Channeled by Serge J. Grandbois and Transcribed by Ellen Gilbert (Kwaa'Ji)
Recorded in Toronto, Canada on February 19, 2006

Roll Call: Serge, Mark, John, Myrna, Paul, Jo, Peter, Karin, Ester, Gail, Carter, Carl, Ellen, Cathy, Emmy, Anya, Ella, Tom, Steven (D.C.) and Steve L. (Santa Barbara)

[Detailed roll call at bottom of transcript.]

(7:45 PM session begins)

KRIS: Now we are glad that you are together once again and we trust that your joint experiences will continue to bear fruit and that you learn above all things to enjoy the fruits of your experiences. And we are equally as joyous to be here with our Toronto friends! Now, of course, not everyone is privy to the events of the weekend¹, but not everyone need be privy to those events, the discussions and the participations, to understand that you are all creatures of action, that you are all individuals who take great pleasure in making things happen.

As such, we would like to continue on that vein and perhaps assist in making things happen with you in the sense that, as you discover more and more of the resources and tools available to you, as you make practical use of them, so the boundaries of your imagination are stretched ever more, as is the idea that you have about yourselves.

And that is what is important, is to break down limiting barriers you have concerning yourselves, and open wide avenues of experiences, experiments, and their physical manifestation. During our visit with and in Janaki’s and Rosalie’s inviting and warm home, we expressed information and material that not only stretched the boundaries of Joseph’s, Janaki’s, Rosalie’s, Philip’s, and other people’s minds and imaginations, but that it will continue to do so and we are intending to continue doing just that as those evenings progress.

And you are an important factor in the creation of those events. Not in the sense that it is you who create who we are, or what we speak about, but more so in the sense that you play an important role in assisting the information and the material to flow freely². And as it does so, its quality expands, its depth reaches new definitions, and as a result, your own growth, your own expansion of consciousness and your own expansion and awareness as a result is more refined and tangible for you.

It becomes less and less a mental and intellectual process, and acquires definite physical and tangible qualities at very practical levels; and this is where it needs to take root. As such, the weekend’s experiences – the dramatizations, the sketches, the role-playing, the shifting in perspectives – each and every presentation, each and every aspect of the weekend itself was geared to invite you to open up to the tangible, practical aspect of the materials up to and including the chants as they definitely grounded your being and allowed you to understand, at least in part, that even your physical expression indeed can carry a great deal of energy for you personally as well as a group.

And again, even though some of you were not at the weekend, certainly we thank your thoughts for also having been part of the processes of the events of the weekend. During our various presentations, including of the weekend, we provided different kinds of guided visualizations and meditations, some chanting, and a variety of exercises that hopefully provided you all with tools and resources that can be used outside of the weekend’s events, in your homes with your own practices and spirituality.

Thus we would like then to continue with another gentle guided exercise, and though it may appear to you rather simple, again we highly recommend to not underestimate its purpose or effects, even on a long term. Thus we suggest that you sit in a relaxed position, as comfortable as you can be. You may close your eyes, if that is more conducive for you, or leave them open, as you wish.

Allow yourselves to breathe deeply and exhale as deeply and slowly, relaxing the body’s own rhythm’s, welcoming a state of well-being, and as you continue to inhale deeply and slowly, and exhale just as deeply and slowly, allow your body’s processes to relax and slow down to the degree it uses for deep sleep, whilst your mind and awareness is deeply focused on the sound of our voice.

Your minds remain clear and alert, but your body relaxes into a gentle deep rhythm, releasing all tension and stress and actually using both the sound of our voice and the relaxation itself and any ambient sounds to sharpen your attention and awareness. And utilizing the gentle, rhythmic pattern of your ribcage expanding and contracting with each of your breaths, allow yourselves to recognize the wave-like design of your inhalation and exhalation.

And as this wave-like pattern is clear in your mind, further allow yourselves to flow with those waves, so that it is easy for you to pretend, to imagine, to act as if the wave-like patterns of your breathing allow you to leave behind awareness of your physical form and concentrate your attention on that rhythmic wave pattern, expanding that wave beyond the very room that you are in, beyond the house that you are in, or building, continuing the expansions and ripples of those waves for you to notice similar rhythmic, wave-like patterns of energy in the environment.

Whether it is from other human beings, trees, perhaps even the Earth itself as it has a resonance, wave-like pattern, and continue reaching out in your wave to take into consideration wave-like energy patterns of other life forms, including the planet, the Earth, perhaps even expanding towards other celestial bodies, the moon, other planets, the sun. And from that position, allow yourself to deeply resonate with the energetic wave-like patterns of your entire solar system, from the sun at its center to the outer peripheries, even past Pluto.

Take a moment to resonate with the deep wave-like, pulse-like energy that sustains the entire solar system. And from where you are, pretend that you can actually gather together and concentrate that energy into a laser-like beam that you direct specifically at your physical form where you know it is, and allow that beam of energy to flow into the form of your body so that your physical form is nourished and nurtured with energies and gently allow yourself to follow that beam of energy towards your own body and allow the physical body, the beam of energy and you to resonate together so that you and your physical form absorb all of the benefits that energy may impart to you.

Allow the beam of energy to be released back into the depths of the cosmos, and gently begin again to take full awareness of your physical form and if there are any ailments, symptoms, or any such communications that need to be addressed, allow the energy that you have just directed to your physical form and nurtured and nourished it with, to go to those necessary body parts and create a deep resonance, vibration if you like, to bring relief and healing to that part of the body.

See the area affected as being filled with that energy, being transformed, as well as what the symptom, or communication was about to also be addressed by you with the energy so that you are congruent. And now gradually focus your awareness, your concentration, on your fingers, your toes, so that by the count of three you will be fully aware and awake in your room and your space. One, wiggle those toes and those fingers. Two, take a deep breath and return to your normal body awareness, and three, come back to your states, fully awake in your body. And take a small break.

(Break begins at 8:11)

During the break, Paul played the recording that he, Jo, Peter and Karin made of a song that was created during one of the workshop exercises on the previous Sunday. On that day Kris had us break up into small groups and instructed us to imagine that we were all focus personalities of one Essence, to decide what each one of us believed our focus intent was and to then compile our separate intents into a collective ESSENCE intent. Each group was then to present to the rest of the company a skit, song, dance, dramatization – or whatever we wished – that expressed our Essence intent.

My group consisted of Peter, Jo, Steve L., Anya, Bob, and myself. We each quickly shared what we felt our own life intents were, and I scribbled the list down on paper, none of us yet knowing how we were going to present it. Peter suggested that he could sing out our various intents, and the rest of us could sing back, echo-like – hopefully in harmonization – each line that Peter sang. Serge walked by at that moment, caught my eye and held up two fingers – shit! Two minutes?! I took the paper over to Peter, he quickly skimmed the intents that I’d listed, folded it up, saying he knew just what he wanted to do, and we got up and just...winged it. Peter sang out each line, some of which he’d nicely improvised himself, and the rest of us just echoed the lines back. Simple, but very fun.

The result was rather a hit to my utter surprise. As we walked back to our seats, a number of people were singing or humming the lines themselves. Thus the song “We Are Essence” was born! I joked to Paul, who was also singing it, that he ought to go home and record it. Little did I know he’d do just that!

The recording they played for us during this teleconference was a greatly enhanced rendition of course, with the accompaniment of Peter’s fantastic electric violin playing, and both Karin and Jo lending vocal talent. We all clapped and cheered loudly when it was over³.

ELLEN: That was awesome!

ANYA: Yeah, I spaced out! I felt like I was back at the presentation at the workshop!

ELLA: (Laughing) That’s what I thought! It sounded also like a combination of that meditation Kris just gave us, also – very wave-like patterns. That was interesting.

PETER: We will get it out to you. You all get it on CD. We will send it to you.

ELLA: Whose was the female voice?

PETER: That was Karin and Jo, both.

ELLA: Ah! I thought I heard Jo there!

ELLEN: Oh! I thought I’d heard Jo too!

ELLA: It was a nice combination of the high and low voices, and the deep music and the violin. That was awesome.

KARIN: It was very, very great to work together with Paul and Jo and we thank them both that we could stay here and enjoy it and make this song!

PETER: Yes, we did it with Paul at his studio here.

ELLEN: A true jam session, huh?

(Laughter)

JO: Ellen helped write the original lyrics – because we used your notes, Ellen!

ELLEN: (Laughing) Oh, I think that is so awesome! That just blows me away.

PETER: I’ve still got the original! (Peter and Jo are referring to the paper I’d scribbled our intents on)

ELLEN: (Jokingly) Yeah, you’d better frame it!

ELLA: That song was born during the workshop, right?

ELLEN: Yeah, we busted our butts trying to get it together in time!

ELLA: I remember you doing it, but of course, when it’s recorded, it sounded even more poignant.

ELLEN: (Mock serious) It was poignant, wasn’t it?

ELLA: Yes, I have to tell you, I enjoyed it when you did the presentation, but I didn’t know actually who wrote the words. I thought maybe Peter already had that song.

PETER: No, it was created at that moment at the seminar.

ELLEN: It was created by our collective Essence.... (Humorously) Which we formulated together at that very moment!

ELLA: You unlocked your passions.

CATHY: Uno Essence.

ELLEN: We are “Uno Essence,” Cathy said.

ELLA: (Chuckling) Okay!

ANYA: Peter, maybe you quoted briefly from that song you gave me, that was almost like a gift - I never knew what the tune was, that my Essence name came from, so when you guys were singing that, it was just so, so special to me.

ELLA: You mean at lunch?

ANYA: At lunch, yeah.

ELLA: Yeah, that was cool!

ANYA: Yes, people started turning heads!⁴

ELLEN: Sounds like another track for the CD!

PETER: We are sending this new song to you all. You’ll get it by post and you can put it in your CD players. You’ll get really good sound! We made good sound in Paul’s studio.

ELLA: Even over the phone it sounded good.

STEVE L.: It’s going to the top of the charts!

ELLEN: (Laughing) The thrill never ends!

(Laughter and Kris returns.)

(Kris returns at 8:21)

KRIS: Now we do wish to thank our wonderful musicians for their lovely creation that extends to everyone who participated and is presently part of the experience, for without the ears to hear the lovely music there is perhaps not much music to hear, thus, our appreciation for your lovely creations, which leads into our next segment.

We would ask that you contemplate of what it means to have remembrance of Essence. Does it mean that somehow or other you no longer have to pay attention to your physical form, nor do the laundry or take out the garbage? Does it mean that, somehow or other, you will be able to create anything that you put your mind to? What exactly does remembering Essence have to do with your reality?

The materials we have given over the last few sessions up to and including this evening, including the workshop, as we have suggested are meant to provide you with some tools and resources to begin the process of awakening that remembrance. It is indeed a process that moves from one stage to another including varying states that can even include conflicts, disagreements, and so on⁵.

There is a popular idea that once you begin to remember, then somehow or other, magically like Dorothy landing in Oz, everything is wonderful, the streets are paved with gold, the munchkins dance your praises, and that somehow or other the whole effect of physical reality is somehow no longer relevant. And we wish to assure that on the contrary the relevance of physical reality and the material world is enhanced that much more, but there will not be any munchkins dancing and singing on yellow brick roads. However, the process of remembering gives you from your physical vantage point, a clearer understanding of your abilities and of being able to work with and within the belief systems that much more effectively.

You might not be able to magically manifest gold bars out of thin air, but you would certainly be able to appreciate and honor the creations that stem forth from the depths of your being, as well as renew your sense of wonderment and enchantment with that physical imagery you call your physical body: yourself – but that much more – which will include a great appreciation for the processes you engage at those deeper layers of self that flow freely within the various frameworks of reality within the concepts of your Essence-hood.

With a deep appreciation of the Source of your being, as part of whom and what you are – but in very tangible terms – which would include a deep awareness of the life processes, challenges and intentions of the various Expressions of Essence that may express and display themselves and interact with and within different historical and geographical frameworks within different eras and timeframes of human experience.

And as the process continues to unfold, you may indeed begin to have clearer recall of the reasons you chose unique challenges in your present life, or any other life, including why you have chosen a specific awareness and expression in your present physical form with an understanding of the love and the passion and the vitality and the exuberance you invested in the loving expression of the one Essence you are.

And as you continue that progressive remembrance, you might very well be capable of putting into perspective other experiences pertinent to some of your other Essence bodies or Essence forms – which are themselves all still Essence, but simply various compositions within that great symphony of being – meaning that remembering Essence is not only remembering only one process, but multiple Essence perspective of a multi-dimensional structure⁶.

And as the process continues, you might even be led to explore how the ‘All That Is’ is relevant to you as a multi-dimensional expression OF that ‘All That Is’. And as you continue on that journey of remembrance, living recollection, however minute, may lead you to want to explore entire species of ‘All That Is’. And as strange as it may sound to you, there are indeed various kinds, and many kinds of ‘All That Is’, and yet they are still ALL ‘‘All That Is’’. The ‘‘All That Is’’ are themselves multitudes of entities almost beyond comprehension, but they have a name, they are a unique species of mega-consciousness. We have called them the Uguur⁷.

And that concept is as far removed from your present understandings of the workings of consciousness in some humble manner as you are from the perspective of the cells that compose your physical body as a great being of energy that furnishes fuel – living dynamic energy – that makes the body function as your temporary residence and expression within your journey in this plane of existence. We are discussing this, bringing this information to enable you to stretch the boundaries of your perceptions and perspectives that much further in such a manner that you may indeed reflect upon the great majestic sweep of your being beyond anything you might have indeed considered before.

And at those deep layers of consciousness and awareness, you still joyously and unconditionally send forth loving energies, supporting energies, nurturing energies to all of the various physical expressions in the great vastness of your being. And even though your physical being might encounter various challenges and have different perspectives – up to and including considering that the great vastness of its Source Being might even be against it – you still send unconditional loving energies, of which there are no comparisons in the whole of the universe as you could possibly imagine it.

And the manner in which you demonstrate compassion – both towards others, and to your own loving selves, to your own lovely selves – is the closest you are able to come to in understanding the great and mighty structure that is your being. And from those great depths of being, almost beyond any reconcilable differences, almost beyond description itself, you will still be able to recognize the deep feeling-tones of love as you express it in and through the auspices of your physical being. And we present this not only as material for discussion, but as a meditation in itself.

What is the time?

MARK: 8:43

KRIS: Then we suggest a small break, so that you can compose yourselves once again.

(Break begins at 8:43 PM.)

MARK: Before I take you guys off censor mode, Kris is referring to material he brought up on that Wednesday night, our first night in Castaic with Paul and Jo, and the Uguur – and he hasn’t talked about nanons⁸ yet, but this is new material.

[Mark un-mutes group.]

JOHN: This is like – many ‘All That Is’s’?

MARK: This is the ‘All That Is’ that we know, so there are multiple ‘All That Is’s’ and ‘All That Is’ is an Essence.

ELLA: Mark, did he actually mention that name, Uguur, before?

MARK: Yes, on that Wednesday (Feb. 8) and he continued it a little bit on Sunday (Feb. 12)⁹.

ELLA: I don’t remember that name, well I wasn’t there on Wednesday, so...

MARK: No, it was just Paul, Jo, myself and Serge.

ELLEN: On Sunday night he expanded on it.

MARK: Yeah.

ELLEN: That was just a little spontaneous session.

EMMY: I remember you told me about it, right, Ellen?

ELLEN: Did I mention it to you...oh, that’s right, on the phone...we spoke over the phone about it.

ELLA: When was it on Sunday? After the workshop?

ELLEN: Between 8:00 and 10:00 PM, we were sitting around. It was Paul, Jo, me, Mark and Alan.

MARK: There were quite a number of sessions that happened that full week that Serge and I were in California, starting with that Wednesday, there was the Open House on Friday, there was the walk, there was one or two recordings with Alan and the group as well as the weekend conference. All of these are being transcribed and will be published.

ELLA: So is the Uguur a species? How does he describe them?

MARK: As ‘All That Is’.

SERGE: Well, he’s actually referred to them as ‘All That Is’s’.

ELLEN: All the IS’s that Is’s! And then some!

PAUL: Yeah, he actually went on both ends of the spectrum to the extremes, where the rational mind can no longer follow, and the two points of that are Seth’s consciousness units, or CU’s. He introduced a new unit called “nanons.” Consciousness units are made up of nanons, which is....absurd, rationally speaking, in my view....and then you go up the other end of the spectrum to ‘All That Is’, which is actually a nanon and a consciousness unit perhaps...

Then he goes into ‘All That Is’s and stretches that outside so that it caves in on itself, it’s a Zen koan in my opinion, and he’s mentioned that this is material for discussion and also contemplation. So it’s something to try yourself and see where does this lead within your own awareness, because Seth is pretty clear in the extremes of consciousness units to ‘All That Is’ – fairly comprehensive map – but Kris kind of one-upped him, and went to nanons and now ‘All That Is’s and then he gave Uguur as a single sort of tone to represent it all, all the clusters, and all the families, so it’s just....you know...

FEMALE: It’s big!

PAUL: It’s big, but don’t go too crazy over it, Steve! (Paul is addressing Steve L. here)

(Group laughter)

PAUL: The rational mind has to be left behind at some point.

ELLEN: The farther in you go, the bigger it gets.

STEVE L: I wanted to say to Paul that I posted that I wanted to know what the practical benefit of perceiving our Essence was going to be, and I’m glad he spoke to that tonight¹⁰.

PAUL: Yeah, Kris does that very well.

STEVE L.: He must have been reading.

MARK: Oh, he does. He perceives all...

PAUL: And knows most! (Laughter) This material will be coming out and it’s something that we’ll be exploring for months to come. No quick, simple conclusions; just more stuff to contemplate.

ELLA: Paul, we just yesterday were watching “Men In Black,” and for some reason, the concept of the galaxy in that little marble kind of stuck with me, it’s all so very metaphysical, you know we sometimes relate to things by sight and it probably has nothing to do with anything, and you could have ‘All That Is’ in a tiny marble, and outside of that is another....something....I was thinking about that just yesterday¹¹.

PAUL: That’s right, you know, Kris has been working on processes and perspectives – these are other words he’s been using – but this Avatar Yoga, or Yoga of Remembrance, the organizing principle of it all, you know, these processes and perspectives are important [in order for us] to stretch and develop.

ELLA: You know, when he was saying about remembering, or what would it mean to remember Essence, and I was trying to answer that myself. If we were to take it to the future, after the Shift, where people supposedly would be able to tune into this network of consciousness....I can’t quite resolve it – to me it’s almost like when a magician performs their illusions and you don’t know how they do it, it’s so magical – yes, there’s an explanation, but still – it’s so magical to you, but once they show you how they do it, you see, oh yes, there’s the invisible thread, etc. – it loses some of the magic. You don’t – none of you feels this way? – I guess I have to reconcile it for myself....

ANYA: I really think that it’s so big, and it’s always changing – all these different perspectives, so to say – that there’s no end to it. We’ll never figure out everything, because when you think you figure out something, it’ll be something new and even exciting, just as exciting, to figure out.

PAUL: Ultimately there’s nothing to figure out, in terms of the rational map that we explore, that we have. That’s just a nice map, but it’s not the territory ultimately. Nothing can be completely – there’s something bizarrely inexplicable around every next realization. It all...the Uguur create themselves just like that¹².

MARK: You have to remember that ‘All That Is’ does not understand ‘All That Is’...and, he’s back.

(Break ends at 8:52)

KRIS: Now as a shorter example of waves, perhaps Philip would be so kind as to take a small wand (pause) and what we suggest....is not to put it that close to the microphone…

MARK: (Chuckling as he tries to follow Kris’ directions)

KRIS: …and at rhythmic intervals, Philip will strike the instrument and we ask only that you pay attention to the waves of sound and resonance as they begin to intermingle and allow that sound to reach you, and pay attention to its interaction with your body.

[Mark begins to tap the chime in rhythmic intervals for about a minute or so.]

Now this is sound from one small instrument. Your own bodies actually create far more potent and powerful sound vibrations, though you are unaware of that fact. It is an established fact, however, that all forms in your reality have a specific sound vibration, and as we suggested earlier about following the rhythmic waves, you can expand that exercise by mentally, meditatively tuning into the sound waves that your own physical form generates and use that to deepen your contemplation and actually follow the resonance of the sound vibration as it travels through time and space as far as you are able to allow your imagination to follow.

And if you must go and follow it outside of the parameters of time and space, then by all means follow that sound vibration, a specific tone of your being that you are able to follow simply as an exercise to widen and stretch the boundaries of your imagination and perception. [It is] a simple sounding little exercise, but one that can have far-reaching and beautiful effects. We would suggest doing this no more than for five minutes during the day.

And allow that energy to carry you throughout your day, reflecting upon the flow of that tone, and how that tone alters and changes and modifies consciousness into your reality. Another similar simple exercise follows the very same path and as you continue to follow the tone of your energy, you might even like to direct your gaze, your eyes, your attention, towards the many stars in the night sky – preferably when you can see the stars on a clear night – and as you direct your tone towards the stars themselves – distant suns around which orbit other planets and celestial bodies – notice – however faint, or not – notice how that tone may indeed reflect the tones of other suns and stars.

This obviously will be entirely subjective, but we believe that you are wise enough to know that even a subjective experience can be as impactful and meaningful as any of your cherished objective experiences. You might not yet understand the suns and distant stars as little more than astronomical phenomenon, without understanding yet that they are also more than simply your creations in that sense of the word.

They are often other expressions of your Essence, other types of aspects of your Source. And that too, may draw you into wonderful experiences. Now we believe that this has sufficiently stretched the boundaries of your minds and imaginations for the evening, so if you are of a mind, then perhaps questions that deal on the topic might be enjoyable to deal with.

ELLA: Kris, could you possibly expand upon after the Shift, when human beings would be more aware of their connections to Essence – and the way I understand it, they will be part of that network of consciousness, much more than we are at right now. How would they function within that context? Would they constantly be aware of what they create, why they create...would that take away some of the magic of our experience right now?

KRIS: Indeed an interesting question, and it should be understood that before the Shift, many people go to work, collect a paycheck, pay the bills; after the Shift, many people will continue to go to work, collect a paycheck, and pay the bills¹³. And not everyone will magically be on the same foothold. There will still be people who have no interest in these things, perhaps seeing this phenomenon as little more than another kind of religious group or teaching. But for those who have journeyed that path, they may indeed discover their multiple awarenesses and be able to focus upon a multitude of Essence events simultaneously whilst still being able to function within physical reality and appear as the average Dick and Jane. Do you follow so far?

ELLA: Yes.

KRIS: However, it does not necessarily mean that the magic will have worn off, but quite possibly physical reality for those individuals will have acquired a much more powerful, magical quality. Knowing how they can experiment with subjectivity in a powerful way may indeed make life itself that much more of an invitation to participate in it, and not try to denigrate it. Do you follow?

ELLA: Yes.

KRIS: So it will indeed be possible to have spontaneous out of body experiences without going to sleep, for example, whilst being at the office, but fully aware that a portion of your awareness is somewhere on Malibu beach whilst you are shoveling snow in New Jersey!

(Laughter)

ELLA: Yes!

KRIS: And FEEL the benefits of that journey. Barriers to such experiences may indeed be dropped. Resistances might be resolved. Disbelief might be quelled and a great sense of joy in knowing that the energetic oneness of humankind, for example, is not merely the talk of California tree-huggers, but indeed an integral truth of reality, where compassion for another is not only an act of goodness, but an act of relating to the other individual at deeper-most levels, knowing that the other is also you. Does that make sense?

ELLA: Makes sense, but still leaves lots of food for thought, which I’ll do.

KRIS: Indeed, because we cannot give you the entire buffet right now.

ELLA: I’m not asking, but I appreciate the answer, thank you.

STEVE LORD: This is Steve Lord here in Santa Barbara. First I want to make a statement that....I’ve asked you a lot of off-the-wall questions, but I want you to understand that that does not preclude the fact that I – and I’m sure I speak for all of us – that I appreciate 100% your efforts to come down here and take your time and energy just to try and help us, I think that’s just great and that without you ghosts, we would be walking around in the dark like the other six billion people on the planet – (Group chuckles) – life would not be nearly as interesting now that we have all your teachings.

KRIS: Indeed, we hear you and appreciate your comment and you need to know that though you perceive your questions as being off the wall, they are perhaps more meaningful than you estimate, and your being also is more meaningful than you could understand at this point in time.

STEVE L.: Okay, well Serge had posted on Newworldview – I thank you for that – Serge posted that he remembers you telling me on Sunday that I or we are asking the wrong questions, and I wondered what you meant by that and maybe you could ask yourself one of the right questions and answer it for us¹⁴.

(Group laughter)

ELLEN: Way to get around it, Steve!

KRIS: Indeed your humor is indeed cosmic! (More laughter) We did make that statement that you are not yet asking the right kinds of questions. Take yourself for example: you are struggling with and asking why your subjective awareness may be out to get you. And though it may appear that way to your present perspective, it may not necessarily be the truth. Perhaps the truth lies more in the area where, all your life long you have cultivated specific views, ideas and beliefs about yourself, your life, and reality. Even holding those conclusions as profound beliefs and facts about existence, and right now you are debating the usefulness of a so-called subjective awareness that could lead you into almost life-threatening conflict, correct?

STEVE L.: Uh...I was hoping you could lay this out – the threatening conflict.

(An automated warning sounds at this time that the conference call is due to end in ten minutes)

KRIS: Indeed. Do take into consideration that perhaps those perspectives that you hold are part of your struggle, and perhaps instead of viewing reality through the lens of THOSE beliefs, you might benefit greatly by primarily acknowledging that whether it is objective or subjective awareness, you still create your experiences. As such then, it is possible to find other alternatives to address your issues and challenges than through the lens of your own beliefs.

Now the questions have to come around and abide by a different set of rules, not necessarily why you would be subjected to certain physical conditions and challenges, but what benefits or understandings are you wishing to extract from life WITH those challenges as a beginning to understanding what you have been up to all of these years.

But first, even before you venture there, our perspective is that there need be another kind of question, and that is to ask yourself about being able to love. Not another, not an object or a thing, but to love LOVE itself and how you can derive benefit and satisfaction from that state of mind and mood. For the time being, that will be our answer for you.¹⁵

STEVE L.: Thank you.

KRIS: You are most welcome. Is there another question?

ELLEN: I don’t think we have time for my question.

KRIS: What is the time?

MARK: 9:17.

KRIS: Indeed.

MARK: Okay, Ellen.

ELLEN: I’ll try to make it quick, but we had that discussion last Sunday about the Uguur, and Paul and Mark had a kind of a debate about the theory of evolution and what you like to call “Monkeylution” and how it never happened, and Seth has always asserted that it never happened. I got to thinking about that a lot this week, because there’s no denying that there have been bones and fossils and artifacts found of creatures who…

KRIS: Indeed!

ELLEN: …resemble the hybridization of man and ape, and….

KRIS: We appreciate your question and perhaps for the next such discussion, it can actually be the topic.

ELLEN: All right! Let’s go for it then.

KRIS: You can use it also to draw attention to the teleconference. Do you understand?

ELLEN: I believe so.

KRIS: It is called good old-fashioned marketing!

(Mark and I both laugh)

MARK: I know Paul’s going to be there!

ELLEN: All right then!

KRIS: Therefore, next discussion is about Monkey-ism. (Group laughter) Therefore we thank each and every one of you for your lovely selves and your energies and we return you to your realities and give you blessings.

ALL: Thank you, Kris.

(Session ends at 9:19)

DETAILED ROLL CALL:

Toronto: Serge (Joseph), Mark (Philip), John (Sohars), Myrna (Shara-Leene)

Castaic: Paul (Janaki), Jo (Rosalie), Ester (Benata), Peter (Zintukk), Karin, Gail, and Carl

Delaware: Ellen (Kwaa’Ji) and Cathy (Segova)

Santa Barbara: Steve L. (Gabriel)

Salt Lake City: Anya (Greensleeves)

Washington, D.C.: Steven

Hawaii: Tom (Desire)

New Jersey: Ella (Lazuli)

Netherlands: Emmy (Atin Khum)

Endnotes:

1 Paul’s note: Kris refers to the “Discover Your Passionate Self” Workshop held in Castaic, California February 10-12 where he presented what he calls Avatar Yoga, or the Yoga of Remembrance. The following is a general outline taken from Mark Bukator’s notes:

Day One - February 11, 2006

• Meditation: Chanting AUM
• Opening Ceremony (Smudge stick, leaves, grapes, water, sand, etc.): Connect with basic elements that make this all possible
• Meditation/Visualization: Visit the Essence “Pool”
  

Lunch Break

• Divide the room into four groups
  

o explore your passions, have one person summarize for the whole
o act out your passions, each group presents to the whole

• Kris: Passions (Finale for the day)
  
  

Day Two - February 12, 2006

• Divide the room into FIVE groups (North, South, East, West and Center (group Aum)
  
• Q and A followed by discussions
  

Lunch Break

• Divide the room into FOUR new groups (Each group is ONE Essence)
  

o Describe the journey that THAT Essence is undertaking in terms of each focus. One person presents to the whole.

o Who are YOU?

Short Break (Birthday party and musical interlude, Peter Bayreuther performed Joy from his Nine Sisters CD)

• Meditation (Kris walked around and laid his hands on our shoulders/heads)
  
• Kris Chant (Everyone joined in)
  
• Q and A
  
• Peter closes by performing Love!
  

2 Paul’s note: our ability to ask the right questions and adequately assimilate the concepts helps to drive the depth of the material that gets presented at any given time. I can only think back with awe and admiration for the pioneering work done by Jane Roberts, Rob Butts, and students in the 1960s as they were involved with the slow but steady delivery of the Seth material and Jane’s Aspect Psychology. But it was nice to hear Kris point this out in an encouraging way.

3 Paul’s note: Peter and Karin had come all the way from Melle, Germany to participate in the workshop. Peter is a big Seth, Elias, and Kris fan, and has recorded several CDs based upon various conscious creation concepts. They stayed for a week afterwards and went on day trips around Southern California.

Peter and Karin visited on Monday after the workshop and he brought sheet music of his songs, which we played and jammed to in my studio.

We set up a date for him to return on Wednesday. I thought we would jam some more but Peter had other ideas! He suggested we record We Are Essence! Now, I had created Joanne’s cold by this time, so I was feeling out of sorts, but I said, “OK, I can go for an hour, let’s see what we come up with.”

I was using new recording software, so I wasn’t able to do everything in a flash. At one point I thought we might not be able to do the recording at all because of technical problems. But something very magical happened. In the midst of trouble-shooting and installing new hardware, I put out a mental request to my Sister Muses to help solve the problems, and two and a half hours later we had recorded seventeen tracks of music!

Peter arranged the whole thing, and it was a pleasure to see musical mind in action. I became a co-producer who handled the recording equipment and computer. Peter played violin, an overtone chant track, lead vocals, and piano – the core of the arrangement. Karin and Jo laid down two backup vocal tracks, and were really lovely in their singing! And I played a flute, bass, and percussion tracks. It all happened very spontaneously and creatively. We were all inspired by the workshop energy.

Peter Bayreuther and Paul Helfrich

Paul and Peter

Peter and Karin returned the following Sunday, the day of this session, to mix the song. That was a whole other adventure, as it was the first serious mixing I’d done in 6-7 years in my upgraded studio. So there were still some hurdles to mount, but we set aside three hours and finished by 3 PM. That gave us an hour to relax before company came over for this Int’l. session.

We played the song during the first break over our stereo system. I wondered what it sounded like being squeezed into the phone lines? But people got the gist of the song and arrangement, and we had a blast! Peter and Karin left that night for Hollywood to finish their three-week American adventure. And I would spend another six hours remixing the song because I wasn’t happy with the way Peter’s lead vocal sounded (a bit to much like being in a large trash can!).

I sent Peter an email with MP3 versions of the first and second mixes to see which he liked the best, and after he got home and listened on his computer, we agreed to send the second version out to everyone. Enjoy the trance mantra anthem: We Are Essence!

4 Ellen’s note: Anya is referring to the morning after she arrived in Castaic for the workshop. She went for lunch at a small cafe and met Peter, Karin, Ella and Inna for the first time. Peter called their group the “European Coalition” as he and Karin are from Germany, and Ella, Inna, and Anya are all Russian. Anya said that the energy among the five of them felt “awesome,” and “We felt like we were right where we needed to be.”

At lunch they became acquainted (or perhaps re-acquainted!) and spoke of Essence names and six-packs. Peter said his Essence name (from Elias) was “Marlyn.” Anya shared part of her private session with Kris, in which he gave her an Essence name of “Greensleeves,” and told her that she could connect with her Essence Source more effectively through listening to the song, “My Lady Greensleeves.”

Anya said that she had done a lot of research on this song, and had found the lyrics in a lot of places, but had not been able to find the melody that went with it, so she had given up. Peter recognized the song, began humming softly to himself for a few minutes, trying to recall the exact melody, then suddenly began singing it. Ella (who surprised everyone at the workshop on Saturday by belting out a composition of her own in an amazing, beautiful strong voice) joined in, then Karin and Inna, all singing out loud and strong, causing people in the restaurant to turn heads in wonderment

Anya told me later that hearing this song at last touched her so deeply that it brought tears to her eyes, and that out of all the experiences of Essence connection she had throughout the weekend, this was one of the most emotional.

Music: http://www.empire.k12.ca.us/capistrano/Mike/capmusic/renaissance/Greensleeves%5B1%5D.mid

Lyrics: http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/lm/lorecd45.html

5 Paul’s note: Kris’ Avatar Yoga, or Yoga of Remembrance, acknowledges physical STATES and STAGES of development. As Ken Wilber says, “States are free, but stages are earned.” In other words, we all experience at least three basic states every twenty-four hours, waking, dreaming, and deep sleep.

However, we all begin at STAGE 1 as infants and develop through varying STAGES as we mature. So stages take time and always involve growing pains. This isn’t to focus upon suffering or unpleasant experiences, but acknowledge that they are an inherent part of the physical, mental, and spiritual growth we all experience.

STATES are a very important part of Avatar Yoga because we can learn to induce altered states that engage phenomena like channeling, lucid dreaming, projections of consciousness, empathy, ecstasy, etc. But further, certain states develop in stages, as I believe channeling does, for example.

So these are important considerations to factor in as we learn to shift or widen our awareness and engage the remembrance of essence.

6 Paul’s note: this is an important definition of the remembrance. Recall that Kris began the 2006 Int’l. sessions by announcing this to be The Year of Enlightenment by Compassion. Kris went on to define “species” of enlightenment in relation to his cosmological map of the Four Quadrants. So in Quadrant 1, or physical reality, we experience a type of enlightenment or remembrance. This can occur as a temporary STATE, a taste, or can also be realized as a permanent STAGE. Thus, there are a variety of ways to engage enlightenment that Kris is only beginning to explore this year.

Further, he uses the term “remembrance” in a similar way Elias does to describe enlightenment, namely, that it involves a process of engaging “multiple Essence perspective[s] of a multi-dimensional nature.” So the Avatar Yoga that Kris has begun to outline this year provides important methods in which to engage the remembrance of essence.

See also the Elias Digest: remembrance of essence.

7 Paul’s note: this “species of mega-consciousness” is similar to what Seth called “primary pyramid gestalts” in The Early Sessions, Vol. 9 (2002), p. 28. Though Kris uses his own jargon to describe these phenomena, they are ontologically similar aspects of All-That-Is.

Again, Kris is in the process of outlining a very broad cosmological map, one that extends way beyond conventional New Age notions of focus and essence or inner self. Thus his Avatar Yoga outlines practical methods that will lead us to directly experience these concepts for ourselves. And I know from personal experience, when those satoris occur it’s a good thing to have an accurate map deeply ingrained in awareness, because it helps us to better relax into the experience of the altered state, and adequately translate the experience.

Kris further outlined how the Uguur are involved in the mechanics of conscious creation throughout All-That-Is in the following Int’l. session on March 5, 2006.

8 Paul’s note: Kris introduced the concept of nanons on February 8, 2006 as even “smaller” units that make up CUs or consciousness units.

9 Paul’s note: actually the term Uguur was introduced on Sunday February 12, 2006. But together with nanons, provide a set of conceptual bookends to further contemplate the infinity of All-That-Is, of who and what we really are.

10 Paul’s note: Steve’s comment shows the importance of the discussion forums on NewWorldView and other online venues that occur in conjunction with these, and the Elias sessions.

11 Ellen’s notes: Just now as I was working on this transcript, hearing Ella’s words, I suddenly remembered this statement Kris made the previous Sunday:

“The Uguur are what you consider the ‘All That Is’. Such potential was discovered and unleashed that a single TEAR can contain millions of galaxies. And thus the realities that YOU know were magically formed by unbelievable desire and potential.”

12 Paul’s note: here I referred to “the Adams axiom,” an elegant, ironic, and gently humorous quote from the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It shows that we will never be able to fully analyze All-That-Is in purely rational, scientific terms:

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” ~ Cut dialogue from Fit the Fifth, Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts (1985).

In the context of essence remembrance and forgetting, then, our forgetting or ignorance is innately designed into the very fabric of our universe permeating physical, biological, psychological, and spiritual aspects of our growth and development.

13 Paul’s note: I took this comment in the spirit of the saying, “Chop wood, carry water before enlightenment. Chop wood, carry water after enlightenment.” In other words, I don’t interpret this literally, as who knows what we will create seventy years from now when this shift is supposedly over (according to Seth and Elias).

14 Paul’s note: Steve refers to a topic he began on NWV that was a follow-up from the Kris Workshop called What did Kris mean Sunday when he replied to me about you cant fight laws of physics.

15 Paul’s note: this is consonant with Kris declaring 2006 The Year of Enlightenment by Compassion. Compassion obviously includes feeling, emotions and other “right-brained,” feminine, or intuitive modalities that are often under-emphasized in the modern, rational, materialist worldview. So I found this a particularly beautiful reminder of the need to feel our way through these questions, and not to limit our seeking to only rational, fact-based answers. All the premodern traditions have various practices to develop compassion, and engaging various practices are an important element of Kris’ Avatar Yoga.