the Elias forum Newsletter, January, 2005 What’s New? Over 1 million webpages served! Since opening our cyberdoors in February 2002, we have served over 1,097,000 webpages to more than 68,300 visitors in over 120 countries. We also served over 3,600 visitors last month. Many thanks to all of you who continue to provide us with tremendous support, constructive suggestions, and email feedback! Books & Music
DVD Archive Project Update This is one of those “behind the scenes” projects whose goal is to ensure that the legacy of the Elias forum continues long after we’re gone. At last count, Mary had recorded over 1,600 sessions on videotape! Since DVDs take up less space, we purchased a DVD recorder last March, and began to transfer the ’95 sessions from Ron and Cathy Churchman’s video archive. We’ve finished through session 352. If you'd like to make a contribution to help support this project and the website, click here. Also, see below for details on: Group E-fest in Castaic, California in January 2005. Group E-fest in New Orleans, Louisiana in April 2005. If you use this newsletter and website, please take a minute to let us know what you think. Your feedback helps us to make them easier to use. Best Wishes, Paul & Jo Helfrich
P.S. Newsletters since March 2002 are available online in the Library, under the letter “N” at: http://www.eliasforum.org/library.html#N Gem of the Month The Gem of the Month is a regular feature that provides an excerpt from a recent transcript that captures a snapshot of essential Elias. This month’s gem is taken from Debi’s private session: DEBI: “We’ll get back to the session yesterday (1), and the information may be in here. I think you’ll understand, if I can explain this right, or even if I can’t. There’s some type of imagery I get sometimes, and it’s in that in-between state between awake and asleep. It’s not like a thumbprint or a fingerprint, but a fingerprint is the closest thing in words I know that I can associate it with. I’ve gotten that a couple of times, and it’s like I feel your energy at the same time. I’m wondering if you could tell me a little bit about what are we doing in that timeframe when I get that imagery like that.” ELIAS: “Exploring your uniqueness and not generating comparison.” DEBI: “Which is a big theme here, huh?” ELIAS: “Correct.” DEBI: “Automatic response.” ELIAS: “Correct.” DEBI: “I flinch and I go, ‘Ugh!’ whenever we do that.” ELIAS: “For it is quite familiar to you to be comparing, and therefore you are allowing yourself to subjectively explore the action of not comparing and exploring your uniqueness, which is not comparable...” DEBI: “To anyone.” ELIAS: “Correct.” DEBI: “Hence the term ‘unique.’ It’s such a contradiction, isn’t it, to want to cherish this thing of uniqueness and all the time trying to be just like everyone else.” (Laughs) ELIAS: “Correct.” DEBI: “It’s like this polarization.” ELIAS: “But this is the action of shifting, my friend: moving into the expression of appreciation of your individuality.” DEBI: “I so hope that’s the momentum that I’m in and it’s where I’m carrying myself. It just seems to me that so much of what I find objectionable is related to that and so much energy spent in struggling with that. I’m frankly tired, just tired!” ELIAS: “It is an expression of much energy and may be quite fatiguing, for you are forcing against your own energy.” DEBI: “There has come a point now where I know that that’s not necessary, and so it’s like, ‘This must stop’.” ELIAS: “Yes.” DEBI: “I don’t have to do this. I didn’t even know I was doing this, and now that I do, I have a choice.” ELIAS: “Correct.” DEBI: “It doesn’t always feel like I have a choice, but somewhere inside I know that just by that information there, suddenly there’s a choice that didn’t exist.” ELIAS: “Many times it may be quite beneficial to focus your attention upon those actions that you incorporate that you may deem to be negative, for in paying attention to those expressions, it offers you the opportunity to view how often you generate that type of expression, which as you view the frequency of those types of actions that you incorporate and become more aware, you generate more of a motivation to offer yourself other choices. “Therefore, I express to you to incorporate an exercise within your next week, each day, and within each of your days note physically each time you engage the action of comparing yourself with any other individual.” DEBI: (Laughs) “That’s going to be all day, isn’t it! And that’s the point, too. I’ll do it!” ELIAS: “Very well!” DEBI: “I’m already doing it a little, enough that I know that it’s going to be constant.” ELIAS: “In the same manner that you are incorporating notes now, incorporate a notebook and note each time you are generating this action of comparison, for this is purposeful. It not merely offers you the opportunity to view the frequency of this action that you incorporate and offers you a new motivation to offer yourself new choices, but it also offers you the opportunity to examine what influences that action.” DEBI: “What’s happening in each moment that that’s occurring.” ELIAS: “Correct. What are you generating as a trigger that generates that response within yourself? And as you progress throughout your week in noting each time you are incorporating this action of comparison, begin allowing yourself to examine what you are generating as a trigger. Do not concern yourself with this action initially. Initially, merely note each time you are incorporating the action. That allows you the opportunity to become familiar with recognizing and noticing. “Once you have become familiar, subsequent to perhaps two days with noticing and recognizing the action, then you may begin to pay attention not merely to the action of comparing, but also allowing yourself to move farther and identify your trigger. The trigger may not always be the same; there may be different triggers. But the outcome is the same.” DEBI: “I end up in the comparing.” ELIAS: “Correct. This offers you the opportunity to discover within yourself and familiarize yourself with what types of interactions, what types of events, what types of actions and choices that you incorporate trigger your automatic response of comparison.” DEBI: “This is my primary automatic...” ELIAS: “Yes.” DEBI: “...response, the comparing.” ELIAS: “Yes, which you have been generating throughout your focus.” DEBI: “It feels like forever.” ELIAS: “Correct.” DEBI: “The furthest memory I can remember, it was the same feeling, the same action. What is interesting was when you first said to note when I compare and what triggers it. You subsequently said what do I generate as a trigger, and something just switched around. Wait a minute! I’m always looking at it as something outside of myself until you said what do I generate as a trigger, and then it puts a whole new spin on it. I don’t even know what all, where all it’s going, but I will.” ELIAS: “I am understanding that your automatic direction is to associate that some other individual or circumstance or situation is triggering you. No. You generate the scenarios, you draw individuals to yourself, you create situations, and thusly you generate a trigger.” [session 1169, October 27, 2002] End Notes: (1) Paul’s note: Debi refers to the group session from the previous day, 1167, October 26, 2002 in which Elias presented an exercise to notice our attention in relation to automatic responses. Digests: find out more about attention. Exercises: explore the pay attention to self exercise. Resources for Newcomers New to the information? Want to share it with someone else? Here are some great pages to read and/or print out to share with friends and family: Introduction & Overview
Acceptance 101
Acceptance 102
“the straight little sapling”
“the secret of life”
About Elias
A Glossary of Elias’ Terms
A Seth, Elias Comparative Overview
New & Updated Digests/Exercises The website is a work in progress! New transcripts come out almost every week that further expand the information offered to date by Elias. New excerpts are added to various Digests every month, and new Exercises, too, when new material is offered. Exercises Updated Digests Recently Published Transcripts: December 2004 Thanks to Bobbi Houle, Paul Tews, Margot Reed, Daryl Horton, Fran Wing, and Donna Friedman, new transcripts are published weekly. If you or someone you know wants to get ON or OFF the email list to receive new transcripts, contact Bobbi H. at momcat28@sti.net. Please specify a preference, either MS Word or Plain Text. Session 1165, Monday, October 21, 2002
Session 1166, Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Session 1167, Saturday, October 26, 2002
Session 1168, Sunday, October 27, 2002
Session 1169, Sunday, October 27, 2002
Session 1170, Sunday, October 27, 2002
Session 1171, Sunday, October 27, 2002
Session 1172, Sunday, October 27, 2002
Session 1173, Monday, October 28, 2002
Session 1174, Monday, October 28, 2002
Session 1175, Monday, October 28, 2002
Please Notify Us About Typos, Broken Links, Or ... Another special thank you to those of you who continue to send us reports of typos, broken links, or suspected errors. We greatly appreciate your efforts in helping to keep this HUGE online encyclopedia free of mistakes (even though “Elias says” there aren’t any :-) It is an ongoing effort and we appreciate you taking the time to let us know when you find something odd. Monthly Musings - NIRAA and the Ten Belief Systems - Step 4. Acceptance Last month we continued to explore the NIRAA (pronounced nigh-rah) method of accepting self and belief systems by concentrating on the third step – addressing to. The idea was to learn how periods of conflict always lessen when we finally address to whatever belief systems we've previously noticed, identified, and recognized. I suggested that you pick one of the ten basic belief systems and focus upon that for the month. For example, relationships provide fertile ground for NIRAAing during the holidays. The following excerpt shows some of the rich possibilities and aspects of the belief system some of you may have explored.
This leads us to the fourth and final step of the NIRAA process – acceptance. This process may seem very Zen or contradictory during the initial stages of practice, but in time it becomes clearer just how simple it really is:
However, “it matters not” doesn't mean that nothing matters! Elias is clear that we will still hold preferences and opinions. The true metric of the “it matters not” is no conflict. This does not include a lack of compassion and empathy or denial and dissociation from our needs or those of others, but a state of equanimity, balance, and harmony that affects those around us.
This also means that the action of acceptance can help us to widen objective and subjective awareness, and even engage the remembrance of essence while physical. These are all potentials within the action of the shift in consciousness.
So, for this month, in exploring step 4 we will incorporate whatever belief system we worked with last month during the holidays. If you managed to work through and lessen conflict, that is, the addressing to, then you may continue toward complete acceptance, neutrality, lack of conflict. Let's say you have a family member, and you've been engaging conflict over dealing with a parent or child in failing health, family finances, or political views. If you're entering a state of acceptance, then you will be able to engage them with little or no conflict while still holding differing opinions or preferences. Interacting with them simply won't set you off, even if the other person gets in your face about the same old crap. It simply matters not, that's the true test that you've entered a state of acceptance. This month simply notice how often you are able to create or enter into this state of acceptance on the same difficult issue you've been practicing with last month. As always, it's important to do this every day for 5-10 minutes. In time, you should notice that you actually accept something or someone that you've been having great conflict with. If you don't have immediate results don't give up. We didn't learn to speak, ride a bike, or play the piano in a month. The NIRAA practice builds over time. In the mean time, we learn in step 4 that the action of acceptance occurs within the Now, and that action is more often than not a temporary state.
Finally, in step 4 we begin to realize we will still hold preferences and opinions, and may disagree with others, but they no longer create conflict, anxiety, or dis-ease. Eventually, the belief system of duplicity, which affects the other nine so strongly, must be addressed to and accepted as well. The rest follows from there.
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For more information, please contact annek@contact-publishing.co.uk At this time in our world we are all asking questions of ourselves and others such as, “What is my purpose?” and “What is truth?” and “What is death?” We are questioning the validity of our governments and our religious institutions. The Shift: A Time of Change offers the answer to these questions. First time author David Tate has waded through the voluminous information delivered by Elias/Mary Ennis to compile a GEM of the Elias material and has shaped The Shift: A Time of Change into a definitive reference guide of the most popular topics of the Elias material. All of the readers of the popular Seth/Jane Roberts books will identify with the information delivered by Elias/Mary Ennis in that it is channelled material. Like Seth, Elias is an essence who brings forth explanations of our world, ourselves and that we create our reality. The mantra, “You create your own reality,” was originated by Seth. Seth further explained that our beliefs create our reality. However, Elias clarifies that in order to change our realities we must accept our beliefs. In The Shift, Elias delves deep into the fundamental questions we all have concerning truth, karma, beliefs systems and God. “You are moving to the creation of a new expression of your physical reality as you know it. In this, not only your technology shall advance and be created differently, but all of your reality shall be altered and shall be different.” Synopsis The Shift: A Time of Change is a compilation of transcripts that have been delivered by Elias/Mary Ennis since 1995. The phenomenon of Elias began in 1995 and, through Mary Ennis, Elias has given private and group readings to people around the globe. This book encompasses the gems of that information that addresses everyone on the planet. This is the first book within a series. TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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