On personality, from a Q'uo session

Confederation Philosophy
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This is from a session in 2000, December 3rd.

it is just worded in such a lovely way I thought

However, each personality shell that is chosen for an incarnation comes with certain characteristics. For some personality shells the characteristics include such a desire for working upon one shining goal that the hallmark of the incarnation is simplicity and one theme that recurs to the exclusion of all others. For other personality shells there has been what we might call spiritual ambition: the desire to learn more, the desire to progress at a more efficient and that which is seen subjectively as a more helpful rate. You will notice people with this type of personality shell over-committing themselves in good deeds, taking too many classes for their own comfort in schooling, and otherwise tending to overfill the time allotted for each day with what this instrument would call good things to do. In neither personality type is there more excellence than the other. It is a simple matter of choice. Each way of approaching an incarnation has its advantages. Each has its drawbacks.

For the entity with what may be called spiritual ambition, as well as for the entity who burns with one single flame or thirst, the dangers involved include coming to take this quest so seriously that the perspective of that ground of being is lost, and the seeker becomes overwhelmed with the details of whatever present situation has occupied the interest in mind, the emotions, and the time of the seeker.

Now let us step back and gaze at the actual situation. The actual situation is that there is no time or process or pressure to accomplish anything. Each dwells in eternity and all that has happened, is happening, and will happen is happening now, all at the same time, in perfect harmony, in utter perfection, and with an elegance and simplicity of pattern that is stunning, or would be if the pattern could be seen in its entirety

The rest of the session is in fact as quite as beautiful.

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This is, indeed, a fruitful session. Iā€™ve added some further quotations.

The actual situation is that the one infinite Creator is issuing a vibration that is the creation. That creation is made up of the one great original Thought which is the Logos or love. The Creator is that love in utter unpotentiated fullness. The creation is that love in its potentiated form and light in its manifested form, and each of you as a creature of love and of light, of manifestation and of Logos, of Creator and illusion. And each of you dances the dance of Creator, moving to the dream of the illusion of sequence and meaning and living and learning. And, yet, each of you is already everything that each seeks to learn. So the actual process of spiritual evolution is one of subtraction, of allowing things to drop away in order to get to the heart of each perceived crisis or crux which occurs when an incarnational lesson, or a derivative of an incarnational lesson, recurs in the cyclical rhythms of the process of incarnation.

For we feel that beyond all illusion, beyond all sequence, beyond all linear proof, beyond all illusion of any kind, it may be trusted by each of you that there is a plan, a carefully created, thoughtfully worked out plan that was created by yourself and by Spirit for this incarnation. Everything that is occurring is part of the outworking of this plan.

Therefore, what greatly aids the work of an entity in the midst of a perceived crux of incarnational lesson is not linear thought or analysis but, rather, a relaxation of all non-emotional processes, a refraining from intellectual thought, and a program of repetition of affirmations having to do with awakening, supporting and encouraging the faculties of faith and will.

In terms of incarnational plans and incarnational lessons, what each seeker is working with are intentions, thoughts, hopes and dreams. In terms of metaphysical seeking it is not a matter of finding answers. It is a matter of coming to respect questions. It is never doing. It is always essence.

Faith is the willingness to abide in the essence of self, in the knowledge that the plan is good, and in the willingness to do the best that one can to interpret and respond to the situation as it unfolds. The actual decisions made are not that important. The intentions and the reasons involved for those decisions are important.

We may see the plan as outfigured in that Holy of Holies within the heart which holds the truth of being. In that Holy of Holies the Creator dwells in Its full original vibration. And the seeker, too, is there in its own heart, if it can remember to go there. With all of the buzzing noises of brain and intellect and thought, it is almost impossible to remember to go to the heart. It is only when there is a decision made to release the intellectual thought in the workings of the decision-making mind and to move into faith, trust and hope that the self can become silent, the mind can stop its chatter, and the self can use the key of silence to enter that tabernacle that is the heart.

And this brings us to speaking of will, for it is the faculty of will that supports faith. This will is an interesting phenomenon. It is created from the discipline of the dark side of self.

For it will be seen that each and every seemingly negative characteristic of self has its own strength when it has been tamed and placed in a configuration in which it lies within the deep heart and self, acknowledged as part of the self, but disciplined as to its expression within the outer expression of a daily life. This is not the same as the repression of unfortunate thoughts, for it demands that each thought that is seen by the self to be angry, or in some way unacceptable as seen by the self, as that which can be worked upon, that which can yield fruit, that which can become that which it does not seem to be.

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So Iā€™m not sure if this humor will translate, butā€¦

as I was reading whatā€™s been shared and thinking of how this channeling is adding to my seeking in this area and how to share that, I had the thought ā€œis sharing those thoughts just navel-gazing? Will it add anything to whatā€™s been shared already in the channeling itself?ā€ I often fall prey to malapropism (as amusing as it is confusing) so I have a habit of googling words or phrases to make sure Iā€™m thinking of them correctly. Turns out the roots of ā€˜navel-gazingā€™ are in contemplative practice and there is a historical spiritual context for contemplating the mysteries of the cosmos with the aid of oneā€™s belly button (maybe common knowledge but I had no idea). So, yes to navel-gazing???

Strange aside aside, this is a plentiful passage. Thanks for sharing it.

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Lol

I find that navel gazing pretty funny too :joy::melting_face::two_hearts:

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To my knowledge, navel gazing (which can be very painful to the neck) is a way of contemplating oneā€™s umbilical connection to the Mother of All. Itā€™s a way of tuning in to oneā€™s center of being.

Iā€™m glad, Melissa, you pointed to the passages you quoted. They open up the context we are working in. Being inside myself most of the time gets claustrophobic after awhile, and I need to stretch out to recall the larger perspective. I need to open to my deeper knowing, my deeper self and recall my overarching relationship with eternity. It is so easy to forget all of that, isnā€™t it?

ā€œIt is always essence.ā€ This reminds me to the Ra quote, ā€œThe Law of One, though beyond the limitations of name, as you call vibratory sound complexes, may be approximated by stating that all things are one, that there is no polarity, no right or wrong, no disharmony, but only identity.ā€ 4.20

ā€œEssence,ā€ ā€œidentity?ā€ Not so far off.

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I should add for clarity the self-editing was a fleeting thought. It just led to a funny (in my mind) etymological link. I appreciate the opportunity to share and learn in this context together.

The path to ā€œessenceā€ seems clearer to me than a path to a pure experience of ā€œidentity.ā€ Of course, if they are in fact the same thing, that will make things easier:)

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Kudos, Frog. That was a very nice read this morning. Perspective for the day ahead is found.

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As do I.

That is so. As is mentioned in one the quoted passages floating around here, it is a subtractive process. The less you attach your identity to the personal self, the more it is able to open up to the experience of the deeper self, which then gradually, eventually, includes All.

On the one hand, self as specified creature in some particular time and place grows smaller as the larger-deeper self is accommodated more into the sense of self.

AND! The thing that REALLY makes it all even easier is that the work you do consciously is of small importance compared to the work you do subconsciously. The conscious work is about poking into this and learning about that, but the subconscious work is about actually aligning self with these things so that one can participate more fully.

So, mostly, you donā€™t even have to think about it!

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Thank you Acer, though the real entities we should thank are Qā€™uo in this session and the ones involved in itā€¦ :melting_face: