the belief system of sexuality; gender, orientation (common, intermediate, soft), and preference, pt. 1
Note: this is the first of two parts on sexuality. Go to sexuality; gender, orientation, preference, pt. 2.
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VICKI: “I have a question. You were talking about duality. I didn’t really catch everything you said, but you were talking about duality and how there are no opposites, but then I think you also said something about why we have ... we’re double? If you could just reiterate? I didn’t really ... I missed it.”
ELIAS: “You hold belief systems of opposites. Therefore presently, they are reality to you. In actuality, this is merely a perception within a lack of understanding. As you move into your shift you shall be widening your awareness, and therefore understand that the idea of opposites is merely a perception which is created within a lack of understanding objectively.
“As to the doubles: The entirety of your physical creation within this dimension is based on duality, objective and subjective. Therefore, all of your creation mirrors this. In this particular dimension and this reality, as I have expressed to you many times, you have chosen to create this reality within a sexual orientation – male and female. You have created genders, this also being an element of duality – the doubles. You hold this within your own self. You have created your own form in this manner.” [session 193, July 13, 1997]
ELIAS: “The five elements of your reality, concerning sexuality in this dimension, are two genders and three orientations. This is five.
“Gender is a physical body type, male or female, which holds a specific function for the design of reproduction.
“Orientation is your perception of yourself, your world, your universe, and how you are interactive with it.” [session 361, February 12, 1999]
ELIAS: “The designation for these [orientations] shall be soft, intermediate, and common. These may be associated with what you term to be homosexual, female, and male, but I wish not be reinforcing the existing belief system and your identification with it. Therefore, I am designating new terminology for these three types of orientation within your physical focus, that you may not necessarily identify orientation with gender, for they are quite different expressions.
“Gender is merely your physical manifestation of body type and function. It is not that element which is creating or affecting your perception and how you view yourself and how you view your world, or how you process information. It is merely a function and a designation of type of form.
“Orientation is quite different, in that this is the element which is underlyingly, all-encompassingly affecting of your perception, which is your reality. This is how you view yourself, how you interact with yourself, how you view other individuals, how you interact with other individuals, how you perceive your world and how you interact with it, your societies, and all of your reality. THIS is your orientation.” [session 377, March 23, 1999]
ELIAS: “... let us be clear in our identification of what sexuality is.
“There is one element of your creation of sexuality which is gender. You have created two genders for your species within this dimension. In actuality, all of your species are within the realm of two genders. This is defined by male and female.
“The definition of gender within male and female is a body type and function. This is all. This is your designation of gender. It extends no further. This is the beginning of your confusion within this belief of sexuality, for you attach gender to all aspects of your reality and you define many elements of your reality within the context of gender. Gender is merely a body type and function.
“There are three other elements of your sexuality which compose the wholeness of sexuality. These three other elements are your orientation.
“Orientation is quite different from gender. Orientation is your perception: how you view yourselves, how you view your world, how you interact with yourself, how you interact with all other individuals, how you interact with your environment. It is the most influencing element which creates your perception. Your perception creates your reality. In this, there are three orientations of perception.
“Now; you – within your beliefs attaching to gender – define these three orientations as male, female, and other, or your terminology being homosexual. Now; how may you be presenting male/female gender, male/female/homosexual orientation? Male and female may not cross to orientation. These are body types and functions, not orientations. They are not perceptions.
“Therefore, I designate to you – as you do not hold terminology within your language to identify your orientations – new terminology to be identifying your orientations, and I shall offer comparison within your belief system ONCE merely, as to not be reinforcing the ongoing of your belief system in this area.
“The terminology that we shall define orientation with shall be designated as soft, intermediate, and common. These shall designate the three different types of orientation within your sexuality which create your perception.” [session 378, March 26, 1999]
ELIAS: “You hold two genders within this physical dimension. You create your vegetation with genders, you create your creatures with genders, you create yourselves with genders. These genders are male and female.
(Firmly) “Gender is a physical function and body type. Period. It extends no farther.
“Now; view the extent of your belief system involving sexuality, in that you identify much of your reality with relation to gender: male elements, female elements; left male, right female; moon female, sun male; certain constellations female, certain other constellations male; gods and goddesses. You attribute male and female to qualities that you hold: intellectual, rational, masculine, male; intuitional, emotional, female. You identify very much of your reality within the context of gender.
“Gender is one element of sexuality. As I have stated, it is merely a body type and function. It refers to no other element of your sexual orientation or your sexuality in general, so to speak.
“Beyond gender, the other element of your sexuality is orientation.
“Now; I have expressed to you previously – within our last meeting – that you may view your sexuality as holding five elements: two genders, three orientations. This is five elements, in like manner to five outer senses, and I shall repeat once again, they may NOT be interchanged. You may not place a triangular peg into a round hole. It shall not fit. You may not interchange gender with orientation. You may not substitute taste with hearing. You may not identify orientation with gender. They are very different elements.” [session 381, April 09, 1999]
ELIAS: “Now I shall express to you your identifications of heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual. These are choices. These are objective choices of expression and experience. They are not associated with gender; they are not associated with orientation. They are merely choices that you create objectively, and may apply to either gender. These are gender definitions that you have attached to your belief systems in identifying different mannerisms, associating those choices and those mannerisms – or preferences – with gender and defining them as orientation, and they are not.
“I shall also express briefly that your intent – as associated with families and alignment with families – is also not your orientation. Therefore, do not confuse these qualities either, for individuals are already confusing intent and qualities of their essence families and alignments with essence families to the qualities of orientations, and they are not related.” [session 381, April 09, 1999]
ELIAS: “Now; in conclusion, I wish to be expressing quite definitely to you each, and to all individuals that shall be connecting with this information: no one orientation is better than any other orientation! They are merely different, and you each experience them all.
“Therefore, you may relieve yourselves of your automatic action of moving into areas of expression that one orientation is more desirable than another orientation, for you all experience them all in different focuses. One is merely different.
“Therefore, if you are identified as common, you are not ‘less than’ intermediate. You are no less spiritual or enlightened! If you are soft, you are no less connected to essence or your manifestation than be you intermediate. They are merely different. They are not better or worse. I have merely chosen this word common, for it IS common. Therefore, it is efficient, and it is descriptive in the manner that it is intended to be descriptive.
“Soft is descriptive in the manner of its intention also. These individuals, in your identification of the word soft, may be identified as this. Soft is not necessarily a negative term. It is merely pliable, and these individuals of soft are very flexible.
“Intermediate is what you would term to be in-between. They function within your physical universe – they interact within your physical world – but they create not physically. Therefore, you may express that they are here and they are there, wherever ‘there’ may be!” (Chuckling) [session 381, April 09, 1999]
ELIAS: “Water is water, and earth is earth. And you may mix these together, but water shall not be earth, and earth shall not be water, for they are different elements. And you may mix together your orientations with each other, and you may mix together orientation and preference, but they are different elements. You may incorporate them alongside of each other, but they are not each other.” [session 387, April 24, 1999]
ELIAS: “The influence of your belonging to and aligning with these families in consciousness is that of intent. This is the element within your reality that designates the direction of your intent within an individual focus, the direction that you choose. Your orientation holds its own qualities that are specific to each of the orientations, and this is how you PERCEIVE.” [session 387, April 24, 1999]
ELIAS: “Let me express to you, each expression of these three orientations move in a direction with regard to your officially accepted reality and express different types of frustrations as you bump against the officially accepted reality, for within the officially accepted reality, you have collectively created a very narrow margin for expressions, which leans more in the direction of accommodation to those individuals holding the orientation of common. But even these individuals at times rail against the officially accepted reality, for they may experience certain elements of uncomfortableness and assuming personal responsibility and guilt in being the more acceptable expression ... which I am understanding may appear surfacely to be contradictory or confusing.
“But look to your individual thought processes and experiences within your everyday reality. Individuals that are viewed as privileged within your reality also many times experience uncomfortableness in that privilege, and are also quite opposed by the other individuals that do not view themselves as being privileged also. Therefore, I express to you that each of the orientations holds its individual challenges.” [session 406, May 28, 1999]
ELIAS: “This subject of orientation is concerning the subject matter of perception and how you are creating your reality, how you are interpreting, how you are translating all of the imagery within your reality.” [session 433, July 28, 1999]
ELIAS: “Now; let me express to you, as you are aware, there is a distinction that we are expressing between preference and orientation.
“In this, I express to you, yes, your preference is influencing of your perception, just as your belief systems are influencing of your perception. Many, many elements of your focus, of your reality, are influencing of your perception. This is not what we are expressing in the subject matter of orientation. Orientation is different.
“Your preferences are affecting of your perception. Your belief systems are affecting of your perception. Your orientation is an element that is FORMING your perception. It is not influencing of it. It is an element of it.” [session 446, August 15, 1999]
ELIAS: “Many times individuals may be offered an essence name and family within one time framework, and within a different time framework, the essence name may be offered differently.
“One of actions which occurs in conjunction with that information is the action of fragmentation. Another action which may be occurring is the expression of the focus itself, in conjunction with the manifestation of that focus, with more than one essence.
“Within one time framework, so to speak, the individual may be focusing their attention in the direction of one essence family and alignment and their participation with a particular essence, and within another time framework, their attention may be in alignment with a different essence, and also essence family and alignment.
“Now; let me also express to you, in these situations, at times but not often – and I shall emphasize that statement; not often – an individual may even be experiencing momentary alterations in orientation, although this may be viewed as quite rare.” [session 570, February 22, 2000]
ELIAS: “As I have stated previously, generally speaking, orientation is the choice of the individual focus, and although a fragmentation or any other action within essence occurs and may be altering of tone and even families, the orientation of the individual focus does not alter ... although I shall express for clarification, once again, this also is not an absolute.
“But generally speaking, this action is not occurring. The individual focus generally is not altering of that orientation, regardless of the alteration of other elements within the focus, and within that particular focus of which I am speaking, the orientation is also not altered. It has been merely a momentary expression in a type of transition.
“But this is also information that you may be allowing yourself to be incorporating within your familiarization with self. Generally speaking, regardless of the alteration of tone of essence, which may be affecting of your focus, your orientation is the choice of this particular attention, this particular focus, for a particular experience, in conjunction with the choice of manifestation.” [session 571, February 25, 2000]
ELIAS: “I may express to you, you do incorporate many similar beliefs to many other individuals in mass beliefs in association with certain aspects of sexuality.
“Now; one of these aspects of sexuality concerns gender and the association that you hold with this subject matter of gender, how you perceive genders. For in this, you quite align with a belief that the two genders of male and female are quite different and in that difference you associate certain qualities with male and certain qualities with female. This creates an obstacle, for you are attributing qualities to a gender which are not necessarily expressed in association with the gender itself.
“Gender is an expression of physical body consciousness in form and function. It is not a designation of specific types of behaviors or intuitive or intellectual qualities. It is not also associated with expressions concerning emotion, for emotion is a communication and all individuals incorporate this, but there are very strongly held mass beliefs which do express associations of specific qualities that are attributed to the male or female gender. This becomes confusing to many individuals with respect to relationships.
“Now; within the movement of the societies in which you participate in what you view as your previous century, in time factor including now, there have been specific movements and associations in alignment with the mass beliefs concerning qualities and behaviors of specific genders which reinforce these beliefs. The reason this has been expressed in greater strength in this previous century and incorporated in this century is actually associated with this shift in consciousness, but in a misinterpretation.” [session 928, October 16, 2001]
DONNA: “I had a feeling I was soft when I was younger, and then at some point I changed to common, and now I sort of have an understanding of both, or maybe I have like a soft ... I don’t know, like I’m switching back to soft.” (Pause)
ELIAS: “Quite perceptive!”
DONNA: “Oh! That explains a lot of things!”
HOWARD: “Make up your mind!”
ELIAS: “It is not an action that is incorporated very frequently. In actuality, it would be an action that is quite rare. Most focuses do not change orientation throughout the entirety of the focus. Even if there is a fragmentation or alteration of some other type with the focus, generally speaking the focus maintains one orientation throughout.
“But as I have expressed previously, it is not a rule and it does occur occasionally, dependent upon the exploration of the individual and the direction of their experiences and also in association with the intent. It may be an action that one focus may choose to incorporate.”
DONNA: “So I feel like I’m moving in the direction of switching back to soft, or I’m kind of on the cusp.”
ELIAS: “Have already.”
DONNA: “Thank you.”
ELIAS: “You are quite welcome.” [session 1574, June 05, 2004]
ELIAS: “... Within one day – each day – not to concern yourself with subsequent days but in the present day, evaluate what you are doing. If you face yourself with what you perceive to be choice in ANY expression, whether it shall be to participate in this conversation or to participate in a socialization with other individuals or whether you shall consume water or whether you shall consume another beverage, whatever you perceive as choices that you are engaging, it is a matter of listening to you.
“The manner in which you listen to you is you pay attention to your communications and signals emotionally. If you hesitate in relation to a choice, the likelihood is that that choice is NOT your preference. If you experience ease in a choice, it generally IS a preference.
“Preferences are not enormous expressions that are solidified. Individuals become confused in relation to preferences, for they do not recognize that they are engaging preferences or not preferences in many different mundane actions. You may incorporate a preference of what type of shoes you choose and the shape of them. That is a preference that influences your choices.
“Paying attention to what you are actually doing and how you are responding to yourself in relation to your choices, THAT is how you evaluate what are your right choices. There are no absolute right choices.
“But in association with what we are discussing this day, we are not incorporating the idea that there is no right and wrong. For within each of you, you do express right and wrong, which is quite associated with the subject matter of this discussion of your greatest fear and your greatest irritation. For were you not to incorporate the association of right and wrong, you would not incorporate the greatest fear or the greatest irritation.
“What the right choices for you are what allows you your freedom. What the right choices for you are what expresses your preferences. What the right choices for you are those that acknowledge you, that allow you to experience, express and be aware of your own freedom, of your own strength, of your own power, and not denying yourself. What the wrong choices for you are those that deny you. That is the most significant.” [session 1742, April 02, 2005]
ELIAS: “... Remember, your preferences are merely preferred beliefs. Therefore, they are your beliefs that you prefer, and that constitutes your guidelines in association with your truths. Within your truths, there is some element of preference also. They are what is right for you, for this is the manner in which you set your guidelines of how you shall behave and what you shall express. Preferences change, which is also your indicator that they are not absolute and that your truths are not absolute, either.
“What is significant in this type of situation is to recognize what YOUR truth is, your guideline for you, and not to discount that, to recognize what your preference is and not to discount that either, and not to prevent yourself from expressing your preference but not to match energy in opposition with other individuals that you express their unfairness – which generates an energy of matching energy with the other individuals, which is another form of opposition.
“That is the point. It is unnecessary to be opposing. It is unnecessary to compete. In generating that action, you generate an irritation within yourself for you are holding absolutely to your preference and your opinion.
“Your opinion and your preference are not wrong. As I have stated, they are your guidelines. I have expressed from the onset of this forum that although you are shifting and although you are accepting your beliefs, you are not eliminating them, and in not eliminating them, you shall continue to incorporate your own preferences and your own opinions. They are not wrong, for they are YOUR guidelines, but that they do not necessarily apply to other individuals.” [session 1742, April 02, 2005]
ELIAS: “You have chosen, within physical manifestation, elements to be expressed. You have chosen to manifest within sexes. It is unnecessary for you to be manifesting with sexual orientation if you are only viewing essence. If you are viewing experience within physical focus, you have chosen to separate out elements of essence, and experience these elements within their purity physically. Therefore, you choose to manifest with regard to sexual orientation.
I will express to you that if you are viewing male and female to be identical, other than your physical-appearing appendages, you are incorrect; for within the psyche of male and female, you incorporate differences. This you have manifest intentionally, for the purity of the experience of different aspects of essence.
If you are viewing small children and allowing these children to be expressing freely within their play, you will view female children, separate from incorporated belief systems, to be exhibiting what you view to be female behavior. You may view male children that have not been inundated with your male belief systems, and they will exhibit what you view to be male behavior.
This, as I state now, is not accidental. It is not environmentally influenced. Although you encourage this action, it would exist regardless; for within your expression into physical focus, you have chosen to be expressing within male and female psyches. In this, you exhibit different behavior, different emotional expressions, different thought processes. You allow yourselves the opportunity to be experiencing a purity of an aspect of essence, within an individual focus.
Just as we have expressed previously, you mirror mass events within your individual expressions. In this, your mass events of your religious period, and now your approaching shift, also is mirrored by your expressions of male and female. In this, you tend to view too small, expressing that you view your world to be moving into a more female-oriented mode. In actuality, your globe is moving into this type of intuitive expression of essence, which you identify as female.
Just as we have expressed previously, if you are a wealthy individual wishing to experience poverty, you shall not experience the purity of this expression by removing yourself from your wealth, for you incorporate the experience of the wealth; therefore the purity of the poverty is tainted. In like manner, you chose a purity of expression in manifesting as male or female, allowing yourselves physical, emotional, mental, and also spiritual differences.
Each sexual orientation holds its own experience that you benefit from; this being also the reason that if you are engaging the agreement to be manifesting physically, you shall agree to be manifesting three times, to the least, within your expressions. This affords you the opportunity of viewing and experiencing one male orientation, and all of the psychological, physical, and emotional elements involved in this manifestation, one female, and one ‘other,’ (grinning) incorporating a blend; although to this time period present, you have not understood the expression of the other, for the incorporation of the manifestation of the other is to experience the mesh of both.
In this, you allow yourselves the opportunity to partially, individually be viewing the manifestation of your shift, not within its beginning throes, but in its later development; for within the beginnings of this shift, you are ‘swinging’ to the female expression, realizing within your focus that you incorporate a necessity for valuing the intuitive self. You have allowed yourself an understanding that there are other elements of yourself, objective and subjective, that you do not view. You have learned, through your expression physically, that you are also more than the sum of your parts. Therefore, you hold a desire to experience more of yourself. As you move into the beginnings of your shift, you experience the quieter, more intuitive self. You allow yourself more of a connection with individual and also mass consciousness.
Mass connections within consciousness have always, within your manifestations physically, occurred. Your awareness of these mass connections has not always occurred! Presently, you begin to view the interconnectedness of all individuals. This is not to say that there have not been isolated groups of individuals throughout your history that have held an awareness of the interconnectedness of all of you, but within a global recognition, this has not occurred; this being part of the manifestation of your shift. Therefore, you may communicate, yes, you move into a more female-oriented area of consciousness in engaging this shift, although this is not to say that the females shall now be ruling your planet! (Grinning) You shall not be moving into your stories of science-fiction, in which the males are now dominated by female dictatorship! (Laughter) That is, unless you are choosing to be manifesting this, but I will venture to express that you will not be choosing this expression, for you are realizing that it is unnecessary.” [session 100, June 16, 1996]
ROB: “We have spoken in our other conversation about my tendency not to interact with others, and how this extends to my sexual experience. (1) This has produced inner confusion. Could you comment on my sexual orientation in this focus, please?
ELIAS: I am aware that there are confusions within certain individuals as they choose to be manifesting within this dimension of physical focuses. In this, let me express to you that the belief systems which are held en masse are very strong and they are quite influencing, not merely in mass expressions, but very influencing within individual expressions. The belief system of duplicity is intertwined with all of your other belief systems. Therefore, it also is quite influencing.
In this, duplicity is the belief system that influences much of your judgments in aspects of your other belief systems, expressing to you that aspects of the belief systems are good or bad, and this is quite influencing.
Now; I have expressed many times that you manifest within this particular dimension to be experiencing physically the manifestation of sexuality and of emotion. In this, you create genders to be experiencing more fully different aspects of sexual orientation and events. The confusion in many individuals, and yourself also, arises in the situation that you are quite influenced by the mass belief systems that certain orientations within sexual areas are acceptable, and certain orientations are not acceptable.
I am not expressing to you that there is a difference in the manifestations of individuals within this time framework as opposed to other time frameworks within this dimension, for individuals manifesting within this particular dimension have always manifested within these three types of sexual orientation for the experience, but there IS a difference of quality and understanding within the manifestations of sexual orientation within this time framework presently, for you are within the action of this shift in consciousness. Therefore, there is a new influence which is occurring.
(Grinning) I am well aware that you are viewing this is not quite answering of your question (Rob laughs) and that I am becoming quite long-winded in this area, but this is quite purposeful to your understanding. In this, I am offering you explanation that shall be coupled with the definitive answer, that you may more efficiently assimilate the answer and not automatically move in the direction of the mass held belief systems and be more accepting of your own choices, for I shall express to you that within this particular physical focus, you have chosen to be experiencing ‘other.’ You merely have moved through this particular focus not acknowledging this to yourself objectively, and in this you have been attempting to be aligning with the massly held belief systems, and you DO, in certain aspects, align with the mass held belief systems. Therefore, they are quite influencing of you.
Let me also very clearly express to you that although certain individuals move into much of a physical exploration of this particular orientation within physical focus, this is not to say that all focuses choose these particular probabilities or this particular line of experiences, in a manner of speaking. What I am expressing to you is that there are many focuses of essences that manifest into this physical dimension with the choice of experience of the sexual orientation of what we fondly term as ‘other,’ as to be not offensive to any individuals. (Grinning)
This is not to say that these focuses may necessarily be choosing certain physical experiences, but to be allowing themselves the orientation of sexuality in this direction for the emotional quality of that particular sexual orientation, that they may hold more of an understanding of the emotional workings and functionings, so to speak, of themselves within a physical focus – and of other individuals – in their incorporation of both genders simultaneously. For in choosing the sexual orientation of ‘other,’ you choose to be experiencing aspects of emotional orientation that is farther removed from individuals that focus within a male or female orientation singularly. Are you understanding?
ROB: Yes, I am.
ELIAS: I am quite expressing to you that I may not emphasize enough to you, in opposition to the influences of mass held belief systems and duplicity, that this particular type of sexual orientation is an opportunity and IS NOT BAD. Therefore, DO NOT be discounting of self, but in a manner of speaking embrace this information, that you may be more fully experiencing your physical focus and allowing yourself more of a freedom within your expressions and eliminating more of your conflict, for you have held to your own energy very tightly within this physical focus.
Other physical focuses of your essence lend much energy to you and have bled through, but you also push away this energy to not be viewing aspects of this particular focus that you experience within this present now, for it is not in alignment with the officially accepted belief systems and this is creating of much conflict throughout your focus, for it is very reinforcing of your own lack of acceptance of self, and in this it also lends to your own isolation, which is creating of great conflict and is in opposition to your individual intent, which is also creating of much conflict.
I have anticipated this particular encounter between myself and yourself, in your allowance of myself to be offering you this information, and have held an understanding that within our last meeting, you did not hold a readiness for this information, and also, the objective setting, so to speak, was inappropriate for the offering of this information to you.
I hold great affection with you, and I am quite understanding, as I have been expressive to you previously, of the turmoil that you present within your own conflicts of your own struggles inwardly, and the fearfulness that you have created in attempting to be addressing to your own creation within this particular focus. I also express GREAT acknowledgment to you within this present moment, in moving through a fearfulness and allowing yourself to be objectively presenting this line of questioning to me within this day.
ROB: Thank you, Elias.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome. I offer to you much energy and much affection, for I hold great understanding of this inner conflict and of the influence of these belief systems. There is great struggling that has occurred for much time framework within your focus, and I have held an awareness of this for much of your time period and welcome the opportunity to share with you information, that you may eventually move into the probability of accepting and therefore offering yourself new freedoms.
I express to you, in great lovingness also, that I am quite encouraging in the direction that you may be within communication of Michael [Mary], for he may also, in objective terms, be quite helpful to you in what you may find to be much of a surprising area within this particular subject matter.
You may also, if you are so choosing, hold this particular session within what you term to be confidence of myself and yourself physically, until such a time framework that you are holding more of a comfortability with this.
Be assured that I am lending energy to you always and that my presence is with you, and I shall be encouraging of you within your movement and am quite encouraging of your new movement that you are engaging.
ROB: Thank you.
ELIAS: You are very welcome.
ROB: I think perhaps what I have in mind now links with what you have been saying. In my dreams at various times, there are boys of various nationalities who are not known to me, and there are various expressions of affection. The feelings are not those which are accepted within mass belief systems. Is this a part of what you have been speaking of?
ELIAS: Yes, and this is your imagery that you present to yourself that this is not bad. It merely is a choice of manifestation within a particular sexual orientation of this particular dimension.
Be noticing that within your dream imagery, the belief systems are quite relaxed, and in this you do not feel the sting or the bite, so to speak, of the negative in this area, but you may look into these soft faces and you may find a lovingness and a compassion and also an excitement that you do not allow yourself within your objective imagery and expressions.
Many times individuals move in the direction of presenting imagery to themselves within dream state that they do not allow themselves to be addressing within their objective waking state, for within their objective state and the influences of their belief systems, they do not feel an element of safety ... which is another aspect of belief systems! But nonetheless, it is quite an element of your reality within physical focus. Within your dream state, this becomes a non-issue, so to speak, for you may allow yourselves many expressions and hold that element of safety that you do not allow yourselves within your objective awareness.
Notice that you may hold misgivings or uncomfortableness as you awake and you create your translation into objective terms, but within your dream state, you experience quite a different expression and are not holding fearfulness or that aspect of uncomfortableness, for you are not incorporating the strength of the objectively held belief systems. This is an acknowledgment to you. It is an offering to you. I have expressed many times, in conjunction with the dream mission, that your dream state is your communication with essence which you translate into objective terms, so to speak, terms that you may understand within your knowing of creations in physical focus.
In this, essence is communicating to you that this is acceptable. It is merely a choice, and this imagery offers you the opportunity to view a positive aspect, for you ALL move in the direction of comparisons of positive and negative, and you create these judgments. This is the movement of belief systems, creating positive and negative judgments: good and bad, right and wrong. And in this, within essence there is no gender, and as you move into the action of this shift, look about you! Although there continues to be the mass held belief system of sexual orientation in the area of right and wrong and what is acceptable and what is not acceptable, this is moving in the direction of a relaxation also, for all of the belief systems are becoming more and more relaxed as the action of this shift gains momentum, and individuals singularly and en masse are addressing more and more to these held belief systems.
I have expressed previously that the action of this mass expression of disease of AIDS is a mass expression of a collective agreement to be addressing to the judgments and the focus upon the belief system of sexual orientation and the movement in limitations in this area. As I have expressed, within essence, within consciousness, there is no gender. This is a manifestation of physical focuses merely for experience within physical form, but as you move more into the action of this shift, there is also more of an acceptance of all of the expressions of sexual orientation, for there is more of a recognition that these are merely physical expressions of physical experience, and that you all hold all of these aspects of sexual orientation within you, for you ARE ESSENCE.
In this, gender is merely a manifestation within physical form, an expression, a choice. It is not an absolute. Therefore, although many individuals within this present time framework view, in your terms, that you hold ‘a long way to go,’ so to speak, within your addressing to this belief system, I shall express to you that within a very, very small time framework, there has been great movement into the expression of acceptance in this area. This shall serve as a very good example of acceptance of a belief system, for you may view objectively en masse the extreme of expression for centuries in one direction with this particular subject matter.
‘Other,’ so to speak, as a choice of sexual orientation for centuries has been unacceptable within your officially accepted reality as influenced by the mass belief systems. Within this present time framework, you move more and more and more into an acceptance of this orientation, for your attention moves in the direction of addressing to these belief systems and a recognition that this is merely a physical expression and not an absolute. It is not a truth. It is a belief system expressed within physical focus.” [session 326, September 29, 1998]
LYNDA: “… the other biography, the George S. Kaufman biography by a man named Howard Teichmann, really evoked a lot of imagery for me. I have read another biography by this same man on a man named Alexander Woollcott, and both of these gentlemen, Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman, were part of something called the Algonquin Round Table, which was a society of very brilliant, at the time, writers and dramatists, of an era that is most significant in American theater and journalism, and the George S. Kaufman biography triggered some impressions, and I want to ask you about the possibility of ... could Beatrice Kaufman, George S. Kaufman’s wife, have been a focus of mine? (Pause)
ELIAS: You are correct.
LYNDA: Ah, interesting! And now I have the 64,000 dollar question! Could George S. Kaufman himself have been a focus of yours?
ELIAS: No.
LYNDA: No. Aha! Well, that’s good. I was close. Did you have any ... well, let me get back to the experience of Beatrice Kaufman.
Part of my imagery in my dialog was, I guess, on occasion, with her, because of her relationship with her husband, which was: they were very, very good friends, and they had an unusual relationship for their time, which was quite against the belief systems of the day, in that they each had other sexual relationships, but they did not have an intimate relationship with themselves, and her experience with him is like many of the experiences I’ve had myself in this focus, and that’s the reason, that was the trigger that identified me to her in the first place, and in fact that thread has been a commonality throughout my life, of having conflict in the expression of intimate relationships with a guy, to say it plainly, and born out of this experience with Beatrice, which triggered all this other stuff, I am feeling now that I am going to have such an expression of intimacy that has always eluded me in this focus, and it seems to have eluded me through many focuses now, and I got some strong impressions about that. But am I on the right track so far?
ELIAS: Let me express to you that this is a choice of experience. Within the line of probabilities that you are creating presently, you introduce to yourself an insertion of new probabilities that influence this type of direction, in the choice for your own experience within this focus. In that, I express to you that it is more probable that you shall be moving in this particular direction.
And also, this line of probabilities lends energy to an expanded awareness and understanding, in a manner of speaking, of the element of your reality in this dimension of orientations, allowing you more of an undistorted understanding, as you widen your awareness, of the reality of this aspect of your creation within this dimension.
I shall be moving into discussions in this area futurely, for this holds much confusion for many individuals within physical focus.
Your definitions of your choice of orientations within this dimension holds much distortion, but within the movement of this shift presently, this is becoming a new wave in consciousness. I have expressed previously that these waves shall be increasing and shall be being created more frequently as the momentum of this shift in consciousness increases in this time framework. In this, I shall be addressing to many of these waves in consciousness, that individuals may hold an objective understanding of their own experiences and movement as they are participating within these waves.
This expression that you are speaking of presently moves in the direction of connecting with this wave in consciousness that is now merely beginning its movement, and in this, you allow yourself the exploration of new experiences to be offering yourself more information, and this shall allow you the opportunity to widen your awareness and address to more of the birds within the cages of belief systems. (2)
This particular issue and wave is being set into motion en masse within your societies, addressing to the issue of sexuality and orientation and defining more clearly the difference between orientation and choice of expression, so to speak, for they are not the same.
In this, you are beginning to move also in this direction, offering yourself new experiences, recognizing that the experiences are merely a choice.
LYNDA: Right. I understand what you’re saying ... I think!
My observations or my impressions from reading specifically Beatrice Kaufman’s little bit of the story did not necessarily lead me to ... how do I explain this?
I was interested in the information. I felt an affinity or a dearness or a dear connection with her, and so you are confirming that by saying she is one of my focuses, and I see more clearly how the experience did show me similarities, and I want to also establish that now that I’ve seen them, I am making more of an informed choice. Is that a good way to say it?
ELIAS: This focus lends energy to your focus in addressing to the mass belief systems which involve orientation within this physical dimension. Just as you hold what you would term to be five outer senses within this particular physical dimension, you also hold five different expressions that are basic to this creation of this physical dimension.
In this, you create two physical genders and three orientations, but the orientations are not the same as the genders. They are quite different in expression.
What I am expressing to you is that this other focus is directly influencing and lending energy to you within this focus presently, in addressing to the belief systems surrounding these creations and their expressions and allowing you to be moving into the exploration of not merely the belief systems, but also the experiences concerning these elements of your physical creations.
In this, you identify with this individual in fondness and offer yourself a partial understanding of that individual’s experiences, and in allowing yourself to be identifying, in a manner of speaking, with her experiences, you offer yourself permission to be exploring the expressions of these elements within this focus.
Are you understanding?
LYNDA: Are you saying ... let me see if I’m seeing what you’re saying. You’re saying, in intimate relationships, in a sexual expression within a relationship ... are you saying that this expression could expand and become like an expression of ‘other’ ... or not, according to my choice? You’re saying the choice is mine to make, if I choose it.
ELIAS: The choice is ALWAYS yours to be creating. I am not expressing to you that you shall be altering your orientation, for this is not within the line of probabilities that you are creating presently. But what you ARE allowing yourself is the opportunity to be exploring the reality of the differences of gender and of orientation, and the recognition that your choices within any of these expressions are merely choices for experiences, and not necessarily automatically associated with gender or orientation themselves.
LYNDA: Ah! I understand. Thank you. I do understand what you’re saying now....
ELIAS: These are the elements ... these are the elements of the belief systems which are attached to the expressions and the choice of experiences. These are aspects of the belief systems, but they are not necessarily the purity of the experiences themselves.
In this, as I have stated, there is QUITE a difference in these five elements of two genders and three orientations. They are NOT necessarily automatically associated with each other. This is an element that individuals within physical focus are not understanding of, for the belief systems are very strong and create a thickness, a cloud, so to speak, which is covering of your vision and your awareness of the reality of what you have created for your exploration of these physical elements.
As the shift progresses, you allow yourselves more of an opening. And as I have expressed within the onset of this forum – within the beginnings, so to speak, of these sessions – this shift is as a circle, so to speak, and in this circle, what you are accomplishing is the returning to the remembrance of what you have created within this physical dimension, and allowing yourselves the awareness of essence and of what you have created for your physical experiences outside of the thickness and influence of the belief systems that you have adopted, and in this, have subsequently distorted and narrowed many of your experiences and many of your choices.” [session 353, January 17, 1999]
RICHARD: “I have a question about a recent discovery. This is something that has been prophesied by Sumerian texts, as well as Egyptian. Recently, around the sun, they’ve spotted objects which they’re terming to be ‘sun cruisers,’ and prophesied by the Sumerians and the Hopi as returning at this time. NASA is claiming it’s the planet Mars, and it doesn’t look like the planet Mars. It’s not in the right place. I was wondering what you could share about these particular sightings of ‘sun cruisers.’ What are they doing?
ELIAS: These are bleed-throughs that you offer yourselves the opportunity to view, for as you move farther into the action of this shift, you also widen your awareness and allow yourself to open your vision, not merely physically, but also intuitively, and in this action, you also open yourselves to more of the reality of consciousness, and in this action, as I have stated previously, the veils become very thin, and you may easily pierce these veils. Therefore, individuals may view many more elements of your reality than you have allowed yourselves to view previously.
I have expressed many times within this forum to be watchful. You shall be viewing more of reality than you have allowed yourselves to view in millenniums, and now you open yourselves in your awareness to wonders of amazement, that is all of your reality and all available to you! You have merely hidden these elements of your reality from yourselves, in your singularity of your vision. You shall view more amazing stories futurely also! (Grinning)
I have expressed recently that you move now into the final year of this century and of this millennium. This holds significance, for you have lent much energy to this event. You have lent much energy to this time framework for much of your history. You look to this time period as a turning point, and so it shall be, for you are creating it!
You have already lent tremendous energy in this area, and I have expressed to you for much time framework now that it is your choice which probabilities you shall insert into your official objective reality. You view yourselves as you are inserting into your reality, and you ARE creating your movements, and you are creating more and more that you view and more and more that becomes accepted, not as unusual, but accepted and welcomed into your reality as ‘normal.’
JEN: It’s exciting!
ELIAS: Quite! You embark on a new adventure which gains in momentum upon a daily basis! This time framework of this particular year shall yield MANY changes.
JEN: This year, or the year 2000?
ELIAS: We concern ourselves with this final year of this century and this millennium, for this is what you occupy!
In this, you may view many alterations and many changes, which you yourselves shall be initiating and executing, for you ARE allowing yourselves wider awarenesses. Therefore, your unusual little sightings may become much more common as you move farther into the momentum of this shift. As you move into your new millennium, which I have expressed to you previously in preparing you, your momentum shall increase tremendously. The wave of this shift shall immensely move as you move into your new millennium.
RICHARD: The wave is still cresting?
ELIAS: Quite!
NATHAN: Is it still in the direction of relationships, or have we moved more out of that direction?
ELIAS: That particular wave continues, but it moves into a calming position. These waves in consciousness addressing to individual belief systems are beginning to overlap, and in this, you shall be addressing to more than one belief system within each time framework.
Therefore, as you continue – as the swell reduces in the area of belief system of relationship – you now move into new areas. What you are moving into presently and gaining momentum within are the belief systems of duplicity and also of sexual orientation.
... I shall be offering information in these areas of these two belief systems, which currently begin to be addressed within consciousness objectively and subjectively, en masse and individually.
The belief system of duplicity shall be moving quite strongly, and this shall be presenting itself over and over. This is a very large belief system. In actuality, this is your greatest belief system, and holds the greatest amount of energy and is the most affecting.
But simultaneous to the addressing to this particular belief system, you also incorporate your distortions and the belief systems that you have created in the area of sexual orientation, and this is based to this particular dimension, as I have expressed to you.
I shall express to you that orientation and gender are very different elements. They are not the same. You have created two physical forms – you have created two physical genders within this dimension – and you have created three orientations, and they are NOT synonymous.
In this, individuals have inquired in this area from the onset of these sessions, and I have reserved much information in this area to the time framework – within your linear time framework – that you engage these belief systems yourselves and that it becomes an objective awareness with you, for as you engage this, you also open yourselves to more of an understanding and a willingness to accept information in this area.
I shall express to you that in this area of gender and orientation, all FIVE are equally as different as all five of your outer senses, and may not be equated with each other any more than each of your five outer senses.
You have created five outer senses for perception and you have created five areas of reality for experience within this dimension, to be influencing of your reality and your perception, and in a manner of speaking, adding to how you are creating your perception, which is creating of your reality.
They are five very distinct elements – male, female, and three orientations – and your orientations are not gender-oriented, although your belief systems have quite efficiently merged these two areas and you have created a very strong belief system identifying gender and orientation, and they are NOT THE SAME.
This also is an element of your remembrance, and in this time framework futurely, I shall be offering information in this direction to be clarifying to you what you have created in actuality in this dimension concerning these five elements of your reality, with your three orientations and your two genders.
But I offer to you this evening that you merely remember that they are five very distinct elements and not necessarily interchangeable with each other or synonymous at all with each other, any more than your sense of taste is synonymous with your sense of hearing.
You may identify yourself as a girl, and you may be a girl, and you may not necessarily be female in gender. You may identify yourself as a boy, and you may not necessarily be a male in gender. They are not synonymous. They are very different. They are body type and perceptions, and perception is quite different from a body type.
And you have not even created a word for ‘other,’ although you believe yourselves to have created a word, which merely demonstrates the depth of your belief system, which you have created in your word of homosexual. How very inadequate! Singular sex! Very incorrect!
It is quite nondescript, would you agree? You do not even hold a word for your own orientations! ‘Woman, man, girl, boy’ are not designations for your perceptions in these areas any more than ‘other.’ The only definition that you hold objectively presently is male and female, and this merely refers to a body type and function, and not a perception.
NATHAN: Maybe this movie ‘Wilde’ is quite timely? Good timing?
ELIAS: And this is quite coincidental, is it not? (Laughter, and Elias chuckles) I shall express, quite an adequate lead-in, so to speak! This would be our promotional area that we offer to you all as a preliminary preview of coming attractions! (Much laughter)
NATHAN: The lead actor – I don’t remember his name – but would you say that he played the role quite well? Do you think that was pretty accurate?
ELIAS: I am aware of the energy expressed within this presentation, and I express that it has accurately and efficiently accomplished its purpose. (Laughing)
And I may also express to you that although you view myself, this essence, to be so very cosmically busy and so non-interactive with your physical dimension, I may choose to be popping in and out to be checking upon the local news, and as to this expression artistically, I am quite pleased with the portrayal!” (Grinning, and laughter) (3) [session 355, January 27, 1999]
ELIAS: “Good evening! This evening we shall begin addressing to the belief system of sexuality and coupling this with your belief system of duplicity, as these are two waves in consciousness which are occurring presently.
I have expressed at our last session that I would be addressing to this subject matter, for it is presenting itself in many different areas with many individuals, and as this particular wave in consciousness gains momentum, many more individuals shall be affected also. This particular wave shall surface itself not merely within individual experiences, but also in mass experiences and examining mass belief systems.
I have stated that this, as your final time framework, your final year of this century and of this millennium ... you have lent much energy to occurrences within this particular year. Therefore also, many more waves in consciousness shall be occurring within this particular time framework of this final year, as you prepare your entrance into your new millennium.
There are many prophecies that have been projected in association with this time framework. Therefore, much energy has been lent to this time framework, and in this, as this shift in consciousness gains momentum, it also draws upon the energy which has been lent to this particular time period.
In this present now, the wave in consciousness addresses, as I have stated, the belief system of sexuality in this particular dimension.
Now; what I am addressing to is an explanation and a definition to you of what you have created in this particular dimension, that you may understand how you have converted your actual creation into belief systems which you now accept as your reality, but they ARE belief systems, and they are quite different from what you have originally created as elements of your reality in this dimension.
Now; let me initially restate to you what I have offered within the onset of these sessions. In this, I have stated the information that this shift in consciousness is as a circle.
You are completing a circle in consciousness by initiating this shift and accomplishing this shift, returning yourselves to the remembrance of essence, the remembrance of no separation, and the identification of the belief systems that you have developed throughout your ages in conjunction with your physical reality.
In this, I offer this information as significant – coupled with addressing to the belief systems of sexuality in this particular dimension – for you deviate far from your original creation in this dimension.
Now; let me express to you that you have created five outer senses. You are all familiar with each of these five outer senses, and you are quite efficient in your usage of them.
In viewing these five outer senses, one may not be exchanged for another. They hold completely different functions. They function in harmony to each other, but they are not interchangeable with each other. You may not see with your hearing. You may not smell with your touch. You may not hear with your taste.
Now; as I have stated, these outer senses work in conjunction with each other, in harmony to each other, and are complementary of each other, but they hold very different functions.
In very like manner, you have created five elements of what you may term to be sexuality in this dimension. You have created two genders and three orientations, none of which are interchangeable. They are five separate elements of your reality, in like manner to your five outer senses.
You create two genders of male and female. These are physical forms. They are physical reproductive systems. They are not orientations; they are merely functions. They are physical bodily functions, and they do not hold orientation within themselves.
Orientations are a very different element of your reality. Your orientations are your perceptions. They are how you create your reality in specific directions.
Now; I have stated previously that all that you create mirrors yourselves, and within the area of sexuality, you create all of your reality to be mirroring in this area also. Now let us view elements of your reality that you have created in like manner to these five different elements of your sexuality.
Look to your creatures. You create the genders of male and female within all of your creatures, but you create three different types of orientation within your creatures. You have created your vertebrates, you have created your mammals, and you have created your marsupials. All three express themselves very differently, and one may not be interchanged with another.
Now; as you may view within your creatures and within yourselves, these orientations are not the same as gender function. All female creatures produce eggs. Not all female creatures produce offspring in the same manner, for their orientation is different. Your physical function as female is the same. Therefore, this is one element, female. All male function in physical form is the same. The orientation is NOT the same. You have created very strong belief systems in these areas, to be interchanging your identification of gender with orientation, and they are NOT THE SAME.
Within this discussion, we shall not be expressing male/female/other as to referencing orientation. We shall confine male/female to gender creation. You have created your male and female genders, and all of your reality is reflective of this. Even your vegetation reflects in male/female.
Orientation is an entirely different creation. Within orientation, you have chosen within this dimension to be creating three very different types of orientation, and it matters not which gender you create within body type; it may not necessarily be in conjunction with your orientation. Your orientation is how you perceive your reality; how you interact with other individuals, how you view yourself, how you view other individuals, how you view your reality overall. This also is not necessarily coupled automatically with sexual preference. Preference is a choice, an objective choice.
Now; let me interject momentarily. Each of these elements is a choice, but the choices of gender and orientation are different types of choices than the choice of preference. Preference is a choice that you allow yourselves objectively within your physical focus. Your gender and your orientation are choices that you create before manifesting within physical focus. As you enter physical focus, you have already chosen the gender type that you shall manifest within, and the orientation that you shall follow throughout that focus.
In this, as I have stated that there are no rules and there are no absolutes, there exists, in a manner of speaking, the possibility of altering your orientation within one focus, just as there exists the possibility of altering your gender within one particular focus. The likelihood of you accomplishing this action within one particular focus is very small, for your belief systems do not allow you movement in these areas.
What I am expressing to you is that you may be moving outside of your belief systems and you may alter your physical gender without your medical sciences, but generally speaking, you do not. You remain one gender throughout an entirety of one focus. In like manner, you may alter your orientation within one focus, but generally speaking once again, you do not accomplish this action any more than you accomplish altering your physical gender. These are very strong choices that you create in manifesting into this physical dimension.
Within other dimensions physically focused, there are some dimensions that hold many more than three orientations and more than two genders. There are also physical dimensions that hold one orientation and several genders. There are physical dimensions that hold one gender and several orientations. Therefore, you may view yourselves as not so very unusual, that you have chosen these five elements of your reality, in choosing two genders and three orientations. There are particular physical dimensions that need not hold two genders to be procreating. They may reproduce within one gender, but they hold more than three types of orientations.
Now; let me express to you, I shall designate what YOU identify as man as ‘B.’ I shall designate woman as ‘G.’ I shall designate ‘other’ as ‘R.’ These are very different types of perceptions.
Now; you may introduce B into an entire culture of G. All of the reality within this culture is produced by G. B is introduced into this culture and may assimilate all of the ideas, all of the events, all of the actions, and may imitate all of the creations of the society of G, but it shall continue to be B. Regardless of the influence, regardless of the input, B shall remain B. It shall function as B, it shall hold a thought process as B, it shall hold an emotional quality of B, and it shall not become G. You may introduce R into an entire society of B, and R may know objectively no other reality, and it shall continue to be R, and it shall not convert itself into B.
Let us use shapes: your square, your circle, your triangle. Try as you might, each of these shapes shall continue to be the shape that it is, and you may not convert one into another. You hold your own sayings within your physical language, that you may not be forcing a round peg into a square hole. It shall not fit.
In this, your three creations of orientations are different, and they shall not fit into each other.
This be where you have created your belief systems, for you associate with gender. Therefore, you attempt to fit these three orientations into the molds of two genders, and they do not fit, for they are not synonymous. One is not necessarily in relation to the other.
I have spoken of the third orientation as ‘other,’ for you do not hold a word that you identify with this third orientation. You have attempted to label this third orientation, but you have quite inefficiently created terminology for this third orientation.
You identify two orientations in male and female, man and woman, and within your thought processes, you understand the identifications of these words, but DO you understand the identification of these words? Do you understand the identification of the orientation of ‘other?’ I express to you that you may not understand these differences in orientations if you do not identify what they are and what your orientation is.
This orientation of ‘other’ presents a fine example to you of the orientation that does not fit the sexual gender, for within the orientation of ‘other,’ it matters not which physical gender is chosen, for neither is identified with completely. This orientation of ‘other’ may be likened to your marsupials, the unconventional creatures, those creatures that choose to be reproducing in a very different manner and not following the officially accepted guidelines of all of your other creatures. They do not fit the picture, but they also do not hold belief systems. Therefore, they hold no conflict in their choice of orientation, and other creatures hold no conflict in the acceptance of the marsupials’ choice of their orientation. They merely reside together, and no judgment is placed upon their choice of their orientation.
You within your belief systems have created a tremendous expression in energy in this area. You identify by form. If you are holding female form, you are female. Therefore, your orientation is female, woman, and this is how you shall perceive your universe. How does woman perceive her universe? What is the difference in your perception from man’s perception? There IS a difference, and may you identify what this difference is? (Pause, grinning)
How is it that you know that you are female? Merely by your physical form? How is it that you know that you are male? Simply by your physical gender? No. It is your perception. It is your view of yourself; how your objective and subjective consciousness interacts with yourself and with your environment – with all of your reality – and how you interact with your physical form.
Within the orientation of G – or that which you identify as female – if you are identifying yourselves as this choice, you shall also exhibit certain qualities in how you create your reality. You shall similarly create your reality. You shall hold similar thought processes, you shall hold similar emotional qualities, and the officially accepted reality shall be very similar between you all. You shall magnate to certain types of expressions.
This is not to say that there are not very many variations of expressions within each one orientation, but there are underlying qualities that are accepted as this one orientation, just as within B, or male, there are underlying qualities that are influencing of how you are perceiving your reality, which is not necessarily in conjunction with a physical form.
In the orientation of ‘other,’ their perception of their reality is equally as different as what you identify as male to female. Therefore, as the triangular shape, it shall not fit in either the square or the round hole, and the round and the square shall not fit within the triangle. But you each hold the belief systems that you are creating only two genders. Therefore, you are also only accepting two orientations.
This wave shall be creating of much trauma. Many essences have already moved in expression of bringing to the forefront of your attention [and] addressing to this element of your creations of orientation.
In this, essences have created this dis-ease as a statement to you all, to be noticing that this is unacceptable to be placing these judgments in conjunction with your belief systems. Many individuals have inquired of myself as to this dis-ease which sweeps your planet, that you term to be AIDS. I have addressed to this several times previously, and I have expressed that this is a mass statement.
Previously within your history, essences have collectively created other dis-eases to be gaining the collective attention, addressing to certain situations. Once again, within this time framework, essences collectively choose to participate in creating this expression to be gaining your attention in this area. Now, within this time framework, you move into this wave of consciousness which addresses to the belief system of gender and orientation, your sexuality.
You are sexual creatures within this dimension. You look to all of your creations in this manner. You identify in this manner, but you also are merely identifying in two directions, which is quite limiting and is eliminating of the third direction, which is also equal in its reality, in its expression within this dimension, and may not be discounted in its reality any more than you may be discounting your marsupials as existing. They are not egg-layers, but they are not mammals either. Their choice of orientation holds equality in reality, and in like manner, all three of your orientations in this dimension hold equality in their reality.
An individual that has chosen the orientation of ‘other’ may not be entirely identifying with body form or gender as may an individual that identifies themself as male or female, B or G.
In this, this choice of ‘other’ is the choice to be exploring this physical dimension holding the sexual orientation and interaction, but choosing less separation.
Now; understand that individuals choosing ‘other’ also move in the direction of creating tremendous judgments within their belief systems also, and are creating objective separations. Therefore, no individual is expressing less in their lack of acceptance in this area, for individuals within the orientation of ‘other’ express much lack of acceptance also.
In this, I offer this information to you, that you may begin to examine what you each have chosen as your particular orientation. Allow yourself to examine this orientation, and understand what your reality is within your particular orientation. As you allow yourself this exploration and this understanding, you shall also allow yourself more of an understanding of the other two orientations, and this shall allow you more of a movement into acceptance in these belief systems.
Be remembering that these ARE belief systems. You have created a male form or a female form, and this is not in conjunction with your orientation. They are as separated, in a manner of speaking, or as different from each other, as your taste to your sight. But as you allow yourself to be understanding these differences, you may also allow yourself more of an acceptance.
One of the reasons that this particular belief system holds much difficulty in acceptance is that you do not identify your own choices of your own orientations. You do not understand your own choices and what you have created. You may not identify to me presently what it is that you are! I inquire of you, ‘What is man?’ and you hold no response. I inquire of you, ‘What is woman?’ and you hold no response. What is ‘other?’ You hold no definition. As you do not define yourselves and understand what you have created within your own reality ... how may you be accepting of any other reality if you are not accepting of your own reality? And you may not be accepting of your own reality if you do not understand or know what your own reality is!
There are many wondrous elements in this particular dimension to be explored, and this is the offering of this shift in consciousness, but there are also many very strong belief systems which may be creating of great trauma if you are not looking to these belief systems and addressing to them. Already within the beginning throes of this particular time framework of this final year, individuals are beginning to be experiencing trauma. I am not expressing conflict or confusion or distress. I am expressing that individuals are beginning to experience trauma.
In this, I offer you this information that you may be allowing yourselves to not be experiencing trauma, for as these waves in consciousness increase and gain momentum, their strength increases, and they shall be slapping upon the shores of your realities, and this shall be creating of trauma if you are not paying attention.
You shall be viewing many individuals surrounding you that are experiencing tremendous elements within their focuses – much fearfulness, much trauma, much conflict – and in addressing to yourselves and in knowing yourselves and allowing yourselves the acceptance and trust of self, you shall be not merely providing yourselves with the elimination of this trauma, but providing lending of energy to other individuals within consciousness to lessen the element of trauma with them.
BETSY: ... Elias, I have a question about the trauma. What do you really mean by trauma? Can you give us a definition or an example?
ELIAS: Trauma incorporates tremendous conflict, but also holds an element of shock. You experience shock when you are confronting yourselves with extreme situations and unfamiliarity. This may be in emotional areas, or mental, or physical. Any area that you present yourself with tremendous unfamiliarity, which may also be triggering of fearfulness, you experience exaggerated conflict in an extreme manner, and this would be designated as trauma.
BETSY: Thank you. I have one other question. In reference to trauma and individuals experiencing trauma collectively, I have a question about females experiencing breast cancer, and if that’s collective trauma, and we’re noticing the perception of what it is to be female and feminine. What is the belief system that’s being challenged in that?
ELIAS: This is not an expression of collective trauma. This is an expression that is quite in alignment with your creation of your dis-ease of AIDS. This is another collective expression which the gender of female collectively chooses to be expressing to draw attention to these belief systems concerning the association of gender and orientation. (15-second pause) And you all continue to hold confusion in this area! (Grinning)
Let me express once again:
The five elements of your reality, concerning sexuality in this dimension, are two genders and three orientations. This is five.
Gender is a physical body type, male or female, which holds a specific function for the design of reproduction.
Orientation is your perception of yourself, your world, your universe, and how you are interactive with it.
CAROLE: Does that fit in with John Grey’s book, ‘Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus?’ Or that like our interpretation of it now as it filters through into this reality, that the world views are so different, the two different perceptions?
ELIAS: Within TWO orientations.
CAROLE: Within two. That would exclude the ‘other’ orientation?
ELIAS: Correct. Within two orientations, this may be an example of the differences of qualities of thought and emotion – which is influencing of perception – of two of the orientations.
CAROLE: Now, the ‘other’ orientation, the world view on that one, how would that correlate or interact with the other two perceptions? Is it a combination, or totally different, or some of each?
ELIAS: There are certain elements of this third orientation that are unique to itself. There are also elements of this third orientation that incorporate both of the other two orientations. Therefore, this third orientation holds less separation in its perception than either of the two that you identify with.
Male/female; these are the orientations that you identify with; man/woman, girl/boy. These are the two orientations that you identify with as a perception.
The ‘other’ incorporates some aspects of each of those, but also holds qualities that are unique to itself. In this, there is an openness to both of the other orientations. Therefore, there is an aspect of understanding of both of the accepted orientations, but not an entire understanding; a partial understanding, in objective terms.
There is a greater understanding of its own quality, which is different from the other two orientations, in like manner to those two orientations themselves. They are quite different in their qualities. Their perceptions are quite different. This third orientation is also unique and different in its own qualities.
CAROLE: Are there qualities of it that are asexual, similar to essence? Is that why there’s more of a lack of separation?
ELIAS: In a manner of speaking, yes, but this also does not fit into the gender separation. Therefore, it is not accepted within your officially accepted reality.
CAROLE: Can you explain a little bit more about the creatures? The marsupials and the mammals and ... what is it?
TOM: Vertebrates.
ELIAS: I use this term intentionally. These are your egg-layers. This may be what you term to be fish or birds or reptiles, any creature that is egg-laying, in which the offspring shall be produced outside of the physical form. This is a distinction and a choice.
There are other creatures that are creating offspring in like manner to yourselves, these being your mammals, or what you term to be your warm-blooded animals.
There exists your third creation of your marsupials. These creatures choose, in their orientation, to be gestating of their offspring differently from the other two orientations.
Now; these are, in a manner of speaking, generalizations, for I am aware that YOU are aware that you create many other types of expressions of what you term to be life upon this planet, within this dimension, and there are many variations of the expressions. But generally speaking, you have created a reality in which the majority of your expressions move in these directions. They choose these types of orientations.
You look differently to your creatures that you designate as animals, from plants or insects or any other type of life form, so to speak, in your terminology. In this, I have offered the example of these creatures, for you hold an awareness clearly of their differences. They choose three different types of gestation. This is an obvious difference that you may assimilate. In like manner, you within your species create three very different orientations. These are three different types of choices of perception, and they are not to be confused with gender, for gender is merely a choice of body form and function, which is different.
Your perception, your awareness, and the direction of your awareness within each focus is that which identifies you as you; not you as the entirety of essence, but you as this individual focus, this focused attention that you are aware of, that you know – or that you think you know (grinning) – that you identify as yourselves.
You hold a perception. You hold an identification. You hold an orientation, and that orientation is not necessarily dictated by your physical gender form. It is a different aspect of your reality, but your belief systems dictate to you that they are synonymous, and I am expressing to you that they are not.
CAROLE: So these things are present as we manifest in this physical focus? They’re not just produced by mass belief systems and the inculcation of the new focus? They’re actually there, present at birth, these perceptions and these orientations and this world view?
ELIAS: Yes. You have chosen, prior to your manifestation within physical form, a specific gender and a specific orientation. Therefore, as you enter into physical manifestation within this dimension, you choose two elements of your reality that you shall experience within a particular focus in conjunction with your sexuality. Those two elements are chosen from five, and those two elements are gender and orientation.
CAROLE: This element of orientation, it seems to me, is one of the things that causes a lot of the conflict, brings about a lot of feelings of duplicity, and also brings into play the emotional aspect of this reality. It seems to be all very closely intertwined.
ELIAS: Correct. You have created, as I have stated, very strong belief systems in these areas. You have, in your separation, forgotten the beginning of the circle. You have forgotten the creation of these three expressions, these three orientations or perceptions, and you have equated perception with gender. Therefore, any expression outside of the equation of gender is unacceptable.
CAROLE: It seems, though, that the world has a lot of things that it finds, in mass belief systems, unacceptable.
ELIAS: Quite!” [session 361, February 12, 1999]
KATIE: “In terms of gender, would I be categorized as ‘other?’ (4)
ELIAS: No.
KATIE: Oh, okay....
ELIAS: You would be aligning with that aspect of gender or that choice of gender as female, and your orientation follows in your definition of this expression also.
This is difficult to be addressing to in terms. I shall be moving into the direction of creating terms for these three different expressions of orientation, for you, in actuality, within your physical focus, do not hold actual terms to be defining of these three different types of orientation.
But as to gender, you are experiencing and have created the gender of female. There is little question in the areas of expression of gender. You have physically created a female form, and it is functioning in the capacity reproductively as female. Therefore, the expression of ‘other’ is not applicable to the expression of gender.
But as to the questioning of your orientation, this also follows the expression of orientation that – within your understanding – you designate as woman.
KATIE: Okay. Well, I had thought of myself as bisexual.
ELIAS: Let me also clarify in this area. You have many different types of terminology for different aspects of beliefs in this area concerning orientation.
Now; as to this particular expression or terminology of what you have offered presently, you express the word of ‘bisexual.’
Now; this is not an orientation. This is a choice of experience and action. This is quite different from the expression of orientation or gender.
As I have stated, gender is merely the choice of body type and function – male or female. Orientation is an entirely different expression and is not interchangeable with gender.
Now; let me offer to you a brief explanation which I have offered within our most recent past session, so to speak, within this forum.
As to the designation of gender and orientation, these are five very separate and different expressions of your reality.
You have chosen two physical body types within this physical dimension, with two physical different functionings within its physical expression.
Now; as to orientation, these are three different expressions in perception, and how you view yourself and your reality and how you interact with yourself and other individuals – how you view yourself.
In this, it is no more interchangeable with gender than your outer sense of hearing is interchangeable with your outer sense of taste. They may be moving in expression of harmony with each other, and they may at times – as outer senses – move together in complement to each other, but they are not interchangeable. They are very different expressions.
In this, the terminology of bisexual or heterosexual or homosexual are exceedingly inadequate to be expressing any element of your choice of orientation, for these are merely expressions of your choice objectively, of want and preference within action.
You choose objectively an experience within sexual expressions, and THESE may be classified as bisexual, heterosexual, and homosexual, but these are merely choices.
In this, your choice as defined by those types of terminology in objective manners may be no different, in comparison, to your choice in which garment you shall choose to be wearing. It is an objective choice of experience and preference.
There is a very precise difference between this type of choice of preference and the choice of expression of orientation within an individual focus.
Your orientation is that color, in a manner of speaking, which you view the entirety of your reality through within a particular focus. It is your perception. It is your reality. This is a subjective choice which is chosen prior to your manifestation within physical focus and continues throughout that particular physical focus.
You may alter your choice of expression quite easily and objectively throughout any given physical focus. Your choice to be altering your orientation is an entirely different matter.
This is not to say that you do not hold the ability to alter your choice of orientation within a particular physical focus, but the choice to alter your orientation within a particular focus would be the same, in its presentment of difficulty to you physically, as your choice to alter your physical gender.
Now; I may express to you, you do hold the ability to be altering your physical gender within a particular focus, and I am not expressing that you are altering your gender with the aid of your medical technologies. I am expressing that you yourselves hold the ability to be altering your physical gender to a different expression of gender entirely yourselves, but you do not believe that you hold this ability. Therefore, this is not quite as easily accomplished within a particular physical focus.
In this same manner, it is not quite so very easily accomplished altering your orientation, for this is equally as strong of a reality – and ‘set’ within your reality – as your physical gender.” [session 362, February 16, 1999]
ELIAS: “Now; as to the other expression which is being incorporated simultaneously: you, Michael [Mary], and many, many other individuals are experiencing an alignment and participation within this wave of consciousness which is occurring presently. As I have begun discussions addressing to this particular wave in consciousness, this wave addresses to the belief system of your creation of sexuality in this dimension, which incorporates the creation of gender and of orientation.
Now; I hold an awareness that within your understanding, this may seem to hold no bearance upon your experiences objectively, for you associate this subject and this belief system as merely incorporating aspects of sexual activity or physical gender function.
(Intently) What I express to you presently is that within the area of orientation, this is affecting of you in every aspect of your focus, for orientation concerns perception and how you view and create the entirety of your reality. Therefore, it is all-encompassing of your reality. It is quite affecting physically, emotionally, and mentally within your objective expressions, and enters into all of your interactions. Presently, it is quite affecting of emotional expressions with many individuals.
Be remembering, I am expressing that this particular belief system concerns itself with your perception. Your perception is that with which you view and create the entirety of your reality. Therefore, your emotional qualities are quite involved with these expressions.
Also, how you view yourself and your interactions with other individuals, and how you view other individuals’ interactions with YOU, and how you are responding to them with relation to your perception of your reality, also is being involved and addressed to in this wave.
This particular belief system holds many, many more aspects than you realize. I have expressed previously that each of these belief systems – that I move into the addressment with – hold[s] many more aspects than you are aware of objectively.
This particular belief system, being a base creation and foundational creation of this particular reality, holds a tremendous amount of aspects within it. Therefore, it is VERY affecting, and the energy projected within its expression may be viewed as extreme.
Therefore, you may be noticing extreme expressions within other individuals, and you may also be noticing extreme expressions within yourself. You may also be noticing aspects of your own expressions that may seem to be inconsistent with your normal creation of your expressions, in a manner of speaking ... for normal is quite a relative term!
In this, you may notice yourselves expressing behavior that is surprising to you, and not usual. You are allowing yourselves to be exploring all of the different aspects of your own expressions.
In this, you offer yourselves the opportunity to address more fully to all of the aspects within this particular belief system, recognizing that it encompasses ALL of your reality.
Just as with the belief system of duplicity, this particular belief system of sexuality enters into all of your expressions within your focus. Therefore, you shall be noticing extreme affectingnesses and behaviors and expressions as this wave in consciousness continues.” [session 367, February 28, 1999]
FRIEDA: “I understand that we have at least three focuses that we go through. Am I correct in that understanding?
ELIAS: Correct. If you are choosing to be manifest within this particular dimension, you agree to be manifest at the least three times, for the experience of three different orientations.
FRIEDA: I see. Can you tell me which orientation I am in?
ELIAS: Yes. Now; I shall express to you that soon, so to speak, futurely, I shall be offering information concerning gender and orientation as elements of your creation of sexuality within this particular dimension, which shall offer more of an explanation to you. In this, what I shall be addressing to is what you are inquiring about now.
Presently within your physical societies, you do not identify with these orientations with defining words. Therefore, I am offering new words to be defining these three orientations, for the idea that you hold within physical focus as to the identification of these three orientations is incorrect. It is a manifestation or what you may term to be an aspect of the belief system, and is not an accurate identification of the orientations in themselves. But I shall offer you a slight explanation, that you may understand what I offer to you in response to your question.
Your question is, which orientation have you chosen to be manifest within in this focus. I express to you that the orientation that you have chosen, I will be designating as intermediate. This, in your belief system – underline in your belief system – you would identify as feminine or female.
Let me explain that female is the definition and designation of a gender, but within physical focus you have created an extensive belief system with respect to your creation of sexuality. In this, YOU designate the three types of orientation as male, female, and homosexual. I have expressed previously, for the benefit of the understanding of individuals, the designation of male, female, and other. I choose now – as we are addressing to this particular belief system within this wave in consciousness which is occurring presently – to be altering those terminologies and introducing new terminology that you may define these different orientations with.
The designation for these shall be soft, intermediate, and common. These may be associated with what you term to be homosexual, female, and male, but I wish not be reinforcing the existing belief system and your identification with it. Therefore, I am designating new terminology for these three types of orientation within your physical focus, that you may not necessarily identify orientation with gender, for they are quite different expressions.
Gender is merely your physical manifestation of body type and function. It is not that element which is creating or affecting your perception and how you view yourself and how you view your world, or how you process information. It is merely a function and a designation of type of form.
Orientation is quite different, in that this is the element which is underlyingly, all-encompassingly affecting of your perception, which is your reality. This is how you view yourself, how you interact with yourself, how you view other individuals, how you interact with other individuals, how you perceive your world and how you interact with it, your societies, and all of your reality. THIS is your orientation.” [session 377, March 23, 1999]
ELIAS: (Chuckling) “This evening, we shall engage a discussion.
JEN: Oh, good!
ELIAS: And I shall be offering questions, and you may be responding to these questions ...
JEN: (Laughing) Okay....
ELIAS: ... as a difference in our usual delivery. I shall be addressing to a subject matter this evening specifically, and this shall be the reason that I shall be engaging YOU, in questioning you as to your perceptions and your understandings of certain elements, for within this time period, much movement is occurring.
In this, I have expressed within this forum previously to you that there is a wave in consciousness occurring presently, and has been for a time period. Also, I have expressed to you that within this particular time period of this final year of your century and your millennium, much energy has been lent to this time framework. Therefore, energy is what you would term to be very intense – very high, in your terms – which lends to an ease in all of your expressions.
Now; this ease may be lent in the direction of conflict as easily as in the direction of fun. Therefore, you shall notice – within yourselves and within all individuals that you encounter in this time framework – individuals are experiencing extremes. Energy is very intense, and in this intensity, you all automatically draw upon all of this energy which is being lent to you within this time framework.
Therefore, if you are moving yourselves in the direction of creating fun, you shall be creating this easily. If you are creating movement through issues, you shall be moving more efficiently and more quickly through issues and offering yourselves imagery to support this. If you are creating conflict, you shall be creating extreme conflict. If you are creating stressfulness with yourselves, your stress shall be extreme. All of your expressions shall be heightened and more intense than you normally, so to speak, would be creating within your experience. Some individuals are experiencing extreme calmness. Whichever your expression, it shall be created more easily, for much energy is lent for you to draw upon within this time framework.
Now; also within this time framework there is a wave in consciousness occurring – which we have already introduced – addressing to the belief system of sexuality. This is an intense belief system itself, apart from the intensity of energy which is lent within this time framework. Therefore, you are experiencing twice the intensity.
In this, I have expressed to you previously, sexuality in itself is not a belief system. It is a base line, a building block of your creation within this particular physical dimension. You create within this dimension in the expression of sexuality and emotion for the experience.
In this, these two particular elements of your reality – sexuality and emotion – have also been created into massive belief systems. I use this terminology intentionally, for being that these are the base elements of your reality, the belief systems attached to them are very large. They also may be quite camouflaged or hidden from you, for you – within your beliefs in these areas – express to yourselves that the elements of these beliefs are not beliefs. They merely are your reality.
You express to yourself, ‘Male is male. Female is female. This is not a belief. It is merely a creation within your reality.’ This is correct, but there are many, many, many other aspects of this particular belief that you also assign that reality to, and remove from your awareness that it is attached to a belief system. ‘Your physical function is your physical function. This is not a belief. This is merely the reality.’ Incorrect. Your physical function is very influenced by your beliefs. ‘Your perception is your perception. This is a reality.’ Incorrect. This is also very influenced by your beliefs. In this particular area of sexuality, your beliefs are very narrow, and you have confused yourselves in extreme with this particular belief system.
Now; in initially addressing to this belief system, we shall demonstrate your own belief, and I shall inquire of you: How do you define sexuality? (Smiling, and a pause)
JEN: Hmm. Wanna take a shot at this, babe? (Laughing)
TIM: No. (Elias chuckles)
JEN: Sexuality ... well, I certainly think of male and female, as well as ‘other,’ or homosexual, in our terms. Hmm ... sexuality is bringing people together, and clearly, procreation is a belief that we engage in, but also for a feeling of pleasure, of touch. I guess that’s the act of sex, though.
TIM: Sexuality to me is all-encompassing, including the sex. I mean, it does seem basically that the base elements are broken down into male and female, but that does seem very narrow, and I can see where sexuality would be more than just that, and....
JEN: It also seems like it draws people together too, like even female to female. There’s a sexual draw sometimes.
TIM: Yeah.
JEN: It’s not necessarily, ‘I want to have sex with you,’ but there is an attraction there that is more than just, ‘I’m interested in what you have to say.’ There’s an underlying....
TIM: It doesn’t even have to be with another person. It could be with objects. I mean, it’s obviously in today’s advertising. It’s with cars and whatever, alcohol. They all use sexuality. It seems like sex is everywhere. Even though it’s not right out in the open, it’s everywhere behind everything, even if people don’t admit it.
JEN: Yeah. A lot of people don’t allow themselves to admit it.
TIM: Right, because they still feel that there’s something wrong, that it’s dirty or whatever.
JEN: Yeah. You’re taught not to. You’re taught to repress that.
TIM: Right.
JEN: It’s religious beliefs, or just the way you were brought up.
TIM: Right, religion is a big part of it.
JEN: Huge ... major!
ELIAS: As you note within yourselves within your discussion, you view that your beliefs cross over each other and are intermingled with each other, as you identify with your introduction of religious beliefs intermingled with beliefs concerning sexuality.
In this, let us be clear in our identification of what sexuality is.
There is one element of your creation of sexuality which is gender. You have created two genders for your species within this dimension. In actuality, all of your species are within the realm of two genders. This is defined by male and female.
The definition of gender within male and female is a body type and function. This is all. This is your designation of gender. It extends no further. This is the beginning of your confusion within this belief of sexuality, for you attach gender to all aspects of your reality and you define many elements of your reality within the context of gender. Gender is merely a body type and function.
There are three other elements of your sexuality which compose the wholeness of sexuality. These three other elements are your orientation.
Orientation is quite different from gender. Orientation is your perception: how you view yourselves, how you view your world, how you interact with yourself, how you interact with all other individuals, how you interact with your environment. It is the most influencing element which creates your perception. Your perception creates your reality. In this, there are three orientations of perception.
Now; you – within your beliefs attaching to gender – define these three orientations as male, female, and other, or your terminology being homosexual. Now; how may you be presenting male/female gender, male/female/homosexual orientation? Male and female may not cross to orientation. These are body types and functions, not orientations. They are not perceptions.
Therefore, I designate to you – as you do not hold terminology within your language to identify your orientations – new terminology to be identifying your orientations, and I shall offer comparison within your belief system ONCE merely, as to not be reinforcing the ongoing of your belief system in this area.
The terminology that we shall define orientation with shall be designated as soft, intermediate, and common. These shall designate the three different types of orientation within your sexuality which create your perception.
Now; in this once offering of your identification or comparison with how you identify presently, I express to you that the designation of soft shall be compared to what you identify as homosexuality. The designation of intermediate shall be what you consider to be female. The designation of common shall be what you consider to be male.
Now we shall view how these cross over gender and are not related, so to speak, directly with gender, although they are influencing of each other and are harmonious with each other, in like manner to your physical outer senses. As I have expressed to you previously, you hold five outer senses which may not be exchanged with each other, but may move in conjunction to each other, in harmony with each other, to be offering you differences in your perception and in your information intake.
You may be accessing and implementing your outer sense of sight and touch together to be offering you a combined perception. They move in harmony with each other. But you may not exchange sight with touch. Your fingers may feel. Your body may feel in the sense of touch, but it shall not see. You may not exchange taste for hearing. They are not interchangeable. Male, female, soft, intermediate, and common are not interchangeable either. They move in harmony and complement each other, but they may not be exchanged for each other, and one does not define another.
(To Tim) Therefore, as you sit before me and hold the gender of male, this does not define your perception, and your definition of man, boy or any terminology that you identify with male also does not define your perception. What is it that creates your perception? What are the qualities of this perception that defines you as male? It is quite different from your gender. Another individual may hold the same gender, body type, and function as you, and their perception shall be quite different, and you shall not identify them as a man. You shall identify them differently, and you shall recognize that their perception is different.
(To Jen) You hold the body type of female. This does not define your perception. Another individual may hold the body type of female and function the same, and their identification of themself and their world and their interaction with all that they create and all that is created shall be quite different. The perceptions are not interchangeable either. They are not combinations of each other, and they are not interchangeable.
Common – as we identify as your definition of male – is common, for there are manifest more individual focuses that hold this similar perception than there are of the other two types of perceptions. It matters not that you hold male or female gender; you may hold the perception of common.
This is not defining, in your terms, of homosexual or heterosexual or what you term colorfully as bisexual. These are merely objective choices that you create within physical reality. They are choices of wants. They are choices of attractions, and they are not defined by perception or by gender. They are merely wants and choices.
JEN: What do you mean by wants?
ELIAS: There is a difference between desire and want.
JEN: Want! Okay.
ELIAS: Objective is the definition of a want. You may term this to be a desire, but a desire is what motivates you within your intent. This is a subjective movement. Therefore, I am distinguishing within objective terms what you create within your waking reality.
In this, you may notice many individuals that hold the gender of female, and you may identify them as heterosexual female, and you shall assign qualities to them that appear more male. They are less emotional; they are more rational; they are very logical. They are expressive in manners that you identify with male. They also occupy their attention with elements that you identify as associated with male. Conversely, there are male individuals holding male gender that you perceive to be more female in quality. These individuals may not be necessarily designated as what YOU term to be homosexual. They merely hold qualities that do not fit your identification of gender.
Now; the qualities of common: Your perception of this shall move in the direction of more rational thought processes. You shall draw yourself, as common, to interests which involve physical elements. Common perception holds fascinations and interests outside of self, in a manner of speaking: what may be created physically, how you may project the inward self outwardly. This may manifest itself in artistic forms, it may manifest itself in technological forms, it may manifest itself in mechanical forms. There are identifications with the creation of physical elements. This is a very strong base line of the perception of common.
Intermediate – that which you term to be female – occupies much of its perception in its engagement of inner senses: intuition, viewing inner creations. Therefore, it also is quite occupied in its attention with emotion, which is not an element which may be projected outwardly to be creating a thing. The creations of intermediate are not necessarily visible, for they concern themselves more with the inward creations.
Soft is the designation of perception which occupies its attention in expression of interaction, involvement. It may express inwardly and outwardly, but it is more concerned with exchange, involvement. The involvement may be interaction with other individuals, with that which you term to be nature, with your planet, with your universe, with ideas, with concepts. It matters not. Their attention focuses in interaction.
Now; let us view – (humorously) within your NARROW perceptions of your belief systems – your identifications of these three perceptions or orientations, and you may draw a comparison. You may view your comparisons ... although you may also view the narrowness of your perceptions!
In your identification of male, you view these individuals to occupy themselves much with outward expressions and outward creations. You express that they hold inclination in mechanical areas, technological areas, scientific areas. They interest themselves as leaders/outward projection, as inventors/outward production, as creators/outwardly projecting. You express that they are left-brained male, for you identify right/female, left/male. They are logical, they are rational, and less emotional.
You view your females to be quiet, demure, emotional; inwardly seeking identification of self and understanding ... spiritual!
Look to your history. What is your view of a male image? Strong, solid, outwardly projecting. What is your view of your female within history? Small, fragile ... fainting! (Grinning) And what be your view of what you term to be homosexual? Ah!
Now we begin with different types of diversity, for you identify subdivisions within your identification of homosexual. You divide between the male and the female in this area of homosexual. You identify the males as holding female qualities, and you identify the females as holding male qualities. Very incorrect!
You identify males as flamboyant – the flamboyant expression of a female. You identify the females as rugged – the male expression within a female. And you express to yourselves, all of you, that you are all confused!
The homosexuals express that the heterosexuals are confused, and the heterosexuals express that the homosexuals are confused, and you are all confused within your gender, for you merely hold two genders, but you hold three orientations! Therefore, NONE of you fit within your genders, and these genders cross over with perception.
Common may be a female which exhibits the qualities of outward creation. Many artists are what may be designated as the orientation of common, regardless that they be male or female. They are outwardly creating their expressions from within. They view their world to be ordered and logical and rational. They do not process their information in the manner of inner senses. They process their information – which allows them their perception – through outer senses.
Intermediate – that which you designate as female – is less common than common. There are fewer focuses manifest, within your physical dimension, of intermediate.
These individuals would be likened to those individuals within your history as the frail females, those that you look to within your stories as being so very fragile and lending energy to the perception that they are requiring other individuals to be providing for them, for they may not necessarily, within your beliefs, be providing all of their needs for themselves. The reason that you hold this perception or this belief is that these individuals do not concern themselves with outer creations. They are more concerned – in their perception – with themselves, with inner movement and creation.
They process their information through their inner senses. They hold great interest of other individuals, but in a very different manner. Their attention moves in the direction of connecting with the inner senses and emotions of other individuals. They may be designated as highly sensitive in these areas. They do not concern themselves with outward creations, for they are occupying their focus with inner creations and the exploration of these. These individuals are less interactive with other individuals than common or soft.
Soft is very interactive. They are interactive with each other, they are interactive with other individuals, they are very active in aligning with movements. They are very passionate individuals, which creates your perception of flamboyant behavior.
They are not necessarily concerned with outer creations, physical productions, but they are quite attentive to their own creations outwardly. They may be expressive in dance, in their own creation of their own music ... not necessarily with an instrument. They are expressive in their body movements and creations. They are quite attentive to interaction. These individuals find their greatest creations and ease within interaction of other individuals. Their attention moves in the direction of themselves and other individuals. You shall not perceive many of these individuals to be moving through their focus quite alone. They are unhappy alone.
Now; in difference, common and intermediate may function quite efficiently singularly. Their interest, their movement, their creations may be translated in singular manner. Soft functions most efficiently interactively.
In this, examine within yourselves – what is your perception? This is your view of yourself: how you define yourself, your world, your interactions, your creations, all of your reality. This is your perception. It is how you think, how you feel, how you interact. These are all elements of your perception, and it IS your reality.
(Looking at Jen, and then at Tim) YOUR perception is very different from YOUR perception. You may express to each other and share ideas and concepts and feelings – you may exchange thoughts – but your perceptions are very different.
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