CMI 1-8: The New Renaissance
December 16, 2007
Kris Chronicles
Consciousness Mentoring Institute Eighth Session – Renaissance
Channeled by Serge J. Grandbois and Transcribed by Theresa Smart
Recorded in Toronto, Canada on December 16, 2007
Roll Call: Serge (Joseph), Mark (Philip), Anya Ouchakova, Marcos Garay, Ellen Gilbert, John Hawkins, Alan Aspinall, Ester Gonzalez, Theresa Smart, Marlene Lewis, Nardine Neilson, Bill Herman, Ella Shcherbakova, Inna Shapiro, Lisa Pratt, Andrea Cleaver, Nora C., Odette Gignac, Catherine (Tennessee), Tom Sherlock
KRIS: Now we trust that you are all comfortable.
MARK: Yes, thank you.
KRIS: And we thank you for your consideration.
MARK: Thank you.
KRIS: Wherever you are in the world, today’s technological gizmos make it possible for you to communicate with each other. Two individuals on totally different ends of the planet can nowadays exchange words, pictures, movies together and create a sense of community. In a more remote time communities were much smaller and definitely very localized. And as your awareness of the world grows, so can your sense of community straddle nations, nationalities, borders, customs and cultures allowing you to exchange information, details about your lives, your own various cultures, creating a very varied and different kind of sense of awareness and even a different sense of what the world is. Your ideas about the world are evolving in the sense that they are changing.
Some time back the general belief was that the world was flat and if you ventured too close to the imagined end of that flat world, there indeed was a genuine fear that you could fall off the edge of the world. Many mariners made certain they did not venture too close to that edge for fear of losing their ships and everything and everyone on it. Yet the experience of navigating the seas and oceans certainly was in contrast to the beliefs of the times. But the beliefs often prevailed, in a manner of speaking, limiting where people ventured.
Nowadays, though you may still find small pockets of people who cling to that belief that the world indeed is still flat, the majority of the people on your world have a very different view and sets of beliefs concerning that world, in sharp contrast, then, to say five or six hundred years ago.
Even your ideas of the world and even of time and space itself are being altered. Your sciences are also pushing the boundaries in certain ways. Now it is common for people to even discuss other planets, even other solar systems and galaxies, whereas such a thought in the past was also very limited and often frightening to speak about because it was considered the realm of the Divines and of the few who had access to the Divines.
So you have built up an incredible repertoire of knowledge that, in some ways and respects, outstrips the kind of information your bygone ancestors dealt with concerning their world and their realities. And in some respects you still deal with some of the very same principles though you might not notice it, but you are still dealing with ideas about reality, about the world, about time and space. And you take these ideas, these thoughts, as an understanding of truth, of the way things are. And you apply those very same or similar ideas to yourselves.
The beliefs and thoughts and ideas you entertain about yourselves are also quite different from your bygone ancestors of say, five, six hundred years ago, and even just a few hundred years ago. Medical science has changed the way you view your body, its functions. And these you also accept and view as the truth about your physical self. Your theologies, however, are another breed of thoughts and ideas altogether, though not different from any other idea that you may entertain or any concept thereof.
But in the areas of theology, some of the very same concepts and ideas have remained unchanged for thousands of years, often in sharp contrast and contradiction to the kind of world that you have idealized for yourselves. Still those ideas, as they have been unchanged for thousands of years, insist that in spite of everything you have an accounting to a supernatural being that seems to control everything, especially your lives. Perhaps not unlike the pieces on the chess board, the divine supernatural being in this case being the players, the chess players; the pieces being the general populace – the believers and the unbelievers alike.
And those views, again, have largely remained unchanged, though there have been throughout history various kinds of reformations that have sought to bring a sense of balance, bring a sense of expanded awareness. Those still, those reformations of various kinds, have still remained within the boundaries of reforming only certain small ideas; in some ways creating several waves of renaissances throughout history, until the last big renaissance in your historical terms.
That particular renaissance brought about massive transformations in everything in your world including an attempt to reform, as it were, even the theologies of the day. In almost every other aspect it was successful and there was some small degrees of successes even in terms of the theologies of the day, where now for instance, you do not fear coming together as a group to discuss, as you are all doing right now in this moment, without fear that the Grand Inquisitor will come and carry you to the stake to make certain you are well done. So in some respects there have been certain degrees of enlightenment in these areas, though your societies are still often steeped in fundamentalism and in literalism. And it is quite likely one of the very last frontiers – is breaking free of the shackles that still exist in your collective and sometimes even individual psyches, in your world views.
And it is groups of individuals like yourselves, that gather together, seek to understand the workings of and the mechanisms of reality from the point of view of consciousness, specifically. Not from the point of view of science or medicine or anything else for that matter. And it is groups like yourselves that assist in building a momentum whose waves help in transforming and reforming that last frontier, the frontier of theology; assisting in giving new understandings towards the standard definitions of a supernatural being, of the Divines, of the gods and goddesses, assisting in bringing a certain kind of deeply needed balance and harmony into the views concerning a god, a goddess, or any kind of divine supernatural being, assisting with the understanding that these idealized concepts are an interpretation of the recognition of that which is within you that is your highest ideal, highest concept of self as you could possibly understand it at this moment in time and space. And it is no small endeavor.
You may, on the one hand, think you are learning and exploring about the concept of reality creation, how your thoughts, feelings, emotions, state of mind, awareness, perceptions, etcetera, influence the kind of experience of reality that you enjoy or not, depending on your individual case, your individual experimentations. The truth of the matter is that all of these concepts that you are exploring are part of this reformation, this renaissance – opening your minds and awarenesses to your greater multi-dimensional nature.
Thus the idea, the concept, of one supernatural being presiding over all of you, deciding and judging who is good, who is bad – these concepts which have more to do with the duplicities that you engage as a race, are in the very midst of being transformed. And it is how it is being done, through groups of individuals like yourselves examining these old concepts, literally looking under the hood of the vehicles of consciousness, recognizing that this vehicle does not necessarily run by magic as much as it does run by an actual kind of science – the science of your thoughts, your beliefs, etcetera.
And again, this is no small endeavor, for as exciting as all of this kind of exploration is, it still in many respects often puts you at odds, not only with your peers who may believe otherwise, but it also puts you at odds with the views and the perceptions that you may yourself hold onto in some way, creating again that razor sharp contrast within you where you eventually recognize what it is that you oppose and what it is that you allow, even what you allow opposing. And this creates a dynamic force within you urging you then to press forward, to continue examining and questioning not only the nature of and veracity of what you call your physical reality but the very nature and veracity of whom and what you are. And again, no small endeavor, make no bones about this and no mistakes either.
This represents a cutting edge of this renaissance wave. You are only now experiencing the very outer edges. Say the first few random snowflakes that let you know that snow is coming. As we have described in another kind of analogy, you are in some ways hearing the footsteps ahead of someone coming down the hallway, advising you of their impending presence, heading your way.
So you are experimenting with and even challenging many views on many fronts concerning the deepest of all belief systems. You are also challenging yourselves, and the rewards can at times bring about some degree of conflict. Again, there is no need to kid yourselves, or fool yourselves, each of you at various times undergoes your own various struggles in these areas. And there is no foolproof, one hundred percent guaranty that what you learn is necessarily going to work the way you may insist it does, but there is definitely a guaranty that you are increasing in awareness as you continue to unfold your own multi-dimensional nature.
And as we suggested moments ago, still for the majority of people on your planet the theology of one supreme supernatural being is still quite prevalent. The monotheistic ideal is quite strong and yet it cannot allow a reflection of your true multi-dimensional nature. Yes, some cultures actually incorporate many gods and goddesses and that is a reflection of those deeper aspects connected with your multi-dimensional nature still cast in the traditional understandings, and that does provide a certain leeway in the collective psyche. It provides a safety valve of sorts, though those groups and cultures that embrace a strict monotheistic supernatural being may tend to only stay within the guidelines provided by their teachings.
And it does present a fascinating, an extremely fascinating, experimentation in consciousness – a consciousness of denial of one’s own multidimensional nature, making concerted efforts to whittle down the great self into a singular unit to fit the mold of one’s understandings even if those understandings are extremely fundamental and literalistic. This provides a fascinating para-psychological study in the kinds of civilizations that can be brought about under those kinds of guidelines; and the fallout, if you wish, the effects and influences brought about by such strong deeply rooted beliefs. And your western world, for the most part, is an example of the highs and lows and everything in between that results from such strong root in those belief systems and strong adherence and membership to those ideals.
And yet you have chosen to explore beyond those boundaries, beyond those safeguards established by your societies. So you are all to be commended and indeed, if we did have a hat in this moment, we would take it off in recognition of your efforts to forge ahead, to push the envelopes both individually and collectively towards a rekindling of the true aspects and the true nature of your collective being and the diverse manifestations of consciousness as it occurs actually in your present world. And that consciousness can straddle and embrace all of the diverse systems of beliefs on all levels, because it is within the nature of the individual to actually embrace, if allowed, to actually embrace such a diverse nature of being.
And when you give your thoughts a moment to digest the implications of what we have said you may recognize the depth of compassionate admiration and even consideration for the wonderful creative genius that each of you have access to within the unlimitedness of consciousness.
We have shared many things with you over these last eight weeks. You have also investigated and explored various different kinds of thoughts and modalities and ideas, all to your credit, benefits and advantages. And this alone should also tell you that you are more than the sum of all of your parts, not only your physical parts but your psychological parts; more than the sum of all of your ideas, ideals and even eccentric models that you could possibly dream up concerning who and what you are, who and what you think you are, and whom and what you truly are. And still, there is more to discover about your lovely self and its multi-dimensional nature.
We continue to encourage you to push that envelope, to deliberately expand your awareness of the wonderful and marvelous and even miraculous display of reality around you, as it so effortlessly and literally oozes from your being, that sometimes you might not even be aware that you actually generated, formed the experiences and the adventures that you undergo.
So we wished to share this with you as a further encouragement to your explorations as a group and as a member of your society. For even though you might find it, at times, even difficult to share with others what you discovered, what you explore in thoughts and consciousness, regardless you still affect those around you. You influence them whether you do so directly or indirectly. You influence them merely by your presence. The energy of your being exerts a certain kind of influence.
The organizations involved with what you call Transcendental Meditation, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, have done many experimentations, the results of which indeed counter the so-called facts of reality as it were; the results of which should in some way, set off fireworks in the brains, in the thoughts, in the minds, in the awareness of all people, giving them the keys then to understanding how your realities may indeed be influenced in a direction that is desirable for many.
There are numerous studies that have demonstrated that as little as one hundred people coming together in large cultural centers or cities, meditating for so many minutes a day can impart a powerful influence on the environment, in almost exactly the same way that the moon in general and the full moon in particular exerts strong gravitational influence upon the tides. So can, then, the thoughts that you cultivate, your own individualized theology can exert an influence, however gentle and benign, can exert a powerful influence upon those around you and in your life.
And this is not that we are advocating that you need to become saints, but instead the simple joy of recognizing your true and powerful multi-dimensional nature and acting, even if only at the psychological level, acting in that way. The most profound of which is actually acting as if and in accordance with the idea, the concept, that everything is meaningful and everything matters because you create it. That alone sets off waves of influences in all directions, psychologically even enticing other people to question the nature of their reality in some way, and assisting them in finding answers to those questions they are asking, even if only to themselves.
We are not in any way, shape or form, pretending that we have and we are offering all of the answers to life, because in many respects there are no answers except in the perceptions that you hold. They are the answers and as such, then, you become the living embodiment, the avatars, the incarnations then, of those answers to life.
Thus if you begin then to take what has been discussed for these last eight sessions, some of these ideas, some of these projects, your own discoveries in that area, and begin to invite others to share with you. Perhaps creating small groups in your location, even if only a few individuals. Then you increase the momentum, enabling others to begin finding their answers, in the areas that assist such inquiring individuals, inquiring minds, to explore reality beyond the boundaries and the edicts with which they have already grown up, and may even have already realized are no longer sufficient. Thus we encourage you to find different ways of inviting individuals into your own discussions. And if you do need a point of entry to stimulate interest, feel free to use what is now popular with “The Secret” and gently build up upon that. Assist those inquiring minds in finding answers within their own perceptions, offering not absolutes but offering them instead alternatives that lead them to find their own answers within just as you have.
Wherever you are in the world you may find some individuals, however you find them, and let your creativity and share that creativity amongst yourselves, whatever ideas. Perhaps some of you may put up little posters, ads, business cards, small flyers, however you wish to do it. Perhaps in a local library, perhaps in a metaphysical journal, perhaps in metaphysical bookstores, perhaps through word of mouth through friends you have. There are dozens and dozens of ways to approach this subject matter. There are many within your own group that would be excellent at coaching those who are perhaps curious to do so but may not have the savvy to put it together. And of course this is not something we are commanding anyone to do, that is not the point.
The point is that in sharing your adventure, your own growth in awareness continues. That is why this is called the Consciousness Mentoring group. The idea is to develop individuals who can then go and mentor other individuals, who may then go and mentor other individuals, setting up little pockets of developing awareness. So you are each encouraged to continue supporting yourself.
Philip and Joseph are putting together plans to provide an environment where you may even bring your discussions amongst yourselves in a very safe environment, so that you can be supported. And we will continue being available to you for additional support in any way, shape or form, including when you, any of you, form your own little groups. Just as you shared with us for these last eight sessions, so can we be available for those in the small groups that you create.
Now perhaps it is a good time to call for a break. Afterwards we would enjoy exploring some of your questions.
MARK: Okay. The lines are open.
ANYA: Mark, can you ask a question for us?
MARK: I guess, why don’t you ask it yourself?
ANYA: Okay, well here’s the question. We talked about how it gets the group and then we’ll focus on something and, you know, just say we’ll get together and do a visualization of sending energy to the planet. So, if we want to push the envelope and take it to a little bit more specific, tangible area, what about if we want to focus on specifically bringing good energy to turn around the economy and make it very prosperous? So one of the gifts that we looked into maybe, what if we start focusing on the interest rate? Or, you know just picking up any of the factors of the economy that will help the bringing it to a more prosperous space.
MARK: Right.
ANYA: So, what would, you know like because he mentioned, Kris mentioned, you know, getting together the studies and getting together for a couple of minutes and meditating and stuff like that so, I just would like, I think it will be, for whatever it’s worth, just for the sake of pushing the envelope to try doing something like that and I’d like to hear some comments in terms of, like more specifically, can we focus in a more specific thing, what would it be, how would we structure it? Really would like to get into the nitty gritty of it a little bit more.
MARK: That’s interesting. Now, what do you mean by interest rates? Do you want them to go up or down?
ANYA: Well, I’m speculating that when the Fed didn’t lower the interest rate enough, you know, the market went kind of down and the economy needs a little bit more stimulating and probably getting it a little bit lower so that there is more growth and blah, blah, blah. So, you know, just picking up one of the factors and that’s the one that came to my mind.
MARK: Yeah because by lowering interest rates, yeah you help people that have credit and debt but people that have savings, they lose. So it’s a double-edged sword. That’s interesting, um… Yeah we’ll have to try and get him to comment on that. I’m not sure I can put this into words though. I’ll try.
TOM: This is Tom. I’d like to make a comment on Green Sleeves’ (Anya’s) question. And that is, as far as interest rates, I don’t know if we necessarily need to focus on interest rates per se. Maybe I’m wrong but it almost sounds like what you’re getting at is more, not so much interest rates per se but maybe creative prosperity or abundance, something along those lines. Like maybe focusing on interest rates per se would be too narrow. That’s one idea.
MARK: Yeah, I agree. I think that’s what I was trying to say as well.
TOM: The other thing is, there was, I believe there was a group of realtors in Arizona or thereabouts who got together recently to focus on trying to improve the situation in the market on a metaphysical level. I don’t know the details on that, and I’m trying to remember who it was that mentioned it to me. But I could find out more about that if anybody’s interested, but I’m just throwing out something else similar to what Green Sleeves was suggesting.
MARLENE: Yeah I think that was Georgina.
TOM: Georgina, that’s right, that was Georgina.
MARLENE: I will bring that to her attention that you, maybe she can talk to you about it.
MARK: For those people that were a part of the abundance group meeting, if you remember Kris was saying it’s not about the money. You know, it’s about concentrating on abundance of joy and happiness and then everything will automatically fall into place, that you need to provide you with that joy and happiness.
ANYA: Well we never disagreed with that. What our needs were more of getting a little bit more, a couple of layers deeper into the nitty gritty so that we, by basically by setting up a scientific experiment, saying like if we focus on the element X and we would like to see the result B. So I do appreciate Ramruva’s (Tom’s) comment on abundance and I totally, completely agree with that. So my intent just goes a little bit into the next level of specifics as to, I would like to focus on something so it’s a little bit more trackable, so that let’s say I’m focusing on X of, you know, the weather being good in Utah today, you know. And I’m getting my, I mean I may be exaggerating but maybe not, you know. I am going for the pushing the envelope. So that’s the actual, the real intent of the question. I would love to focus on abundance but how do I really track it in a way that it produces results enough for the group so that we can take it further to the next level and focus on something else and track another something tangible? So that’s where we are I think.
MARK: What about joy?
ANYA: What about what? What about joy?
MARK: Focusing on that, bringing about joy.
ANYA: Well, it’s a big chunk. You know, how do you measure the joy? I mean we can measure it in ourselves, which we just did. Like Ella, myself and Nardine, we tracked our changes after we engaged in the abundance group which was, in many senses, a big you know chunk, abundance of whatever things rather than specific goals. The tracking that we got for ourselves, like Ella improved 110 percent, the feeling of joy, abundance, you know all these positive vibes. Nardine got 110, I got 90 percent improvement. I mean, this is tracking and this is inspiring for us to continue. So how do I track it now if we can take the experiment and put it into a larger scale into the community, how do I track things, what do I focus so that I can track it up to thirty days?
MARK: Alright, I get the idea.
ANYA: Good, thank you.
TOM: Now one thing I was thinking of besides trying to track specific statistics maybe we might also want to consider anecdotes. You know, people’s stories and experiences and track it that way.
ANYA: Cool, cool, cool. I think that’s along the lines. There is more…
MARLENE: I think maybe, I’m thinking maybe along the lines of starting the little groups. It sounds more like Kris would like us to start some groups and see the joy that would come from being able to share some of the Kris material and, you know, that type of thing. And I can remember way back when we first started and talked about this, he did set up a guideline in the session with me on how to start our groups and, you know, asking the who, what, where, when, why questions. And putting that in a flyer so maybe we could go back to that and start our little groups and see the joy that comes from that.
MARK: That’s a good point. That’s something I want to add to the website that we’re developing, in our new discussion forum that we’re discussing.
ANYA: Mark, a quick unrelated question: The links that we got for downloading the sessions – did it expire? Do you know?
MARK: Shouldn’t of, I don’t think.
ANYA: ‘Cause I tried to download something yesterday and I couldn’t, so I’m just checking into that.
MARK: I…
SERGE: So you’re asking about those things Anya?
ANYA: Yeah, if possible.
SERGE: What I saw from the email you sent back to me – the two first links, just copy the whole line, even past the blue. Put it in your browser and it’ll work. It’s only that the first two, somehow or other half the link got disconnected – that’s all. The rest work, according to what you sent to me.
MARLENE: Okay, I couldn’t get the first two to work either.
SERGE: Yeah, because you’re clicking on it and half of the first two became de-linked. So all you have to do is copy the whole line, paste it in your browser and it’ll work. I did that last night and it works.
MARLENE: Okay thank you.
ANYA: You need to go a little bit over, okay, so I got you. Thank you.
SERGE: Yeah just include the whole line. It’ll work. So we’re ready to get back in? Oh, I have to wait. Mark is temporarily unavailable. [Chuckles]
ANYA: Well you can put us in trance meanwhile.
SERGE: What?
ANYA: You can put us in trance meanwhile, you know, I’m just kidding – use your hypnotherapy.
SERGE: Actually just looking at the snow is enough because its big, big fluffy flakes, and they’re just like coming down, coming down. It’s actually beautiful. I mean it’s going to be a mess out there.
ANYA: Send it here! Send it here, please.
SERGE: Be careful what you wish for! [Laughter]
ANYA: There’ll be an abundance of snow!
SERGE: So, how many people got their cards?
TOM: Oh, I got a card, thank you very much.
FEMALE: I got the card, thank you very much.
MARLENE: I got it – thank you.
LISA: I got a card too, thanks.
SERGE: Sometimes with the postal system you never know. Mark’s there?
MARK: I’m back.
SERGE: Okay, so we can go for round two?
MARK: Should I mute or should I leave everybody open?
SERGE: Ah, leave it open I guess.
KRIS: Now then, we trust that you had an enjoyable discussion during your break, and we believe that you have formulated a question.
MARK: Yes. There’s a small group of us, or a number of us, would like to inquire as to how we can get together in small groups and meditate upon something that we can track, say a thirty-day period and actually show results. We talked about abundance and we talked about joy and some other things. So we’d like some ideas from you about an experiment to do.
KRIS: Then, such is indeed possible. Now we believe the original question concerned some kind of meditation to alter the interest rate in financial quarters. And indeed such an endeavor might prove futile in the long run, for the simple reason that you might not be able to take in all of the variables. For as much as some people may believe that the economy is driven by the interest rates, in truth the economy is driven by the mood of the nation. The interest rates simply reflect what is perceived to be the general rule of the population. Does that make sense to you?
MARK: Yes.
KRIS: Even those, what you call, those BIG deals on the stock market floor – the selling and buying of stocks and the buying and selling of stocks and then the selling and the buying of more stocks. All of these, interestingly enough, are based upon the brokers’ gut feeling. So for all of the ideas that are expounded that everything is done in a very scientific manner, according to this formulae, this formulae and this financial formulae, actually all depend on the gut feel, as ironic as it is. That is the bottom line. And concentrating on altering the interest rates has to take into consideration other groups who may simultaneously be concentrating on the opposite. Does that make sense to you?
MARK Yes it does.
KRIS: Consider this, that during World War Two the Germans were praying to the divine to wipe out their enemies. The British were praying to the divine to wipe out their enemies. The Americans were praying to the divine to wipe out their enemies, and so on and so forth. Now if you were a Divine, would you not want a very big martini?
[Laughter]
ELLEN: With an olive in it!
KRIS: A very big one. There are sectors of society that depend on the interest rates going down, and others that depend on the interest rates going up, and at times, simultaneously so. However to concentrate on having yourself be in a position to take advantage of any opportunity that the universe will present to you, to establish a certain kind of financial or other kind of abundance, is much more to your benefit. And if you study any of those that are involved in those big money markets, you may yourself discover that their financial abundance is not dependent upon whether the interest rates or the markets go up and down. They prosper regardless. They have developed systems of opportunities if the rates go up. They have also developed systems of opportunities if the rates go down. So they simply go with the flow as it were. Does that make sense to you?
MARK: Yes.
ELLEN: May I say something Kris?
KRIS: Indeed.
ELLEN: Sort of in summation: If you don’t recognize what abundance feels like within yourself you’re not even going to recognize abundance outside of yourself, correct?
KRIS: In many respects yes. The usual interpretation of abundance is strictly in financial terms and it is often meant to be recognized, only if there are so many zeroes after a digit. Does that make sense?
ELLEN: Yeah.
KRIS: So this does open an entirely different, and again this is not a put down in any way, shape or form, on anyone who concentrates on strictly on financial abundance. But if it is done because there is a perceived lack, then the uphill trek is more difficult, because the universe might actually wish to supply you with everything you may indeed lack in other areas of your life. But you may not recognize it, you may even deny it, and only focus on what you insist must be your conscious decision. Does that also make sense to you?
ELLEN: Definitely.
KRIS: So the point being then, that actually fulfilling as many areas of your life as possible may indeed bring about physical manifestations that reflect the abundance that you are enjoying psychologically, emotionally, innerly. That does not mean that you cannot focus on specific areas, but doing so with an increased awareness that accelerate the manifestations that you desire to see. Does that also make sense?
ELLEN: Yes, indeed.
KRIS: So developing an anchored happiness, a deep sense of joy with life, a deep knowing that [with emphasis] YOU ARE THE MEANING OF LIFE AND THE MEANING OF THE UNIVERSE and asking then, that inner self, that inner universe, your inner being to assist you in furthering the manifestations of your inner health or wealth or wisdom, may indeed put you in a position to recognize how easily you can then spread that around as it were. There are those who are abundantly fulfilled in wisdom or joy or happiness and this is reflected in many ways in their daily encounters with other individuals and society at large. Determine what your first priority is.
And there are even teachings out there that say that, “Well your first teaching should be to have tons and tons of money so that you can then have all of the other things available to you”, but is that necessarily the truth, or is it even true? It may be true by what you manifest, and it may also be that certain other individuals feel that they are failing, then, because they cannot spiritually manifest large bank accounts to accomplish everything else, but they may have so many other qualities but as a result become suppressed and denied because they have hidden their own truth, their own meaning of life from themselves. Does that also make sense?
ELLEN: Absolutely.
KRIS: So the bottom line may be for you to do from your heart what you recognize as YOUR truth. Do what makes you happy and bring into that inner circle of happiness, all other aspects of your life that you may realize may not be as fulfilling yet, but under the aura of your own happiness, of your own fulfillment, all of these other areas of life may fall in line, align with, become congruent with your inner truth.
ELLEN: I’m going to make a little note here, next time I have a conversation with my good friend Brian Ferrell that this is the positive aspect of narcissism.
KRIS: Indeed. And if you do so with joyous laughter, then everyone should be narcistically happy. [Laughter] And that is, in many respects, the whole point. When you are happy, the whole world reflects that happiness. Does it not? When you are unhappy, morose, despondent, it seems to you that either the whole world is in a similar state or it mocks you, therefore increasing your own depth of melancholy.
ELLEN: Boy, isn’t that the truth.
KRIS: And, if you do keep in mind, under all instances and circumstances that you are not your feelings nor your thoughts about yourselves, that you are more than the sum of all of these all put together, then surely you have then a key to inner perceptions that go beyond the immediate moment of your experience.
Are there any other questions or inquiries?
MARLENE: Kris, I have one.
KRIS: Indeed.
MARLENE: I was wondering when you said that we were to embrace others that had different beliefs and so on and so forth, what does that mean? What does that word ‘embrace’ mean? Is that a feeling? Is that accepting? What does that actually mean?
KRIS: It is indeed a deep state of acceptance of all of the different, even CONTRASTING, beliefs that you or any one single individual may hold. There are extremely few people on your planet that do not hold contrasting, even conflicting sets of beliefs. And recognizing this instead of fighting, waging inner wars with yourselves by recognizing it, embracing, accepting, you may indeed create the necessary steps to have congruency and alignment with your own overall thoughts and beliefs and ideas about yourself, recognizing that you are not any of these thoughts and ideas, these simply are, they are in your field of awareness and you may utilize any of those that you so desire to create a constructive and desirable outcome. So it is a mind-set. You could call it a mood. It is, in so many words, also an altered state. It is a potential state of being and it can be used. Does that answer your lovely inquiry?
MARLENE: Yes, thank you.
KRIS: You are indeed most welcome. Are there other inquiries? [Pause] Therefore, as we offered on Thursday evening on the radio show, this is a season of giving and sharing, therefore share amongst yourselves and with yourself the offering of the gift and even the miracle of awareness. And we thank you deeply for your loving considerations at this or any other time. And we return Joseph to you.
GROUP: Thank you Kris.
[End of session]
CMI 1-7: The Eye of Perception
December 2, 2007
Kris Chronicles
Consciousness Mentoring Institute Seventh Session – The Eye of Perception
Channeled by Serge J. Grandbois and Transcribed by Theresa Smart
Recorded in Toronto, Canada on December 2, 2007
Roll Call: Serge (Joseph), Mark (Philip), Anya Ouchakova, Marcos Garay, Frank de Visser, Ellen Gilbert, John Hawkins, Alan Aspinall, Ester Gonzalez, Theresa Smart, Marlene Lewis, Nardine Neilson, Bill Herman
KRIS: Now we trust that you are all comfortable.
MARK: Yes, thank you.
KRIS: And we thank you for your consideration.
MARK: Thank you.
KRIS: Over the last several weeks we have discussed with you all various subject matters and of course we will continue to do that as long as you allow us, though certainly that could open a very large can of metaphysical worms. But nonetheless it is still and will always be a deep pleasure to engage in discussions with all of you.
We would like to title today’s presentation ‘The Eye of Perception’. And we will most likely keep it simple, though you know from experience that we are likely telling a fib.
Now you have your lovely physical eyes, and though all of your physical eyes have the same kinds of properties in physical terms, and they all allow each and every one of you to perceive the so-called objective world, the objective reality, and you can stop to see how pretty the flowers are on your journey of life. And you can, in many ways, use the wonderful properties of your eyes to gauge how your unique journey is unfolding as well as combining your eyesight with other physical senses. The eyes represent something very unique. Your physical eyes interpret the energetic properties of reality according to the definitions that you assign to those energetic properties.
Now, your physical eyes may have their own limitations, as such, and in fact in the animal world, in the world of other creatures on your planet, your human eyes are not specifically the best viewing devices. Cats and many other animals can see much better than you can. Certain other animals and creatures, bees for instance, see a different spectrum of light properties making it so that the objects that they see would appear very different to you, might even be unrecognizable to you in some ways. Other creatures still, see different things and those things will indeed be particularly suited to the spectrum of light and other properties that the mechanisms, the biological mechanisms of the eye are suited to interpret.
Your own eye and its structure, or eyes and their structure, interpret specific bandwidths and wavelengths of the spectrum of light and energy configurations best suited to your species, allowing you to make the most of their properties and allowing you to navigate according to your own biological construction. And in that respect they are actually wonderfully suited to that purpose. And in that respect as well, they are also – as we have often called them – beautiful liars in the sense that they can only give you that very same limited bandwidth of perception and nothing else. And in and of itself that is not a problem at all. Their properties and their mechanisms are perfectly suited to function with your lovely ego construction, allowing you to navigate the construction of energy patterns in such a way that suits your species perfectly.
And yet, there are other mechanisms of perception that can be utilized to truly broaden and widen and deepen the manner in which you relate to your reality. And it takes a small amount of practice, as it were, to bring about the focus of this other mechanism – the eye of perception, and more rightly so, the inner eye of perception. And this perceptive mechanism is not based upon the biological mechanism of perception. And, in fact, we would say that the biological mechanism of perception, your biological eyes, are a physical interpretation of this inner eye of perception.
And as we suggested, it does take a small amount of practice to tune into or focus into that inner mechanism. This particular inner mechanism is of great value in the development of your unfolding awareness of self and the various treasures that you seek to discover on this particular trek of your inner journey. In fact the mechanisms involved with the inner eye of perception are, just like your physical eyes, are perfectly suited to that objectified experience of reality. So this inner eye of perception is perfectly suited to discover the inner treasures of your spiritual journey. In fact none could be more suited as a tool, as a resource, than this inner eye of perception.
The mechanism itself has always been fully active and present in your experience. And you, at times, may catch glimpses of it when you are conscientious, when you pay attention, when you notice. It is closely associated with what some may recognize as the Observer, the Witness within, but for the most part and in the initial stages, that inner witness, inner observer is the aspect of that inner eye of perception that is most closely associated with your ego construction in such a way that you can relate to it at that layer, so that you can identify it in an initial and meaningful way.
This inner eye of perception, associated with the inner witness, is in itself a powerful gateway or threshold that can allow you to function even in preliminary stages in what you would call out-of-body or projection-of-consciousness stages, wherein you can engage various states of consciousness. Lucid dreaming and out-of-bodies in the classic sense, are directly related to this inner eye of perception, wherein you are utilizing different modes or modalities available to you within consciousness itself, your consciousness.
And all of these various aspects of that modality, can be joyfully invited to become part of your more conscious experience in ways that can literally open your eyes to the perceptions contained within the fields of this inner eye of perception – this inner sight, if you wish – wherein sight, or the act of seeing, is not limited to the necessity for having eyeballs, as it were. Though, it is our understanding that, for the most part, having these eyes in the physical way is most necessary, especially when you are driving or other very endearing activities at your physical level.
The development of this particular state of perception also has other powerful benefits. Now we mentioned that it is closely tied into what you normally call lucid dreaming and out-of-body projections. And it is also closely linked to something we have presented to you earlier in another session in the utilization of imagery, especially concerning the exercise we provided with the hand. Or even when you practiced this particular little exercise most of you had your eyes closed though it is not necessary to do so, but initially can be very useful to allow you to practice at concentrating that particular wavelength of your consciousness. Though at some other point in your becoming adept at utilizing this, keeping the eyes open or closed is irrelevant, but this is closely related as well to the inner eye of perception.
And it is not necessary to relegate this specifically to the realm of sleeping and dreams, since we have mentioned lucid dreaming and projections of consciousness, though it is an practical point of departure. And practicing this is indeed quite enjoyable and you need not specifically relegate it only to when you have naps or meditations but it can be utilized in any time segments that you can allow to hone your skills, to sharpen your skills in that area. And it can be most pleasant indeed, as it can make a great use of some of the properties you already contain in your consciousness in conjunction with your lovely imagination. We have spoken about this earlier as well.
And especially for those who live in a hemisphere of the world where you experience different seasons, such as presently in the northern hemisphere where they experience winter and snow. It is so much easier then to tune your minds and your imaginings to enjoying a brief reprieve on a tropical island. Enjoying the sunshine on the beach, listening to the lapping of the waves on the sandy beach and the gentle warm breeze caressing the palm leaves; hearing an odd seagull here and there while you might be sipping on a mai tai or a pina colada, or even a Corona. It lends itself somewhat more towards that practice within those conditions, but you of course are not limited only to this. There is so much more available to you to play with.
Now, we have suggested that your inner witness or inner observer is the gateway to this inner eye of perception and all it requires to begin the process is to begin to pay attention, then, even more so to your dreams, and even more so to how you engage thought processes and how you notice your own thought processes. And for those of you who even have a smallest of inkling about your dreams, what you do within them, how you create imagery, drama and scenarios, and how you see yourself acting out and engaging action within a dream, it is easier for you to recognize this inner observer.
And for those of you who are not as accustomed to working with your dreams, you can also learn to work with and detect and appreciate this inner observer, this inner witness, by developing greater attention to the way in which you engage inner dialog. And every single human being, past, present and future, engages inner dialog. And there are different kinds of inner dialog to be engaged. Some may be less constructive, which you can also change or alter, and other kinds of inner dialog can be a most endearing and uplifting constructive, the likes of which you can also magnify and bring to greater focus. The point being that you learn to notice and observe the observer, learn to witness the witness, as it were. Pay attention and discover how it functions with you. And the more you become familiar with its environment, the more you familiarize yourself with its properties, with its functions, the easier it becomes for you to learn the gentle art of dissociation. In other words, there are many, many different kinds of altered or trance states, some of which you engage many times during the course of one day, as well as during the course of the evening or night.
What we are suggesting is to put these natural, naturally occurring states into a different kind of focus. Make use of the innate properties of these natural states and utilize this inner mechanism of your consciousness much in the same way as you would use any vehicle in your physical reality to navigate from point A to point B. And still there is much more to it than that, but at the simplest level utilizing the properties of your inner witness or inner observer, over and above its simplest function to alert you to inner dialog and the manner in which you observe your dreams, to move deeper into that field of energy opens up other doorways to consciousness that can additionally and profoundly alter your views of reality. It is possible to utilize these innate capacities of the inner eye of perception to increase the forms of your discernment, for example.
Now the traditional understandings of the use of discernment usually center around such ideas as using this discernment to find out what is the truth. That is at its most surface level, because as you know truth can be a truly, forgive the pun, but truly individual thing. There are acquired truths as there are absolutes in those areas. What we are driving at however, is that developing the ability to make greater use of this inner eye of perception can allow you, for example, during the course of, say a discussion with another individual, and we will specifically center this example around discussions with an individual who say, may be troubled with an issue or a challenge and perhaps unable to clearly see the kind of path they have carved for themselves; may even feel overwhelmed or lost on their journey. And during the course of this kind of a discussion with this kind of individual, you may have developed sufficient rapport and connection with this inner eye of perception, this deeper witness, to be able to discern what that individual may actually be trying to put into words, trying to convey though they may not have the necessary lexicon or insights to see beyond their usual tendency to relate to their physical world. But you may be able then to witness their energy patterns, notice their own beliefs, and engaging this deeper witness to assist in bringing about an assistance, a resolution as it were, or at least be able to point them in a direction where they can see their solution in a manner suited for them and not yourselves.
That is but one small example. We are certain there are many, many more available but we believe it is sufficient to give you a picture of how to make use of the deeper qualities and properties of this inner eye of perception. And though we did initially begin this discussion talking about the perceptive mechanisms of your ocular devices, of your eyes, we are also addressing the inner Eye, as in capital EYE, of perception. And it is in paying attention and noticing this deeper meaning behind the inner witness, the deeper witness, the deeper eye, that you can find a sense of inner freedom, a sense of deeper rapport with your reality than you may have been able to tap into up to this point.
This inner witness, the surface-most aspects of which are involved with your aspects that engage inner dialog, can be most rewarding over and above and even beyond anything we have discussed so far. Again, literally, opening the gateways to inner experiences that take you directly into the realms of the foundational mechanisms of your reality creation properties. And by getting in touch with and developing an clear communication or relationship with this inner eye of perception, allows you to gently, consciously choose to slip into the various altered states that are fully under your control, fully under your direction, and give you a sense of the world and of life even beyond what you thought was possible.
Now if you like, we will suggest a small break and return with additional information and your questions, and perhaps a nice exercise.
ELLEN: Phone lines are open. …have the authority.
MALE: Okay well I think …
ANYA: John?
JOHN: Yeah.
ANYA: If we are going to put a summary to that, I don’t know if we are doing that online or not but I would like to understand a little better the difference between the inner eye and the third eye, so that it’s a little bit more clear in my head. And I’m sure Mark already has an answer for me.
MARK: I suspect they might be the same.
JOHN: The inner eye, yeah. Maybe… what’s coming to me is maybe the third eye is a quasi-physical reflection of this inner eye that Kris is talking about. So the third eye is, I mean, it’s almost physical. In fact, some people say the pineal gland is really the physical seat of the third eye.
SERGE: Anyways, Kris is around so shall we continue?
JOHN: Oh great. Okay muting.
MARK: Muting.
KRIS: Indeed we trust that you had a very pleasant little break. Now, this inner eye of perception is not related to anything physical in any way shape or form, but is a psychological construct that bridges many of the states of consciousness that you effectively make use of during the course of your days and nights and lives. And it has nothing to do with what you metaphysically refer to as your third eye. You are simply lucky that you do not have to apply mascara to that third eye.
This aspect of your Personality – and we would spell Personality with a capital P in this instance – and this aspect is greatly underused and we would dare say misunderstood, since for the most part your present psychologies and humanistic sciences understand it as merely a function of your ego. But it is so much more, that the usual understandings concerning this inner witness or observer only explore a fraction of its properties and propensities. So, available to you, is so much more, and learning to tune into that particular aspect of your personality can be greatly advantageous, over and above deepening your understanding of the kinds of inner dialog you engage in on a daily basis.
And that is one of the reasons why we have focused upon this particular subject matter for so long, and truly encourage anyone and everyone to learn to pay attention, to notice their thoughts, their thought processes, and especially their inner dialog. And what we are addressing today moves that subject matter to the next level; moves the entire concept into another realm, into its deeper and less understood properties. Perhaps an analogy would be likened to having a car. Perhaps the car is something you think is needed to occupy some space in the driveway, without realizing that you may do much more with the car than to take up some space in the driveway. That you can utilize it to travel, you can utilize it to go to the grocery store, to visit others, to travel even to distant places, and so much more.
So what we are suggesting is to continue paying attention to and noticing this inner witness, inner observer, the focal point of which it is available to you to notice, or for your noticing, through one of its most basic properties – that of the inner dialog that you engage during any time you turn your mind towards itself. There is so much more available to the inner witness than simply paying attention to the thoughts and engaging questions about it, for example.
But utilizing it as a gateway as we suggested, this can and will broaden the height, depth, width, and even the meaning of those other kinds of activities your consciousness engages in even while you are not paying attention, the rewards of which can be most fulfilling. Consider again, a poor analogy, but say you have a hand and you only utilize it for one thing, whatever that thing may be, only to discover that the itch on your back can be alleviated if you use that same hand to scratch it; discovering a new use for your hand – to scratch that which itches you. And you are entirely allowed to laugh, since it is a rather crude analogy – not terribly refined, but we believe it gets the point across.
Accessing this inner deeper witness, as we suggested earlier, gives you the possibilities to become conscious and even to direct various states of consciousness, various trance states or altered states in a very directed manner. And each state in itself, more or less comes with its own perceptive mechanisms, not unlike the ones you utilize normally but with additional insights, additional treasures and teachings and wisdom. This can come in handy when you are dealing with other individuals as well as with yourself, pushing the envelope further, as it were, into the utilization of the properties of your consciousness.
Would Philip be so kind as to un-mute.
MARK: The lines are open.
KRIS: Now would there be any initial questions on this topic matter?
ANYA: I have a question.
KRIS: Indeed.
ANYA: I just wrote down – this last topic resonates with me very deeply, like you were saying each state has a different – I’m paraphrasing – dynamics or whatever to it. And so it goes back to observing the consciousness; so every time something what we may perceive as negative appears, what I notice is if I go there with a state of curiosity rather than automatic judgment there is a new… there are some really hidden treasures there. And I’m just wondering if you have any suggestions of how to maybe approach it differently. I like the idea of each state has a different dynamics to it.
KRIS: Indeed. The dynamics involved might all be understood but by experimentation. For example, and this you can all choose to join in this small exercise. It is meant to generate an altered state. Therefore if you are to avail yourself in any way, shape or form, of the mechanisms and dynamics of the deeper witness, you might like to come along for the ride. And we suggest that this is merely a preliminary, but sufficient to give you a powerful inkling into this kind of experience.
So we are merely suggesting that for the time being, you each sit comfortably, as best you can. And on the count of three allow your eyes to close. Allow your eyelids to close on the count of three. And as your eyes close on the count of three also allow yourself to become even more relaxed, allowing the sound of our voice, and the gentle rhythmic breathing of your lungs to deepen your experience. One. Allow your eyelids to feel slightly heavy, leaning towards closing. Two. Notice how your breathing itself becomes more relaxed now, tensions leaving the body. And three. Simply allowing your eyelids to shut. Allowing a deepening of a state of relaxation wherein which you can pay attention to the process of relaxation within your body, as if you are exactly that, observing, noticing, witnessing the feelings of relaxation spread throughout your body, deepening even more as we continue to speak.
And imagine or pretend that you are at the base of a great mountain – wherever that mountain may be is up to you. And as you observe the relaxation deepen and deepen, and deepen even more in your body, you become more and more aware of being, or pretending to be, in that environment at the base of this great mountain. If you like, even a chain of mountains. You choose whatever you want in your imagery. And you start climbing. Perhaps there is a very nice path that leads up the mountain and you start on that path. Perhaps in some other of your imagery someone may have a mountain with a lift on the side or an escalator or some other vehicle to allow climbing up the mountain. Others may wish to do so the old fashioned way. However you picture or pretend yourself doing this, pay attention. And as you continue to relax and hold the imagery of the mountain and how you are climbing up the mountain, you get to a certain elevation. Stop. Pause for a moment and look about the mountain and even in the other direction away from the mountain. Perhaps there are beautiful valleys or even a valley. You might even see perhaps lakes in the distance, the forests, perhaps there is a town, village or city.
And notice how that feels in your body in your perception at this moment where you are. And now continue on your trek up the mountain, rising up and up to a higher elevation. Perhaps it is even a few thousand feet higher. And stop or pause again. And again, look about the whole scenario. Perhaps the valley below you, or the forest, perhaps you see more now. Perhaps you see things you could not see before, in the distance. Perhaps even more lakes, forests, other mountains or hills, other villages, towns, other natural phenomenon that you did not see before or even did not see that way before. Notice how that incorporates itself into the dynamics of your feelings and perceptions, of your witness and pay attention to the energies of this witness, your deeper witness. And as such, even though you are there on the mountainside, a portion of your witness is still aware and observing your body as it relaxes, rejuvenates itself, refreshes itself in energy, as you engage this wonderful inner experience.
And now allow yourself to continue rising, now to the top of the mountain, the very top of it, and look about you. You can see three hundred and sixty degrees, all around you, things you could not see before that may have been there but not within your field of vision, in this case inner vision. You see as far as the eye can see, as the witness continues to expand within you. And in many ways it is both figurative and literal as far as the eye can see. And notice how and how far the eye can see, your physical eyes but also your inner eye, the eye of perception, the inner witness, the deeper witness.
And now there is another stage to this experience. At that particular layer of the deeper witness, you do not need to be bound by any laws of physics, or any physical laws in that way. You can even allow yourself to mentally suggest that you can start rising above the mountain now, as if you are able to float simply by the thought of it. Rising higher. Looking now, down at the entire scenario, even the mountain top itself, your perceptions still rising, your perspectives changing, broadening, rising higher and higher, perhaps even miles higher. Seeing things that you could not perceive before, perhaps the entire country. And keep rising, leaving behind any notions of physical time and space. Rising higher and deeper into your greater awareness, becoming aware of that psychological energy that stretches far and wide, sensing this energy and even all sorts of other things. Perhaps even sensing other celestial bodies, the moon for example, or other planets. Your awareness spreading, deepening, widening, sensing the energy of the solar system itself. The energy of thousand and millions and billions and even trillions of individuals in all time space coordinates, past, present, future, creating the images of the solar system, even the galaxy. Your consciousness widening, deepening, expanding, even beyond, perhaps even sensing nearby and distant galaxies. Reaching even further now, allowing yourself to easily glide into other states of perceiving consciousness in ways perhaps never sensed before. Sensing the vast, even the vastness of All-That-Is. Reaching beyond any of the appearances of form as you know them into a kind of energetic form that cannot be perceived by any physical beings but you can sense that energy. Energetically you might even be able to reach out for it in a way, sensing it, knowing it, even delighting in it. Knowing that this portion of All-That-Is is your own greater field of energy beyond anything physical. That it is another type or form of yourself, away from any egoic perceptions in that narrower field of energy you usually focus your consciousness in. And now gently allow yourself to become once again aware of the physical forms, of the galaxies, and various solar systems within the galaxy, of the solar system you are accustomed to calling your home, and of that tiny blue planet you call your world, and the continent and the country you call your own, of the city or town that is your own, of the building that you occupy, of the body that is your own.
Notice from your perspective right now, and from the deeper mind of your own deeper witness, that body of yours, gently breathing in a deeply entranced relaxed state. Perhaps even pretending that you are a tiny point of light energy and from that perspective witness that body. Witness the energy of it. Perhaps you might even be able to detect the energy centers that generate the kinds of configurations of energy that maintain the image of the body. And from that tiny point of light energy consciousness, notice in your body where there might be areas of blockages within your body, and the flow of energy within it. Perhaps there is an area of that form, perhaps even related to the energy centers, where there are blockages, holding of energy patterns long over due for a release. Perhaps there are energetic areas of your body in need of gentle, loving, nurturing attention, of forgiveness, of love. And from the perspective of that tiny point of light energy consciousness, pretend you are able to send a beam of energy directly from the great depth of your being into the form of your body, affecting any release, any change, any forgiveness and any love needed and necessary. And notice how that feels to observe your body from that tiny point of light perspective, knowing that from that tiny point of light perception, you can communicate intent, intention, desire, to the energy that compose the cells and cellular structure of that physical body of yours. And infuse it with additional vitality, exuberance, strength and energy, love, compassion, healing.
Perhaps there are old belief patterns that you realize can be released, the energies better used elsewhere for other purposes. And in the deepest part of your energy being you are still able to witness all this, that is the deeper inner witness. And when you are now satisfied, you may begin to pay more attention to the body and how gently the breathing pattern is still holding, how relaxed the whole bodily structure is. All tensions and stresses having long gone from the body, how this energy cleansing has soothed and nurtured it.
And in a moment we will count from five to one. At one you will be fully awake, eyes open, refreshed in every way. And perhaps you may now begin to take a deep breath with your body to give it a little boost of energy. Five. Four. Allow all sensations, all consciousness to now be returned fully into the body. Three. Perhaps moving fingers and toes, reacquainting yourself with that body. Two. Ready to open your eyes now, fully awake. And one. Opening your eyes, fully focused, fully clear in mind, refreshed in every way, remembering your experience, able to return to it whenever you allow, knowing that you can move your consciousness, not being locked into the body but being part of that body, but still being separate from it.
Now, are you all on un-mute?
MARK: Yes.
KRIS: Indeed, we trust that you are all returned from your lovely little journey.
THERESA: Yes.
JOHN: Wow! Wow, Kris that was a wonderful trip!
KRIS: Indeed, and no airport tax! [Laughter] Does anyone have any questions at this point? Indeed then, now this particular exercise took you very deep and when you reacquaint yourself with the exercise you need not go to such depth, though you are entirely free to do so and you will have the recording to that effect. And you can also utilize this exercise for shorter journeys and excursions. Perhaps simply playing with the idea of moving your consciousness, developing flexibility, enjoying slipping in and out of various altered states, and very specifically to pay attention and notice the feeling tones involved, the manner in which your perception itself enjoys slight alterations. Perhaps in the very same way that your perceptions and what you perceived was different at each stage you stopped on the mountain, and as you continued afterwards to rise and go into different layers. Does that make sense to your lovely selves, your lovely spacey selves?
GROUP: Yes.
KRIS: Now we understand if you feel somewhat spaced. It is a natural byproduct of such a deep introspection. But with more practice, it becomes easier. You can attain greater levels of flexibility. These are not unlike lucid dreaming states or out-of-body projections. And they will lead to those. It simply requires that you utilize this ancient muscle, if you like, one that may not have been flexed for many lifetimes as it were. Does that make sense to you?
GROUP: Um hum.
KRIS: Any inquiries?
JOHN: Yes. Kris would you suggest that we go on an excursion like that, let’s say on a daily basis? Would that be sufficient?
KRIS: Not to the depth we have taken you, on a daily basis. That kind of excursion, perhaps once in a while, but every day or every other day, as befits your schedules. We don’t expect any of you to give up your other daily activities. But small practices, paying attention, BEING AWARE, can greatly improve your ability to flex this ancient muscle. And it is indeed a muscle, but one of consciousness. In many ways it will be as if you are learning to ride a bicycle for the first time. These exercises are meant as the training wheels. But after a very short time you will be able to dispense with the training wheels and move on to a bigger, better bicycle. Does that make sense to you?
JOHN: Absolutely, absolutely. In fact, at deeper levels, we already know how to ride this bicycle and we’re just really reminding ourselves of that.
KRIS: That is correct. Your consciousness, whether you pay attention to it or not, is always engaged in these kinds of excursions. Your use of only the basic-most properties of your ego construction make it so that you believe that you can only engage that which your senses perceive. Does that make sense to you?
JOHN: Absolutely.
KRIS: Because once you become aware in a conscious manner of the great flexibility of consciousness you already possess, it is innate, it is the properties of consciousness, then it becomes easier to utilize what is already your heritage. Are there any other questions or inquiries?
MARK: Kris, I have a question or a comment. Lately I’ve been paying attention while in the waking state and receiving imagery of things that I’m having difficulty translating. I realize that the images themselves are translations of energy and obviously these are foreign to me because the images aren’t necessarily things that I can say this to, or are known to me.
KRIS: Indeed. Perhaps you might understand it this way. Say you are on the highway, on a nice journey, and you decide to turn on the radio in your car. Traveling from city to city, town to town, countryside to countryside. Of course there are dozens if not hundreds of radio station transmitters. The receiver in your car radio will pick up those frequencies that are within its possibility to pick up. Now you have an additional choice – you can turn the dial on the receiver and as you turn that dial you may pick up even the tiniest snippet of a transmission, but it may not be that your receiver can capture it fully but only little bits of it. So you would experience garbled sound. Does that make sense to you?
MARK: Yes, it does.
KRIS: And then suddenly, you would suddenly capture a signal that is strong enough for you to tune that receiver very finely and right on the dial suddenly that station comes in very clearly. Until eventually you move out of the range of its transmission and start the process again to pick up another signal. Does that make sense to you?
MARK: Yes it does.
KRIS: So your consciousness, in many ways, is receiving different kinds of communications and perhaps, and this goes for all of you, we understand the tendency to want to translate and understand everything immediately. But there may be times when you simply need to let the process settle in for it to become clear for you to then receive. Does that make sense?
MARK: Yes.
KRIS: Consider the brewing of a fine champagne, the fermenting of a fine champagne. You need the ingredients and the sugars and the yeast. And everything else that goes in it, whatever fruits you put in. But all that needs a specific amount of time for it to be fermented properly and then for you to strain the fermentation so that you get the desired product. You may not find it palatable to start tasting it only hours after you have added the sugars and the yeasts. But over a period of time you will then be able to taste the results of your efforts and enjoy the bubbling of a fine champagne on your tongue. Do you follow?
MARK: Yes I do. In fact I find the process rather exciting – the fact that I’m paying attention enough or starting to fine tune the stations in order to get these images and starting to capture them.
KRIS: Indeed it is as if your consciousness is throwing you a carrot. “Come this way. Focus your energies here” “How about here, and how about here, today?” Become accustomed to the flexibility that is developing in those areas. And this goes for all of you. Play with the idea. Have fun. Enjoy these altered states. They are all various attunements to altered states. Basically you are accustomed to only a few kinds of altered states and these may have become so repetitious that you no longer notice them as altered states. This does not diminish their qualities but it certainly may impede your effectiveness in utilizing them. Does that make sense to all of you?
GROUP: Yes.
KRIS: So we are encouraging you to have fun. To play in the greatest sandbox ever devised, your consciousness. Are there any other inquiries? Otherwise we will alter the state of our consciousness and return Joseph to you. That may be, in itself, something for you all to ponder upon – these kinds of communications. From our end, we tune our receiver to the frequencies of your realities – all of yours – as we alter multiple altered states to befit these kinds of communications for you to enjoy the benefits of the information. In a similar way you also tinker with kinds of altered states that allow you to focus in upon our energy as it is transmitted through Joseph. Does that make sense to you?
GROUP: Yes.
KRIS: So it is a lovely cooperation and co-creation. We are in part, in part, reflective of your creations but we are ourselves still and much more yet, as you are yourselves. Thus, with this, we return Joseph to your lovely selves. We thank you for your expansive consideration, and, play with consciousness.
GROUP: Thank you Kris.
KRIS: Indeed.
MARK: 11:52
[End of session]