities.
In this same manner, you are holding to all of the aspects of the belief system by locking the door, and in this, the birds remain contained and you are manipulating of their action. You may feed them or you may starve them, but you shall be paying attention to them, and they may be squawking quite noisily and you may not retreat from their squawking, for you are holding the cage. But as you unlock the door and you allow these birds to fly free, you need not be paying attention to them any longer. You may not be feeding them any longer or listening to their squawking, for they have embarked upon their own journey.” [session 331, October 16, 1998]
DEANE: “Speaking of belief systems ... now, our values are based on our belief systems, are they not?
ELIAS: Yes.
DEANE: Let’s say that I discover my wife is having an affair with my best friend that has continued for thirty years. Am I not to judge? Am I to say, ‘Well, it’s only the belief system of faithfulness that makes this wrong’? Am I to accept her actions and not feel bad because of the realization that this is just one manner of believing?
ELIAS: These are difficult areas for individuals within physical focus, for your belief systems are very strong, and the mass belief systems that you have established within your officially accepted reality hold great strength and energy.
Now; let me express to you that in the presentment of your inquiry, you are also expressive – without actual words but within your tone and your feeling – of a negative quality of acceptance of belief systems, for your expression moves in the direction of, ‘Shall I merely be accepting in the manner of, ‘It matters not. Oh well. It is merely an alignment of belief systems’?’ In actuality, this is quite correct, but notice your expression of this statement and the emotion that accompanies this.
In this, I have been expressing from the onset of these sessions that the first area of acceptance is the acceptance of self, and in this, addressing to your individual belief systems and your alignment with mass belief systems. As you look more and more to self and you begin to allow yourself an objective understanding of the reality of your belief systems and how they are affecting of you and all that you create, you may view more and more that these expressions ALL lead back, so to speak, to each individual’s lack of acceptance of self in any given area.
I am understanding of the difficulty in moving into the realization of the reality of these aspects of belief systems, but this would be the point and also the reason that I have expressed many, many times that there shall be trauma associated with this shift in consciousness. You do not necessarily so very easily let loose your hold upon these very large aspects of belief systems!
Now; in the situation of this hypothetical action – that your wife may be engaged in a relationship with another individual for a time framework and you are holding a responsiveness to this – I express to you that every situation holds many choices. NONE of the choices that move in conjunction with each situation are negative or wrong or bad. They are merely choices.
Therefore, in your partner’s choice of experience, this is not wrong. But also, your choice of response, regardless of which direction you move within, is not wrong either. But they ARE all influenced by your mass belief systems.
Now; within the action of this shift in consciousness and moving in the direction of alignment with that shift, it behooves you to be addressing to your own belief systems and identifying why you shall hold an expression of hurtfulness in response to another individual’s choice of action.
Let me be reminding you that no other individual is hurtful to you. Although they may be influencing of you in many different manners, they are not creating of hurtfulness to you. YOU are creating of this response and emotion or feeling, in response to areas of self that you are reinforcing in the area of lack of acceptance of self.
Are you understanding? For I may clarify, if you are not.
DEANE: Well, I think that I do, but my question was really directed at so many different belief systems, and if we’re here to experience emotions, how can we not experience them without values being stressed? If you accepted all belief systems as belief systems, then there would be no reason to feel emotions at anything that went right or wrong. Am I not right?
ELIAS: Ah, not necessarily! You are very accustomed to associating your emotions with your value systems and your moral systems and your belief system of duplicity: the right and wrong, the good and bad.
But acceptance of belief systems is not the elimination of emotion, but that you shall allow yourselves to experience emotion in a new manner, not necessarily in conjunction with the confines of your belief systems. You may be experiencing quite a fullness of your emotion and this may not align with your belief systems at all, but merely with your choices, and the choice to be experiencing pleasure or to not be experiencing pleasure.
In this, you continue to be creating of the experiences of your emotions, but you allow yourself the realistic understanding of what you are creating with your intent, and in this you offer yourself the ability to experience more fully.
(Intently) You are not limiting or eliminating aspects of your reality and your experiences. You are opening and allowing yourself to experience these elements more fully.” [session 342, November 24, 1998]
KATIE: “I also had another recent dream. Actually, it was more like a month ago. I dreamt that my father was with me, and he was holding me and praising me for all of my accomplishments and loving me in a way that I never experienced with him in life, and then he told me that there were some coming challenges, but that he would be with me throughout those. Was this actually my father, or was this imagery I created for myself?
ELIAS: This is imagery that you have presented to yourself in conjunction with tapping into energy deposits of this individual – not necessarily connecting with the focus itself, but connecting with aspects of the energy of that focus which are deposited within consciousness – and you have offered yourself this connection to be reassuring to yourself and to be validating yourself in the area that you may be receiving helpfulness through consciousness regardless of the situations that you may be encountering and creating within your physical focus.
KATIE: Okay. The challenges that he described – actually, that he didn’t elaborate on, but mentioned – are they related to some of the difficulties I’ve been having lately, particularly with my roommate?
ELIAS: Partially. This would be an example of these types of challenges as they relate to the identification of belief systems and the movement into the area of viewing and interpreting and beginning to be accepting of the aspects of belief systems, which may be a difficult process, in your terms, for these are the very elements of this shift in consciousness that we identify as being those elements of trauma as associated with this shift in consciousness, which may also be viewed as challenges as you move through these areas of viewing and allowing yourself to be confronting, so to speak, these different aspects of belief systems.
KATIE: Okay. So how am I doing at moving through these? Because right now it sure doesn’t feel like I am, (Elias grins) particularly with regard to the difficulties with my roommate.
ELIAS: (Chuckling) Let me express to you that as you allow yourself to move more fully into the area of viewing all of these different aspects of the belief system of relationship, you may offer yourself more helpfulness, and you may also offer yourself more elements of acceptance of yourself.
In this, individuals may be becoming confused in certain areas related to this subject matter. In your experiences, you may also, in like manner to many individuals, move in the direction of attempting to be accepting of OTHER individuals and their behaviors, and in this action, if you are not viewing the aspects of the belief system that YOU hold, you are defeating the point! (21) For in viewing the aspects of the belief system that YOU hold and addressing to these, you also automatically become less affected by the actions and behaviors of OTHER individuals, recognizing that they have not moved into the area of viewing these particular aspects of belief systems.
Now! I caution you in this, that you do not allow yourself to be moving into the trap of what you in physical focus term to be self-righteousness, viewing that you are more advanced than another individual within your movement, for this also is defeating of the point, for it is merely creating a judgment in another direction. It is merely altering your viewing of one bird and distracting yourself into the viewing of a different bird, but you have not allowed either bird to fly free from this cage of belief system.
Therefore, I express to you that your most helpful engagement with yourself in this area is to be allowing yourself to view each aspect of what you experience in the area of conflict and irritation, and each time you are experiencing these elements, you may express to yourself that you are confronting yourself with an aspect of the belief system, and in that, you may address to the aspect of the belief system that you are viewing and allow yourself to be accepting of that, and therefore lessen your own conflict. As you hold to these aspects of the belief system and justify within yourself, you merely reinforce the belief system and all of its aspects, and in that action, you are moving yourself into what we have designated as the trauma of this shift, which we are offering information to be avoiding that action.
KATIE: Okay. Well, I’ll endeavor to examine those beliefs a little more closely. One has come up that I think is a part of it, and it’s around my sense of security and fear of being out on my own entirely.
ELIAS: And this would be a very large bird! In this, let me express to you that within physical focus, you have developed these beliefs that there are needs within your physical focus, and in these needs you have also developed much fearfulness, for you hold the fearfulness of not meeting these needs, so to speak.
But let me also express to you that contrary to your thought process, the more you allow yourself to be trusting of self and letting go of your hold upon these belief systems and the energy that you hold within them, the more you offer yourself the freedom to be manifesting the very elements of your desire. The more you hold to this energy within the aspects of these belief systems, the more you create the very element that you do NOT desire.
That which you hold as fear, you move in the direction of creating, for fear is a very powerful movement of energy. The more attention you lend to your fearfulness, the more that you move in the direction of the actualization of the manifestation of that very fear and the creation of it. As you allow yourself to move away from these elements of fear and you allow yourself more of a trust, you also offer yourself more validation to be reinforcing your trust.
Let me express to you that at times, individuals may initially move in the direction of expressing to themselves that they are trusting in the universe, so to speak. Temporarily, this may serve as an efficient method, so to speak, in moving you more into the area of allowing yourself to be trusting of self, for eventually you may translate universe into self and recognize that YOU are the element which is creating of all of the actions of your reality.
But temporarily, you may allow yourself to be trusting in this outside force, so to speak, of the universe, and express to yourself that all of your needs, so to speak – which are not in actuality needs, but wants – shall be provided for adequately if you are allowing yourself to be trusting in this.
As you allow yourself to validate this trust by offering yourself examples of how the universe, so to speak, may be providing for you, you shall also be reinforcing your acceptance and trust of self, and in this you may subsequently allow yourself to move into the direction of trusting that in actuality, YOU are the element or the force, so to speak, that is creating of all of the provisions within your physical reality of your needs, so to speak.
Security is an illusion, and is an element of belief systems that you have created within physical focus. You hold the ability to be manipulating quite efficiently every aspect of your reality, and to be creating WHATEVER you are choosing. It is merely your beliefs that are creating restrictions upon your creation.
You do not believe that you hold the ability to be adequately providing your wants, and this is reinforced through your belief system of duplicity, that it may not be GOOD for you to be providing yourself with your wants. Therefore, you create this wheel that you continue to rotate upon, and reinforce all of these belief systems.
I express to you that you hold the ability to quite efficiently be providing any aspect of your reality that you are so choosing for yourself. There are many examples within your very physical focus that you may attach to, and allow yourself the validation of this actualization of creation.” [session 343, November 29, 1998]
ELIAS: “This evening we shall open to your questions, if you are so choosing, and you may have the floor.
CAROLE: I have a question. At our last session here, at the end of the session, you spoke to Thomas and mentioned an essence that wanted to manifest in physical focus, and told him to give that information to Bridget. About a week-and-a-half to two weeks ago, in the dream state, I had this dream that there was a big suitcase, and I was searching inside the suitcase for what were my children, or I was calling them my babies, but they were very, very tiny, almost like the size of mice, and they weren’t in there. They were gone, and I was saying, ‘My babies, my babies! They’re gone, they’re gone!’
And then I heard this information, or somehow I got this information, and it said, ‘They’ve been stolen, either by foreigners or aliens.’ Then I got the three names, in this order: Thomas, Elias, Bridget. And then when I woke up, I thought, ‘I wonder if that means that those essences have decided to manifest someplace else, either as foreigners in this country and manifest somewhere else in this country, or aliens – what we would term aliens, you know – in some other physical focus.’ (Pause)
ELIAS: What you have offered yourself in this dream imagery is the information that there are more aspects to individuals than merely what may appear to be manifest within this particular dimension.
In this, you are looking for the whole of the individuals within an encasement. You are searching to find these individuals, and you view them to be very tiny and that they shall be within this case.
This is the imagery that you present yourself that one focus, in certain terms, may be considered very tiny as to the whole of essence, but you do not find even these tiny people within this case, for the imagery also suggests to you that regardless that you search for the individual focuses, they may not be contained within an encasement.
Your view yourselves, as I have stated previously, singularly, and to be encased in occupying physical focus as you manifest with this body. But this is not an encasement, and it is not quite as solid as it appears to be within your perception. This be the reason that you may not necessarily find what you are seeking within the case.
In this, you are offering yourself information in conjunction with this information that I have offered at our last meeting – that although there be an essence choosing to be manifest within physical focus, it is not an encasement of one small entity, but this focus holds all of essence.
The reason that you present yourself with these namings is that these two of the parents engage in the agreement or consider the agreement to be entering into with this other essence, in allowance of a new focus.
You image myself in this dream imagery, for I have offered the information and this appears to be unusual, which it is. For the most part I am not offering of this type of information, but as I choose to offer certain elements of information, they are purposeful for those individuals and the direction that those individuals are moving in within that time period, and the information offered may be beneficial and encouraging to them dependent upon the situation and circumstances that they are creating, which may be creating of much conflict within their focus; which these individuals have been creating much elements of conflict, and in a manner of speaking have placed themselves within their creations in the position of not viewing the light at the end of the tunnel. Therefore, encouragement was offered in a manner of allowing a distraction of thought process, that they may choose not to continue to be circling within the groove that they are cutting themselves within.
In this, you image myself in your dream state as participating in this activity and offering helpfulness to them. Therefore, I appear in conjunction with their creation.
You image yourself in participation, for you lend much energy in this direction, and you also participate quite strongly within the belief systems and the officially accepted actions and behaviors of family.
CAROLE: That’s true.
ELIAS: Therefore, you offer yourself imagery within your dream state, in one respect to be offering you information as to the vastness and non-containability of essence, and in another respect to be reinforcing of your own alignment with your belief systems as with regard to family.
Let me also express to you that as I state that you may be in alignment with a particular belief system, this is not wrong. It also is not bad. Certain belief systems that you hold limit your interactions and your creativity, but certain belief systems also offer you comforting, for they are familiar.
It is quite easy for you to view belief systems that you THINK of as negative, and in this move into the direction of discounting them, OR allowing yourself to view yourselves to be very wide (humorously) and examining the aspects of these belief systems, and expressing that you shall be accepting and letting go of these belief systems!
In actuality, for the most part, you view aspects of your belief systems, you label certain belief systems as negative or non-beneficial to you, and in this you attempt to alter, change, or dismiss these belief systems.
But in moving into the area of belief systems that you align with, that you view to be beneficial to you, you become quite comfortable with [these] and you view there is no need to be altering of these belief systems! Your terminology for this is that they are ‘working’ belief systems. (Grinning, and laughter)
They offer you no conflict, and you are correct – some belief systems do NOT create conflict with you. I shall express to you that holding to your belief systems, regardless of your view that they be positive or negative, IS limiting you in some areas.
ALL of the belief systems that you hold to and you are not accepting of shall be limiting you in your creativity and your expressions. This is not bad!
I am quite understanding that this is a very difficult concept for you to understand, for you automatically move into the area of judgment and expressing to yourselves within your thoughts that all of these terms, these words, hold negative connotations.
In your reality, in what you experience, yes, we may express that they may be negative. In a wider viewing of these concepts, they are not negative. These are choices.
But even within those belief systems that you view to be working belief systems – those that you align with and they offer you no conflict – these also are limiting of your own creativity and of widening your awareness, and if allowing yourselves to move into ACCEPTING these belief systems, you may be allowing yourselves to widen your awareness, that you may be accomplishing much more and offering much more, not only to yourselves but to all other individuals within physical focus, in your expression of energy.
Let me be reminding you that holding to the belief systems and not accepting them creates expectations and judgments. All belief systems create judgments and expectations, and these two elements create much of your conflicts, and this is what you seek to be eliminating – your conflict.
I may also express to you that although you may view many belief systems presently as working belief systems, presently – as this shift in consciousness progresses and gains even more momentum in energy – even working belief systems shall be addressed to, and if you are choosing to hold to them, these are the elements that shall be creating trauma.
And as I have expressed to you many times, this be the reason that I speak to you, to be avoiding this trauma that is associated with this shift in consciousness, and you shall hear myself express this more and more, for as you approach the turning of this century – as you approach your new century – this shall gain momentum, and you shall be witnessing and experiencing more and more elements of trauma associated with this shift in consciousness as individuals continue to hold to what they view to be familiar, and this would be holding to these belief systems and holding to familiar behaviors.
Within this shift in consciousness, in the acceptance of belief systems, what you are accomplishing is neutralizing the judgments and expectations.
At our previous meeting, I expressed to you the belief systems that you hold in every aspect of your focus – even to your shoes – and I also expressed to you that although you hold belief systems as to your shoes, that if your shoes are wide enough, it matters not which foot you are placing them upon and they shall fit and they shall not be creating uncomfortableness, but as you continue to hold to not very wide shoes and place them upon opposite feet, you shall be experiencing painfulness.
This tiny little example offers you, slightly, an idea of the action of these belief systems. View them as the shoes that you wear now. They shall not be very comfortable in placing them upon different feet, but if you are stretching these shoes, regardless of their style, it shall matter not, and this would be the point.
(Vic’s note: The shoe analogy is a great example, go to session 339, November 13, 1998.)
ELIAS: I am not expressing to you that your alignment with belief systems of relationship in the area of family – of your emotions, of your compassion or love in the direction of family members – is wrong.
I am merely expressing to you that there is a very strong influence of the belief system of relationship and the aspects that address to family, and in this it may be limiting to you, for it automatically sets expectations and judgments in these areas and automatically also sets yourselves in positions for disappointments, for you experience disappointments when expectations are not met, and THIS be the area of the limitations; in which, if addressing to these areas and allowing yourself an acceptance in this area, you also offer yourself the freedom to view and perceive these individuals with freedom and be accepting of all of their actions and choices, recognizing that they are vaster beings than what you merely view physically and that they are efficiently creating their reality, regardless of any other individuals’ opinion. (10-second pause)
CAROLE: Yep! I know that’s true! There are times when I forget that it’s true, but I know that it’s true.
ELIAS: I do not offer this information that you be chastising yourself or that you be discounting yourself, for this is very unnecessary. It is merely an opportunity to view how you may widen your periphery, not to be expressing, ‘I have not accomplished and I have created wrong behavior once again.’ No, no, no, no, no!
It is not a question of wrong behavior. It is not a question of wrong belief systems! It is an opportunity to view how you may widen your periphery and encompass more of your own creativity and abilities, and in that expression, the automatic byproduct is the allowance of other individuals to be expressing freely also.
CAROLE: So that you’re not placing any expectations on them, whether it’s verbalized or inferred.
ELIAS: Correct, and this lends energy to the whole.
I am also aware that you each view yourselves as these tiny little persons, (grinning) and that you are so very singular and individual and small! And how may you be affecting of the mass, as you are merely one individual? But one individual is affecting of ALL, much more than you realize.
Each of you is not only affecting of all of the individuals that you physically encounter, but of all consciousness ... and do not think that you are NOT affecting within consciousness! Regardless that you physically view your affectingness, it matters not. It IS occurring.
Even within your physical day, you do not allow yourselves the awareness of HOW you are affecting, within all of your movements, within all of your moments.
Just as we have offered the exercise in clarity (22), that you may become more aware of your own outer senses and the manipulation of them ... for you do not pay attention to your own manipulation of your own senses. You also do not pay attention to your affectingness throughout one day – each individual that you encounter, that you touch – and the affectingness that is occurring in the energy exchange that you offer with every individual that you interact with.
For the most part, were I to inquire of you, ‘How many individuals have you encountered this day? And recount to me each individual! What was your interaction?’ For the most part, you would not be remembering, for you are not paying attention. But you are affecting of each of these individuals that you encounter, for you are creating an energy exchange with each of these individuals in every action that you create throughout your day.
Think to yourselves of all of the mundane actions that you have engaged within this one day and all of the individuals that you have encountered, and what has been your energy exchange with each of them? You have exchanged, and you have been affecting!
Now; you may express to me, ‘How is this relating to me and my experience and my belief systems?’ If you are interacting with your belief systems and you are placing yourself in conflict in response to your belief systems and holding to your own energy, as we spoke at our last meeting, you shall be affecting of each individual that you encounter in what you term to be negative energy, and this is what you shall project, and it SHALL be affecting, and it shall also be reinforcing of the energy to be holding to belief systems, which is set forth throughout consciousness in like manner to any preacher upon their soap box expressing the doom of Armageddon, of the end of your world. Their expression is no greater than your growl to an individual within an exchange in your market, for there is no measure of these expressions. One is not greater than the other. They are ALL affecting.
YOU look to expressions and measure them. Some expressions are small, some expressions are large. Within consciousness, they are all affecting. Therefore, it matters not that you may be shouting to many individuals of negative prophecies or that you may be lending energy in holding to belief systems – you are accomplishing the same action. You are NOT moving in the direction of lending energy to the acceptance and to the movement of this shift in consciousness.
I am quite aware that what I express to you holds great responsibility and appears to you as a very large job for each of you to be accomplishing, but be remembering that you have drawn yourselves to this forum.
Therefore, you have chosen to be moving in this direction and accepting this information, knowing that you hold the ability to be helpful in accomplishing yourselves first, and in that, offering helpfulness to other individuals as the sapling, (pause) which shall be MUCH more effective than much of your language.
(Smiling) Individuals have listened to language for centuries. Other individuals are not so very different from yourselves! You are tired of talking, and they are tired of talking too. You look to actions, examples, and in this you look to the saplings ... and YOU are the saplings! Be remembering, the ‘they’ is you!
CAROLE: There’s this feeling that I get a lot, as I keep learning more and more about the things that you teach us and understanding and coming to realizations by myself – this is going to be really hard for me to verbalize – and all of a sudden I feel like sometimes I’ve learned so much and I know so much and had it become a part of me that I really know it, that I’m not just trying to decide if I know it, and it almost feels like nothing that I can say is worth saying anymore. It just seems so much bigger than that. I’m not explaining it too well, but it’s like, I just feel like just quietly shutting down and living my life, because it’s way too big to say these things or anything or to try to figure out how to say it, so it seems easier not to say it, and that’s kind of where I’m at lately.
And then sometimes I just feel like, well, if I’m helping the whole of consciousness by all these things that I’ve learned and really understand, and saying it is just going to be more talk, and some people will interpret it just to be more of what they’ve read maybe in the last five books ... and then it just seems like, why am I still here? What am I still doing here?
ELIAS: This is a question that many individuals inquire within themselves. I express to you that in accomplishing within self, you may choose a direction of being the slapling. In this, you continue to lend energy to the movement within this shift in consciousness.
It is not requiring of a crusade! You are not within the middle ages! We are not engaging the Crusades for Christianity! We are engaging a shift in consciousness, which is global and which moves with energy, and not necessarily in the conventional terms, so to speak. But ALL of your movements lend energy to lessening the trauma of OTHER individuals within their movements.
In this, you may choose to be moving in the direction that is offering YOU pleasure, in which YOU find comfort, and in which YOU experience what you term to be happiness – all of which is an element of your value fulfillment – and in THIS expression, you lend energy to the accomplishment of this shift.
CAROLE: So, don’t worry, be happy! (Laughter)
ELIAS: Quite! And I have expressed often, seek pleasure! For this is the natural inclination of essence, and allows you less thickness within energy and more of an ease in your movement within your focus.
Ah, but your belief systems dictate to you that pleasure is taboo, for there are many, many ‘wrongs’ surrounding much of your physical pleasures ... and your physical pleasures are certainly not very spiritual! (Grinning)
All of your focus encompasses spirituality, for spirituality is the whole of you. Denying any element of it is not experiencing all of your spirituality.
CAROLE: ... When people trust themselves and they’re just chock-full of obvious, blatant belief systems, is that something that’s desirable? Because it just seems like they have a confidence of attitude, but they’re just belief systems. It’s not ... do you understand what I’m trying to say?
ELIAS: As I expressed to you in our last meeting, every element within your physical focus moves in conjunction with a belief system. Therefore, one individual may be expressing in a manner that appears overt as expressions of belief systems, and another individual may not be as obvious in their expression of belief systems, but you ALL express through the perception of your belief systems. Therefore, there is no difference, in that you hold belief systems.
Now; there are differences in how you may hold to your belief systems, for some individuals look to their belief systems and ARE viewing the aspects of their belief systems and ARE addressing to these and ARE letting go and ARE moving in the direction of acceptance, and this creates quite a difference in perception and behavior. There are other individuals that hold very tightly to their belief systems and continue in this manner, and THAT is creating of conflict and judgment.
An individual that is holding very tightly to their belief systems and pompously parading themselves about with these belief systems, as you are expressing, is not expressing an acceptance of self. It may appear in this manner outwardly to your thought process or to what you hear, but these individuals are not truly accepting of self, for in the acceptance of self, you begin to lessen your hold upon these belief systems.
(Intently) This be the reason that I am so very advocating of your acceptance and trust of self first – BEFORE ALL OTHER ACTIONS – for this automatically facilitates your movement into acceptance of belief systems.
For many of your judgments are based in your own lack of acceptance of self, and in accepting self in all areas, it becomes unnecessary to be justifying self in ANY area, and if you hold no need to be justifying self in any area, you are not placing judgment upon self and you are not placing judgment upon other individuals, and this automatically lends to the acceptance of belief systems.
If you look to your ideas – your concepts of your domino theories – you may view self and the acceptance of self as the one pin that may push over all the other pins.” [session 347, December 11, 1998]
KRISTIN: “The main reason I’m doing this right now is because I feel that I’m at an impasse in my life. I have some excellent opportunities in front of me. I have an opportunity to stay in the United States and teach and build a good career here, or I have the opportunity to go to Europe and be with my boyfriend Frederick and hope to do something productive there. I know that you can’t make the decision for me, but I’m hoping to get some insight on all this. I know I have belief systems getting in my way, things like that. Can you give me some insight on this?
ELIAS: Very well. Addressing to this situation, you are dealing with mass belief systems that concern the appearance of being responsible and productive within your society.
KRISTIN: Yes, exactly.
ELIAS: In this, the reason that you experience what you may term to be this tug of war, so to speak, is that you influence yourself by aligning with the mass belief system that you SHOULD be creating a productive, responsible contribution to yourself and your society, and in this, the choice would be to be remaining in the location that you are presently and engaging your career, in a manner of speaking.
Now; in moving outside of the mass belief system and allowing yourself to venture into the unfamiliar, and also into a wider awareness by opening to your periphery, you may choose to be removing yourself from this situation and physically moving your location to this other area of which you speak. In this, what you are presenting yourself with is not merely the movement outside of the mass belief system, but you are mirroring this movement in physical objective action by altering your physical location and placing yourself in the objective imagery of unfamiliarity. This provides you the opportunity to objectively practice your trust of self and move more efficiently into your expression of acceptance of self and your own creations, allowing you more and more to be trusting your own creativity and your own abilities. Are you understanding?
KRISTIN: Absolutely.
ELIAS: Therefore, although you are correct – I shall not be expressing to you the direction that you SHOULD be moving into, for this is your choice and you shall be following your value fulfillment regardless. But I shall offer to you that have created a line of probabilities before you that you may quite efficiently move into and be accomplishing much within your own movement, shall you be choosing to not be aligning with the mass belief systems and to allow yourself the opportunity to move into the area of unfamiliarity.
KRISTIN: You mean Europe, if I choose Europe.
ELIAS: Correct.
KRISTIN: Okay! That is a brilliant answer, and very, very helpful.
ELIAS: Be understanding that I am quite aware of the difficulties within physical focus that this shall be presenting to you, and you also hold an awareness. Regardless of the romanticizing of this movement, there are also quite realistic situations involved with this type of movement that may be creating of certain elements of conflict. But within these conflicts, you may be eliminating the conflict by offering yourself and allowing yourself the opportunity to be trusting in your own creations, and not allowing yourself to be influenced and swayed by other individuals that shall align with the mass belief systems.
KRISTIN: Okay. You’re quite right; it does bring up many conflicts. One conflict, as silly as this might sound, (Elias grins) involves my dog. I took on the responsibility of a small dog a couple of years ago, and I would like her to be with me eventually in Europe, but I don’t want to put her on the plane and put her in a bad situation where she might be uncomfortable. That’s just one such conflict. Are there ways of dealing with these types of conflicts?
ELIAS: This also, be realizing, is quite influenced by your belief systems, for your belief system of comfort is influenced by your perception, and vice versa. (23)
In this, I have stated many times that your belief systems are creating of your perception, and in certain situations, your perception may be also influencing of belief systems that you already hold, in reinforcing them.
What I am expressing to you is that at times you may hold certain belief systems, and subsequently offer yourself experiences or information via other individuals or circumstances that shall influence your perception. Therefore, your perception, then, is reinforcing and influencing of the belief system that you already hold.
In this, you hold belief systems in the area of comfort for this creature, and other creatures also. In this belief system, you create a fearfulness within yourself that harmfulness may befall this creature if you are engaging transportation within the mode that is available to you presently in movement to another country.
In this, you may not transport this creature by land. Therefore, this creates doubtfulness within you to the safety of this creature, but I express to you that this also is an opportunity for you to view how you are creating your reality in conjunction and agreement with this creature, by trusting yourself and your creations and your influence.
As you turn attention to trusting the safety of this creature and allowing yourself the knowing that no harmfulness shall befall it, you also shall influence the creation that is manifest jointly between yourself and this creature, and it shall arrive safely at its new destination. Are you understanding?
KRISTIN: ... Okay, this is excellent information, and I appreciate it! My next question is, do I still have the same essence family and alignments that I had last time we met?
ELIAS: Yes.
KRISTIN: Okay. It’s Milumet?
ELIAS: Correct.
KRISTIN: With Sumari and Tumold, is it?
ELIAS: Tumold, yes. (Correcting pronunciation)
KRISTIN: Tumold.
ELIAS: Yes.
KRISTIN: Why do I have two alliances [alignments]? How does that help me?
ELIAS: At times, essences choose to be incorporating more than one essence family or more than one essence family alignment. This offers them a difference in more of a diversity within their intent, and therefore is offering them of a different type of experience within physical focus.
Incorporating these two families, as aligning with them in this focus, offers you a playfulness in conjunction with healing aspects.
Therefore, you allow yourself not to be so very serious in the area of healing, which also offers you the direction of movement into expressions of healing that may not necessarily be aligned with the mass belief systems of healing, and therefore, you may be expressing of this action in quite creative actions.
KRISTIN: Have I been healing others, and if not, how do I move more into that type of action?
ELIAS: You are quite influencing in this area already, although individuals may not necessarily recognize this action in the terms of healing. But if allowing yourself to be questioning other individuals, you may also find that they hold an awareness of healing aspects that you offer to them in fun-lovingness and in your ability to not align with mass belief systems, and also in your ability to be offering a light-heartedness in different types of situations.
In this, your presence offers a healing element, and the energy that you exude merely within your presence is that element that offers the healing aspect of your intent.
KRISTIN: Okay! Speaking of intents, I’m starting to understand a little bit more about my intent. Can you help me to understand MORE about it? What is my intent here on this earth in this lifetime, and how can I better fulfill my potential?
ELIAS: Let me express to you that you ARE fulfilling your intent and your value fulfillment, and you may continue to move in this direction efficiently by addressing to your own individual belief systems and moving yourself into more of an expression of acceptance of self, for as you are accomplishing of this, you are also increasing the energy that you project outwardly to other individuals and you are offering them the example in the manner of the little sapling, which provides them the opportunity to also be looking to self, and this is influencing within consciousness, in lending energy to their acceptance and trust of their own creations.
This would be the element of your intent within this particular focus, quite aligning with this shift in consciousness.
Also within your intent, you offer the example and the information to other individuals – incorporating the Milumet – that the genuine expression of spirituality is NOT an action which is to be attained and outside of yourself, but that the expression of spirituality is to be incorporating ALL of self, physical and non-physical, together in harmony, not discounting any aspect of self as non-spiritual, and allowing one’s self to be moving into the freedom of spontaneity and trusting of each individual’s own creations, not necessarily aligning with the mass belief systems. Are you understanding?
KRISTIN: Yes, I am! So I’m kind of what I feel like I’ve always been. I’m definitely a learner, but I am partly also a teacher.
ELIAS: Quite.
KRISTIN: Okay, but at the same time, I still am aligning with some mass belief systems that have caused me great pain this last year. I’m speaking now of some of my anxiety attacks, feeling like I have to be responsible ... can you go into this area and help me clear that up? I want to work on the areas in which I still have to improve myself.
ELIAS: In this, as I have stated previously within this particular session, as you allow yourself to be more accepting of self and more trusting of your own expressions and your own creativity, you also shall begin to relax your hold upon these issues and these belief systems.
Be remembering that each belief system holds very many aspects. Therefore, as you allow yourself to view all of the different birds within each of these bird cages of belief systems, you shall also allow yourself to view how much more efficient it may be to be discontinuing feeding these birds and allowing them to fly free out of these bird cages.
In this, each time you are experiencing conflict and confusion, you may turn your attention to your belief systems and view which bird you are presently giving attention to, and in this, you may refrain from continuing to feed that particular bird, allowing yourself more of your own freedom of expression, and this shall be reinforcing of your own trust of self.
I express to you that each time you are allowing yourself to view the accomplishment of your own trustfulness of self, you shall reinforce your own acceptance, and in this, you shall move more and more efficiently into the effortlessness of your own expressions, which shall be enhancing of the expression of your intent within this particular focus, and it shall be influencing in discontinuing your creation of conflict.
In this, CONFLICT IS UNNECESSARY. It is a manifestation of the limitations that you place upon yourself in alignment with your own belief systems.
Now; be remembering – and also ALLOWING – the influence and expression of your Milumet, in the remembrance that belief systems in themselves, as the cage, are neutral. Therefore, do not be placing judgment upon the belief systems, expressing to yourself that they be bad or good and that certain belief systems need be eliminated.
Merely allow yourself your own spirituality to be expressed in the recognition that the conflicts arise in your expression of the aspects of belief systems, in which you place judgments and in which you reinforce the belief system of duplicity.
KRISTIN: Which belief should I start with if I want to start getting through this? Is there a particular belief that I can begin with?
ELIAS: You may begin with the belief of responsibility.
KRISTIN: Okay.
ELIAS: In this, as in the expression of all other belief systems, there are many aspects that are contained within the belief system. Therefore, in other terms, there are many birds within the cage, and they may disguise or camouflage themselves quite efficiently.
In this, the bird of justification aligns itself quite efficiently with many of the birds in the cage of responsibility.
Therefore, I caution you in the area of the aspects that you view to be good, not necessarily to be focusing so intensely upon the areas of this belief system that you view to be bad, so to speak, for as you identify negativity in this belief system of responsibility, these birds present themselves quite obviously! But the birds that disguise themselves as good are not quite so obvious for your viewing, for you automatically are accepting of them and continue to be feeding them. Therefore, your attention is not necessarily turned objectively in viewing the birds that you view to be good.
KRISTIN: ... Okay! Very helpful. My other question is about my writing. (Sighing) I’ve had luck with