the belief system of truth
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reality
ELIAS: “Belief systems are those inventions that you create to explain what you do not understand. Truths are unchanging. Reality is a truth, but your viewing of reality is a belief system.” [session 45, October 15, 1995]
ELIAS: “It matters not what each individual believes within their religious belief systems, or their political belief systems, or their social belief systems. They shall know truth. It matters not the intensity of their belief systems. The truth will ring within them. They may incorporate difficulty in reconciling themselves to a cooperation of some information as opposed to their belief systems, but they shall develop a ‘method’ to incorporate the truth into their accepted belief systems. They may rearrange the concepts, they may change the words; but the truth shall be at its base.” [session 139, December 12, 1996]
ELIAS: “You shall become aware that I speak of truths seldom, for truths are constants and absolutes throughout all of consciousness, which within any particular dimension, they are not recognized. They are distorted and not completely understood, and the importance placed on them is little. You search for truths within your beliefs and you look to philosophical areas or religious areas. Truths, within consciousness, are those elements of consciousness that are within ALL dimensions and that hold an element of significance within ALL areas of consciousness, physical and nonphysical. Their translation may be different, but they are constants. Color is one. Tone is another.” [session 275, April 23, 1998]
ELIAS: “A truth, as I have expressed, may be defined as an expression that holds throughout all dimensions and throughout all aspects of consciousness.
“Many of the expressions that you create within this particular physical dimension are relative to this dimension and NOT applicable within other dimensions or other areas of consciousness, even mathematics. (Laughing) This is not the universal language! Ha ha ha ha ha!” [session 800, March 18, 2001]
ELIAS: “Love is a truth, and the translation within your physical dimension of love is not attraction. It is that of knowing and appreciation, genuine appreciation, which appreciation is expressed in acceptance. In this, the knowing is also significant, actual knowing of yourself and knowing of another individual and expressing an acceptance which generates an appreciation. This is the genuine expression of love.
“This is not to discount your feelings and your expression in relation to another individual, for you do express affection and attraction, but there are also other expressions which are generated in association with beliefs: expectations upon yourself, expectations concerning the other individual, expectations concerning relationships and how they should be generated and expressed, how you should be expressing within a relationship, and also underlyingly what you genuinely desire in your own expression, without expectations and without anticipation of the other individual’s perception or what they generate, but genuinely focusing upon yourself and allowing yourself to express your genuine offering of energy and not denying that expression within yourself.
“A genuine expression of love between individuals objectively is the expression of allowance of yourself to generate what you want without restriction...” [session 997, January 26, 2002]
JO: “Is there an element of humor that’s a truth?”
ELIAS: “This is associated with your physical dimension. Therefore in a manner of speaking, as associated with emotional communications, it is not necessarily relevant to other dimensions or areas of consciousness, and therefore may not necessarily be translatable in another manner. Truths are translatable in some manner in EVERY area of consciousness.”
JO: “I’m not sure I want to go, then! (Elias laughs with the group) If there aren’t any laughs...”
ELIAS: “Ha ha ha ha! Another element to appreciate within your physical dimension!” [session 1167, October 26, 2002]
ELIAS: “Truth in association with your physical dimension incorporates little interplay in your expressed values. Truth is not what you assess it to be. There are many truths within consciousness, but the expression of them within your reality appears to be insignificant.
“The one truth that you somewhat value – somewhat – is love. But I express to you that you ‘somewhat’ value it for, for the most part you incorporate an incorrect definition of it as a truth; therefore your understanding of the truth of love is limited.
“Most truths that hold within consciousness you would deem to be insignificant and not necessarily valuable to your exploration within this physical dimension, for you are more familiar with the expression of beliefs.
“Is there an expressed truth in beliefs? No. Do you seek to find the expressed truth in beliefs? Yes, and this is your snare. For there is no expressed truth in beliefs, and this is what you are moving into an awareness of in the action of this shift: being aware of your beliefs, recognizing that they are not your enemy, they are merely the design of this physical dimension, and you are not singular and you are not merely this one attention. You are essence, and as essence you incorporate countless, literally numberless, attentions.” [session 1290, March 15, 2003]
ELIAS: “THAT [i.e. beliefs expressed as Absolute Universal Truth] is what is being addressed in this wave in association with this belief system of truth. You express it each and every day within your focuses. You associate with it continuously. Many of your automatic responses are associated within yourselves as truth.
“Many of your beliefs are not even identified as beliefs, for you identify them as truth. Therefore they are not questioned. You do what you do, for this is true. You do not question many expressions within your environments and within each other, for you assess that they are truths and therefore they are absolutes within YOUR estimations.
“This particular belief system may be one of the most insidious and one of the most difficult to identify and to notice, for this particular wave addresses to all of those automatic responses that you do not notice, and you identify them as merely truth. Therefore, they are entirely unquestioned.
“You all incorporate many beliefs that you do not notice, that you do not pay attention to, that you do not question, for you assume that it is a truth and there is no other manner in which it may be perceived. This generates tremendous conflict, for it is a tremendous lack of acceptance.
“This is what generates the tremendous conflict that you witness now within your planet, within your world: individuals that express their truths and their differences in their truths, and there is no bending. For you do not question your own truths, and therefore they must be absolute and they must be accepted by all other individuals, for your truth is THE truth and another individual’s truth is wrong, and it is questioned.
“I expressed previously that there was a possibility that you would be addressing the belief system of emotion, and that altered. That has been altered in association with the mass expression of energy which is occurring throughout your world, not merely in this small area. But the tremendous expression of conflict which is being exhibited throughout your world has moved the collective consciousness in the direction of choosing THIS belief system to be addressing now.
“In this, I may express to each of you, I am aware of the challenge that you are incorporating even identifying your own expressed beliefs in this time framework. Now it is more challenging, for you are not merely moving yourselves into an awareness of identifying your own expressed beliefs but becoming aware of what your truths are, and recognizing that they are not truths.” [session 1368, June 07, 2003]
ELIAS: “Many individuals express opinions of negativity in association with mass decisions that are being expressed presently with governments, but what they are not paying attention to is that they themselves may be expressing a contribution to the very expressions that they dislike in their own energy, regardless of their opinions. You may disagree with many of the choices that governments are engaging presently, but look to yourselves also and pay attention to what type of energy you are expressing in each of your days, and whether you are expressing a lack of acceptance in differences and whether you are expressing protection in your own energies, whether you are generating comparisons, what your perception is of equality – and that is tricky.
“Equality is a dangerous area, for you view yourselves to be quite noble and good if your opinion is that every individual should be equal. But if you encounter another individual that is expressing differently, you immediately move into judgment that any expression outside of equality is bad. Therefore the subject of equality is equally as narrow as any other expression, for it only allows for one expression of sameness and no difference. Difference is what is generating the conflict now and the lack of acceptance of differences, for the differences are the truths and the absolutes.” [session 1447, September 27, 2003]
PAT: “Does essence have its truth, or only as focuses do we have truths?”
ELIAS: “Essence is consciousness, and there are some expressions of consciousness that would be considered truths; but those are truths that are not associated with beliefs. A truth that is not associated with beliefs may be translatable in some manner in every area of consciousness, regardless of whether it is physical or non-physical, but they are not associated with what you term to be concepts or ideas.” (Laughter) [session 1496, January 17, 2004]
ELENA: “Earlier did you say that there are truths unconnected to belief systems?”
ELIAS: “Yes.”
ELENA: “Can you tell us about that?”
ELIAS: “These are truths that are qualities of consciousness. They are not expressions of beliefs and they are translatable within every area of consciousness in some manner. They are not associated with concept. They are associated with action.”
ELENA: “Like what kind of action?”
ELIAS: “Choice.”
ELENA: “Are there any others?”
ELIAS: “There are many different expressions of truths. I have offered some listing of truths previously...”
ELENA: “Color?”
ELIAS: “Yes. Tone, consciousness, reality. There are many, but they are actions. They are not concepts, for consciousness is an action. It is not a thing. Therefore the truths are not things.
“Truths that we are speaking of in this conversation are YOUR truths in association with your beliefs. They are beliefs that you have generated into absolutes, and therefore they become your truths. But your truths are not true.” [session 1496, January 17, 2004]
BOBBI: “... Is the belief that we create our own reality actually a belief, and would that be a new belief?”
ELIAS: “No”.
BOBBI: “It’s a reality.”
ELIAS: “That is a reality and that is a truth – what you would term to be a real truth.” (Chuckles)
BOBBI: “I was thinking if that was a belief, I could pick up that belief, so to speak, and that might be the one overriding belief that would kind of speed you on your road to acceptance of other beliefs, that one. So it’s not really believing it...”
ELIAS: “Correct.”
BOBBI: “...it’s simply knowing it.”
ELIAS: “Whether you believe it or not, you do it.”
BOBBI: “It is a reality.”
ELIAS: “Yes, that is a truth, and therefore it matters not whether you believe it or do not believe it; you do it, regardless.” [session 1500, January 19, 2004]
ELIAS: “Experience is what generates reality. If you have not generated an experience, it is concept. It is not that you may not incorporate some understanding of some expressions – you may, intellectually – but it is not reality if you have not offered yourself the actual experience. It is concept, and that is different. In this, as real as all of your experiences are to you and as right as your right experiences are to you, another individual may express very differently, and their experience and their right is equally as right to them.
“Therefore if you are aware of your own truths, of your own beliefs, of your own guidelines, recognizing that they are your truths but they are not true, therefore they are merely your truths – regardless of how many other individuals share similarities in your truths.
“Generally speaking, all individuals generally draw most other individuals in similarity to themselves in association with their truths. Generally speaking, you shall not incorporate a group of individuals in which half of the individuals are crusading for peace and for nonviolence and are harmoniously interacting with the other half who are crusading for terrorism. You shall draw to yourself individuals or an environment that is similar to you and your truths.
“Let me express to you, if you witnessed another individual being what you perceive to be unkind in association with race, if you witnessed another individual expressing harshly and what you assess as hatefully to another individual in that type of scenario, I may suggest to you that you could incorporate interaction and conversation with fifty or more other individuals that you could relay and share that experience with and they would all agree with your assessment of it.
“Conversely, another individual may view you as weak and not protective of your environment or your family and not perceiving the threat that is quite real in their reality. They may express to fifty or more other individuals in opposition to you and your position, and all of those individuals would agree with them also, for that is what you draw to yourself. That does not mean you are right. It merely means that you draw similarity to yourself to reinforce your own rightness – but it is not true.
“In recognizing your own beliefs and the lack of truth to them, you recognize that they are not wrong, they are not bad, and that they are efficient for you but they are not necessarily applicable to other individuals. It is not a matter of altering other individuals. It is a matter of you engaging your creativity to discover a manner in which you can generate a cooperation with other individuals in which you are not compromising you but you are also not discounting or opposing the other individual. Let me express to you, if you are not projecting an opposing energy to another individual, whether you dislike them or disagree with them, the other individual shall not project an opposing energy to you either, which neutralizes the conflict.” [session 1799, July 16, 2005]
ELIAS: “Each of you incorporates your own truths. We have defined truths as your own beliefs that you have set into absolute, that you do not even question.
“In these truths, there is some association of preference, and in this, as we have discussed previously, your truths are not bad. They are your guidelines. They are your individual guidelines that guide you in how you shall behave, how you shall interact, how you shall create. Therefore, for you individually, they are good for they are your guidelines. They allow you to measure your behavior. They also influence you to not be engaging some behavior, for your truths express a preference and not a preference. There are judgments associated with your own truths. Your truths all incorporate some element of what you assess to be good and bad.
“You are not eliminating belief systems; you are not eliminating beliefs. Therefore, you are not eliminating duplicity. You are continuing to express your own evaluations of good and bad and right and wrong within yourself. What you are changing is not applying that to every other individual within your reality, for their truths may be different. This is the element of difference.
“It is not necessary to agree. You may be interacting with another individual that you do not agree with and it is not necessary for you to alter your truth to accommodate the other individual. It is also not necessary for you to instruct and convince the other individual that your truth is right. It may be absolute for you and that is what is important, but it is not absolute for the other individual. It is not necessary to agree to cooperate.
“You may be expressing differences but it matters not. The other individual may be expressing, ‘I do this action in this manner,’ and you may express, ‘I do this action in another manner.’ You may be expressing back and forth, offering your reasons why you do a particular action in a particular manner, but it actually matters not, for the other individual is not actually affecting you or changing you. You continue to express in your guidelines.
“An individual may express a truth that they express violence is wrong and therefore it should not be expressed. Another individual may incorporate violent behavior – but you are not. That is the point of your truths. They are YOUR guidelines.” [session 1861, October 22, 2005]
ELIAS: “Generally speaking, your truths become tapped when you are presented or when you present yourself with a difference. The difference threatens your truth, for your truth is absolute and there are many avenues of your truth that are comfortable and that are not conflicting.” [session 1970, April 01, 2006]
DANIIL: “How many truths on average does an individual have? Is it hundreds and hundreds, or is it a few major ones?”
ELIAS: “I would express that each individual incorporates many truths, but that each individual may incorporate a few that would be considered the core truths.” [session 1970, April 01, 2006]
ELIAS: “None of your truths are bad. They do incorporate influences that limit you, but only in association with automatic responses. You become so very familiar with your truths that in being unquestioned, they incorporate many, many automatic responses.
“Some of your automatic responses you would evaluate as good and you would not change and you would appreciate. Some of your automatic responses lead you into conflict and lead you into bad things occurring, in your terminology. This is the reason that it is so very important and significant that you identify what your truths are, and that you not merely identify what your truths are but that you recognize what the influences are, and in that, allow yourself to recognize that you incorporate choice.
“Let me also express to you, when you genuinely recognize [and] identify your truth, the element of ‘you do not create all of your reality’ becomes a moot point, for in accepting the responsibility of your own truth, you begin to recognize and perceive in reality that you ARE creating all of your reality. You are not a victim to circumstances, to scenarios, to situations, to other individuals, for YOU incorporate the choices and you can choose different actions to allow yourself to continue in the expression of your truth but not be dissuaded by other individuals’ choices, expressions or behaviors. They literally move into the expression of ‘it matters not.’ You shall incorporate no judgment associated with differences, for you shall offer yourself choices that open new avenues, even in association with washing your clothes. Even in the mundane actions that you generate each day, you shall not be placing that energy into that container, for you shall allow yourself to engage choices that circumvent that expression of setting yourself into motion to trigger yourself.
“Other individuals are merely a catalyst in reflection; they are not actually DOING the action of triggering you. YOU are doing the action of triggering you, and you began that before you presented the scenario to yourself in which you become triggered, for you engaged choices that set you in a direction to be triggered. But if you are aware of your truths, you are intentionally directing and intentionally creating.
“What is the intention of every individual within this room or within this forum? The intention of every individual is to be aware of themselves objectively to the point that you can objectively intentionally create your reality in the manner that you want, whether it be associated with relationships or money or home or family or children or your employment; it matters not.
“What you want is to intentionally direct yourselves to create what you want. That being such an intense desire, it is motivating you to be generating all of these experiences, the experiences that you do not like, the experiences that generate discomfort. The reason that you generate these experiences is associated with that desire. But you lose sight of that desire and you express to yourselves, ‘Why can I not create what I want now?’ Why can you not create what you want now? You are not aware of what influences you NOW in all that you do.
“I have been expressing for an extended time framework the significance and the importance of paying attention to all that you do. There is NO element hidden from you. There is no subconscious. ALL is available to you. It is merely a matter of paying attention and not placing yourself in the position of the co-pilot of your airplane, with no pilot. Without the pilot, it is quite a guess where the plane shall fly, and you incorporate no sense of control! In that, you open the door to be the victim of situations, of circumstances, of other individuals – even of yourselves! You sabotage yourselves, for you are not directing.
“The question in each individual is ‘How do I direct? What does this mean? And what do I pay attention to?’ You wish to be incorporating a formula. You wish for me to offer you the formula. I HAVE, repeatedly. But the formula is too simple, and without the complication, the formula is not being received, for you continue to look for more of the formula: ‘Complicate it, Elias. Generate more of it, Elias. This is simple. This cannot be accomplished; it cannot be all that there is.’
“I express to you to pay attention to what you are doing, and you incorporate questions in your mind. ‘What am I doing? I am sitting, I am listening; I am doing nothing.’ You are never doing nothing. You are always engaging choices and you are always doing in many more expressions than you allow yourself to be aware of. Your body consciousness is always doing. You are always generating choices, every moment. Each of you in this moment is generating a choice to sit, to listen...
(Enunciating slowly and extra clearly) “PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ARE DOING. This is the official formula! Ha ha!” [session 1970, April 01, 2006]
RON: “I have a question. I’m awake! (Laughter) I know that through all of the sessions you have mentioned certain truths, and I would just like to hear sort of a run-down of the truths that have come up in our sessions, as opposed to belief systems. I’m aware of some, but I know I’ve missed some as well. You could give me some that you haven’t talked about too, if you want!
ELIAS: Some truths. (Pause) Truths are constants that may not be eliminated or annihilated. Energy is a truth. Color is a truth. Vibration is a truth. Reality is a truth. You creating your reality is a truth. Consciousness and its different areas of awareness are truths. You are a truth. Belief systems incorporate a much wider area, for they incorporate much imagination, but even within this you incorporate truth, for all thought becomes imagination and all thought is energy, which is truth, which is also reality. Therefore, all imagination is a reality, which is also a truth! (Smiling)
RON: I guess I didn’t want to be that confused! (Laughter)
ELIAS: You are wishing me to give you a small box that is saying, ‘This is Ron’s box of truths.’
RON: Well, yeah!
ELIAS: I will put this box.... (Here, Elias picks up a box of tissues and holds the box up in front of him, looking at Cathy) Did you notice? (He then places the box in front of Ron, who is sitting to his right) To Ron: This is Ron’s truths box! (Amidst much laughter, he proceeds to pluck tissues out, labeling them one by one and giving them to Ron) This is reality truth! This is essence truth! This is (this tissue gets tossed over his left knee) belief systems! This is color! This is music! This is ... (here, he pulls out quite a few, placing the entire pile in front of Ron) essence! (We are all cracking up) This is a very big pile of truths! [session 45, October 15, 1995]
VICKI: “I have a question for Michael [Mary] tonight too. I almost forgot. Do you view yourself as a pragmatist?
ELIAS: (Laughing) I will express to Michael [Mary] that in one respect, I will be saying affirmative; but there also is a key point, within pragmatism, to which I know differently; this being that you will find that your pragmatists view truth as relative. Truth, in this philosophy, is dependent upon experience. I express to you that there are truths that are unchanging. A pragmatist incorporates all of philosophy, and creates their own truth relative to their experience; but not beyond.
There are truths beyond physical experience; constants that are, within themselves, a priori, to which a pragmatist does not subscribe; but with the acceptance of reality, and also those things beyond physical reality, yes. I would agree to this. You may express to Michael [Mary] that I am quite knowing that he incorporates the philosophy of pragmatism, as does also Ron, as do also many of you. Your truths, you believe, are based upon your experiences; and as they hold to be efficient, you hold them to be truthful. (Pause) I will express to you also that your view of efficiency is distorted.
RON: Can you explain that?
ELIAS: You view efficiency as what may be easiest. You believe this to be expedient. What you incorporate within physical focus may not always be your easiest path, so to speak, but it may be your most efficient for your intent. You may incorporate action which is needing of some effort initially, for you have trained yourselves within one direction; but within your action, your effortlessness comes.
Therefore, the pragmatist views the experiences as being true, if they are efficient, temporarily; but once another philosophy introduces itself and they are viewing this as efficient also, they are inclined to be discontinuing in one and moving to another, much as a leaf blowing through the wind. It incorporates effortlessness in allowing the wind to carry it, but it does not direct itself. In this same way, the pragmatist floats with what he views to be an efficient philosophy, on a temporary basis.
I express to you that there are truths which are unchanging. Pragmatists do not believe in unchanging truths. All things, to the pragmatist, are changing; even truths. There is no truth within pragmatism! They are very aware of this fact, which they also incorporate quite well! Facts are very much within their focus. If a fact is presented, it is accepted.
Facts are changing. Truths are not. Throughout your history, many facts have changed! Within your present time, facts are changing! You will be learning, not from me, but from those around you and from what you incorporate around you, that many elements of your reality are changing; but these are facts! Your scientists incorporate them as fact! You also incorporate them as fact. They are learning that their facts are not so ‘factual!’ (Grinning)
GUIN: Is that because of the simultaneous time, and the changing of probabilities, would ultimately change the facts?
ELIAS: Correct. (Pause) You do not incorporate a basic understanding of what and who you are. Therefore, how do you determine to understand what you have created within a universe? You do incorporate what you choose to call ‘genius minds.’ All of you possess genius minds, but you look to these individuals as your geniuses, who connect slightly more, momentarily, with some information. They offer this information to you as great revelations of fact. They are, through their most powerful and magnificently gigantic scopes, viewing a pinpoint of reality!
You are all multidimensional creatures, and you study one dimension! Therefore, you base facts upon one dimension, and you express these as temporary truths. There are myriads of dimensions! (Pause, looking at Guin) Are you understanding [that] time is meaningless?
GUIN: I try!
ELIAS: No! (Looking at Ron) Are you understanding that all space is here? (Ron nods his head) No! (Looking at Vicki) Do you view other dimensions? (Vicki shakes her head, laughing) No! Therefore, how can you base truths and facts upon one dimension? (Pause)
Your own outer senses, to which you trust in viewing a table or a wall, prove you to be perceiving, and prove themselves to be truthful to you; but you do not incorporate a trustfulness of these same senses when you are viewing another visualization of yourself! You are hallucinating, or your eyes are crossing, or you are being very creatively imagining! (Grinning at everybody) Your self is your truest reflection to you; but you reach, still, for objective facts. When your scientists learn to be reversing their focus to be examining subjective reality, they will more incorporate truthfulness than looking to the object outside! (Looking at Guin) Just as your wider awarenesses go in, and in, and in!” [session 65, January 07, 1996]
ELIAS: “Everyone is connected with everyone! All, underline all, consciousness is connected with all consciousness. Energy may not be separated. It is.
NORM: I’m thinking about the library, the akashic records. You’re smiling! That is there for anybody. It is energy that I can attract, if I were properly trained to be able to do that?
ELIAS: I shall express to you that this concept of your akashic records is ... a concept. It is an invention, as an explanation to yourselves of your own innate knowledge.
Now; as has been stated previously, there are areas of consciousness, which you may term to be world views of individuals that are deposited and available to all consciousness, that you may access within physical focus. This you may view as your library, if you are wishing. These are energy deposits within consciousness that are placed by every focused individual, and may be accessed for all information as perceived by that individual.
As to truths, as your ancient records supposedly hold, these are not held in ancient ruins or cosmic records. There is no angel standing beside a gate with an enormous multidimensional book! (Laughter) There is no record in the cosmos which is ancient and filled with all knowledge. There is you! There is essence, which holds all knowledge. All may be accessed by you through you, for you hold all of these things. There is no thing outside of you.
RETA: And we just have to learn how to access that. So if you’re saying there’s an energy body that was this person’s record and that person’s record, but then you say truth besides that, there is no person telling you whether that record that was their focus is true?
ELIAS: This is an imprint, within consciousness, of the individual’s perception; their view.
RETA: And their view may not be what your knowledge terms as all truth?
ELIAS: Correct; for it is influenced by belief systems, for it is directly related to physical focus. It is an energy deposit of knowledge, imprinted within consciousness, accessible to you; just as you view your Einstein to be a great genius, and you may wish to access this individual’s world view. This is not their view of the world! It is their view of all, as seen through the perception of physical focus. Now; this may be added to within an area of transition, but it is continued to be closely related to physical focus. It is accessible to physical focus to be beneficial to you, and to be helpful to your understanding.
RETA: Alright. We have, say, four people’s perceptions of a subject. How would you come to knowledge of the truth within those four views?
ELIAS: The knowledge of the truth shall be accessed by you.
RETA: And I will know the difference?
ELIAS: You know the truth. It is similar to viewing your philosophers. Do you look to your philosophers for truth?
RETA: Most of the time, but I have my belief systems.
ELIAS: In absolute terms? (Here, Reta starts to answer, but Elias interrupts) You are understanding that these individuals, as philosophers, are individuals.
RETA: Right.
ELIAS: You are understanding that these individuals work within a framework of belief systems. Therefore, you may view their philosophy and if it is containing of truth, you will know; for you hold the same truth.
RETA: I will know through my belief systems though, so is that absolute truth?
ELIAS: Beyond your belief systems!” [session 132, November 10, 1996]
RETA: “… I have a very deep belief in my religion which is quite acceptable to me, and I’m trying to change or adjust or allow this to come through, these new concepts to come through. Is there a better way to do that?
ELIAS: I have expressed to you all, your religious belief systems are not wrong.
RETA: Oh, I don’t think it’s wrong. I think it’s lovely!
ELIAS: They are what you have created. All of your belief systems are what you have created. Therefore, they also serve you in certain areas. There is no conflict within your religious beliefs and truth, if you are looking for truth; for your religious belief systems are based in truth. They have sprung from truth.
RETA: That’s interesting that you might mention that because on the way up here we were discussing how you would explain truth and light.
NORM: How do you determine truth?
ELIAS: Truths are absolutes. Truths are those elements which are not confined to one focus, or to one dimension, or to one reality. Truths are those elements of consciousness that are filtered through all of consciousness. Your belief systems are based upon truths. All belief systems within all physical focuses are based within truths, but they are distorted and they are interpreted. Therefore, they appear removed from the truths. This is the method that you have chosen within physical focus. You translate all subjective knowing and activity. Therefore, in one respect you view the translation as distortion. In another respect, it is not distortion, for it is your creation of your reality. As to the significance of elements as compared to nonphysical, we would view your translations as distortions.
NORM: Are you acquiring new truths in your area or region? (Pause)
ELIAS: I would express to you that truths are not new. They are.
NORM: The statement has been made that when we pass on, a lot of people expect, and I no longer expect, to know everything. So I’m not going to know all the truths. So how do you on the other side determine truths? That’s my question, as to how you do that.
ELIAS: There are areas of consciousness that you move through subsequent to what you believe to be death. Initially, you do not spring into the area of consciousness in which Elias occupies presently. Initially, you shall pass through an area of consciousness that you would term to be transition. This area of consciousness will be directly that action of widening belief systems, accepting of belief systems. As you widen your belief systems, you also open your objective awareness to subjective activity. You believe that as you move from physical focus into nonphysical focus that you automatically shed your objective element of consciousness, and you function within subjective consciousness. This is incorrect. As you move into nonphysical focus within the area of transition, you continue to hold objective consciousness. You widen your awareness, which meshes the objective and subjective consciousness. You become more aware of the subjective activity. In this, as you become more aware of subjective knowing, you shall also understand and know what you seek as your truths.
RETA: Is there a method that I could use today to learn to not distort or mistranslate the truths? How could I have a feeling or knowledge or something to let me know that my truths are correct, and not distorted or mistranslated? Is there any method that I could use?
ELIAS: These are difficult areas. I speak to you to allow you to become familiar with yourselves. Until you recognize yourself and are familiar with yourself, you will hold confusion in what you think of as distortion of truths, for you will be untrusting of yourself. You will be continuously questioning. ‘Is this correct? Is this incorrect? Is this right? Is this wrong? Is this the way? Is this not?’ As you widen your awareness and become more trustful of self, you shall also begin to identify these truths. You shall trust what rings true. You already trust to a slight extent what rings true to you, but you also discount much. As you learn to trust self more, you shall also learn to listen to your own language more. In this, you will understand. You will know. Each time that you experience small impulses and small knowings that you acknowledge, you will know. As you practice within physical focus, you become more accomplished at this action; this being also why we continue with our game, for this allows you the opportunity to be listening to self.
(Intently) Within belief systems, believe this. You may trust yourselves. You will know truths. You will also know non-truths. You may distinguish between them.” [session 137, December 01, 1996]
ELIAS: “You may express to yourselves repeatedly that you accept the concept that you create your reality. You will also accept this limitedly, for you shall find areas and aspects of your reality that you do not accept that you create. Every moment of your existence within physical focus, within any focus, you create. Every experience that you experience, you create.
These are concepts. You accept the concept; as within your religious-focus, for many centuries you accepted the concept of your father god. You did not accept the reality, although it is not a reality, but you accepted the concept. You do not accept the reality of this concept, which is a reality!
You do not accept many realities that are truth, for you do not understand. As I have stated previously, truth within your focus is inconsequential. Your belief systems are consequential. You do not rule your lives by truth, although you think you do! But I shall venture to express that I know not any individual that rules their life and their focus by color vibration! I know not any individual physically focused that directs the entirety of their life within the truth of tone! These are truths. They are, within physical focus, inconsequential. Your belief systems are your gauge. Your belief systems, once again, are not bad; are not wrong. They are.” [session 147, January 12, 1997]
BOB: “So love is a truth of essence? Love is a truth that is part of essence? It exists as a part of essence?
ELIAS: It is a truth, period.
BOB: Okay, and you defined it largely as an action.
ELIAS: Correct.
BOB: As we see it as a feeling, that’s somewhat of a mislabeling.
ELIAS: Not necessarily. This is your interpretation within this dimension within this physical creation, just as you interpret Source Events into physical actuality within mass events and individual events. These are realities also. They do not encompass the entirety of the Source Event, for it does not fit within the framework and confines of your physical reality; just as truths do not fit within the confines and framework of any physical reality, for they are boundless. All truths are dimensional, and action.
DREW: ... I want to clarify a term. When you say love is dimensional and color is dimensional, does that mean multidimensional?
ELIAS: Correct.
BOB: However, if I understand what you’re saying when you say that love is a truth, that does not mean that our typical interpretations of love and descriptions of love are truth.
DREW: Right. Those are our interpretations, but it is a fundamental truth of being.
BOB: Right, which we have very little understanding of, if I heard correctly. So the characteristics that we impose upon love are not necessarily accurate. They’re not necessarily the picture. They are not the truth. The truth of love is something apart from the character that we give it.
ELIAS: This is not to diminish the reality of your interpretation!
BOB: Okay, but the point being that lots of people equate love and hate as sort of equal counterparts to one another. Based on your definition, that would not be true because ...
ELIAS: Correct.
BOB: ... love is a truth and hate is an emotion filtered through belief systems. So love is not technically something that is filtered through belief systems, but our description of what we perceive to be love is filtered through belief systems, correct? So love is something truly apart from that, that we don’t particularly understand very well and that we take an awful lot of liberties describing, and whether some of those liberties are valid or not is a separate discussion. (Vicki loses it. I’ve been on this hamster wheel a few other times, Bob!)
ELIAS: You approach [a] dangerous area! (Much laughter)
BOB: Seems like I’m on a roll tonight!
ELIAS: I take great issue with discounting of your creation, for you are quite accomplished and adept at discounting your creations and invalidating yourselves! Your creations are interpretations, but they are reality. They are not to be discounted. Your interpretation of a truth may be an interpretation in terms of consciousness nonphysically focused within its entirety, but your interpretation of a truth within physical focus is reality. It also is not negative. It also is, is, creative!
BOB: Okay, but reality is not truth. (We all lose it)
ELIAS: (Grinning at Bob) Reality is truth!
BOB: So all experience and anything you create is truth!
ELIAS: In a manner of speaking.
BOB: Okay. If you create your reality and reality is truth, then you create truth! (Elias grins seductively at Bob, who backs off) Well, I’ll give that some thought! (Vic’s note: I’d like to acknowledge Bob here for braving the hamster wheel!)” [session 152, February 09, 1997]
BOB#1: “Would a sensation of different actions or thoughts be a different sensation, identifiable over time? For instance, if you could merge with love and that created some sort of sensation, would that sensation be consistent from time to time if you were able to accomplish merging with that, and a different sensation be created if you were merging with hate or prosperity or whatever idea you were thinking of or trying to merge with?
ELIAS: Yes.
BOB#1: So the sensations would be consistent over time?
ELIAS: If the conceptualization is accomplished with a truth, yes, it shall be consistent throughout your time framework, and each time that you accomplish the mergence, the sensation or the action shall be the same, although it may vary within intensity as you allow more or less of the experience. If you are merging with a concept that is not a truth, this may be changeable.
BOB#1: And if it was a truth, would the sensation from one person to the next be consistent?
ELIAS: Not necessarily, for each of you holds your own interpretation. Within the actual action that is occurring, yes, it is the same. Your interpretation of the action shall be different; just as I may approach each of you within this forum, and I may hold a hammer and I may smash your toe. I may create the identical same action with each of you. Each of you shall basically experience pain, but each of you shall experience this action within your own individual interpretation. Therefore, it shall be different within each of you.
BOB#1: However, there would be a certain commonality of experience.
ELIAS: Correct.
BOB#1: So if different people in the group attempted to merge with the same concept, it’s conceivable that there could be some sort of sharing of experience to validate whether or not, or to what extent, they were able to accomplish this.
ELIAS: Correct; if, as I have stated, you are choosing to be conceptualizing a truth, for these are unchanging.
BOB#1: Now, how many truths have we identified here? One, that I remember. (Much laughter, as we know what’s coming next!)
ELIAS: Ah! My favorite game! Shall we be offering to Simon [Bob] the truths for this evening? (And Elias proceeds to pull twelve tissues out of the box, scattering them everywhere) You may stop me at will!
BOB#1: At your pleasure! I may choose not to! (And there go five more tissues)
ELIAS: (Grinning) Truths are constant. They transcend all areas of consciousness and all dimensions, physical and nonphysical.
BOB#1: Okay. But we identified love as a truth.
ELIAS: Correct.
BOB#1: That’s the only one that I remember being here for when you discussed it. So I was just wondering if, at the risk of seeing more tissues, whether there are any others you care to identify?
ELIAS: Color is a truth. Tone is a truth. Reality is a truth. Consciousness is a truth. Energy is a truth.” [session 162, April 06, 1997]
DREW: “Regarding truths, which Norm touched on, we have discussed many truths in these sessions. Have we discussed them all? (Vic’s note: Ron and Cathy both grab for the tissue box, snatching it and placing it outside of Elias’ reach, and we all crack up. Elias has a habit of playing with tissue boxes whenever somebody asks about truths, and the tissues go flying!) I ask because I wanted to offer one. I have a question about ... (and his words are obliterated by our laughter) Uh oh!
ELIAS: They have removed our truths! (Humorously appearing insulted)
DREW: I remember that! Well, let me offer one.
ELIAS: You may.
DREW: Light.
ELIAS: (Pausing) I shall say, the vibration of light is a truth. The manifestation of light is not, for the manifestation of light is relative.
DREW: Would that be the same way that color is a truth, but in our physical manifestation it’s an interpretation of the truth?
ELIAS: It is slightly different, for you interpret color. Although distorted, you do hold some understanding of this truth. Light you view as light, as opposed to darkness or no light. It is, in your interpretation, an illumination. In reality, in truth, it is not an illumination.
DREW: It is multidimensional.
ELIAS: Yes.
DREW: And so, while it is multidimensional and a truth, our interpretation of it is so distorted that what we think of as light is not close enough to the truth for us to have an understanding of what you mean when you say light.
ELIAS: Correct.
DREW: The reason I asked if it’s a truth is because it holds many aspects for us besides just illumination. There is emotional attachment with light. It has depth for us, beyond illumination.
ELIAS: Correct.
DREW: And therefore, I was wondering if it was multidimensional and a truth.
ELIAS: Yes, you are correct; although I feel it necessary to be expressing to you that this is a further removal, within interpretation within your reality, than your concept of tone or color.
DREW: Okay. Thank you.” [session 167, April 27, 1997]
JULIE: “I have another question, kind of off the subject. I don’t really view that there is a right and wrong as far as everyone else is concerned. I have my own views, but I understand that they’re different for everybody, so that’s not a hard concept for me. But the concept of there being like a truth, it’s kind of contradictory to me. I don’t really understand how that all works.
ELIAS: You do not understand for within this physical focus the truths, within the mass belief systems, are inconsequential.
The mass belief systems attach the idea of truth to belief systems. These are not truths. Truths are unchanging and are relative to all areas of consciousness, not merely this dimension. Therefore, the constants that are in actuality truths are not recognized by the masses within physical focuses; not only this particular physical focus and dimension, but within any physical manifestation.
Truths are not regarded in actuality with much value. Truths are those elements of which we have spoken previously; of consciousness, and energy, and tone, and color, and dimension, and essence; but individuals within physical focuses attach the term truth to beliefs that they hold to be true and right.
What you view within physical focus is quite changing. Your facts are not truths, for they also are changing. Your own truths within belief systems are changing within your own time periods, within different societies.
JULIE: It’s confusing.
ELIAS: Therefore, recognize that what the masses identify as truths are not. They are belief systems that they hold to be true, for they are elements of their reality. They are real, but they are not truths. They are inconstants. Truths shall be valued outside of the context of physical focus, where you hold no moral belief systems and no scientific belief systems. All ideas, thoughts, expressions, manifestations, are reality. This is not the same as truth, although truth is reality also; but they are not synonymous.
JULIE: Okay, that helps. I was trying to lump it all into ... I wasn’t really separating it. I was trying to figure it out so that they all somehow work together and it wasn’t making sense, but now it does.
ELIAS: It is most amusing to be listening with individuals within our forum exploring their ideas of truths and wishing for examples of truths to be offered to them, for they shall not value those truths which are offered! They do not understand that these are constants within consciousness; not changing regardless of any area or focus of consciousness and manifestation and reality. They are wishing to be told that truths hold moral value, which they do not; for your moral value within your dimension holds no meaning within another dimension. Within your own dimension within different societies, your moral truths hold no meaning for other societies. Therefore, they are inconstant. How may they be truths? They are not absolute.
As you may relate to, color does not change. It is a vibrational quality. You may hold interpretations, within different dimensions and focuses, of color. You may manifest representations of this within what you view to be paint, or within creations such as your vegetation or your creatures or your atmosphere, but it continues, even within the interpretation, to hold the vibrational quality that it is.” [session 172, May 06, 1997]
NORM: “Well, I’ve been working on trying to understand my views and belief systems in regard to the relationship between the focus and the essence. We’re here as a focus and separated from essence, and yet duplicity is stating that we shouldn’t be thinking that way. We shouldn’t be thinking of what we are here for and accomplishing, and it seems to be a contradiction. Yet I realize that we should realize that we are truly of essence. Am I stating this right? The shift is the thing that is going to make us not have duplicity, or think that we are really who we are. That is going to make a lot of changes, not only in our own personalities but in society in general. I have several questions. For example, is personality a truth?
ELIAS: Yes.
NORM: Thank you. I’ve been having dreams lately that are unusual ... I guess not too unusual, but to me they’re indicating that I am beginning to close the gap and realize my belief systems in regard to whom I am and what I am. For example, I’ve had a recurring dream about a large machine carrying a caterpillar, a bulldozer, which is a very heavy object, and it was flying through the air! I wondered, ‘What is making that thing fly through the air?’ I did notice that it had a propeller on the front of it, but it was ridiculous because in physical life or in standard physics that would not create a lifting amount great enough to lift perhaps ten tons, and there were no wings involved. So in my efforts to resolve who I am, which has been a question with me for a very long time, I feel that I would like to have any comments that you would like to say about that.
ELIAS: As to your dream, or as to who you are? (Grinning, and we all laugh.)
NORM: All of this! All of it! Philosophize, as you’re well aware or capable of doing.
ELIAS: Within your imagery of your dream, you are offering yourself alternate imagery in viewing elements that do not make sense logically. You are offering yourself a new viewing of reality beyond the rigidity that you have held throughout most of your focus. You have directed your focus to be viewing elements of reality as solid, concrete, logical. Not all of reality follows this pattern. Although you may be creating your reality in this manner, there is more to reality than merely the physics that you teach yourself.
As to the relationship between the focus and essence, they are the same. Essence is not a THING outside of you. It is within you. It IS you, although it seems contradictory, for you hold many focuses and in your thought process you think to yourselves that these are all elements other than you, for you think of yourselves very limitedly. You think of yourselves as an entity. I have expressed to you terminology such as ‘attention’ intentionally, that you may open your thought process about yourselves as being much more than what you view within this one focus.
You use terminology as ‘only this focus.’ This is an expression of your duplicity. It is an expression of how you devalue yourselves. This is duplicity. You are only separated from essence, so to speak, in your attention. You are not separated from essence in reality, but you focus your attention in different areas. One area of you – your essence, which IS you – is focused here, just as within this physical focus you may focus your attention in many different areas.
As I have expressed previously, your attention may be diverted in several areas at once. You may occupy yourself within any moment and your attention may be split, so to speak, in several different directions at once. The main aspect of your attention may be focused in one direction upon one activity, but you are also focusing different elements in what you may term to be a lesser capacity in many other areas.
Let us use an example: Within your physical focus, within any moment within your day, you may occupy yourself with a project. Let us express that you are focusing your attention upon writing a letter. The main element of your attention is focused upon writing a letter, but your attention may also be occupied with listening to music while you are writing the letter. You may be also aware of a dog barking. You are also aware of the temperature within your room. You are also aware of different sounds and movements. You are aware of your physical body. You may be drinking a glass of water while you are writing. All of these actions are elements of your attention. Some appear to you as being lesser in your attention, for you are focused upon one action. In this same manner, you as essence are focusing an aspect of your attention in this focus. Therefore, for this focus the attention seems to be directed to this particular focus more so than to all of the other elements and actions of the essence, but you also allow yourselves bleed-throughs, or what we speak of as bleed-throughs, of many other focuses and many other actions of essence, for the attention is held there also. Each focus holds the same element of attention.
These are difficult areas for your thought process, for you think of yourselves very singularly. You do this, that you do not distract yourselves. Essence holds tremendous ability. Unlike the attention that you allow yourself within each focus, you do not believe within your belief systems that you may focus your attention in more than one event at one time. You shall always hold your attention directed in one area more than another area. This is a belief system which you have developed, but it also provides you with clarity or purity in each of your experiences. It allows you to separate out all of your experiences, and therefore allows you less confusion within the individual focus.
I have offered an exercise in clarity (1), that you may practice with your own abilities and recognize that you may be focusing your attention in several areas simultaneously, and you MAY accomplish this! This offers you information as to the reality of essence and answers part of your own questions as to HOW this may be possible – ‘How may essence be equally focused in all of these focuses? How may its attention be equal in all of these events simultaneously?’ – for your logic, your rationale, dictates to you within your belief systems that one area of attention must be predominant.” [session 257, January 11, 1998]
DREW: “Isn’t every interaction with a creature and everything else an agreement?
ELIAS: (With a touch of exasperation) Not in the manner of speaking that your thought process leans in.
DREW: Well, wasn’t there an agreement between her and the cat? (2)
ELIAS: You agree to exist. You agree to interact. But in the same manner, in alignment with your thought process, that you may interact with another individual, in one layer of consciousness you are in agreement for any interaction to be occurring, but objectively you may not be in agreement for Stephen [Norm] to rise presently and punch you!
DREW: Well, that’s the same analogy as somebody being murdered by somebody else.
ELIAS: Correct.
DREW: That only happens by agreement.
ELIAS: But the agreement is not necessarily objectively.
DREW: As I understand it, that’s only because of belief systems.
ELIAS: Here we enter into another area of misinterpretation! You automatically move into the areas of placing judgments and misinterpretations upon this information. I offer you realities, truth within essence, but I have also stated to you many times that your physical reality IS YOUR REALITY. Therefore, within your physical reality you DO hold right and wrong, good and bad, AS REALITY.
You DO hold very strong belief systems in what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. When I am expressing to you that there is no right and wrong and that all is an agreement, this is WITHIN ESSENCE. But your physical reality IS reality, and therefore you have created rules that you abide by that make up your officially accepted reality. In this, agreements, which I have stated many times previously, are not the same as what your thought process in physical focus dictates.
DREW: Well, I understand that there’s a difference between what I call theory and practice. Basically, here we’re learning theory, which is a little different from objective practice. But isn’t the whole point of this to try to expand and get beyond the illusion of victim and perpetrator and someone being subjected to someone else’s action and activity?
ELIAS: It is to widen your awareness. The perpetrator and the victim are NOT illusions. They are your reality!
DREW: They’re belief systems.
ELIAS: They are belief systems, but they are reality!
DREW: Well, but they would only be reality to those people who held those belief systems.
ELIAS: And do you not hold these belief systems?
DREW: It depends on the situation. There may be a circumstance where ... there are people who murder. Those people obviously have different belief systems than someone who would consider it wrong to murder, I would venture to say.
ELIAS: Not necessarily.
DREW: Not necessarily, but even if there’s ONE person for whom that’s true, then that disproves it as a rule. If we’re creating our own realities and we all have our own belief systems, then everyone’s reality is different based on their belief systems. Would that be correct to say?
ELIAS: In some aspects.
DREW: So if my belief systems differ from someone else’s, then my reality and my vision of what is right and wrong and good and bad will be different from theirs.
ELIAS: Correct.
DREW: So good and bad and right and wrong are not truths.
ELIAS: Correct.
DREW: So, we’re starting to blur the lines. No, we’re actually creating a distinction that I’ve been working for the past year to some extent to eliminate. We’ve talked about this before in terms of car accidents and murder victims and how it was all by agreement and there are no victims and there are no perpetrators, there is no right, there is no wrong, in the big picture of things.
ELIAS: Correct.
DREW: And I’ve been making an effort to incorporate some of that within my belief systems, to put some of that into practice. So NOW to say, ‘Well, that’s all the big picture of it, but in reality it doesn’t work that way, and....’
ELIAS: It MAY, as you are widening your awareness. I am merely stating to you that you are not discounting of the reality that is officially accepted, for in discounting the reality that is officially accepted, you also automatically move into the area of discounting Acceptance 102.
DREW: If Stephen [Norm] got up right now and punched me in the nose, I might not like it and I might think it’s wrong, but it could only happen by agreement. Isn’t that true?
ELIAS: In another layer of consciousness, true. But objectively, not necessarily, not in the manner that you think of.
DREW: I understand. I’d probably want to punch him back or defend myself or....
ELIAS: You may not! You may be accepting of this. It is dependent upon the wideness of your awareness ...
DREW: Well, I’m not that wide yet! (Laughter)
ELIAS: ... and your acceptance of self and other individuals’ realities.
DREW: Which gets back to this incorporation of the big picture, the theory within our practical daily life.
ELIAS: Correct.” [session 260, January 18, 1998]
JEN: “You talked about truths of color and tone, and I wonder what other truths?
ELIAS: (Chuckling) Truths! And you have no truths box at your availability? (Still chuckling) Lawrence [Vicki] shall be amused at this disadvantage of not holding a truths box objectively, and you may inquire of this ... jokingly! (3)
ELIAS: There are truths within consciousness, but as I have stated previously many times, these are not viewed by yourselves within physical focus as holding tremendous meaning, for your belief systems dictate to you what you think of as truths in many different areas.
Color is a truth. Tone is a truth. Energy is a truth. Consciousness and essence are truths. Reality is a truth. These are all constants within All-That-Is. Any aspect, any element that is a constant which occupies every area of consciousness may be defined as a truth. Not all that you view within your belief systems and within your reality within this dimension are truths, for they are relative merely to this dimension and this reality.
You look to many elements in this particular dimension as being constants and as being truths, for you define this reality as ‘universal,’ meaning that this universe encompasses all of reality, which it does not. There are many universes within universes within many different dimensions which are all occurring simultaneously, and as I have expressed at our last meeting, all of your space arrangements, all of your dimensions are within each other. All dimensions, all universes occupy the same space arrangements. They are configured differently, but they are all superimposed upon each other. They are merely veiled from each other....
JEN: So there’s bleed-throughs?
ELIAS: There are bleed-throughs, but for the most part they are veiled from each other to allow each dimension, each reality the purity of its particular experiences.” [
MIKE: “I’ve been pondering this one, and there’s a lot of belief systems going for it and against it, but the belief of black being a color. A lot of people say black is not a color because it’s nothing; it’s the absence of color. And I was curious as to, how can it be classified as a color? I mean, are these beliefs, or is it a truth that black isn’t a color?
ELIAS: Black is the incorporation of all colors and holds its own vibrational quality as such, for it incorporates all of these colors. Your translation in physical terms of this color is not in actuality what its actual quality is. It is a translation into physical terms, but in actuality, this is a color unique to itself and holding its own vibrational quality, and is a truth.
MIKE: Okay. As to the beliefs surrounding why it’s not, scientists believe that when you look at something like a pair of blue jeans, what you’re seeing is a light vibrational quality of blue reflecting back. But they say when you look at black, it’s absorbing all the colors, so you’re not seeing any color reflecting. So their argument is, if something is blue, then that means it’s every other color but blue. Do you know what I’m saying?
ELIAS: I am quite aware of what you are expressing and of the beliefs of your sciences, and I am expressing to you that these are their interpretations and their belief in this area.
I am also expressing to you that color is truth, and that it holds a vibrational quality of which your sciences do not understand. They are interpreting within their beliefs the identification of the vibrational qualities of color and its relation to what they identify as light, but their identification of light is quite limited also, and they do not understand the vibrational quality of this element any more than they understand the vibrational quality of color.
As to their interpretation of the absence of color within the expression of black, and that this is creating what you may term to be a vacuum as to the vibrational quality of color, I am expressing to you that this is incorrect.
Black is an expressed, unique quality in itself and holds its own vibrational quality, and is a truth and is a color, in like manner to all other colors.
MIKE: Okay.
ELIAS: And I express to you the questioning of, what shall you designate as light?
MIKE: As light or white?
ELIAS: Light.
MIKE: Oh gosh, I don’t know! (Laughing) I don’t even think they know!
ELIAS: QUITE! They do not understand the quality of light or its designation. They view this to be merely an illumination of some sort, but they are not quite understanding what its quality is, in actuality.
Although your physicists believe and your mathematicians believe that they hold the answer to these questionings, I express to you that they merely hold a translation in part to these questions, and that beyond their partial explanations, they do not understand the qualities of consciousness that they are investigating or expressing knowledge of. These are elements of consciousness, and they are truths.” [session 363, February 21, 1999]
JAMES: “How did they make color in the beginning of the world? (4)
ELIAS: (Grinning) Ah! Color within the beginning of the world! Let me say to you, they are you! Therefore, THEY did not make color in the beginning of the world. YOU made color in the beginning of the world!
(Vic’s note: In the following explanation, Elias uses hand gestures to demonstrate the different movements of energy.)
ELIAS: Now; look to yourself as a great painter, and as the first great painter at the beginning of the world, you have noticed that you have great amounts of energy similar to electricity, and this energy, you notice, vibrates. It moves, but each element of energy moves differently. One moves in this manner, one moves in this manner, one moves in this manner. And you express to yourself, ‘How very fun to play with these moving energies!’
And you as the painter take hold of each of these moving energies, and splash them into the beginning of the world, and you express, ‘I identify you as blue.’ And within the moment that you say to this energy, ‘It shall be blue and this is its identity,’ in the beginning of the world, it becomes the color blue. And you turn and look to another energy which is moving much slower, and you express to this energy, ‘You are red,’ and you splash the red into the beginning of the world, and it colors red.
And you watch that each of these movements of energy are made together of little particles, little beads that are that color. Therefore, you may take each of these little beads and you may look to a little flower, and you may move the little beads to the flower and create a red flower or a blue flower.
It is all energy. YOU are energy. All that you see is energy.
And this is how you have created color in the beginning of the world! (Chuckling) And what shall you create next?
JAMES: Green! (Laughter)
ELIAS: Ah, green! A very good color! And you may create very much green, for many, many objects within your reality are green! (Grinning) And which color is the most favorite color?
JAMES: Blue.
ELIAS: Blue. The reason that this color is so very favorite is that you like the movement of the energy of blue, and it, in the middle of all of the colors, is very playful!” [session 472, September 19, 1999]
JOE: “Some philosophies point to ego as the reason for complications in people’s lives. What do you consider ego to be? And is that a way to put it, in a nutshell?
ELIAS: This also would be a complication in explanation to yourselves of an aspect of yourselves. You are quite fond in this physical focus of classifications and separations. You entertain yourselves with segregations of elements of your reality, even to the point of separation and segregation of yourselves into sections and different parts, so to speak.
Therefore, within your psychology, you separate your awareness into sections. [You identify] that element which drives you, that element which focuses attention upon yourself, that element which holds the quality of selfishness or what you identify as self-centeredness, self-indulging, self-focusing, as the ego, self-perpetuating, and you also identify elements of negativity with this designation of ego.
You identify certain elements of negativity with what you identify as subconscious, for this is an element of yourself that you have created as a section of yourself which identifies that aspect of yourself that is unbeknownst to you, that is outside of your control.
JOE: But not necessarily negative.
ELIAS: At times you attach negative to this, for you assess that there are certain behaviors that you may be creating which are influenced by your subconscious which are not within your control, and this is not necessarily good.
JOE: But the truth.
ELIAS: Not necessarily truth either. But within your beliefs, you may identify that what appears to be offered to you through your subconscious shall be truth. I shall express to you that this also is a belief. It is not necessarily truth. It may be truth that it is a reality and that reality is truth, but beyond reality, it is merely a belief.
I may express to you, you may incorporate an action of engaging interaction with another individual, and you may engage a process that you identify as hypnosis, and this process you believe shall allow you the ability to access areas of your subconscious – or that which you identify as your subconscious – and this shall unlock secrets that you do not allow yourself to access objectively, and you may offer to yourself a recalling of an experience of an encounter with what you identify as an extraterrestrial, and as you disengage this action of your hypnosis, you may hold an objective memory of what you have accessed in recall within this action of hypnosis.
Now; is your recall, is your memory truth?
JOE: To you, I believe it would be.
ELIAS: Your experience, in a manner of speaking, is truth, for it is a reality, and reality is truth. The experience or the recall of the experience may not necessarily be what you identify as truth, but may be a translation and may be an interpretation.
You may hold a very clear memory. You may hold great clarity in your recall of a particular experience, but the experience itself may be a translation. It is a reality. It is not what you identify as a distinguishment that some elements within this dimension are not real.
JOE: What’s wrong with my translation?
ELIAS: There is no element that is wrong with your translation. Your translation is a reality. It is your interpretation, through your perception and your objective understanding, of an experience. It is not wrong.
JOE: Is it not what counts?
ELIAS: It is, in your terms, what counts or what matters, and it also is not what matters, for it is a filtration through a perception.
Therefore, it is a reality in conjunction with this physical reality, with this physical dimension, and it is relative to this physical dimension. It is a reality in the experience of consciousness as a creation of consciousness, but it is not necessarily a truth.
JOE: Then why were we made individual?
ELIAS: Ah, but you were not made!
JOE: Then ... wrong terminology. Why ARE we individual?
ELIAS: This offers you an opportunity of exploration. As I have stated previously, essence or consciousness is continually within a state of becoming, and therefore is continuously within a state of exploration, and in this state of exploration, it is continuously creating and manifesting. Imagination is reality.
You, within this physical dimension, mirror many elements of consciousness – not all, but many elements of the natural state of consciousness – and you objectify these elements into physical, solid terms. You create physical movement. You create objects. You create imagery within a thickness that you may move through in a physical manner, which creates a slowing of action and offers you the opportunity to view intensely every aspect of this particular area of consciousness.
All of what you create within this dimension is a mirror of different aspects of movement of consciousness. It also is all a translation. It is translated into physical solidity.
Even your thoughts and your communication holds a physical quality to it and a thickness in energy that is translated through a time framework, an element of time, which creates a thickness within the expressions of all that you create within this physical dimension.
And therefore, what is the point? (Grinning at Joe) The point of this physical dimension is merely to be experiencing. You are not conducting a mission. You are not upon a holy quest.” [session 510, December 04, 1999]
PAMELA: “I would like to start with exploring the idea of resonance. It seems to be something that has been such a hallmark of my life, so important to me, and I understand it to have to do with frequency. Somehow, it seems wrapped up also with integrity and color. It just seems to be such an important signpost for me, telling me when I want to move forward with something and explore it further or when I want to stop in that direction and move in another direction.
I’m wondering what you can share with me about it. I think I recognize that resonance is perhaps involved with consciousness versus the mental aspect of my mind. But there’s something so nurturing about it that I’d like to know what you might say about it.
ELIAS: Very well. What you are speaking of in this terminology is an action, an action that is created through a vibrational quality, and what you have generated within your focus is incorporating vibrational qualities in resonance as a type of method, so to speak, that you allow yourself to be listening to yourself, to be recognizing impulses and impressions in relation to essence, and to be allowing yourself a flow of energy that you trust.
Now; you are correct in your assessment that vibrational quality is associated with color and tone. Therefore within your translation of what you experience in this resonance, you may also associate that or translate that into an incorporation of either color or tone, and it shall fit.
The term, as I have stated, of ‘resonance’ is actually an action, not necessarily a thing or an entity. It is an action of recognizing and allowing particular vibrational qualities.
Now; these vibrational qualities are expressions of consciousness. Therefore they are truths, for truths translate in some manner or another into every area of consciousness. There are many expressions within your physical dimension that individuals associate as truths or believe to be truths, when in actuality they are merely expressions of beliefs associated with this physical dimension and are relative to this physical dimension, and do not necessarily translate within other areas of consciousness or within other physical dimensions.
Truths, in actuality, translate into your physical dimension – for they translate throughout consciousness – but are generally viewed as unimportant within your dimension. Tone and color are both truths. They are expressions of consciousness that translate throughout all of consciousness.
I may express to you this word of ‘translate’ is quite accurate, for the expression of the truth of color or tone within nonphysical expressions of essence are displayed differently than they are within your physical dimension. Therefore, they are translated. But regardless of the translation, there is an allowance of some aspect of fitting into your physical dimension. Therefore, there also is some aspect that translates into knowing within your physical dimension. Many individuals pay little attention to these truths, but they are translated throughout the design of your physical dimension.
You allow yourself to open and to accept the vibrational quality of these truths and incorporate that as your method within your focus of paying attention to yourself and trusting movement. I may express to you, this is quite efficient. For if you are choosing to incorporate a method – which all of you within this physical dimension are so very fond of choosing methods – and if you are incorporating a method, one that is associated with a truth is quite efficient.
PAMELA: Thank you for sharing that.
ELIAS: You are quite welcome.” [session 992, January 22, 2002]
HOWARD: “One of the things that catches my eye is the truths, the truths that we have here that are actually universal and are the truths for all time and dimensions. We have color, consciousness, energy, love, reality, and tone. However, additionally in the readings I have come across other truths. Would dreaming and imagination be a truth, or dreaming be a truth? You’ve said that, but then if it is a truth, would it be a subcategory to consciousness?
ELIAS: It is a truth in action, for all aspects of consciousness incorporate this action. Therefore it translates in every area of consciousness, and this is the criteria of identifying a truth.
HOWARD: This is a dimensional thing – I’m crossing categories here, and I realize I’m going into Atlantean stuff – but the truth that Thoth talked about, he only spoke of three: law, life, and light. I would take light to be a combination of energy and tone, life to be the subject of love, but law – is law a reality or a truth?
ELIAS: No, for this implies rules and absolutes, and there are no absolutes.
HOWARD: Regarding the objective and subjective, I believe David in one of the sessions back in Castaic – I think it was him – was wondering if, or the way I took it to be – and excuse me, David, if I’ve got this wrong – subjectiveness would be a truth but objective would not be. (5) (Pause)
ELIAS: In a manner of speaking, for the subjective awareness is an awareness that is translatable in all areas of consciousness, but the objective awareness is an awareness that is generated merely in association with physical dimensions, and not all physical dimensions, but many.
HOWARD: That seems right to me, which brings me to reality itself, because not all realities are the same.
ELIAS: Correct.
HOWARD: How is reality itself a truth?
ELIAS: For reality IS, and this is translatable in any area of consciousness. It may be generated differently, but it is translatable; just as any of these other truths may be configured differently in association with different expressions of consciousness, but they are translatable in some capacity. In some areas of consciousness objective awareness is not translatable; therefore it is not a truth.
HOWARD: Some areas of subjective awareness cannot be translatable?
ELIAS: No. Some areas of objective...
HOWARD: Oh, oh, okay. I do understand that.
A basic philosophical premise on which just about every philosophy of the world is based upon includes logic. It strikes me that logic is not a truth.
ELIAS: No, it is not.
HOWARD: So we’re spending time watching water go down, or run uphill or something. Logic would not be a good place to spend a lot of time trying to describe truth.
ELIAS: Correct.” [session 1018, February 25, 2002]
ELIAS: “This day we shall be identifying your next wave in consciousness, which is the most affecting of those individuals belonging to the family of Sumari. This would be the belief system of truth.
RODNEY: When you said ‘belonging to the family of Sumari,’ how about those aligned with Sumari?
ELIAS: This shall also be quite affecting of those individuals, more so than individuals belonging to or aligning with other families; although, as you are aware, you all participate in these waves in consciousness.
Now; shall you identify any element of this belief system of truth, any aspect of it?
TED: It is, throughout all of consciousness, unchangeable. That’s the definition I believe I have.
ELIAS: Of truth?
TED: Of truth.
RODNEY: But as a practical down-to-earth matter, it should represent accurately my awareness of something. If I were to repeat what someone said, or if I were to explain what I did, then my common definition of it would be that I presented that information as accurately as possible to the person.
ELIAS: And therefore expressing truth.
RODNEY: That’s the definition I grew up with.
JON: Truths are absolutes. (Elias nods)
RODNEY: Then of course there’s my mathematics, which I’m starting to get it’s not so absolute. (Elias chuckles)
SANDY: And one person’s absolute is not necessarily my perception.
BARRY: But it comes from somewhere else; it doesn’t come from you.
RODNEY: Also, an aspect of the belief system of truth is that it’s good to be truthful and bad to be a liar.
ELIAS: What do you identify in yourselves as truth?
DIANNE: That we exist is a truth.
BARRY: Anything that comes from the universe through us.
JIM: Our strongest belief systems we identify to ourselves as truths.
ELIAS: Correct!
RODNEY: What was that?
JIM: The belief systems that are strongest to us individually, we would call that a truth...
ELIAS: Yes.
JIM: ...because if somebody says something to contradict that...
RODNEY: For the tape, what is your name? (Transcriber’s note: Thanks, Rodney!)
JIM: I’m James, Jim/Andrel.
ELIAS: THAT is correct, and THAT is what is being addressed in this wave in association with this belief system of truth. You express it each and every day within your focuses. You associate with it continuously. Many of your automatic responses are associated within yourselves as truth.
Many of your beliefs are not even identified as beliefs, for you identify them as truth. Therefore they are not questioned. You do what you do, for this is true. You do not question many expressions within your environments and within each other, for you assess that they are truths and therefore they are absolutes within YOUR estimations.
This particular belief system may be one of the most insidious and one of the most difficult to identify and to notice, for this particular wave addresses to all of those automatic responses that you do not notice, and you identify them as merely truth. Therefore, they are entirely unquestioned.
You all incorporate many beliefs that you do not notice, that you do not pay attention to, that you do not question, for you assume that it is a truth and there is no other manner in which it may be perceived. This generates tremendous conflict, for it is a tremendous lack of acceptance.
This is what generates the tremendous conflict that you witness now within your planet, within your world: individuals that express their truths and their differences in their truths, and there is no bending. For you do not question your own truths, and therefore they must be absolute and they must be accepted by all other individuals, for your truth is THE truth and another individual’s truth is wrong, and it is questioned.
I expressed previously that there was a possibility that you would be addressing the belief system of emotion, and that altered. That has been altered in association with the mass expression of energy which is occurring throughout your world, not merely in this small area. But the tremendous expression of conflict which is being exhibited throughout your world has moved the collective consciousness in the direction of choosing THIS belief system to be addressing now.
In this, I may express to each of you, I am aware of the challenge that you are incorporating even identifying your own expressed beliefs in this time framework. Now it is more challenging, for you are not merely moving yourselves into an awareness of identifying your own expressed beliefs but becoming aware of what your truths are, and recognizing that they are not truths.
CAROLE: But Elias, isn’t that what we’ve been doing all along? I don’t hear anything that seems different here, or am I missing something?
ELIAS: In theory. This is what you think you have been moving into.
CAROLE: Many times I feel like none of this is truth; it’s all beliefs. So sometimes that leaves me in a really strange place, just feeling like I understand that it’s just all beliefs. Even if I take two aspirins, I say to myself, ‘This is just a belief, and I’m going to choose to believe it,’ or inside me I do, I know that, because I take it. So I always just watch whatever it is I do, and that’s how I know what my beliefs are and how I create my reality. But I don’t think any of them are truths.
ELIAS: But most individuals within your world do. I may be acknowledging of you, that you pay attention to what you do and you pay attention to your emotional communications and to your translations of thoughts, but within your world most individuals do not.
Now; what is your participation in this action? If you are aware of you, if you are familiar with yourself and you are recognizing and identifying your expressed beliefs, now move your attention to how you project energy outwardly and how that offers a contribution within your world in what manner you choose to be generating that energy and how it is affecting of other individuals.
CAROLE: I used to do a lot in that direction, as we’ve talked about before, do talks, do a TV show, do seminars. Then I decided not to do any of it anymore, because it felt like I was putting myself in a position above, and I no longer have that understanding or belief that there’s above or below, so I totally withdrew from any of that, and I don’t do it at all now unless somebody specifically wants to talk to me. If somebody says something to me and I understand that it’s a belief, I don’t say to them – well, sometimes I may say to them ‘in my understanding,’ I use that term ... I’ve drawn back from pretty much all of that.
ELIAS: I am not merely expressing being aware of the energy that you are projecting outwardly in interaction with other individuals, but all of the energy that you project in any action.
CAROLE: Even in an interaction where you just feel like an adjunct, because lately I’ve been trying something new. Because of my doing what I was just describing, I felt in some ways I had really isolated myself, so lately I have been doing random acts of kindness, if you want to use that term, and I am enjoying the energy that I get back from that. I used to do it all the time when I was a Catholic, a Christian. I had to be a good girl and all that. But then I did away with all that, and now I feel like I’m in a different understanding but enjoying doing that. It’s like I’m a whole different energy ball here.
ELIAS: I am understanding. I shall also address to a statement that you incorporated which many, many of you express quite similarly, that you do not incorporate a particular belief any longer for you have altered your behavior or you have chosen to move into different directions or expressions. Let me be clear: none of you do not incorporate a belief any longer. You do not eliminate beliefs. You may change which beliefs are expressed; you do not change the belief. You do not eliminate the beliefs, but as you change your preferences you also change expressed beliefs. But you incorporate ALL of the beliefs within ALL of the belief systems, and they are not eliminated if you continue to participate in this particular physical reality. Therefore, you do continue to incorporate that belief, you merely choose not to express it, which there is a difference.
Now; you may also incorporate an expressed belief and not allow that expressed belief to dictate your choices. You may incorporate choices that appear to you to be contrary to an expressed belief, but in actuality this is the point, to identify your beliefs, to recognize what their influences are and to allow yourself choice. For in not recognizing your beliefs and in not recognizing the influences of the beliefs, you continue to express automatic responses without thinking and many, many times without offering yourselves any emotional communication, for it is so very automatic. Automatic responses are as easily expressed as breathing, which does not require your attention.
LUANNE: Elias, is that saying if people don’t recognize their beliefs then they can’t really speak the truth, because they don’t know what their truth is?
ELIAS: Not necessarily. Regardless of whether you identify your beliefs or not, you each express your own truth. You shall identify certain expressions within yourselves that you define as truth.
This is what may be somewhat tricky. For as we have stated, many of your truths – all of your truths – are beliefs, but as you identify them as truths, you do not see them as beliefs.
DIANNE: Nor express them?
ELIAS: You do express them, but you do not identify them as beliefs.
Your sun rises every day. You view this as a truth. Your night follows your day. You view this as a truth. There are many, many, many expressions within your perception that you do not question for you view them as truths. They are absolutes; there is no question.
RODNEY: And that is not an absolute, the sun rising every day?
ELIAS: Correct.
TED: If you’re an astronaut, it rises many times a day.
LUANNE: Are there any absolutes?
ELIAS: No.
JIM: So the problem is when trying to communicate your truth to somebody who is different, it almost ... there becomes a question of honesty, rather than truth. You’re not being dishonest if you’re communicating your truth to another individual whose truth is different than yours, but they may perceive it that way. Is that where the conflict that you’re talking about is coming to Sumari, the wave that we’re going to be addressing?
ELIAS: The conflict is expressed in identifying truths as absolutes, and in that rigidness of the absoluteness there is no expression of acceptance, and as you recognize that truths within your physical reality are not actually truths, they are beliefs. This is not to say that they are not real – they are quite real – but they are not absolutes. They are not truths. You associate them as truths and therefore you generate a perception of absolutes, and in that perception of absolutes there is no allowance for difference.
JUNE: So if we speak for our truth, the conflict is when other people speak of their truth, that we want their truth to be our truth? Or vice versa?
ELIAS: Both.
JUNE: So if there is no absolute, then everyone speaks from their own truth?
ELIAS: You speak from your own beliefs, your own expressed beliefs. This is the point.
There are truths, and what is the definition of a truth? A truth is some expression which is translatable in every area of consciousness in some manner. What is translatable in every area of consciousness, in some manner? Reality, tone, color – not YOUR associations.
JUNE: What about the idea that we exist? Does that translate into every...
ELIAS: Awareness, yes.
JUNE: So awareness is what we are.
ELIAS: Yes.
CURTIS: Elias – this is Curtis – do we need truths to propel us forward? Some of the most vital, engaged people I know are the people who have some of the deepest belief systems. Why be a surgeon and save people’s lives if you understand that everyone’s creating their own reality and they’ll either live through the operation or not according to their own belief system and what they need in their life?
ELIAS: But you all create in cooperation.
CURTIS: I’ve been incorporating the ‘it matters not’ energy and trying to see things from a larger perspective, and it’s made me kind of wishy-washy and ambiguous about things, and not really...
ELIAS: (Strongly) I am understanding, and let me clarify. This is a misunderstanding and a distortion of what I have expressed throughout the entire time framework of this forum. I express to you, in the acceptance of a belief your expression shall be that it matters not, for you have removed the judgment. I have NOT expressed to you that nothing matters, which is quite different. There is purpose. There is experience. There is exploration. There is interaction and cooperation. The expression that it matters not is merely the identification of the removal of judgment, not that there is no matter.
CURTIS: But to undertake the operation in the first place, you have to have a judgment that it’s the proper thing to do, that it will be beneficial to the patient, right?
ELIAS: You all incorporate expressed beliefs. All that you do, all that you generate, all that you express is filtered through beliefs. They are not your enemy. They are not bad. They merely are. They are an aspect of the blueprint of this reality. Therefore, you express through these beliefs as they influence your perception and you allow yourself to recognize your preferences which motivate you in certain directions. Preferences are merely preferred beliefs.
As you allow yourself to express those preferred beliefs, you motivate yourself in movements in different directions and in cooperation – NOT CO-CREATION – but in cooperation with other individuals that incorporate similar expressed beliefs.
The individual that incorporates the action of seeking out a physician to be healed of an illness is expressing their beliefs in association with their confidence in another individual to perform that action. The physician is expressing their beliefs in allowing their abilities to be in cooperation with the individual that incorporates the illness, and in the cooperation of the action, yes, the individual that is incorporating the illness is actually healing themself – for no individual may create another individual’s reality – but in that cooperation of actions, in the expressed beliefs of both individuals, they generate certain outcomes.
The expressed beliefs of the physician are not bad. They fit within your societies, within your construct of your reality. The individual that incorporates the illness is also generating expressed beliefs that also fit within the construct of your reality in the official accepted reality. It is a cooperation.
This is another misunderstanding in association with this shift in consciousness. This shift in consciousness is a design that allows you to widen your awareness, identify your beliefs, therefore allowing you to incorporate moving your attention to all of the beliefs that are available to you, and therefore allowing you to expand your abilities and recognize what you do incorporate in your abilities and therefore expand your exploration.
It is NOT being generated to create Utopia. It is NOT an ending of conflict. But if you generate conflict, you shall incorporate that action intentionally and KNOW that you are generating the conflict and why, and that it is a choice.
Therefore, what becomes eliminated in this widening of awareness is what you may term to be your own involuntary victims – which are not precisely involuntary, but in your truths you assess that there are involuntary victims. If you choose to be a victim, you shall know that you are choosing to be a victim, and you shall know that you have chosen that action quite intentionally to experience.
CURTIS: Doesn’t that take the edge off of victimhood, though?
ELIAS: Not necessarily! (Laughter) That you know that you are being a victim and that you know that you are creating that intentionally does not detract from the element of surprise in how you choose to be incorporating that role.
CURTIS: I thought that’s why we incarnated like this to begin with, to pare down our consciousness so that we can concentrate on smaller portions of experience, rather than be big and all encompassing in our consciousness. Is that a misunderstanding?
ELIAS: This would also be associated with the identifications of truths: how you view yourselves, and how black and white you view your reality or your movement. Either you are very small and you are learning and you are moving to higher and greater enlightenment states, or you are vast and all-knowing, or that if you are widening your awareness you shall be incorporating all of the knowledge of the universe within your physical reality. This is not the point.
You have chosen to be manifest here in this physical reality. You have chosen to be participating in its blueprint. You are expanding your awareness in association with this reality, and becoming familiar and aware of yourselves and your abilities to allow you freedom within your choices. But you are not becoming your idea of gods. You already are! (Chuckles, and group laughter)
SANDY: What is the purpose of exploring being a victim?
ELIAS: It is merely a choice, to explore the experience.
BARB: Elias, may I just say something about the choice of being a victim or whatever role we choose to play? I think what I see you doing for us, and also Seth did this, is revealing to us that our beliefs sometimes limit our choices, and that we may choose to look at ourselves differently, even though we don’t realize sometimes we may have other choices available in our perspective.
ELIAS: Correct.
BARB: Thank you for doing all this. (Elias chuckles)
ELIAS: Thank yourself! Ha ha ha!
RODNEY: I’d like to make a point for the tape that if people don’t identify who they are, you’re going to get a transcript where you don’t know where the questions are coming from, and it’s going to be very difficult to read.
BARB: My name’s Barb.
RODNEY: Thank you.
CHRISTINE: Sumafi police! (Elias laughs loudly with the group)
RODNEY: The Sumafi police are here! (Laughter) The essence of Vicki speaks through me! (Much laughter)
CHRISTINE: This is Christine, and I’m asking why in particular are the Sumari to be more affected or are being affected by this particular wave?
ELIAS: Each belief system is associated with a particular essence family. Each essence family resonates in association with the qualities of that family with a particular belief system. The Sumari family is associated with this particular belief system of truth.
Now; in each wave that occurs in consciousness, each belief system that is being addressed, the family that is associated with that belief system is more affected, more strongly affected and more obviously affected.
Now; this also is not bad. It is dependent upon your choices and how you choose to incorporate the energy. There is a tremendous surge of energy associated with each one of these waves on consciousness, and you may choose to incorporate that energy in any manner, in what you view to be beneficial or in what you view to be challenging. But if you are not aware of the beliefs and if you are not aware of the energy, you may be expressing automatic beliefs more strongly, which many times becomes quite confusing to individuals and even conflicting.
CAROLE: Elias – this is Carole – Sumari being pot-stirrers and creative and quite adept at making their beliefs sound like truths, and being very talented at having other people believe that their beliefs are truths, would this be part of why they’re being singled out? I know as a Sumari-aligned and knowing other Sumari-aligned, we are like that. We’re very persuasive, and we find ourselves using our creativity and our pot-stirring abilities to haul people over into what we’re expressing.
ELIAS: Quite.
RODNEY: But if you’re noticing, Elias kind of taps you on the knuckles when he catches you doing that.
TED: ... Elias – this is Ted – in my Sumari-ness, I’m very confused. I’ve been stirring the pot, telling all my constituents that we’re going to collapse the financial system and eliminate our government to an insignificant role, and our religions are going to go away. (Elias raises his eyebrows and smirks, and laughter) Is this truth not true?
ELIAS: Yes!
TED: Then why have we been espousing this in our togetherness in this past five years?
ELIAS: You are not eliminating the beliefs; therefore, how shall religion be eliminated?
TED: That is my question.
ELIAS: It is not.
TED: It’s just going to become a choice?
ELIAS: Yes, and the recognition and appreciation of difference.
TED: So we’ll no longer have Christian/non-Christian conflicts?
ELIAS: Correct – unless you choose. But if you choose, you shall know that you are choosing, and the conflict shall be different. It shall not be a conflict to be expressing conversion or expressing the absoluteness of one or the other. The conflict may be more likened to debate than struggle.
TED: Okay, I understand that difference. The same with our monetary systems and our government systems?
ELIAS: As I have stated, eventually at the completion of this shift in consciousness your monetary system shall be quite different, for the need for exchange in the manner that you express it now shall be unnecessary. If each of you are genuinely familiar with yourselves and are genuinely directing yourselves, it becomes unnecessary to express the type of systems that you incorporate within your societies now. For the system that you incorporate now expresses hierarchies and leaders, authorities, individuals that you look to to steer you, that you follow; but in the expression of this shift in consciousness, its direction moves to the individual and your incorporation of directing and steering yourselves rather than allowing other individuals to dictate to you your choices.
TED: To put it simply, I no longer have to wear my seatbelt, right?
ELIAS: If you are so choosing. (Chuckles)
TED: Correct. Thank you, Elias.
RODNEY: I don’t wear mine, by choice.
CAROLE: I don’t go for pap smears by choice. (Laughter) Or the other thing...
FEMALE: So Elias, are you saying that all human beings will come to understand the choice?
ELIAS: Yes. At the completion of this shift in consciousness, this shall be throughout your world.
BARRY: Does that mean there won’t be new young souls?
ELIAS: Clarify.
BARRY: What we’ve gone through, we’ll have reached a certain point when we understand about these choices, but there will be others that won’t have had as many lives. How will they...
ELIAS: It is not dependent upon how many focuses you incorporate. It is the design of your world, so to speak, the structure of it, which is changing. In that change, any essence that chooses to be manifesting within this physical reality, within this physical dimension, shall know of the design or the structure of your reality, just as you in entering this focus know the structure and the design of the reality. No individual explained to you as an infant that you are an infant now and you shall breathe air and you shall grow physically. You merely do, for you know this intrinsically.
It is already being evidenced within your world now. Look to your small ones. They are directing of themselves. Individuals that incorporate families with small children recognize that these small ones are directing of themselves, which is also generating an affect in association with your family structures already for they do not incorporate the same types of relationships that they have previously throughout your history, for they adapt to the alteration of the awareness of the small ones. They are not willing to be directed, for they know. Their awareness is in a position of this shift in consciousness, and they intrinsically know that they are directing of themselves, for this is the new structure.
CURTIS: Elias – this is Curtis again – could you relate some of the mass events on the world stage to this new exploration of truth, like the search for weapons of mass destruction and maybe the justifications for the Iraqi war? Does that have to do with this new exploration?
ELIAS: Yes.
CURTIS: Could you talk a little bit about that, what we might expect in the future?
ELIAS: This is your choice. This is the reason that I express the significance of paying attention to yourselves and to the energy that you are projecting. This is each of your responsibility, not to any other individual but to yourselves and how that affects the energy of the whole of the collective.
Within your focus within each day, what energy do you project? Are you projecting an energy of protection? Are you contributing to the expression of protection within your world, in expressing that within your day? Are you projecting an energy of acceptance in difference, or are you aligning with your truth in absoluteness and NOT projecting an acceptance and contributing to the energy of the collective to be aggressive?
CURTIS: So my distain for the neo-conservatives is helping to cement their power?
ELIAS: In a manner of speaking. How is it different?
CURTIS: Different from what?
ELIAS: From what you perceive to be the opposite. Are you matching energy? Yes. This is the point of being aware, to recognize if you are matching energy in association with your truth, with what you view to be right.
JEANNE: ... I have found myself dealing with religious beliefs such as ‘am I supposed to be doing any particular thing to be helping,’ as if there’s some sort of problem that we’re addressing. I guess I believe that there are problems in this world that we need to be helping out, so there is a concern energy, very much. I’m finding that when I just let myself enjoy the waves of energy that are coming through, that somehow then it’s not really a concern.
ELIAS: There are many individuals presently that are noticing many beliefs associated with religious beliefs. In actuality, many individuals within this forum speculated that that would be the wave, addressing to the belief system of religious.
But the reason that these types of beliefs are surfacing, so to speak, or you are noticing is that they are associated with truth and how you view your truth, one of which is that there are ills within the world that need be fixed and that should be addressed to. This is one of your truths – not that individuals are creating their reality, not that individuals choose to be in situations or environments that you view to be depressed, for no individual would choose those types of experiences for these are not experiences that move in conjunction with your truths. Individuals do not create willingly suffering – yes, they do.
You do not suffer if you do not choose to suffer. You may not necessarily be objectively aware of your beliefs that are influencing those choices but they are choices, and each individual does create their reality. This is not to say that it is wrong or bad for yo