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<  the Elias forum Newsletter, December, 2003  >

In this Issue:

> November - Over 2,900* Visitors!
> Gem of the Month
> Resources for Newcomers
> New & Updated Digests/Exercises
> Recently Published Transcripts: November 2003
> Please Notify Us About Typos, Broken Links, Or ...
> Tip of the Month - NIRAA
> Speak to Elias: Hold Your Own Private or Group Session
> Order Video and Audio Tapes
> Order Mindscapes Music CD
> Order The Shift: A Time of Change
> Upcoming Elias Group Sessions - 2004 Schedule and Updates
> Public Email Lists
> Explore the Elias forum webring

November - Over 2,900* Visitors!

Newsletters since March 2002 are available online in the Library, under the letter “N” at: http://www.eliasforum.org/library.html#N

Since opening our cyberdoors in February 2002, we have served over 540,000 webpages to more than 37,000* visitors in over 70 countries. Many thanks to all of you who continue to provide us with tremendous support, constructive suggestions, and email feedback!

See below for details on:

> Group E-fest in Castaic, California in January 2004.

> Group E-fest in Brattleboro, Vermont in March 2004.

> Mindscapes - Paul’s conscious creation music CD, over an hour of music on 22 tracks.

> The Shift: A Time of Change - David Tate’s book, a 295 page compilation of Elias excerpts.

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
Castaic, California, USA
helfrich@eliasforum.org

*Note: we recently upgraded our web statistics software and it adjusted the way total visitors are counted, resulting in a “lower” number. We’ll spare you the technical details, but we’ll continue to feature that stat since it shows how many people use the website. Overall, the Elias forum website continues to reach an ever-widening global audience.

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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 the recent group session in Fresno, California.

SHARON: “So I have a question, Elias. Back when we weren’t so well informed and knowledgeable, why did it seem to be so much easier?”

FRAN: “Why has everything gone to hell in a hand-basket?” (Laughter)

ELIAS: “For you have not quite generated an understanding of how incorporating your own responsibility offers you freedom. That is the key. You are correct, your perceptions – many of you – you view your reality now to be much more difficult, for you incorporate no other individual to blame. (Laughter)

“But the key is not concerning blame, but that is the familiar and automatic response. Therefore now you blame yourself rather than other individuals; although at times you continue to blame other individuals also, but less so. You have merely turned the action from blaming other individuals to blaming yourself, which is not the point. This is not an offering of freedom. It is an offering of more struggle.

“Now; as you continue and you move these concepts from intellectual understandings into experiential knowing and reality by allowing yourself to EXPERIENCE the actions of these concepts, you move into a genuine expression of recognizing your responsibility to yourself and how, in that responsibility to yourself, this is not bad. It is not blame-worthy, it is an acknowledgment and it allows you freedom. For if you are genuinely expressing that responsibility to yourself, you shall never be a victim and there is no need for blame, for you are choosing and you know genuinely that you are choosing.

“Presently you incorporate enough information to be moving in that direction, but you have not quite accomplished yet. You are moving more, all of you, into acceptance in different expressions and you do express acceptance at times of different beliefs, and in some situations you are moving into expressions of genuine acceptance on-going, continuing to be accepting of different beliefs, and therefore altering your perceptions and altering your reality and genuinely generating more of an ease in some directions.

“But I may express to you repeatedly over and over how tremendously challenging it is to move into the unfamiliar, and this is received intellectually. You view yourselves differently, for you incorporate the knowledge intellectually and therefore you also automatically express that you know. But knowing and intellectually understanding are different. You express to yourselves and to each other, “I KNOW this,” but you generate actions that contradict that, and in generating the actions you also generate the automatic response of blame.

“But now you incorporate information KNOWING, not merely intellectually understanding, but knowing that other individuals are not to blame but not knowing how to turn that blame and generate it into a different expression and reconfigure your own energy and generate a different perception in which you accept what you have created. And even if it is uncomfortable, or even if it is unsettling, or even if it is some action that you deem to be distasteful or that you do not like, you may recognize that this has been your choice and that you are not to blame, either; that in the moment this was your choice and it was purposeful, regardless of whether it was comfortable. But what is familiar is to continuously strive for utopia. And you do not genuinely recognize in a knowing yet, although perhaps at times.”

SHARON: “I get a little lost.” (Laughs)

ELIAS: “But not continuously, and in that you do not continuously recognize that beneficial is not always comfortable and that value is not always expressed in comfort or in what you deem to be positive.

“As we have discussed previously in questioning what you value, your automatic responses, all of you, initially express all positive associations. No individual automatically expresses, “I value pain. I value heartache. I value uncomfortableness.” No. These are expressions that you automatically attempt to eliminate, and you do not recognize that you do incorporate value in them also, and if you did not, you would not create them, and you do.

“This is another truth that is being strongly addressed to, and many, many, many individuals are incorporating frustration and difficulty and challenge and conflict with it, that of eliminating. You all express to yourselves intellectually that you understand that you are not eliminating. But in paying attention to what you do, you shall recognize that you are continuing to attempt to eliminate in some area, and this presents conflict for you cannot. You can if you choose to disengage, which is also a choice. But if you choose to continue in participation in this physical reality, it is the blueprint and you cannot eliminate.

“Therefore this presents a conflict for it is an automatic response, and I shall express once again in reiteration, automatic responses are precisely that, automatic. You do not notice them for they require no thought. You are becoming much more accomplished at recognizing some of your automatic responses, which is to be acknowledged; but this is not to say that you do not continue to express them, for you do. And this is not bad, but it is limiting.

“You may continue to express automatic responses once you identify what they are, for they may be your choice. You may prefer some of your automatic responses, and that is your choice also.

“But the point in our discussions is that you request information to allow yourselves more freedom and less conflict and more of an ease in your movements and in your manifestations, and therefore we discuss and we identify.

“And I shall express to you all one very important point before we break. In all of this identifying and discussing, the one expression that I may offer to you each now, as I have previously but in more strength now, is to genuinely allow yourselves not to discount yourselves if you fall short of what you perceive to be the best. Every action you incorporate is purposeful, and there is no necessity to discount yourself or to devalue yourselves merely that you have not attained the measure that you expect of yourselves.” [session 1468, November 08, 2003]

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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
http://www.eliasforum.org/intro/introduction_overview.html

> Acceptance 101
http://www.eliasforum.org/library/acceptance101R.html

> Acceptance 102
http://www.eliasforum.org/library/acceptance102R.html

> “the straight little sapling”
http://www.eliasforum.org/digests/sapling.html

> “the secret of life”
http://www.eliasforum.org/digests/secret_of_life.html

> About Elias
http://www.eliasforum.org/digests/About_Elias.html

> A Glossary of Elias’ Terms
http://www.eliasforum.org/library/Alika_L_glossary.html

> A Seth, Elias Comparative Overview (Updated!)
http://www.paulhelfrich.com/library/Helfrich_P_A_Seth_Elias_Comparative_Overview.pdf

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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.

New & Updated! Updated Digests

> accepting self
> altered states/projections of consciousness
> attention
> avenues of communication
> belief systems; an overview
> choices/agreements
> About Elias
> aspects of essence; primary (directing)/secondary (observing)
> focus of essence; an overview
> chapter focuses
> pyramid focuses (action)
> essence families; intents
> expression of essence
> fear
> information
> inner senses; an overview
> intents
> probable selves
> Regional Area 4
> religion/spirituality
> sexuality and emotion
> sexuality; gender, orientation, preference
> simultaneous time
> truth
> waves of consciousness
> you create your reality

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Recently Published Transcripts: November 2003

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 990, Monday, January 21, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E990_012102.html
“Time and Creating and Destiny”
“Analogy: Accepting Beliefs, Seeing a Belief as a Physical Object”

> Session 991, Monday, January 21, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E991_012102.html
“Lack of Motivation”
“More on Probable Selves”

> Session 992, Tuesday, January 22, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E992_012202.html
“Resonance”
“Scatteredness and Lack of Motivation”
“The Importance of the Shift”

> Session 1468, Saturday, November 08, 2003
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1468_110803.html
“Personal Examples of Challenges in the Truth Wave”
“It Used To Be Easier”

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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.

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Tip of the Month - NIRAA

This month we’re going to explore a very useful exercise – introduced by Elias in 1999 – just in time to help cope with the stress of the holiday season. For those of us who blissfully make it from Thanksgiving to New Years without any conflict or stress, you are already doing this exercise in your own fashion! But for the rest of us, the holidays offer a perfect backdrop in which to put Elias theory into everyday practice.

Early in the 1995 sessions, Elias introduced a concept that informs every one of his exercises: “noticing self.” “Noticing self” is a tool in which to remember who and what we really are: essence or souls-in-flesh.

“... I have been expressing to individuals from the onset of this forum, the greatest term in your language may be viewed as ‘noticing.’ This is actually your greatest tool, and you are incorporating this tool to be offering yourself more information and opportunities to practice. How shall you practice if you are not noticing? And you ARE noticing, my friend.” [session 947, November 01, 2001]

Digests: find out more about noticing self.
http://www.eliasforum.org/digests/noticing_self

In 1999, Elias introduced a method that I call NIRAA (Noticing, Identifying, Recognizing, Addressing to, Accepting beliefs/self). I pronounce it “nigh-rah.” NIRAA is a simple mnemonic aid to make it easier to remember the four basic steps involved. And you guessed it, the first one is:

  • Noticing beliefs – easy, if you believe in the concept of “Know Thyself.”
  • Identifying and Recognizing specific beliefs – a process of making the subconscious conscious, making invisible beliefs visible. This action is marked by varying degrees of conflict and anxiety or joy and happiness.
  • Addressing to the beliefs – lessening conflict, anxiety, depression; increasing happiness, joy, relaxation, allowing more for diverse perceptions, and moving closer to accepting self. Can occur with or without a thought process.
  • Acceptance, neutrality, lack of judgment while still acknowledging opinions and preferences; there is no absolute good, bad, right, or wrong = “it matters not!”

Digests: find out more about these four actions.
http://www.eliasforum.org/digests/accepting_self2.html#NIRAA

If you haven't made the connection at this point, the NIRAA method is all about learning to accept self. And this process is not strictly sequential. That is, since we each hold many hundreds, even thousands of related beliefs, once we really assimilate the four actions, we will notice that we actually engage all four simultaneously in varying degrees.

This practice takes time to assimilate into everyday noticing. But with persistence we can use it as a powerful tool to help identify and address to what were previously automatic responses – invisible beliefs – that often serve only to perpetuate conflict, stress, and unhealthy behavior. Once we begin to notice what we are actually doing and choosing in moments of conflict, it gradually becomes easier to see that we hold additional choices that we were previously blind to.

We can apply NIRAA to family and work relationships, over-eating, or really anything that causes us conflict and stress.

As a reminder, the next time you stress out, mentally remind yourself with the mantra – NIRAA. Simply say – “nigh-rah.” This will instantly shift your attention into noticing mode, with identifying coming next. NIRAA will help you to remember the order in the initial stages. Using NIRAA will make it possible to consistently address to automatic responses – long time patterns of behavior that blind us to new possibilities and fulfillment.

Finally, like any exercise, don’t go nuts, just use it for 5-10 minutes initially. The key is to be persistent during the next 4-5 weeks. In time you will find yourself noticing, identifying, recognizing, addressing to, and even accepting automagically!

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Speak to Elias: Hold Your Own Private or Group Session

Mary Ennis holds private and group sessions. Rates are:

Private: approx. one hour phone or in person = $250 (includes audio tape)

Group: (20 or more people) = $1,500 plus travel expenses

Note: can now use your credit card through PayPal.

To schedule contact Mary Ennis:

Email: helfroz1@aol.com
Phone: 802-258-6574

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Order Video and Audio Tapes

Group sessions are available to everyone, and individual private sessions are available to the participant, or with the participant’s expressed permission. The proceeds go toward converting the existing videotape archive into a more stable DVD format, and other forum-related projects.

Now available from Ron Churchman:

$25 per session/video or DVD

$10 per session/audio

$25 current transcripts on CD-R. Available in MS-Word or text formats.

Email: JCRonboy@msn.com

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New & Updated! Order Mindscapes Music CD

“A picture is worth a thousand words, but a mindscape is worth a thousand pictures.”

Mindscapes Music CD

From the sublime to the ridiculous, the sacred to the profane, Mindscapes explore the boundless world of dreams and imagination. Now available from Paul Helfrich.

> Listen to all 22 tracks: www.cafemuse.com/mindscapes

> Read an interview: www.cafemuse.com/mindscapes/interview.html

> Order online or by regular mail: www.cafemuse.com/mindscapes/order_form.html

Email: helfrich@eliasforum.org

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Click here to enlarge.The Shift: A Time of Change
compiled by David Tate


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Your Purpose Is Experience
  • Chapter 2 The Shift
  • Chapter 3 A Shifty Question
  • Chapter 4 Why Are We Here?
  • Chapter 5 Who Am I and What Is Essence?
  • Chapter 6 What About God?
  • Chapter 7 What Is Truth?
  • Chapter 8 A Divine Plan
  • Chapter 9 Intent – Desire
  • Chapter 10 If It Isn’t Fun, Don’t Do It!
  • Chapter 11 You Shall Not Betray You
  • Chapter 12 Birth–Death–Transition
  • Chapter 13 Regional Areas of Consciousness
  • Chapter 14 Reincarnation
  • Chapter 15 Karma
  • Chapter 16 Belief Systems
  • Chapter 17 Duplicity
  • Chapter 18 New Horizons
  • Appendix 1 The Sapling Story
  • Appendix 2 Glossary of Terms

Email: forumproductions@aol.com

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January 2004 Elias Group Session - Castaic, California

Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 1:00 PM.

This group session always has a big turn out and will be a great opportunity to meet with other forum members as well as interact with Elias in person. The cost for the group session is $65 per person.

Mary Ennis will be presenting her annual talk the next day, on Sunday, January 18, 12:00 noon, at no cost.

Both the Saturday group session and Mary’s talk on Sunday will be at the Clubhouse in Lake Hills Mobile Estates, 31344 Lakehills Rd, Castaic, CA 91384.

Pat Betzhold will be hosting the 2004 Castaic session. You can contact her to make reservations for the group session or with any questions at Manitoufs@aol.com or (818)999-2465.

You can prepay and pre-register (which helps the host tremendously) by sending a check made to:

Pat Betzhold
23751 Burbank Blvd.
Woodland Hills, CA 91367

(All appointments for private sessions with Elias during this weekend have been filled.)

Please feel free to bring food/snacks/drinks! Light kitchen facilities are available. The room will be open around noon to mingle, socialize, and connect with all those people you’ve met only through their transcripts or on-line.

Click here for full details.


March 2004 St. Patty’s Day Elias Group Session - Brattleboro, Vermont

Saturday, March 20, 2004 at 1:00 PM. Cost is $75.00 US.

Quality Inn Hotel and Suites
Brattleboro, Vermont
Hosted by Lynda Symans

Click here for full details.

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Public Email Lists

Check out the Elias List on Yahoo! Groups, moderated by Gerhard Fuchs <gfuchs@eliasweb.at>

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elias

Check out the NewWorldView Discussion Forums, moderated by Paul Helfrich <helfrich@newworldview.com> and Ellen Gilbert <egilbert18@comcast.net>

http://www.newworldview.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi

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Explore the Elias forum webring

Are you interested in other websites that incorporate the teachings of Elias? There is a link at the bottom of our homepage, or just go to:

http://X.webring.com/hub?ring=eliasforum

Do you have a webpage that explores the information offered by Elias? If so, then you may wish to join the webring to help promote it. To join, go to:

http://X.webring.com/wrman?ring=eliasforum&addsite

Send any questions to the ringmeister at: helfrich@eliasforum.org

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