the Elias forum Newsletter, December, 2004 
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Great Holiday Gift Ideas
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The Shift: A Time of Change compiled by David Tate. This 365 page second edition of Elias excerpts features a beautiful new cover design, and an extra 70 pages of new information. A must-have for any collector and enthusiast.
Mindscapes Music CD by Paul Helfrich. A conscious creation music CD with over an hour of music on 22 tracks. Now available on Apple iTunes for Mac and Windows!
The Cellophane Prophecy by J. K. Greenfield (aka Jo Helfrich). A hilarious spoof on the New Age classic The Celestine Prophecy.
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 332.
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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 Don’s private session:
ELIAS: “Let me express to you, my friend, there has been tremendous shifting occurring in this recent time framework of a very few months.”
DON: “Well, there has been for me! So you’re saying this is global?”
ELIAS: “Yes, and I may express to you, in relation to all of the individuals that interact with this information there has been tremendous movement. You have all collectively incorporated a time framework in which you have allowed yourselves to be shifting and also to be moving concept into reality, and in this, addressing to your most familiar expressions.”
DON: “Oh! So that it may have been a difficult time does not mean it hasn’t been accomplishing.”
ELIAS: “Correct, for in this, each individual has been generating their own unique experiences, which may not necessarily have been comfortable but have offered you each the opportunity to experience your most familiar expressions that you have generated throughout your focuses in this time framework. This allows you the genuine recognition of your own shifting, for each individual has also noticed their tremendous desire to move into the unfamiliar.”
DON: “Oh, interesting. I don’t feel personally as if I have shifted, but I certainly am more aware of my desire to than I was. Is that...”
ELIAS: “Correct.”
DON: “...what you’re saying?”
ELIAS: “Correct, and in this, what you have shifted is your want and your desire and the direction of your movement. Previously, the want and the desire and the direction of movement was to be holding to the familiar, and generating uncertainty and perhaps even fear in association with the unfamiliar. Now, as you have shifted, there is a recognition of the familiar as not the object of your desire any longer, and a recognition that the familiar does not fit very well within your reality any longer. In this, there is generated more of a desire – less fearfulness, less apprehension – in turning the movement to the unfamiliar. This IS shifting, my friend.” (Chuckles)
DON: “Well, that’s encouraging, because I have felt the desire within myself to be much stronger, but I haven’t felt any lessening of the fears that I use to feel a victim of myself.
“Where to go with this? In light of what you said, I feel like much of what you said, everything you said actually, rings very true from my experiences over the summer since I spoke to you last. I’ve been feeling lately an extreme impatience with myself and my generating. I realize how little I accept myself now, and I wasn’t aware of it before. I realize how little I trust myself. I realize how little I have been appreciating my experience – many of these kinds of things.
“I’ve read what you had to say in terms of advice with these kinds of things, what we feel, but I feel like I’m kind of reading how to ride a bicycle. (Elias and Don laugh) I read these and I know I’m not keeping my attention in the now. I know when I’m not keeping my attention on myself. I can see when I’m discounting myself, but to simply do something else has been feeling a little bit beyond me. I wonder if somehow you could maybe in the rest of this session guide me a little bit to that experience or towards that experience, so that I have a little more experiential feel of where that is. I don’t know if that’s possible or not.”
ELIAS: “First of all, my friend, let us continue in the examination of the actual action of shifting, for in your discounting of yourself you are also not acknowledging what you have shifted.
“Now; this is not to say that you may not be generating fear and discounting of yourself in this shifting, but recognize what you are directing the fear and discounting of yourself IN. Previously your fear and discounting of yourself was directed in association with your perception that you may not incorporate the ability to move into the unfamiliar.”
DON: “Yes, absolutely.”
ELIAS: “NOW you generate a fear and discounting of yourself that you may not necessarily incorporate the ability to move OUT of the familiar.”
DON: “Yes, that’s right.”
ELIAS: “Which may initially appear to be the same statement, but it is quite not.”
DON: “I sort of feel the subtle difference. Perhaps it’s not subtle, but I can feel the difference.”
ELIAS: “For this fear is not generated any longer in association with what is unknown or what is unfamiliar. The fear has shifted into an expression in association with what IS known and what IS familiar, and generating an experience within yourself in which you feel stuck in the familiar. But this is the challenge, my friend, to dare to risk, to dare to express one moment of stepping outside of that familiar. And I may express to you, you may generate that action in association with ANY EXPRESSION within your focus. It matters not what you choose to experiment with.
“You may incorporate a very familiar action physically and experiment with viewing that action through a different perception. It may be as mundane as incorporating a bowl of soup – which may be a familiar action, but how may you allow your individual expression of creativity to move and therefore affect your perception and alter the experience of consuming this bowl of soup? For as your perception alters, your reality alters also. Therefore, the familiar action of consuming a bowl of soup may become a very new experience.” (Pause)
DON: “I’m letting that soak in.”
ELIAS: “Perception is a tremendously powerful instrument, and it actually does incorporate the power to alter your actual physical reality. It is merely a matter of your attention and how you are directing your attention.”
DON: “As I consider that and start to feel that, I can feel the fear start generating right within me physically. It starts bubbling up through to my head. I know that I generate that intellectually but...”
ELIAS: “Very well. In this moment as you experience that physical feeling, incorporate a very deep breath. As you breathe inwardly, move your attention to your breath and visualize it as tremendous power. Move your perception; turn the experience of fear, which you physically feel, into a tool of power. As you exhale your breath slowly and at length, allow yourself to breathe out the fear.”
DON: “I can feel that.”
ELIAS: “This action generates an actual physical affectingness, for it is quite difficult to continue to incorporate tension, which feeds the expression of fear, if you are concentrating upon physically filling yourself with breath, for this automatically generates a relaxation. This is the reason, my friend, that individuals may find it quite difficult to weep if they incorporate deep breaths. For the action of weeping incorporates tension and is an automatic release of tension, but is unnecessary and does not continue if the individual is releasing that tension through their breath. (Pause)
“Practice this exercise, my friend, for this may be helpful in allowing you to experience your own power and your own ability to actually incorporate the action of altering your perception, for this offers you tangible expressions to move with.”
DON: “And thus, through this then I can start to get somewhere. I can gain more trust in my ability to generate what I like, what I want.”
ELIAS: “Correct. For if you may generate what you want in ONE expression, if you may evidence your power to yourself in one expression, you may generate this in ALL areas.” (Pause)
DON: “I think that’s really what I was looking for with this session. I can’t think of much else to say.” [session 1153, October 11, 2002 ]
Digests – see also: | fear |
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 (Updated!)
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
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
turn the experience of fear into a tool of power noticing self: flirt for a week Updated Digests
energy centers (body) focus of essence; an overview focal points fear objective/subjective awareness relationships religion/spirituality science you create your realityRecently Published Transcripts: November 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 1147, Sunday, October 06, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1147_100602.html
“Be Specific and Clear in What Is Being Expressed Within You”
Session 1148, Wednesday, October 07, 2002*
Session 1149, Wednesday, October 09, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1149_100902.html
“Validations of Impressions and Investigations”
Session 1150, Wednesday, October 09, 2002*
Session 1151, Thursday, October 10, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1151_101002.html
“How Do I Create What I Want?”
“Facilitating an Energy Exchange”
Session 1152, Thursday, October 10, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1152_101002.html
“Why Am I Alone?”
“A Discussion of Spirituality”
“Can I Personally Generate Peace in the World?”
“What is the Ego?”
Session 1153, Friday, October 11, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1153_101102.html
“The Action of Shifting”
“Exercise: Turn the Experience of Fear into a Tool of Power”
Session 1154, Saturday, October 12, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1154_101202.html
“Tension in Shifting from the Familiar to the Unfamiliar”
“Need Is an Illusion”
Session 1155, Wednesday, October 13, 2002*
Session 1156, Sunday, October 13, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1156_101302.html
“Shifting to Comfort in the Unfamiliar”
“Impatience with Others”
Session 1157, Monday, October 14, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1157_101402.html
“Shifting, Turning Your Attention from Distractions”
“Interpret through Specifics, Not Generalities”
“Continuing – or Not – a Relationship with a Creature”
Session 1158, Wednesday, October 16, 2002*
Session 1159, Wednesday, October 16, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1159_101602.html
“Secrets and Intimacy”
“Winning the Lottery”
“Projection Is Not Difficult”
Session 1160, Wednesday, October 17, 2002*
Session 1161, Friday, October 18, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1161_101802.html
“Exercise: Flirting for a Week”
“How to Trust, Accept and Love Yourself – in a Nutshell”
“Dealing with Symptoms of Menopause”
Session 1162, Saturday, October 19, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1162_101902.html
“Future Technology”
Session 1163, Sunday, October 20, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1163_102002.html
“Offering a Genuine Expression of Helpfulness”
Session 1164, Monday, October 21, 2002
http://www.eliasforum.org/transcripts/E1164_102102.html
“Evaluating Simultaneous and Conflicting Messages”
*unpublished by request.
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Monthly Musings - NIRAA and the Ten Belief Systems - Step 3. Addressing To
Last month we continued our NIRAA (pronounced nigh-rah) method of accepting self by recognizing the ten basic belief systems. The idea was to learn the ten basic belief systems. Our entire worldview, all our beliefs, fall into these ten basic systems. So if we learn this basic map, then we can begin to see more clearly how these ten belief systems constantly affect everything we choose and do. They are just a map, and the map is never the territory itself. It’s only as useful as we make it.
This ties in nicely with the gem of month, because many times we do these practices for weeks and weeks and think we're getting nowhere, while all the while, we are actually shifting – widening our awareness to include new choices and possibilities.
Elias uses the analogy of a bird cage to represent each belief system, and the birds within to represent the many different beliefs. As we begin the addressing to, we may actually release some birds from the cage! The idea with accepting a belief system, then, is to empty the cage. By emptying the cage, we still hold preferences and opinions, but no longer as absolutes or truths. So the birds represent those beliefs we hold to be Absolute Universal Truths that create limits and narrow, black and white, either/or thinking.
ELIAS: “This be the reason that I have offered the analogy of the bird cage, for the cage itself is the representation of the belief system, an element that is neutral within itself, merely what you may term to be an object which holds no quality within itself but is a thing within itself. But the birds that are contained within the cage are the aspects of the belief system, and THESE are quite alive and moving and fluttering and demanding, and they ARE requiring of your attention! You shall not pay very close attention to the cage, but you shall pay very much attention to the birds within the cage!”
CATH: “Do we have more than one cage?”
ELIAS: “Yes.”
VICKI: “There’s not very many though, huh.”
ELIAS: “Not as very many as you think, but there are many more birds within these cages than you think!”
BOBBI: “So in acceptance, that’s accepting the bird cage, not the birds that are aspects? Is that correct?”
ELIAS: “No. The cage you are already within acceptance of. The birds you are NOT accepting of! Within your acceptance of these birds, you are opening the door to the cage and you are allowing the birds to fly free and empty the cage, and as the cage is empty, it holds no power, for it holds no more motion, and you may place the cage wherever you choose. You may manipulate the cage in whichever area you choose, but you need not tend to the cage, for it in itself does not demand of you. The birds demand of you!”
CATH: “What if we enjoy the birds? You said something about losing the power. What if we accept that as part of our artistic creation?”
ELIAS: “And you DO, and you place a judgment upon this and you express that it is good, and where you place a judgment that these birds are good, you automatically – within this physical dimension – also place a judgment upon other expressions and other birds that are bad, and you lend energy to the very elements that you wish not to lend energy.”
CATH: “Going back more to the thing where you said, ‘If we didn’t have beliefs, we wouldn’t be manifesting in this dimension.’ So we need beliefs, right?”
ELIAS: “Quite, but you need not hold judgments upon the beliefs. You shall continue to hold the cages, and you may manipulate the cages and you may reform the cages. You may melt the metal of the cages and you may reform these cages into new cages if you are so choosing, or you may divide these cages and be creating of many more cages, but the cages themselves are neutral. They are merely tools in your creating within your reality....”
BOBBI: “... I have to go back to the birds again. Okay, the birds are aspects of belief systems.”
ELIAS: “Yes.”
BOBBI: “So if I look at this bird and I find I want to let it go ... I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be accepting that bird or letting it go. I see that as a difference somehow.”
ELIAS: “There is no difference. The acceptance of this bird – of any bird – this action of the lack of judgment upon this bird creates the action of opening the door, and as the door is unlocked and opened, the bird itself shall fly free. Therefore, it shall be let go.”
BOBBI: “Okay. That just sounds so much like eliminating the bird.”
ELIAS: “This is merely what you may term to be diffusing energy, and in this action, the energy is allowed to be reforming. You are not holding the energy. Your ball may not roll upon your ground if you are holding your stick and your ball! You may not play your game in manipulating your ball in any direction, upon your ground or within your air, if you are holding your ball. But if you are letting go of your ball, you are also re-engaging your game and allowing yourself to engage your ball and manipulate it in many different directions.
“In like manner, if you have locked the door to the cage, you are holding the cage. You are quite in control of the action of the cage and of the birds, and the birds are subject to you. And therefore, in translation, the energy is confined to you in the same manner as your ball is confined to you as you hold your ball, but as you place your ball upon your ground, it now holds the ability to roll. You may push it, but it shall roll. It shall be within its own momentum. You are not continuously touching your ball, pushing. It shall roll. You shall tap and it shall roll, and you need not be controlling its roll. You have directed it already, and you have allowed it to roll. This is the action of probabilities.
“In this same manner, you are holding to all of the aspects of the belief system by locking the door, and in this, the birds remain contained and you are manipulating of their action. You may feed them or you may starve them, but you shall be paying attention to them, and they may be squawking quite noisily and you may not retreat from their squawking, for you are holding the cage. But as you unlock the door and you allow these birds to fly free, you need not be paying attention to them any longer. You may not be feeding them any longer or listening to their squawking, for they have embarked upon their own journey.” [session 331, October 16, 1998]
Now to return to NIRAA, the “addressing to” stage may or may not include a thought process. The idea is that when we make noticing, then identifying, then recognizing a habit, we automatically shift – we widen our objective awareness. As such, the addressing to may or may not occur in objective awareness. It can also occur subjectively. Either way, this stage is marked by a lessening of conflict and tension in relation to any particular issue or set of issues that we've turned out noticing, identifying, and recognizing toward.
The proof of the pudding, so to speak, is when we encounter one of your shrines, all decked out in its magnificence from all the energy we’ve fed it over the years, and we recognize the automatic, kneejerk response before we express it! This is a big step, because now we have a new choice, and possibilities for doing. Once we’ve identified and recognized that the old familiar automatic reaction doesn't get the results we truly desire, then we can objectively, for the first time, choose a different action. Again, the measure of success is simply reduced conflict and tension. Additionally, we may even experience physical, mental, and spiritual healing as a natural outcome of the NIRAA process.
Hopefully, during this past month as you learned the ten belief systems (bird cages), in your recognizing practice you began to get 4, 5, 6 or more hits on any particular issue. For example, once I got comfy with all ten, something as simple as putting on my shoes resonated with the belief systems of sexuality, emotion, perception, relationship, senses, and the ever present duplicity. By sexuality, I simply connected with how I look within my culture and present my self in public, which blurred into the belief systems of relationships (who might see me/self and other), emotion (how I felt about that/happy, excited, anxious), and duplicity (whether I would look good and be liked or not).
Like any practice, at some point the noticing, identifying and recognizing becomes automatic, but it takes practice. And at times, we may need to brush up, and learn to see what other connections we can make. So, this month in the spirit of the holidays, we’re going to focus on the action of addressing to. Pick a single belief system, say relationships, and continue to notice, identify, and recognize, but now focus upon the action addressing to whatever issues are pressing.
Notice the power and affectingness of whatever belief system you choose in relation to all the others. Remember, we’re dealing with systems, the bird cages as a means of introduction, so we don’t want to overwhelm ourselves or get too obsessive. Five minutes a day is plenty. It’s important to do the practice every day, and you can do it 2 or 3 times for just a couple of minutes, perhaps morning, noon, and evening. The idea with any practice is to be consistent and persistent.
The addressing to is a critical aspect of the practice because it leads to the goal, one of the key actions of this shift in consciousness, namely, accepting self, and accepting belief systems. And once we learn to accept self, it becomes possible to truly accept others, but we’re getting ahead of the story once again. For this month, just notice how you lessen conflict and tension in whatever belief system you choose to focus upon. That’s further evidence that you are finally addressing to an issue, finally releasing some birds from the cage.
Don’t bite off more than you can chew! Sometimes we overeat during the Holidays, and we don’t want to create indigestion. Have a Happy, Wonderful, and Joyous Holiday Season!
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Publication date 25 October 2004
Mind, Body, Spirit; Philosophy
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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:
- Preface
- Prologue
- Introduction
The Shift
Elias in his own words - 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 Mass Belief Systems
- Chapter 19 New Horizons
- Appendix 1 The Sapling Story
- Appendix 2 Glossary of Terms
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