By The Power Within by Marianne K. Maguire Pfister
In This Issue:
Psychological Weather Fronts: A Kris Session channeled by Serge Joseph Grandbois
Luminescent Communication by Shirley Hadley
Crescent Moon by Onkaru
Progressions of an Artist by Marianne K. Maguire Pfister
You Know What I Mean by Donald R. Johnson
Psychological Weather Fronts: A Kris Session
Channeled by Serge J. Grandbois and Transcribed by Ellen Gilbert (Kwaa'Ji)
Recorded in Toronto, Canada on February 05, 2006
SUMMARY Roll Call: Serge, Mark, Ellen, Cathy, Emmy, Tom, Steven, Lisa [Detailed roll call at bottom of transcript.]
(7:41 PM Session begins.)
KRIS: Now we trust that you are all comfortable?
(Sequential responses from three or four people in the group)
Even those who do not answer!
(Group laughter)
Now, we take it on good faith that in much of the United States, everyone -- or many, many people -- are quite focused at the moment on your Super Bowl and it is a time of very high emotions, even a whole range of them being directed and focused towards the game, the players, the play, the teams, and everything allied with it. There is much emotion being displayed in one way or another at this very moment. Yet, which one of you can define emotions? Does anyone have a dictionary at hand?
STEVE: I can pull it up on Google (Pause) Do you want a definition from ourselves or by the book?
KRIS: For the moment, by the book.
STEVE: Do you mind if I answer, Kris?
KRIS: If you have a book, indeed!
STEVE: Okay, I got it off dictionary.com. It says, "A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort, and is often accompanied by physiological changes. A feeling."
KRIS: Indeed. Now, of course this is a general approach to the definition, and emotions themselves are extremely varied, and yet, irregardless of the type of emotion, many different physical changes, transformations and characteristics can be displayed, both physical and psychological. Now, can someone define the word "feeling"? What does dictionary.com say about feeling?
STEVE: (Laughing)
ELLEN: (As we wait for Steve to pull up the definition) That's funny, because I was thinking of emotion as an expression of feeling.
STEVE: Do you want the verb or noun definition, Kris?
KRIS: Whichever one FEELS right to you!
(Laughter)
STEVE: That's a good play on words! There are couple of definitions: one is "intuitiveness, or natural ability," another one is "overall impression or atmosphere," another one is "the nature or quality of something as perceived by sense of touch," and the other definition is "an act or instance of touching or feeling." So there are a couple of definitions.
KRIS: Indeed, there are the definite physiological sensations such as feeling wool between your fingers, or a stucco wall with your fingertips, or a cold wind upon your body, etc. Then there is another type of feeling such as "I feel uncomfortable in this room " or "I feel rather put off by this situation" or "I have a feeling that this is a good day, or a bad day," " I have a feeling that I will get a phone call of great importance today," etc.
The latter is the far more ethereal or ephemeral than the former, where there is a physical touch involved, such as feeling the wool sweater between your fingers, and so on. These are also very interesting descriptions and definitions of various states and perceptions, both emotions, feelings as in touch, and feelings as in perception. And they flow in and out of your experiences on a daily basis and for the most part, almost all day long, and very often go by completely unnoticed, unappreciated, and often without any true understanding as to their nature as well as to their effects.
You are all familiar with the effects of extremes of strong emotions, such as hatred, fear, love, etc. You are all of course familiar with the feeling as in physical touch, and you are also all very familiar with the more ethereal type of feeling -- the subjective experience -- one that is not necessarily quite an emotion, nor quite physiological again such as: "I have a feeling this will occur today."
And all three categories are themselves merely your interpretations, each different yet related to very specific sets of actions of consciousness, or rajas. And this is worth exploring in as many ways as possible because these inner events are then translated and transformed into what you then experience through the auspices of your lovely senses as physical events, circumstances and conditions, as well as translated into the concrete appearances of objects and forms in three dimensional reality.
For example, how many times have you noticed that when one or two small things seem to go wrong, it appears that you get annoyed and more and more things seem from that point on, to keep going wrong? The toaster does not properly toast the toast, the computer crashes, then the car does not start, then the refrigerator conks out, and so on and so forth, and it appears then that what you feel, what you experience, both in terms of emotions and feeling-tones seem justified as the result of these series of annoying events.
And yet, we propose to you that the contrary is more factual than the appearances and that it is not the events, the situations, the circumstances, the conditions that are making you feel and experience those emotions, etc. but the other way around: physical reality is responding to a “psychological weather front” that is moving through your awareness and your consciousness and is unleashing that energy through the auspices of the conditions, the situations, the events, the malfunctioning of the objects and the breakdown of machinery, etc.
These may very well be deeper emotional states that you have kept at bay, or not dealt with for some time that you may even have denied altogether until it springs forth almost in spite of everything you think you know. And it will only be until you resolve and make peace with these zones of discomfort to some degree -- these inner psychological events -- that the situation changes; that the computer can boot up properly, the toaster can toast properly, the car finally functions as it should, and so on.
We mention this because it is an important factor and a very important key into the realization of your own value creation fulfillment and the direction of your concentration and consciousness. And as such, utilizing such tools as the Triple 'A', or "Ask Why," can have a powerful impact in the resolution of your situation if you but take a moment to breathe deeply, to emotionally and psychologically step back from any situation that is presenting itself, to refocus your awareness with the understanding that there are no outside agencies or forces involved here, it is not the breakdown of physical reality in your case, it is not that Murphy's Law suddenly strikes out of nowhere, nor is it the result of bad karma, or a punishment of some kind, but instead, your consciousness is drawing your attention through the feedback mechanism of physical reality in the hopes of inspiring you to turn your thoughts, your awareness, inwardly and examine the state of your consciousness.
What kind of inner events are at play here? What is it that you may have been denying or avoiding to deal with? And in seeking to draw your attention as a last resort through those events and conditions, it seeks your assistance, your conscious participation, not only in being aware of the inner psychological events and conditions, but as an assist in calming stormy inner seas and unleashing this momentum of energy in the proper direction, usually for the purpose of nurturing and healing your own condition to one degree or another.
Now this is something that occurs fairly commonly with all individuals -- and it is magnificent when you catch yourselves in the act of creating in this manner -- but it is even more constructive and avant garde to become pro-active instead of reactive to situations. And in developing awareness, you establish a pro-active stance by developing an affinity with, and relationship with, the inner field of events -- your own subjective states -- in such a manner as to direct those energies, direct your concentration and your focusing in such a manner that indeed the occasions where you are reactive greatly diminishes, and where you are proactive greatly increases in such a way that you establish patterns and practices that enables the inner subjective movement of energy [to flow] freely in such a manner that you can indeed surf the crest of that power of consciousness and align yourselves with new goals, new purpose, new definitions and thereby enjoy that much more your creativity and the results of that creativity: the life that you live. Does this make sense?
(Yes)
We believe that it is important to become familiar with various sets of emotions the way you interpret and catalogue feelings and look to new ways to explore that kind of subjective territory so as to free up your own emotional realities. You are brought up in a culture that prides itself in its ability to label and catalogue almost all aspects of human experience, and though it is indeed an admirable endeavor as it helps in the creation of things like dictionary.com (Laughter), it also has another effect that is often unrecognized as counter-productive, just as on the other hand it is productive. Do you understand?
(Yes)
It becomes counterproductive when you actually have to censor, cut apart, and even cut off those deep wells and waves of emotions that rise to the surface of your awareness and you have to make it fit predefined conditions and interpretations and you do this again at the unconscious levels, filtering your experiences through your beliefs, your syntax. And in this way you limit the ranges of experience available to you, because you think that what you experience, what you feel, must fit into the little pegs of dictations, and that the human experience can fit the triangle, the circle and the square. And anything else that makes itself present to your experience that does not fit these three definitions are often ignored, denied, blocked off, censored, and so on.
And this often leads to situations where deeper, more powerful inner states become even feared because they may upset the prettily displayed apple cart of the official line of consciousness. And these situations are well worth your exploration to enable each of you to expand your subjective vocabulary. Your psychological repertoire can all be greatly expanded to your benefit, where you yourselves may feel less of a need to pigeonhole your experiences or even yourselves as defined by others -- by your friends, your society, your culture, your nation, or your species, for that matter.
For example, many of you may go into the parks, the forests, into nature, and unless you have severe allergies, you may even enjoy what you see. You may feel great, feeling the clean air fill your lungs, the oxygen reach your brain, and give you a lift. You enjoy seeing the greenery and the flowers, perhaps hearing a brook or river, smelling the water and the fresh air, and so on. But how many of you actually FEEL that you are intimately connected to the display you see before you?
And we do not mean simply that you may feel good in that environment, but actually feel intimately part of and connected to and with that environment to such a point perhaps that you might understand -- authentically know -- how the tree responds when the gentle breeze caresses its leaves and branches, or when the fresh rain seeps into the soil and embraces the roots and are absorbed -- the water is absorbed by the roots -- and goes up the tree trunk to reach the branches and the leaves. To understand and know what it is to be a tree, even to the point where the tree does not specifically differentiate between itself and the breeze and the clouds and the water, but that YOU do. Does this also make sense?
MARK: Yes. Not an easy thing to do.
KRIS: Because you are generally afraid of your own feelings and emotions. You must -- as you are taught -- you must be in control of them. You must not let your feelings or even your imagination get away. And when you begin experiencing such subjective events that are not usually recognized in your repertoire as safe and valid, you often shut down those experiences or you doubt your sanity and you second guess yourselves, you question whether you need to take some Prozac.
(Group laughter)
And so on. And it truth, it is not so much that you are afraid of feeling and experiencing the tree and with the tree, and the ground and the leaves and the breeze and the clouds, but that you fear that the boundaries of your selfhood -- whom and what you are -- will somehow or other become blurred and that you might be changed or lost to yourself.
Because you have specifically reined in everything about yourselves -- you have catalogued it, labeled it, circumscribed it, you have set down the rules individually and en masse -- to try and establish a clear boundary between what you consider to be self and everything that is outside that definition is considered to be not-self and possibly a threat. Do not then wonder so much about your Patriot Act and where it may come from. It is another extension of such beliefs. Everything outside of self can be considered a terrorist, meant to attack the definitions of what is Self. Do you follow?
(Yes)
The entire world as you perceive it is a projection of countless states that you experience subjectively and then translate objectively through your beliefs, your perceptions, your senses, as reflections to those inner states, whether it is fear of one's sexual identity, or fear of success or failure, and countless other inner states that you hold and engage. If you begin by focusing instead upon the roots of the events at the subjective levels, you will often find the very keys by which you can unlock the prison gate and set yourselves new freedoms, new lives and experiences that reflect your new purpose. Do you follow?
(Yes)
KRIS: What is the time?
MARK: 8:20.
KRIS: Then we suggest a small break, so that you can reflect on the inner nature of your being.
(Break begins at 8:20 PM.)
STEVEN: That was good, I really liked that.
MARK: That was good.
EMMY: I think he was very on the mark, tonight, with things we are all dealing with at the moment. I wanted to play my cello today and my A string snapped.
ELLEN: (Jokingly:) How did you feel about that?
(Group chuckles)
EMMY: I have to say, while he was talking I was getting upset because...well, two days ago I had a disturbing dream. I told Serge about it and Ellen, and the day after that -- yesterday evening -- I had a HUGE sob about it. But just before I began sobbing I felt stupid because of being sad of something I dreamt about. [It concerned] another focus of mine, but I thought, "I'm Emmy, I'm having a nice life, why should I be so sad about it?"
ELLEN: You know, Emmy, I was thinking about dreams too, especially when I was thinking back to the dream you had told me -- the one you are referring to now -- and everything Kris said sounds right on the mark, but I started thinking about when you have to interpret your dreams, a lot of times dreams are so full of so much emotional overtone that they're hard to interpret, and instead of understanding the feelings in the dream, it seems as if you HAVE to step to one side of those feelings and regard the dream in a dispassionate manner in order to get the understanding of the dream [message].
MARK: And you can do that quite successfully using auto-suggestion.
ELLEN: Well...you're talking about something a little different.
MARK: Well I've found that, yeah, I've had those types of dreams where they've become quite upsetting and you FEEL [emotional] because you're a part of it, but I've learned by asking in advance that when those dreams happen that you can perceive it from a third party stance. It changes your perspective of the dream.
ELLEN: That's what I mean. You step to one side of your feelings about it in order to regard it in a more dispassionate manner.
MARK: Yeah.
STEVEN: That's true because if you feel a certain way you're conditioned to react. Like if you feel fear, no matter what you feel, you'll perceive fear.
ELLEN: Yeah, all you're thinking about is the fear: I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid.
STEVE: Feelings are overwhelming.
MARK: Again, it's a matter of perspective as well, in learning -- teaching ourselves -- to do the “Practice of Perspective”. Step aside, or take a different perspective of the situation that's happening, you can see a different picture, or a bigger picture, you can [then] change how you feel about what's happening.
ELLEN: Yeah, so again, that's what I'm saying: stepping outside of your feelings using your -- I don't know -- your rational mind.
STEVE: But aren't your feelings -- don't they alert you to what you're experiencing inside?
ELLEN: Yes, and that's what Kris is saying.
STEVE: Yeah, but you can't disregard a feeling --
ELLEN: No, you can't; that's why I'm saying I think it's different in waking reality from dreaming --
EMMY: Yeah.
MARK: You can't change your feeling, but you can change your perspective of it and therefore change the feeling -- the TONE of it.
STEVE: Yeah, but the feeling alerts you that you're feeling off-base.
MARK: Right.
ELLEN: Yeah, the emotion is a communication.
STEVE: It forces you to change your perception because you have it that you don't feel good. So the feeling sort of wakes you up to a different perspective.
EMMY: What I noticed is when you allow the emotion it will just change to something else. Also, when I have such a disturbing dream like I had two days ago, I will ALWAYS get something -- a comforting dream -- if I allow it. It's fascinating how your psyche works, like my psyche gives me aftercare after such a dream!
STEVE: Mmhm.
(Kris returns at 8:27 PM)
KRIS: We are glad to see that you are all feeling good about your feelings! We wish you to pay particular attention to where your discussion focused. Most individuals, including yourselves, immediately centered around feelings and emotions that you normally label as negative, or not necessarily constructive, per se. Correct?
(Yes)
Now, WHY is it that very few people work towards changing feeling good and happy?
ELLEN: (Laughing)
STEVEN: (Humorously) It's that Prozac thing you were talking about! You want to feel good all the time, you have to use Prozac.
ELLEN: You don't want to change feeling good.
KRIS: Indeed! Because it is most desirable, and it is when you conclude that it is when you do not FEEL good or happy that somehow or other something is wrong. And this is part of what we suggested earlier about the manner in which you label and catalogue and pigeonhole yourselves, your feelings, your emotions, even through your syntax and everything that reflects off of that.
Your feelings by themselves have NO distinct polarity towards one definition or interpretation or another. Nor are you obliged to fill quotas in any direction. Feelings and emotions are what you consider communications about yet other, deeper states of being and the momentum of consciousness at other layers of your personality and your being, as we implied earlier, a kind of psychological weather front moving into the area in such a manner that you recognize it.
It then becomes an important point to recognize that the feelings themselves are not reflections about you, but they are expressions of actions of consciousness, and what YOU end up experiencing at your end of the line, so to speak, is often YOUR interpretation and projection thereof: the manner in which you transform energy from one state into another, from the states of your emotions and feelings into concrete physical objects and forms and events, conditions, circumstances, etc.
The feelings do not make you do things, and their outwardly manifestation also does not make or impose upon you or make you feel and do things. There are no outside agencies or forces except the energy of your own selves. You are then, the central force in your life. And that is such an important factor to keep in mind as it is pivotal to helping you understand that you were never, that you are not and you never will be, a victim of events, conditions and circumstances, period. It indeed truly depends upon the perspective that you give to your experience. Hopefully you will have some delicious questions when we resume from break.
(Break at 8:35)
MARK: That's a different twist.
STEVE: Kris said that you should make peace with your discomfort and your situation changes, and that really stuck out for me because if you're feeling depressed, or anxious, according to Kris you're experiencing something unconsciously that's coming up and I guess you're sort of dealing with it at that point in your life...?
ELLEN: That's part of the Triple 'A'.
STEVE: Part of the Triple 'A'?
ELLEN: You Acknowledge. Acknowledge what you're feeling.
STEVE: Right, so you really have to sort of make peace with the discomfort because it's forcing you to take action in your life?
ELLEN: (Laughing) You Address it.
STEVE: Yeah! Address it.
ELLEN: The next step.
STEVE: It can be in your dreams or...it shows up somewhere in your life.
TOM: It shows up in dreams a lot....Now when you say "Address it," is that going back and looking at the events that caused the belief or the emotional discomfort? Does anyone have any thoughts on that?
STEVE: But you can't pinpoint the exact event because that's like....when you're feeling intense emotion, you can logically try to say, "Oh, it happened to me when I was five years old, or ten," but I mean, when you're feeling that kind of emotion, it's sort of like an accumulation of patterns that cause you to feel that type of pain. In other words, I don't think you can pinpoint a feeling to a certain event. I mean I think that feelings overwhelm you because you sort of pattern yourself over a period of years to react a certain way.
MARK: You are giving them a charge. You're giving them a positive or a negative charge. Working with it, you catch yourself and you say, "Stop! Okay, I am feeling a feeling." So, okay, it might be anger, it might joy, it might be this, it might be that - but I am feeling a feeling -- and that's a good thing, because I am a being that CAN feel a feeling. But, you know once you start giving it those negative connotations and start focusing on this, you start creating a reality with negative connotations, I think. But if I start by acknowledging: "Okay, I'm feeling sad." You just start from there. It's a way of acknowledging.
ELLEN: Yeah, and then [next], how do you Address your sadness -- what are you going to do about it?
MARK: Exactly. What do you do about it?
EMMY: You cry.
STEVE: You do whatever you can to feel good again.
ELLEN: Well....but not to deny your sadness. You acknowledge your sadness and then you address it. Like Emmy said, one way to address it is to cry -- have a good cry -- but there's other ways of addressing it, too.
MARK: One thing that has always worked for me is if I'm having a crappy day, or feeling negative in some way, really angry or pissed off, I say to myself, "I'm just going to go to bed and everything is going to be fine in the morning." And that's a type of auto-suggestion, and it's a belief that I've carried with me from childhood, and it's always worked. And that way I spend the day -- okay I'm miserable THAT day, but knowing full well that after I sleep I'll be fine in the morning. That way I experience the emotions, I acknowledge the emotions, but then I move past them.
ELLEN: [Hopefully] into acceptance.
(Silent pause)
EMMY: It really has me thinking about your splinter, also, Ellen.
ELLEN: My "Splinter" post? Digging down for that last little piece of splinter?
EMMY: Yeah!
[ELLEN'S NOTE: Emmy is referring to a recent four-part series of posts I made on my forum, the Inner Visions Journal at New World View.com, in which I explored the meaning of a deep dream I had, and the connecting experience the next day when I got a splinter in my finger, demonstrating to me the significance of how Kris' Triple 'A' method is a layered approach, i.e. as you Triple 'A' your way through a problem, you find more and more emotional layers that you must, in turn, Triple 'A' again. The splinter had broken into pieces beneath my skin, making me have to excise each tiny piece, bit by bit, until I got down to the deepest, most piercing shard of wood, where the final excision was most difficult and painful, just as it can be when you Triple 'A' your way down to your core belief.
What I had written on the IVJ had also passed through my mind during the break, but I chose not to elaborate on that post at that moment, as it would have been a bit tangential, and likely not everyone had read it.]
STEVE: But what I get from Kris is that, regardless of the emotion that you feel, all emotion is good, even negative emotion, because -- like for example, sadness -- if you experience it, you don't want to stay sad for a long time, but once you go to sleep or you change the subject, or you cry, you find some way to alleviate the emotion. Is that what you're trying to say?
MARK: I think so.
ELLEN: That's one part of the process.
MARK: Yeah, you can -- on another side to this -- dwell on it, and magnify it, and end up in a state of despair. I went through years of despair and it's not acknowledging, it's not addressing, it's not accepting any of it....you know, I'm wallowing in my despair--
ELLEN: Stagnating.
MARK: -- and creating events and circumstances, therefore creating an environment around me that just magnifies what I'm feeling inside.
ELLEN: Sometimes you want to be there because it gives you certain other "goodies."
TOM: Being the victim.
ELLEN: Yeah, being the victim you get attention sometimes: "Oh, look at me, no one's life is as sad as mine!"
MARK: (As Kris returns) Hang on!
(Break ends at 8:42)
KRIS: Indeed, in those precise situations you would notice that your own inner self is knocking at the door of your perceptions, wanting you to recognize that those particular emotions and feelings of the moment are trying to lead you to recognize some deeper issue as is pointed out: BELIEFS IN YOUR POWERLESSNESS. To be subjected to the whims of both inner despair and outer manifestation of that despair as if you yourselves are TRAPPED and rapidly sinking into the quicksand of despair.
And by not fearing this or these emotions and feelings, but recognizing them through Acknowledging, Addressing, and Accepting then you would indeed quickly recognize the root of the problem: deep-seated beliefs about inabilities to be effective in life, or even have the power to transform your existence and to open the prison gate once again. Does that make sense?
(Yes)
It behooves any of you and every one of you, listening to these words now or into the future, to recognize that those events and conditions that you often feel victimized by are not out to get you, but rather are out to get your attention! There is a gulf of difference -- capture your attention -- and not to capture you and imprison you -- but to capture your attention in such a manner that you will free yourself from your self-imposed sentence.
And again, you usually fall for the entrapment -- in a manner of speaking only -- because your emotional and feeling natures have been so tightly wound around a few definitions that the boundaries of your experiences of selfhood have become rather inflexible and so thick that you use them as shields against your very own nature.
That most certainly composes a vast display of being that is kept at bay by your own devices of limitations. And those imposed barriers and limits to the self have not been thrust upon you, but have been established by you -- for what purpose? Perhaps you can indeed ENLIGHTEN yourselves COMPASSIONATELY by venturing into this unknown territory so that your own being becomes known to you. Do you follow?
(Yes)
Even your manners of expressing yourselves are often overly guarded. You feel that if you smile at too many strangers, people will look at you funny. You fear that if you give even a friend one too many hugs, they will give you a look!
(Group laughter)
[ELLEN'S NOTE: An interesting side note: After the session, when Cathy was preparing to leave, my son Rafi came downstairs and chatted politely a moment with her. Cathy and I then hugged and she left. Rafi told me later that he had a strong impulse to give her a hug as well, but refrained. I thought how, when he was only a little younger, his impulse would have won out.]
KRIS: You fear that, if you say too many kind words to other people, you will be thought of as weak, so you become hard. You withhold your joy, your happiness, and you wear a frown and you grumble under your breath and you establish fearfulness all the while knowing that what you desire most is to enjoy the company of others and revel in your happiness with others. Does that also make sense?
ELLEN: Oh yeah!
EMMY: Yes!
KRIS: Now, perhaps you have thought up some lovely questions. We have, but we want to hear yours first!
STEVE: Can I ask you a question, Kris?
KRIS: Indeed.
STEVE: You were saying that we go through feelings and emotions that are very deep. They are part of the conscious, is that right?
KRIS: They are part of -- ? [Kris is asking Steve to repeat his last word.]
MARK: What was that last word?
STEVE: Parts of conscious. Like if I have deep feelings, they are part of my hidden beliefs.
KRIS: They are part of those sets of beliefs that you have hidden from yourself. No one buried them in you.
STEVE: Okay, so when I feel those feelings and I don't understand them, my feelings are forcing me to unplug from those beliefs -- is that what's happening?
KRIS: Your own self is seeking to draw attention to this issue encouraging you to explore. Encouraging you to examine and study what it is that you may have buried there so that you can release it.
STEVE: So I can release it?
KRIS: Indeed!
STEVE: Okay. So if I'm feeling deep emotions that are overwhelming, are you saying it's not really a bad thing?
KRIS: That is correct.
STEVE: Okay.
KRIS: Your feelings, any of you, are neither bad nor good. They are the way in which you interpret energy. And those types of waves of energy and consciousness are, by necessity, whittled down and even to a point censored, in order for you to reference them. Without such steps, which are necessary, your personality structure would often be overwhelmed, because there are energy processes at deeper layers of your own personality that truly are exactly like large psychological weather fronts. Look at weather patterns on your planet and how weather fronts move from one area to another, always encountering other weather fronts, correct?
(Yes)
And when the weather fronts meet, you have meteorological conditions, correct? Is this correct?
(Yes)
Indeed. Now, what is experienced on your planet as weather fronts are expressions of those inner psychological weather fronts that individually and collectively you are unable to express. The weather fronts on your planet are a manifestation of individual and collective emotional energy. Does that make sense to you?
STEVEN: Yes, it does.
KRIS: You can understand the necessity to reduce those deep wells of emotional power and you need not ever fear that you will encounter full-blown subjective hurricanes unless you deny and dam up your own emotions and feelings. Then you get situations where people go postal! Then you get situations as is presently occurring in many cities around the world with Muslim groups becoming excessively and extremely volatile. Do you follow?
(Yes)
These are other kinds of psychological weather fronts expressed through the masses or through individuals. And when, for instance, an individual goes postal -- as occurred just recently again -- it is never only and strictly about one person, but about localized weather fronts that may be shared between six, twenty, or even a hundred people, affecting those that are then news events. Do you follow?
(Yes)
Now then, there are ways to broaden the boundaries of your own emotional and feeling natures, to stretch those boundaries, boundaries that you have accepted, perhaps even from childhood, and though you may snicker and giggle and laugh, an excellent method to begin such a process is to procure good old-fashioned crayola wax crayons and a coloring book and COLOR. For example, you have been taught as children playing with crayons and coloring books that you must never color outside the lines. Is that correct?
(Oh yes!)
And that a leaf or a blade of grass is always green, and that the sky is always blue, and the water is always blue, and the night sky is always black, correct?
(Yes)
Try this as an experiment: with your crayons and a coloring book -- which we are certain, you can even get at the dollar store -- and play with filling the images in the coloring book with color, and pay particular attention to what you FEEL, what kind of emotions come up if you dare color a leaf ORANGE!
ELLEN: (Gasp)
(Laughter)
KRIS: Or color someone's face PURPLE!
ELLEN: (In mock horror:) No!
KRIS: Or that you are so brave as to DRAW OUTSIDE THE LINES!
ELLEN: Stop! Please stop!
(Group laughter)
KRIS: We are aware of the horrors that will ensue! (Group laughs) But be certain that the sky will not fall in right away.
STEVE: My inner child is getting squeamish!
KRIS: So experiment with the boundaries that you have set up along your feelings and emotions in line with the coloring process, and see what observations you can make, and try if possible to write this down. Make a game of discovery along those lines. Pardon the pun!
(Chuckles)
Are there other questions?
EMMY: Yes, can I ask you a question, Kris? This is Emmy. I was wondering, I was pretty upset -- still, I noticed -- about a dream that I had two days ago, and I wondered what I could do to relieve some tension with that.
KRIS: First we highly recommend that you stop playing the dream in your mind. What do you do when you are watching the television and you no longer like what is being played on the tube?
EMMY: I change the channel.
KRIS: You change the channel or you shut it off entirely and you go to the kitchen, correct?
EMMY: Yes, that's true.
KRIS: The imagery of the dream is still very prominent in your mind, in your imagination. It might do you a world of good to turn around in your imagination and go for a walk. For instance, you might climb a lovely hill that is filled with flowers, and you see birds and butterflies, and as you climb to the top of the hill, you see many other beautiful hills, filled with flowers and trees and you can go in any direction to see the landscape, the flowers, the colors that you choose. Do you follow?
EMMY: Yes, I do. Thank you for that.
KRIS: Now, how do you feel?
EMMY: I feel much better.
KRIS: It is simply a matter of changing the direction of your concentration. The dream does not have to consume you, does not have to overwhelm you for you to experience it. It is also possible for you to direct your dream focus into other areas where there are pleasant, enjoyable, even sensual experiences being lived by other focuses. Or that there are even dreams that you can explore that are completely unrelated to other focuses. Does that make sense?
EMMY: Yes, that makes a lot of sense. And the direction of my dreams -- am I directing them out of habit?
KRIS: It can at times become a pattern. Just as you and many others listening, and those reading later on, often talk about your inner child, revisiting with the inner child to assist in a transformation of those events you perceive into the past, so can each and every one of you communicate with your mature self, your future self. You assume that the inner child must be defined along specific lines of development that only pertain to only those experiences you think you remember from what you think of as your past.
And though many explorations with the inner child, and visits with the inner child can prove useful and helpful and nurturing, they can also become a different type of prison, in a manner of speaking, by keeping that idea of the inner child trapped within your perceived line of development. You do not realize that you can, that you have all the abilities to create an inner child, a probable inner child, that may very well have experienced situations that are just as valid as all of those that you remember but may indeed be experiences that you don't yet remember.
And you can direct your attention to future selves in the very same manner. The idea of the inner child does not need to be limited only and solely to those experiences that you qualify as making up your past. You think you have an official past and that it follows one line of development from your birth to the present and in that line of consciousness -- the official line of consciousness -- it applies but you know so much more than strictly the official line of consciousness, do you not?
(Affirmations all around)
And it is possible for you then, to contact, get in touch with, and work with, an inner child that will create new memories for yourselves.
STEVE: Kris, I have a question for you on the inner child. If you're dealing with your inner child, and it's causing you problems, you're feeling a bit overwhelmed...if you just give enough intention to heal, do you automatically attract ways of healing that the universe sends you?
KRIS: Can you translate? [Speaking to Mark.]
STEVE: Let's say I'm dealing with my inner child, and I have some deep issues of self-acceptance, and I'm in a lot of pain and I can't control the feelings. So what I really want to do is get better, but I don't know how to do it -- if I can somehow just give the intention into the universe to help me, can I be assured the universe will do the work as long as I focus in that direction?
KRIS: The universe will indeed assist you but you must also do your part. That is why we are presenting this material on the inner child. Does the inner child have to be limited solely to those experiences that you think have been traumatizing? Is that all that there is to your inner child: a traumatic experience? Indeed not. Your own inner child is as flexible in consciousness as you are, so why should it be imprisoned in that manner? It need not be.
Every decision and choice you have made presupposes that you made those selections and choices out of many different probabilities, many different possibilities. And if situations where youths and children may have been psychologically, physically and sexually abused have been selected by those individuals, those children -- and the apparent perpetrators of the crimes out of a need to understand their experiences of life -- even when it seems that such choices are drastic, the events, situations, conditions reflected inner concentrations.
The events are always the results of inner choices, even when such a conclusion seems to fly in the face of common sense. That does not mean that you are a victim, even when you play the role of victim. It means that you have selected specific actions to accomplish specific needs and fulfillments for you in the manner you perceived acceptable, even for long term plans.
And it is possible, right this moment, firstly, to make a choice that in spite of all appearances, truly no situation can ever really be overwhelming, that you always have the final decision and that the apparent source events that may look like they catapulted you into the situation you are in today are not responsible, nor are you their victim, but that instead you have the power to choose such events -- even as a child -- because you have determined that from that moment on, such an event serves a powerful purpose in your life.
And that purpose may very well be to bring you to explore avenues of consciousness where the apparent victim awakens from his or her role as playing the victim, but instead decides to be released from their role, gives up the role of victim and instead, nurtures themselves because they have that ability. Does that make sense to you?
STEVE: Yes, that does. Thank you.
KRIS: Thus, from this moment on you can select the kind of inner child that you wish to get in touch with, as well as the kind of future self that you will invite into your perception. For instance, you are presently working out these issues
STEVE: Uh-huh.
KRIS: And you can easily surmise that, perhaps in a certain amount of time as you know it, you will have worked out these issues to your satisfaction, correct?
STEVE: That's correct, yes.
KRIS: Indeed. As well, you might even perceive that in ten years from now, you will have made so much more progress and have gained so much more understanding that you would quite likely wonder what all the fuss could have been about. Do you agree?
STEVE: I agree with that, yeah.
KRIS: Then why not try to invite that future self also as easily as you invite your inner child and that you together hold council and discuss the possibilities available for healing and nurturing. Does that also make sense to you?
STEVE: Yeah, it does make sense! Yes.
KRIS: And you may even invite that future self to already direct his wisdom, his acquired knowledge and download it into your dreams, so that you may gain a perspective and discover tools to help yourself now.
STEVE: I gotcha, yeah.
KRIS: Now, does that not feel more empowering?
STEVE: That feels a lot more empowering, yes.
KRIS: Are there other lovely questions?
CATHY: Kris, this is Cathy in Delaware. In terms of communicating with your future self for creative probabilities, and sort of like, increasing value fulfillment to put it in Seth terms, is there a way -- or how would that factor into just communicating directly with your Essence source? Say, take your Essence out to lunch?
KRIS: We hope you have lots of room on your credit card!
(Riotous laughter)
CATHY: My Essence is a big eater!
KRIS: Whether you ask your Essence or future self, you will get answers, but you must be prepared to accept the answers. If you ask and are afraid of answers, then, the next time you ask there may be no response. If you set up barriers, then those barriers will be strong and nothing will get through to you. Now, as to asking Source or future self, there may very well be little difference indeed.
The future self, of course, will always be a probability, because you think that because you don't remember events from the future, it hasn't happened. You think that because you remember events from the past, then it must surely have happened, so clever is your species at sorting out consciousness in that way. But here you allow yourselves sufficient freedom and creativity; you can remember the past and consider that the future is just as memorable. Does that make sense?
CATHY: It does. Thank you.
KRIS: There is a lovely little exercise that anyone can practice. First -- to tickle Philip's fancy -- you need to set up the stage. You can envision a massive computer network, you can envision any other type of devices and means by which information can be relayed -- wires, so on and so forth. If, for instance, you utilize the imagery of a computer, you are aware of diskettes, and discs, CD's and DVD's as a means to copy downloaded information, correct?
MARK: Yes.
KRIS: Is this understood at the other end of the line?
(Yes)
KRIS: Indeed then, as you lay yourself down to sleep, imagine for a moment that it is possible for you to actually remove your head from your shoulders. Now we hope you can make it a pretty picture!
(Laughter)
KRIS: And that you put it on a special device on your bedside table; a device that will act to download and register that information from your future selves or higher selves right into the imaginary molecules that compose the imaginary brain of your imaginary head. A true holographic recording device! And that the knowledge transferred to your head throughout the night as you sleep and travel into dream realities will be made available to your waking consciousness. And that upon awakening in the morning, you do not forget to put your lovely head back on your shoulders!
(Group laughter)
Otherwise it will be very difficult to put on the time and to go to work or even to brush your hair. And any and all dreams that you remember, that you also write them down, and trust that even if you do not know the processes involved, your inner self has gently deposited information that will be made useful to you in the forms of intuitions, impulses, impressions, and so on and so forth. And it may come at any time, only that you are ready to not only keep track, but to pay attention and to act upon it when it is practical to do so. Do you follow?
(This was a very well received little exercise. Comments of "Definitely!" "Yes!" and "That's really great!")
Now you are entirely free to fill your heads with whatever you want, but you must also be ready to deal with that, but if you ask gently that information that can assist you in your journey of fulfillment, then indeed you will get what you concentrate upon. Does that make sense?
(Yes)
Now if you fill your heads with the Inquirer (Laughter), surely be inquired of! What is the time?
MARK: 9:32.
KRIS: Then indeed, we suggest that you experiment this very evening if you desire and see what kind of information and knowledge and dreams are deposited and imprinted upon your consciousness. You can even add to your suggestion that this will provide you with powerful, restorative and healing sleep. And enjoy the days ahead. Pun fully intended.
ELLEN: Exciting days ahead!
KRIS: And indeed we leave you to your musings.
ALL: Thank you, Kris.
(Session ends at 9:34 PM)
Luminescent Communication
by Shirley Hadley
Crescent Moon
By Onkaru
through half lidded eyes
and a Venus smile
you watch me
I'm glad to feel your touch tonight
Onkaru
I am the all within 
Entrance to Awareness 
