Advice for Helping Don Elkins Given in mid 1984

Confederation Philosophy
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Someone noted that Don Elkins was struggling and asked Laitos how best to support him. The answer amounts to, love him as best you can, he needs love and support while trying to find his way through his challenges.

What is being newly learned is surrounded by the old which is being outgrown. This is, indeed, a vulnerable stage of growth. It’s like the vegetable sprout in the garden surrounded by weeds. You cannot pluck the weeds without distressing the desired plant, and the weeds can choke it out. Such is the way of growth sometimes. Don died five months thence.

It’s brief, but you, dear reader, may find it worth looking at.

Questioner

I have another question. Several of us in this group have a good friend named Don and he appears to be very confused in his thinking, and we are having a great struggle supporting him to grow in a good way, and I was wondering if you had any comments or statements to make about our dilemma to help us?

Laitos

I am Laitos, and would make a simple analogy concerning this entity’s current condition. If you will look at any entity which is being born into the world from your own human species to those of your animal, as you call it, kingdom, the young of each species is a most pitiful and bedraggled creature as it enters your illusion, quite helpless, and in need of great succor and support from its parents, shall we say, and in need of nurturing from its environment. Yet, as it gains its strength, it becomes able to move with its own power, to walk on strengthening legs and limbs, and to find its own food. Yet, did not this entity at one time exist within another illusion, in a form quite whole and mature, and did it not then choose to wrap itself in what one might call the cocoon of the womb that it might be born into another illusion in order that it might continue its great evolutionary journey of unity with the one Creator?

So does the one known as Don now seek to break from its cocoon of confusion as that which is old begins to fall away. Yet, still being aware of the old portion of the self as a portion of the self, it is difficult for the new entity being born to let go of that which is no longer needed. Yet, as that process occurs in what you call time, the new is born within the confusion of the old and the love of those which surround is that which nurtures it, even though it may not understand the form of that love, and may not know that it hungers for the food which is placed before it.

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Then Laitos, or at least that summary, is wrong.

As evidenced by the fact that still, to this day, no one at llresearch has offered a coherent case for what Don was going through and what the solution was. Therefore, it would be against the free will of everyone involved for them to be directly told. Therefore, this can’t be correct. It can only be a statement solidifying the confusion that was part of what the problem was.

I would say that this summary is a better example of what the problem was. I.e. Carla and the group couldn’t see clearly because of a strong maternal instinct dictating her actions.

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They were not “directly told.” If you read it, you can see that the message is indirect.

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Coming across this passage, it feels like a response in line with the sentiments quoted above.

May we answer further, my sister?

Carla

Not on that topic. That’s helpful. When one is in a situation where the will seems to be somewhat either extremely quiet or paralyzed, is this an organic part of this particular transformation? Should it be discouraged or accepted? By discouraged, I mean, should I be striving actively to come out of this state of mind or should I experience it until it’s done with me?

Latwii

I am Latwii, and we find that there are many factors, my sister, which influence this condition of the quieted will. The transformation and its opportunity of which we have previously spoken is one factor…

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Jim channeling)

I am Latwii, and we are once again with this instrument. The process of grieving for the lost, it would seem, loved one is another factor which has a great influence at this particular time upon your own being and exercise of will. These medications which are utilized with the hope of aid in this situation play a part as well. The surest path through this maze of influences, in our humblest opinions, is that which indeed seems to increase the lack of will. That, my sister, is to surrender the will but to surrender it to the desire to serve the one Creator in whatever fashion might be most appropriate for you at this moment.

To take the opportunity for each day’s existence that is a gift and to give it over as a gift to the One and as a service to the One is to, at the heart, strengthen that faculty known as the will. And is this not a paradox? For one surrenders the will, and by doing so daily strengthens that which is surrendered. One receives the gift and gives it away and receives it yet again to be given away, and yet gifts of days continue.

May we answer further, my sister?

Carla

No, thank you. That’s fine.