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  Session 335 (Private)  

“Relationships/Marriage & Family”

“Fanaticism as an Expression of Fear”

“Déjà Vu”

Participants: Mary (Michael), Jennifer (Margarite), Brendan (Brian), and Tim (Marlet).

Elias arrives at 5:25 PM. (Arrival time is 28 seconds.)

ELIAS: Good evening!

MERRIE: Good evening!

JEN: Hello!

ELIAS: And we meet again!

JEN: Yep! We can’t get enough! (Laughter)

ELIAS: You have inquiries this evening?

MERRIE: Of course! Do you want to start, Jen?

JEN: I can’t remember how I just posed that question to Mary.

MERRIE: Alright. Well, you think about that and I’ll ask a question. Hi, Elias! (Elias chuckles) Okay. Alright, two questions that I think are somewhat related. One of them is that as a part of life, our whole belief system here, obviously we create things that are changing now because they’re not really serving us any more. And I’m wondering, is marriage one of those things that we’ve created that is no longer really serving us any more? Because the divorce rate is so high, and it seems like it’s very difficult for people to remain together. And I wondered if that was even a natural thing to believe, staying with one person forever, or at least in this focus.

ELIAS: This would be another aspect of the belief system of relationships, which you have created in relation to your religious belief systems. Many of your religious belief systems, throughout your history and throughout many different cultures that you develop, hold this same belief system or ASPECT of the belief system of relationships. This has been placed into working order of your mass belief systems for the reason of procreation.

Now; as to the development of this shift in consciousness and the altering of your reality in relation to this shift, this would be another alteration of your reality that shall be set into motion.

Let me express to you, this is not to say that you may not choose to be engaging in a type of relationship with another individual that you couple yourself with, or that you may not choose to be coupling with another individual throughout your focus, for this would be a choice. But as in the same respect of all of the other belief systems and all of the aspects of belief systems, within the action of this shift you move into an area of accepting these belief systems, and in that acceptance of the belief systems, they no longer hold you and dictate to you your behavior. Therefore, it is merely a choice that you may be creating, and there is no judgment placed upon the choice that you create. It matters not if you are choosing to be coupling with one partner, or not to be coupling with one partner.

In this also, in relation to the aspect of marriage, there is another aspect that moves closely in that direction, and that would be the aspect of family, which stems, so to speak, from the aspect of belief system in marriage. In this, you also branch into other aspects of different roles. This shall provide a good example to you of how you may be creating one aspect of a belief system, and how that one aspect holds many offshoots which are also aspects of the one belief system.

You deal with the belief system of relationships, and as you move into specific areas of that belief system, you may be creating one aspect of marriage. That aspect is creating of another aspect of family. That aspect creates another aspect of roles of parents, of children, of individuals – mother, father, siblings – and the roles that you engage and the behaviors that you engage and all that dictates to you in your behavior within those roles. Those are all aspects of the same belief system.

Now; in acceptance of the belief system – in merely this one area, for example – as you begin to offer yourselves a wider awareness and more of an understanding of reality, you also, in accepting this belief system, move into the direction of recognizing that these are aspects that have been held in the mass belief system, but are not necessary and are not necessarily efficient. In actuality, as I have expressed previously, the role of the parent within physical focus is merely to lend a physical body as facilitating the entrance of another physical manifestation, another physical focus.

Therefore, all of the responsibilities, all of the behaviors that you assign to the role of parent are aspects of the belief system, but not necessarily efficient or necessary. You may facilitate the movement of a new focus entering into your physical dimension, and many individuals may be influencing in the care, so to speak, of that small one within the time framework that it is dependent upon other individuals to be caring for it. It is not an action that needs be singularly focused upon by one individual that gives birth.

How your question is relating to this is that within the aspects of belief systems, you have designed within your societies and your cultures the role that individuals couple together in the ceremony and ritual of marriage, which is your symbolization and imagery to yourselves that you bind yourselves together singularly.

In this, you also agree to be entering into these other roles of wife, of husband, of mother, of father, of parents, of grandparents, and these all hold specific behaviors, specific roles. Therefore, as you have created the one aspect of the belief system that you singularly couple together, you also create many other offshoot aspects of the belief system.

Within this shift in consciousness, you are allowing yourselves to realize and recognize that these are belief systems, that these are aspects of belief systems, that they are not necessarily right or wrong, that they are not absolutes, that they are not carved in stone, and that you hold more choices than you have allowed yourselves. And as I have stated, although you move in the direction of accepting belief systems, you do not eliminate them. Therefore, they continue to exist, but they are not influencing.

You may be creating of your choices. You may choose to move in the direction of marriage and family and the roles that you are familiar with in those aspects of belief system, but it is entered into in a different light, so to speak, for it is not an expectation. It is not dictated to you. It is a free choice of what YOU choose within your desire and your individual expressions, not that it is an expectation or that it is the right direction or the wrong direction.

Therefore, there shall be much alteration in this area, which is already being moved into. Individuals within your time framework presently already are widening their awareness and allowing themselves the realization that they may choose to be coupling with another individual, and that all that accompanies this is a matter of belief systems that dictate your behavior, but not necessarily truth.

MERRIE: Thanks, Elias.

ELIAS: You are very welcome.

JEN: Okay, let’s see. I’m wondering about studying this material that comes in transcripts, and becoming more aware of belief systems and trying to neutralize those. But are there potential dangers, so to speak, of becoming so immersed in the transcripts, and actually using the transcripts as almost like a filter in your day-to-day experiences, that potentially one might one not experience those events fully because of the filter?

ELIAS: Yes, and this be the reason that I have expressed many times to individuals that I am not advocating of any individuals to be aligning so singularly with this information as to be followers of this essence. I do not seek followers or disciples.

You have created yourselves quite efficiently and quite magnificently with very powerful rationale, very powerful intuition, and you hold the capability to be following yourselves. I offer information to you to be sparking your own memory of what you are and who you are, but YOU hold your own choices and need no other individual or essence to be expressing to you of your own direction.

In this, any information which is offered by any individual or any essence may be distorted by individuals within physical focus, and in that action of distortion, individuals may move into the area of fanaticism. This, I express quite clearly, is NOT the point of this information. I am NOT encouraging of this action, and I express that fanatical movements are defeating of your own purposes and lend energy to the very areas that you disdain within physical focus.

Individuals move in the area of fanaticism and are creating of what you define as cults as an expression of their own fears, as an expression of their own lack of acceptance of themselves and their own lack of trust of selves, and as you express this within yourselves, you also project this outwardly to other individuals.

Some individuals move in the direction of accumulating any different type of information, and they may use that information to be creating of the very expression that you are moving out of within the action of this shift. They are creating judgments.

(Intently) The reason individuals create judgments is that they are already creating judgments upon themselves.

This be the reason that I express to you so very many times and so very often to be looking to self first, and all else that you seek shall automatically be expressed. You shall automatically move in the direction of acceptance of other individuals if you are accepting of self, for what you create within you, you also create outwardly, and as you are placing judgments upon yourself, you create this expression outwardly and create judgments upon other individuals.

When you are expressing that you are right, you are also expressing that other individuals are wrong. When you are expressing to other individuals that they do not see, you are expressing a mirror image that YOU do not see. All of your expressions that you project forth to other individuals are direct mirror images of what you are creating within yourselves.

This be the reason that individuals move in the area of fanaticism, is that they are expressing extreme lack of acceptance of themselves, and therefore they express outwardly the lack of acceptance of any other area except the one chosen by themselves in their direction of attention. They are not feeling accepted within themselves, and therefore they do not accept outside of themselves, and narrow their attention farther and farther into a very narrow stream.

This in your terms may be considered the opposite action of your shift in consciousness, and within this present now, as individuals move in that type of direction and expression, they are also creating trauma. They are creating their own trauma within the action of this shift, and I have expressed many times that this is the point of this information, to be eliminating of this trauma within the action of this shift.

JEN: So that you don’t get sucked into it?

ELIAS: There is an element of confusion, distress, and conflict that shall be experienced in engaging this shift in consciousness by all individuals, for you are moving into the unfamiliar and into an entirely new expression, but not all individuals shall experience trauma. This is a very strong word within your language. This is suggestive of a great intensity of the experience, and also does not hold a pleasant connotation.

In this, as individuals are not allowing themselves to be WIDENING their awareness, and if moving in the direction of NARROWING their awareness, they shall be creating trauma, for this shift in consciousness is already accomplished. You merely view that it is not accomplished yet, for your perception resides within a linear time framework. But in actuality, time is simultaneous. Therefore, it is already accomplished.

You have all collectively, upon this planet within this dimension, agreed and chosen for this shift in consciousness to be accomplished. Therefore, it shall be! It is merely a question of whether you are choosing to be incorporating information and widening your awareness to not experience trauma, or to be experiencing trauma. This also is your choice. Moving into the direction of fanaticism and singularly focusing upon ANY area of information presented is narrowing your attention and your awareness, and this will be incorporating trauma.

Therefore, you are correct. There is a danger in individuals looking too singularly within ANY information. And I have expressed many times, I am offering you information, but this is to be incorporated into all of your focus, all of your experiences, not to be denying of any of your experiences.

I am also quite encouraging, as you are aware, of fun and pleasure! Your focus is not so very serious, and as individuals move into their association with this information, they are missing the point if they are incorporating this information so very seriously, for I am not advocating of this! I am expressing to you that pleasure and fun is incorporating less thickness in your focus, within your energy, and lends an easement to your movement through your focus. You merely are not incorporating this, as you are incorporating judgments and creating thickness and conflict within your focus, and this would be the point, to be eliminating of your conflict.

JEN: (To Merrie) You must share that!

MERRIE: Oh, yeah! Well, so does that mean that ... I’m going to turn the light on, okay? I don’t know what I’d do if you said no! (Elias grins) Well, what about all the other people that like ... all the other people that don’t want to have fun? Like ... (here, Jen says something inaudible).

Well, no. Are they like ... why can’t they have fun too? Why are they judgmental about everybody else who wants to have fun? It’s like, if you do what you want to do and it makes you happy, and you’re not like fitting into like what society sort of has dictated is like what’s right, how come not everybody’s like jumped on the bandwagon and figured out, like let’s just have a good time?

ELIAS: Your reality is moving in this direction. You within this time framework that draw yourselves to this type of information are the pioneers, so to speak, in the area of the little sapling. (The sapling story is included at the end of this script)

This be the reason that I return over and over to this example of the little sapling, for this is the position that all of you choose to enter as you draw yourselves to this information, being that straight little sapling, and the straight little sapling is NOT the identification of your religious and scientific belief systems! This is NOT to say that you place all types of restrictions upon yourselves!

Quite contrary, that you allow yourselves the expression of freedom in the acceptance of yourselves, recognizing that it matters not what other individuals choose, but focusing your attention upon self and expressing within yourself and projecting outside of yourself in acceptance of yourself, knowing that you are not placing right and wrong judgments upon yourself or other individuals, and as they continue to do so, you continue to be accepting, and THIS is noticed. As you continue to focus your attention outside of yourself, you shall not be altering of your reality and you shall not be accepting of your belief systems.

MERRIE: But what happens if your profession is to be a therapist, and you’re focusing on other people’s belief systems? I mean, to some degree, like the type of therapy that I practice with my clients seems somewhat parallel to sort of what you speak of, which is neutralizing belief systems, not being so judgmental of themselves. But then again, I’m focusing on another human being, obviously, when they’re with me, about trying to help them to neutralize judgments upon themselves so that they can feel freer to live more happily.

ELIAS: And you hold a unique and wondrous position in this choice of profession, so to speak, that you may implement this information within yourself, and you may share this information with other individuals. And this shall be a tremendous expression of your very incorporation of your profession, to be expressing to individuals to not be judging themselves, to be accepting of themselves, to be allowing themselves, and to be focusing upon themselves.

The reason that these individuals approach you, the reason that you may hold this profession, is that the entirety of your globe is infected with these belief systems! The reason that you may hold the profession in the area of your psychology – and that you have developed this science – is a recognition that you hold these belief systems and how very affecting they are!

Although your psychological sciences may move in some areas that may be off the mark, you also, in drawing yourself to this information, offer yourself, as I have expressed, the unique opportunity to incorporate what you have learned and what you know, and in this you may offer to other individuals the power to be accepting themselves.

MERRIE: Hmm.

ELIAS: And this shall be their most healing element, for this is the most damaging element to them, that they are not accepting themselves and they are placing judgments upon themselves, and THIS is the expression of duplicity and the lack of acceptance of self.

MERRIE: Thanks, Elias. That helps. That really helps sort of parallel it for me.

ELIAS: You are quite welcome.

MERRIE: You had a couple of questions, didn’t you, big guy?

BRENDAN: I can’t think of any.

MERRIE: Oh, I can!

JEN: I think Tim has one.

TIM: Hello, Elias. I was wondering what Elias’ comments or thoughts were relating to the term “déjà vu” and how it relates to simultaneous time, time lines, physical focus, and things like that?

ELIAS: In actuality, there IS an explanation for this phenomenon that you express as déjà vu. In this, what you are experiencing is, quite simply, bleed-throughs.

Within each focus – a focus being designated as you – is held all of the information and memory of all of the other focuses of your essence within this particular dimension; within other dimensions also, but the attention is focused more upon this dimension, for this is where you are placing your attention. In this, subjectively you hold all of the information and all of the experiences of all of your focuses. At times this information bleeds through to your objective awareness. Now, this is one explanation, which I shall also offer you another explanation.

In this, you may be experiencing this feeling of déjà vu as you allow a bleed-through of another focus of yours within your objective awareness. Therefore, it seems to you that you have been within a certain space or situation before. This is that another focus of your essence within this dimension is experiencing the same situation or action at the same time. This is one action of this. In this particular action, this would be a similarity of the identification of tone.

Think to yourselves within your experiences in this physical focus of any time within your experience that you playfully have been humming or singing in conjunction with a recording, and if you are connecting with a certain pitch, with a certain note simultaneously with your recording, you shall physically feel a vibration within you. The sound will resonate. You shall feel a physical resonating. (1) In like manner, as you allow a bleed-through of the same action of another focus at the same time, it resonates, and you experience a knowing of these two actions occurring simultaneously.

Now; there is another action that occurs at times with this feeling also. This would be a blinking in simultaneous time. There are time periods within your linear time framework that in your blinking in and out, what you create is a movement briefly, temporarily, out of your linear time framework. In that, you are stepping outside momentarily of the perception of linear time and allowing yourself the objective knowing and experience within physical form of simultaneous time.

Therefore, as you are creating, it has already been created, for there is no linear time framework. It is a perception. It is what you create. But within consciousness, it is not.

Therefore, as you are creating an experience, it is already occurring, and you may offer yourself at times this knowledge objectively and this awareness objectively, viewing what you are creating as you are creating it, while you are creating it, and knowing that it is already created, which in itself creates your feeling of déjà vu.

TIM: Thank you.

ELIAS: You are very welcome.

MERRIE: Brendan and I have been talking a lot about you, Elias, and sort of like what your whole purpose is. Now, this is going to sound like a silly question, but do you know Seth? (Elias chuckles)

ELIAS: I have offered information as to this inquiry previously, and I shall express to you that I hold an awareness of that essence, yes, and that that essence has been instructive to this essence.

MERRIE: Hmm! And how did you choose Mary? I mean, Michael?

ELIAS: This individual of Michael holds connections within essence to myself, in tone qualities and within fragmentation.

Now; this in itself would not be what you may term within your language as the mere factor for the choice to be engaging this energy exchange with this particular individual, but it is an element.

The most important element is the choice of Michael in the manifestation of this one particular focus, and the ability of this particular focus to be moving in a direction to lend to the least amount of distortion. (Pause)

This focus chooses to remove their subjective awareness from this exchange, and in that action there is a non-interference of the belief systems held by the individual focus. Therefore, they are not filtering through into this information which is offered to you, which is in compliance with my intent in offering information to you within the least amount of distortion.

MERRIE: Why did you choose to do that?

ELIAS: This would be the intent of the Sumafi family, of which I am belonging to, to be teaching and to be offering information within the least amount of distortion.

MERRIE: Hmm. Okay, thanks!

ELIAS: You are welcome.

MERRIE: Do you want to go on, or you want to take a break?

JEN: Well, do you have any other questions?

MERRIE: Oh, yeah! (Unintelligible conversation)

JEN: Well, it’s kind of a personal question. I have been very challenged with my mode of work lately, seemingly ... I don’t know if I’d use the word trauma because I respect that it’s a very intense word. It’s just lots and lots of difficulties, and my own realizations that this is my last focus and that it doesn’t need to be this difficult and that I don’t want it to be difficult! And yet, really struggling to figure out ... I know that I’m being influenced in a certain sense by belief systems about work, and I must work, and I recognize that. I have a lot of flexibility and a lot of ability to impact my work with my values, and even some of this study. So, in choosing what my next step will be, I don’t know. It creates a lot of fear and frustration, and I’m not really too sure what to do about it.

ELIAS: You present yourself with the challenge to be moving the concept into the area of reality. You hold the concept that you may be trusting yourself and that you may be moving in whichever direction you choose, but this remains a concept. You now challenge yourself in the area of creating this concept into your reality and trusting yourself that you truly DO create your reality, that it is not accidental or coincidental or thrust upon you, but that you are orchestrating all of your reality and that you hold the ability to be orchestrating of all of your reality.

Let me offer to you that which I have expressed much time ago, in your terms. You are a symphony. You are all of the instruments within the symphony, and you are also the conductor. Now; you accept yourself as the conductor of the symphony. You conceptualize that you are also all of the instruments, but you do not accept that you are all of the instruments. You do not trust that aspect of yourself, and in this you may be conducting of your symphony, and some of your instruments may be playing by themselves and they may not necessarily be following your direction, for you are taught that you are not orchestrating all of your reality, but you are.

In this, you are also taught that you hold needs, and that there is a specific direction you must be moving into to be accommodating those needs. You NEED food. You NEED shelter. You NEED garments. You NEED currency for exchange. You NEED to be engaging payment upon debts. You NEED be physically accommodating yourself, and to be accomplishing this, you NEED specific types of employment that shall be generating of the revenue that shall be affording you the exchange to be addressing to all of your needs.

And many individuals within this forum, I am quite aware – although not necessarily addressing to myself – express outside of our engagement together, “Oh, very well, Elias. Well that you may entertain the idea that there are no needs, but you do not occupy physical focus, and I hold physical expenditures that need be attended to! You are a non-physical essence. Therefore, what needs do you hold? I am engaged within physical focus and hold very definite needs!” (2)

It matters not that you occupy physical focus, and I AM quite understanding of what you perceive to be your physical needs, and I express to you that within physical focus, there is NO THING that you need, and there is no thing within your physical focus that you WANT that you may not provide yourself with in trusting yourself. This may appear and sound to you quite oversimplified, but I am quite aware of the difficulty that you hold in implementing this concept, creating it as a reality.

In actuality, if you are trusting of yourself and moving into the directions of your desire and what is creating of your fun and your pleasure and that which you identify as your happiness, trusting in yourself in these areas, you also create an ease and amaze yourself and express to yourself, “How may this be, that elements merely come to me?” But they are not merely coming to you, for you are automatically creating that to be drawn to you. This is the aspect that you do not understand!

JEN: I understand it totally. I just get so frustrated because I recognize that it’s there and I’ve seen how it can happen in this particular instance, and I have a lot of thickness around not being able to make it happen. And what you said earlier about why ... we asked why you were here, and you mentioned something to the effect of allowing us to ... helping us to see our true selves more, which to me is not necessarily these bodies. It’s the essences that we are, and I feel very much aligned with that and aware of that. The frustration stems from not being able to free oneself of all the restrictions that our society places upon us, to allow that energy to go forth and bring back all the things that we want to happen.

ELIAS: Look to your creativity. Look to your wants. Look to your desires. Look to those aspects of yourself that create your fun, your happiness, your pleasure, and as you look to those elements, you may also turn your attention to the vast well of creativity that you hold within you to be manifesting in those areas; not necessarily in the areas that you think you MUST be accomplishing, but in the areas that you WANT to be accomplishing.

Vic’s note: There was much auditory distraction in this exchange – the dog, the phone, some sort of siren – but Elias was not affected. (3)

JEN: Hmm. Well, I’ve recently decided that I think that what would be a good move is, in a year’s time, to take off from work, to set a time and say, “This is the time that I’m going to leave.” And it seems to me that’s sort of freed up a little place in me that feels this light, feels a sense of brightness, even in the midst of all the chaos that’s happening at work.

ELIAS: Let me also express to you another aspect of your reality that may be helpful to you, which I have expressed this also many times, but individuals many times are not listening.

Occupy your attention within the now. You turn your attention to projections of future, and you automatically set yourselves in motion for disappointment and conflict.

Individuals within your time framework presently hold a usage of your language, of “setting up.” You express this to yourselves, to each other, quite often – setting up: setting up of situations of circumstances, of other individuals, of yourselves. Let me express to you that as you project yourselves futurely or pastly, you are NOT focusing your attention within the now and you are NOT offering yourself all of your choices which are available to you. You are also NOT allowing yourselves to be trusting and accepting of yourselves, for you are always moving in the direction of futurely or pastly, and you shall not be accomplishing if you are not attending your attention to NOW. For in reality, there is no futurely and there is no past. All is now. All that you create is now, all that you shall create is now, all that you have created is now!

You may look to yourself and you may set yourself in motion. You may “set up” yourself in expressing to yourself within this now, “An event shall be occurring next week. I am quite worrying of this event.” Why shall you worry of an event of next week? It is not now! As inadequate as it may seem to you, you may not be engaging physical focus next week! (Laughter)

JEN: Oh!

ELIAS: Therefore, it matters not as you “set yourself up” in the motion of expressing to yourself, “I may relax now, for I anticipate next year.”

JEN: I see it as opposite. I need to work my ass off now, in anticipation of not working next year.

MERRIE: So, are you encouraging Jen to ... I mean, I know you don’t say anything directly along those lines, but could we hypothetically say that you might be encouraging her to act in the now instead of waiting to do something that she wants to do?

ELIAS: I am quite encouraging you to be focusing upon now and creating your choices within the now.

MERRIE: What happens if like everybody around you flips out?

ELIAS: This is their choice.

MERRIE: And Jen can choose not to be bothered by them flipping out.

ELIAS: Quite!

JEN: A lobotomy is one of the options! (This cracked me up, Jen!)

MERRIE: Could she do it without a lobotomy?

ELIAS: Quite! (Grinning) But as you feel obligation, as you feel expectation of yourself, as you move in the direction of allowance of other individuals to dictate to you your behavior and your choices, you are NOT accepting self and you ARE creating of conflict, and you are moving in the direction of creating trauma!

MERRIE: Good one, Jen! (Laughter)

ELIAS: In this, it matters not! I say again and again and again, it matters not the choice of other individuals! It matters YOUR choice. You hold enough responsibility within yourself for yourself. You need not move in the direction of assuming personal responsibility for any other individual. You hold enough within yourselves!

And if you are continuously looking to other individuals for your validation and for your direction and for the dictates of your behavior, how shall you move in the direction of acceptance of self? And this is the point! YOU ARE YOUR OWN DIRECTOR OF YOUR PLAY.

JEN: Yeah, I know. I don’t really feel like I’m being dictated to by other people so much as I’m dictated to by being aware of a drive, like in myself, to accomplish something. Whenever I feel like I’ve accomplished something, then I can move to do something else that’s more ... that’s different from what I’m doing now.

ELIAS: And think to yourself, what is your motivation? What are you expressing to you? What are you actually creating? A validation to yourself that you may be accomplishing, that you hold the worthiness and that you hold the ability to be creating, and also that other individuals may acknowledge this also. You already hold the ability!

JEN: Well, then I haven’t succeeded yet!

ELIAS: Ah! The great area of success!

JEN: I know where this is going! (Laughing)

ELIAS: (Affectionately) But you have succeeded. You have already accomplished and you have already succeeded and you have already offered a wondrous expression. It is good enough. (Smiling)

JEN: So you’ve heard me in my conflict then, huh?

ELIAS: Quite!

MERRIE: So does that mean you can....

JEN: I think he’s quite aware of when I’m in conflict. For instance last night, driving home, I was reaching out in all directions.

ELIAS: It is good enough. (Smiling)

JEN: Okay, thanks.

MERRIE: Elias, can you validate, like ... I know you don’t like doing this, but can you like validate whether or not you have exchanges with people, you know?

JEN: You mean outside of these forums?

MERRIE: Yeah, outside of these forums. Like, okay, for example, when you came to New York City like a couple of weeks ago or whatever, and my friend and I were thinking about what we wanted to ask you about when you came, and you started out the entire forum or whatever you want to call it, meeting, with every single question that my friend and I had talked about, about what we wanted to ask you. Now, that could be just a pure coinkydink.

ELIAS: There are no coincidences.

MERRIE: So, would it be safe to say then that like you altered, perhaps, your meeting around the fact that we were wanting that?

ELIAS: I hold an awareness of the direction of attention that individuals engage as I enter into the objective exchange with you. Therefore, I choose to be addressing to those areas that you are occupying your attention with.

Many individuals approach this essence and express to me, “Shall you be reading my mind?” And I have expressed many times, no, I do not engage in your telepathy. I do not engage a thought process. I am exchanging energy and I am engaging in a connection with your energy, which translates into the addressing to your questionings, your issues, your direction of your attention.

I also hold an awareness of other time frameworks, for I am not engaged within linear time. Therefore, what you view to be last week, last month, next week, next year, is all occurring now. It is merely a choice for myself to be viewing in one area or another area, and focusing my attention upon what is occurring within that area and what appears to be the predominant element in that area, which shall be shared as experience and questioning by many of the individuals that are engaging the objective forum of the session.

Therefore, information is presented that shall be connecting with all of the individuals in one aspect or another, although some individuals hold more of an immediate objective recognition of their connection to the information within that time period. But even individuals that do not hold that type of objective recognition subsequently shall recognize, within the context of the information, that there has been an addressing to their particular situations and issues also.

(Turning to Jen) Be encouraged, Margarite. I offer you much energy in helpfulness, and I have offered you energy in connection. I am listening and aware. You need merely be opening and allow yourself the awareness that there is a reciprocation. You are not merely shouting within your head, “What shall I do?” Responses are being offered to you, but you are very busy shouting and not very busy listening! (Smiling)

JEN: Well, how should I work on being better at listening?

ELIAS: Occupy your attention within the moment. Look to all that occurs within the moment. Allow yourself to relax your focus and not hold so very tightly to your energy. You hold so very tightly!

Be remembering of our session of recent with your stick and your ball. If you are holding so very tightly to your stick and your ball, another individual’s ball may be striking you, and you may not be holding the ability to maneuver quite so efficiently. And as you hold so tightly, you also do not present yourself with the opportunity of all of your choices and all of your ability.

In this, be remembering of this analogy that you have been objectively present for, and in your attention, relax your focus.

Pay attention to the now! Offer yourself the information that within this present now....

Look to me now! Within this present now, what be affecting you? Merely myself!

JEN: Okay, I got that.

ELIAS: Allow yourself the appreciation and the noticing of all of the wondrous elements within each of your moments of now, and not all that you perceive to be the pressures, for within the moment, the pressures are not there. They are an invention of your perception.

This is not to say they are not your reality, but they need not be your reality. Are you understanding?

JEN: Yes, I understand.

ELIAS: Then accept from me also, my energy to you.

JEN: Okay.

ELIAS: I express to you all this evening much affection and great lovingness. I anticipate our next meeting, and I am acknowledging and encouraging of you each in your explorations. And if you are needing (grinning) or choosing, I am available to you.

To you each this evening, I bid you a very fond au revoir.

Elias departs at 6:52 PM.

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