(Session starts at 3:00 PM.)

KRIS: Now then we trust that you are comfortable.

JOHN: Yes.

KRIS: And we trust that you have utilized your time and your brain cells to come up with some interesting questions and insights.

KRIS: Well, ah, we’ll see.

KRIS: Indeed, please feel free to proceed.

JOHN: Ok, you mentioned some time ago, perhaps a year ago, that I had focuses that ran the gamut of religious, spiritual, philosophical interests. I’d like to know a little bit more about that if that’s possible.

KRIS: Indeed. Fire away, as they say.

JOHN: Ok, well, it’s not so much all that religious stuff. That’s all great stuff too. But the thing that caught my attention when you described that was that I was able in this particular focus to step aside from all of that and see it from a slightly different perspective. Can you tell me a little bit more about that?

KRIS: Indeed, even though in this particular experience you are able to philosophize, though not in the terms that is common for your species. You are still able to tap into the world views of other of your focuses as well as other philosophers. When you sense that inner acceleration that provides you with a certain excitement from within that let’s you know that the project you had put on the back burner to simmer slowly has suddenly reached the boiling point. Do you follow?

JOHN: Yes, I know that feeling.

KRIS: Indeed. When this occurs, whether you recognize the process or not, you tap into the various worldviews, perspective and (pause) even sometimes the living dynamics of other focuses, sometimes expressions of your own Essence or that of others who maintain a kind of alignment of intent. And this enables you to cultivate many of those ideas that you have experienced over the years as well as to launch into your own philosophizing.

And we continue to encourage you to explore those ideas, perhaps and even especially so in your Sid’s Café. You may think that it is merely the creation of an inventive self, one that has the ability to fantasize on this area. But it would most likely not surprise you to find that the roles undertaken by the various characters in your imaginary café are sometimes more than merely the projections of your own imagination, other energy (pause) clusters can (pause) ‘hitch a ride’, if this can be properly utilized to share not only insights and information but the journey that this idea complex of yours can generate. Do you follow?

JOHN: Yes I can. As a matter of fact, as I am writing a story, every once in a while there will be, the story will have a certain direction, every once in a while, frequently, regularly, in almost every story, there will be one or two little paragraphs there that just pop out. (Chuckling) Funny little paragraphs that pop out. For instance I invented something called luminaries, no numinaries, these are beings who just show up whenever anyone in the café wants a drink. The way I said it was whenever any desire is expressed within the confines of the café, a numinary appears and immediately fulfills the desire. (Chuckling). I have a feeling that may be some of the stuff that’s hitching a ride on the idea complex?

KRIS: Indeed.

JOHN: Yes. Well that’s been a lot of fun and thank you for your suggestion that I ‘get to writing’. That has proved to be a very, very fertile little plot for me to plow. Do you have any other suggestions along those lines?

KRIS: Perhaps a suggestion to notice also secondary lines of potential idea developments within one story that you may be working on at any given time. As if the main story line may actually contain seeds and offshoots from that main storyline into several others. And to not be afraid that it will distract you. For example you may make some general notation that at this point in your story you also felt, say, the ‘shadow’ of another story come along. And later on be able to return to that spot and pursue the development separately from the original. It may not even be anything remotely like the original.

By paying attention in this manner you will become more accustomed to the manner in which your own thought processes are habitually censored. Such as, a new thread casts a shadow in one story [then] the idea would be to dismiss it since it may not fit with the general theme. But it may actually provide the launching point for something entirely different.

JOHN: Ok, so my interpretation of that is that when I’m in that feeling of excitement and inspiration, things start flying around, and instead of throwing away the stuff that doesn’t go the way I want to go in that session, make notes and then come back to them.

KRIS: Indeed. They might take you into a completely different direction. Thus enabling you to again marvel at the very process that exhibits itself within you for such purposes. That is far more encouraging than trying to get the perfect story, because you are accessing multiple lines of communication.

You normally, as well as everyone else normally does this constantly and consistently, all the time, but through practice one has learned to censor everything that does not fit into the immediate perception. But you are creatures of multiple perceptions simultaneously.

JOHN: That raises an interesting question for me, because we have a tremendously narrow focus here as a focal…

KRIS: And a great or tremendous capacity to narrow focus.

JOHN: Yeah. Now as Essence I’m intellectually aware I can have many, many, uncounted focuses of attention. Can I have many, can I deal with, in an effective manner, many lines of communication as you say…

KRIS: Indeed.

JOHN: …simultaneously?

KRIS: Now, you are not an Intel processor. Thus the point being that you will be able to notice them but move your focus only from one, to another, to another. But you would have the psychological landmarks to return to that point. Even though, psychologically, you access all the points together, neurologically is another story, has to be metered out in sequential fashion.

JOHN: So if I were to, in my imagination, just drop a little flag on something…

KRIS: Or even when you write, insert a bracket, at this point you picked up this energy, or node, or words, or feelings, and then continue with your other story but later dive into that doorway.

JOHN: Yes, ok, that’s good. Thank you very much.

KRIS: Imagine what you call water theme parks with giant water slides. There may be ten of them and even though, in terms of desire, you may wish to enter each one of the, you can only do one at a time. But you can do all ten, but one at a time.

JOHN: Yes, so there’s a kind of a lovely little dance there between multiple and singular.

KRIS: Indeed and by learning to explore the multiplicities involved from the singular point of story you might end up being able to bring out even more interesting points of view, because ultimately as you train your awareness to be able to detect and respond to these various venues of communication, you are priming the pump for a widening of awareness.

JOHN: Ah! Ok well that’s good. That actually leads into a question I had which was, I’m beginning to understand how important intuition, impressions, impulses, basically all the unofficial information floating around, is, and I would like to get better at noticing and responding and dropping a marker if necessary and coming back and following up. Is there anything that you can suggest that would help me along that line?

KRIS: The previously suggested method will accelerate and enhance the ability to detect more intuitive downloads of information, so it is a good starting point. You may also begin by actively realizing that there are indeed a great many connections between all of the SEEMINGLY disconnected events of life, that there are synchronicities that may not appear to the naked eye but are quite potently available, but to the subjective awareness.

JOHN: So just the awareness that this connectivity is there and potent, even though I may not notice it the way I do notice some synchronicities?

KRIS: Indeed, for instance you may surely have noticed by now that you might suddenly for no apparent reason, might start thinking about someone you have not seen in many years.

JOHN: Hmm yes. Or a member of my family or what have you.

KRIS: And then, lo and behold, as you go do your weekly groceries, whom do you bump into the aisle but that very individual. Mostly this would be considered nothing more than pure coincidence but the mechanics beneath the reality are entirely different.

We spoke of briefly last night of these nodes and NODI [International Session: Apr 9 2006] that literally permeate all of what you call empty space. Even the space between here (gestures to the space between us). These individuals that make up the people of the world live in that kind of environment. You may refer to it as the Intuitive Ocean. And everyone lives and has its being within that kind of space where there are incredible amounts of connectivity and exchanges of information of all types, at all levels, between all people and between multiple layers of selfhood.

The individual you thought of that you would later meet might also have been organizing their day unbeknownst to their own objective self, in such a manner that people he or she has not met in a long time will be in and part of their day, just as you have aligned to that kind of an idea. And the communication appears as, ‘Ah yes. Funny that today I’m thinking of Janis whom I have not seen in many years.’

JOHN: So Janis might have been going through something somewhat similar in her morning…

KRIS: Indeed.

JOHN: …before SHE went to the grocery store.

KRIS: Indeed and to make this even more interesting, everyone that will be part of that day’s scenario, strangers, friends of all stripes, also intuitively organize their manifestations of that day to partake of each other’s day.

JOHN: So it’s kind of a group effort.

KRIS: Indeed as is the creation and maintaining of your reality and your collective world.

JOHN: Ok. Well that’s very helpful.

KRIS: Thus it is possible to become aware, even if only in theory or philosophy, of these nodi and you may for instance pretend that you are focusing on a nodi that is somewhere in this vicinity of your body (gesturing around his chair) at the subjective level, and opening up your inner senses, explore some of the contents or intent within that node of communication.

JOHN: Hmmm. That’s interesting. That’s kind of fun to think about.

KRIS: You may pretend that this node contains a visual screen upon which the information transferred within that node somehow or other fleshes itself out in a manner that you can notice it and perhaps take notes.

JOHN: Ok, well that sounds like fun.¹

KRIS: Indeed.

JOHN: (Looking at my notes:) So I did that one… all right. Um, oh yes… Here’s a kind of slightly off the wall and fun question. Thinking about you as Brahm for a moment…

KRIS: Indeed, and as Joseph would kid… ‘There is no need to call us “old man”.’

JOHN: Alright. What kind of questions and explorations are YOU doing?

KRIS: (Long pause) Part of our own exploration deals with a fascination with the manner in which subjective experiences lead into the displays of consciousness/matter in the way that it does, in many different realities. Now this may appear like a broad statement but if you consider for a moment even your own interests in developing and enhancing your creative writing capacities, it might give an inkling that from our own perspective, we are interested in and fascinated with the manner in which the creative potential of (pause) countless millions and billions of individuals also manifest their creativity through the worlds and the lives that they manifest.

JOHN: Ok. So at one level, is that part of the ‘two-way’ of what we’re doing right now? In other words I’m exploring what I’m interesting in, and is this part of your exploration of what you’re interested in?

KRIS: Indeed and by the same token there are many different life forms and capacities for Expressions of Essence in your universe and reality that we, even after having been around, so to speak, for so many cycles, there is still a great fascination in how one individual point of perception or Expression of Essence will still display an entirely unique manner through which they will filter and interpret their being in physical manifestation or other kinds of manifestations.

JOHN: Yeah! The paradox of uniqueness and wholeness or unity is fascinating to me too. (Laughing)

KRIS: And since we have been part of many systems for, in your terms, a very long time, somehow or other we are integral to many different systems, our energy being gently woven into and interactive with many of the systems of reality creations. In other words we are in for the long haul.

JOHN: Yes. Now that raises an interesting question. I don’t know why but I feel a tiny bit shy about asking this one, but if it’s off limits just say so. How many cycles has Sohars slash John participated in?

KRIS: Now, the physical expression of Sohars is a unique experiment, though the foundations for that Expression of Essence are steeped in many other experiences of consciousness. As Essence (pause) you have been, in those terms only, part of experiences for at least three full cycles.

JOHN: Three cycles… So then, ok, that’s interesting. You know when I was thinking about asking that question I thought ‘Why? What does it matter?’ Like why? I mean whether you’re fresh… In some ways it might be nice to be fresh in this cycle. (Chuckling)

KRIS: As long as you use Bounty.

JOHN: (Laughing) Yes, exactly.

KRIS: However the idea that ‘What does it matter?’ actually has validity. As we have explained on a few other occasions, especially in your North American culture you have very little traditions to root yourselves into the human experience beyond a few hundred years. European and Asian worlds have traditions that go back thousands of years.

And this also has an effect upon the collective and individual belief structures of the participants. This provides the ability to explore another kind of rooted-ness into consciousness, an opportunity to explore (pause) a family tree well beyond any concepts that you have experienced up to this point. We are not speaking of the kind of ancestry that says that so and so begat such and such and such and such begat this and that. But rather to stretch the very boundaries of your imagination and venture into territory you might not have been conscious that it exists. What kind of displays and creations did you participate in? Over many thousands, and millions, and billions, and trillions of years? What kind of adventures can you call yours?

JOHN: I thought I was asking the questions! (Laughing) Yes, at the simplest level, if you’ve only been in one cycle then you’re not privy to trans-cycle perspectives. Like, you have to have been in two cycles to have trans-cycle or straddle-cycle perspectives. You know?

KRIS: And none the less one cycle is still plenty of time to stretch your awareness.

JOHN: Yes, plenty!

Alright I’m going to jump to a question I have here. One of the words you use that I really, really like is congruity. In fact I wrote a piece just recently about the Three A’s and I started out with congruity, oh, congruence. I’m sorry, congruence. And here is the question, and I’m not sure… Well we’ll see how it goes. What would be the top, the most significant source of IN-congruence in John that we can, that I can address?

KRIS: (Very long pause) Now over the last few years you have made a great many strides. For many months you often entertain many of the concepts and ideas but merely at the mental level. Over the last few years, however, you have taken those ideas and concepts and have begun to apply them in practical and physical terms, but we also sense that there are many occasions when you, sometimes deliberately, stay within the realm of the mental side of the experience. Almost as if entering it into your practical, daily, physical experience might bring about conflicts you are not yet ready to deal with.

So, though there is a great deal of excitement about the potentials, there is still an ongoing debate in terms of trusting that some of these ideas can actually be transferred into concrete, physical, rational terms. Do you understand?

JOHN: Yes I do.

KRIS: This sometimes causes you consternation, perhaps even frustration. But you have also come to notice that when you are thus frustrated, consternated, and perhaps even emotionally constipated about some of these issues, you are able to recognize and then back off. Correct?

JOHN: Yes, I think so. I think that’s true.

KRIS: When you take a step back, that is when it begins to make sense. You are able to expand your use of the higher intellect. You have often peeked there. Do you understand?

JOHN: Not quite. I’ve often peeked as in ‘have a quick look’? Or peaked as in ‘the top’.

KRIS: Indeed, you’ve had a quick look. You’ve even tasted some of that sweet nectar, but sometimes you return to second guessing what this was about.

JOHN: Un-huh. Yeah, un-huh, I hear you there.

KRIS: That creates an incongruence. This also brings into play a simple, joyous trust and not always an intellectualization.

JOHN: Now it’s interesting you mention a simple, joyous trust. I feel that just in the last few months I have moved to a place of more joyous trust and it’s great. Is there anything I can do to move that along? I want more. More simple, joyous trust is what we’re ordering here.

KRIS: Explore our previous description of these nodi and learn what you can from tapping into these areas within YOUR consciousness. There are at best a kind of pocket of potentiality. They need not be called PP’s…

JOHN: (Chuckling)

KRIS: …but it would be fun nonetheless.

JOHN: So let’s say I am wondering through my day. How… What would be the clue to me that there is a node or nodi nearby popping with potentiality?

KRIS: When you begin to perceive the flow of an interesting idea and you sense that acceleration of consciousness…

JOHN: I know… I’m with ya!

KRIS: … try and notice which area of your personal consciousness? Is it perhaps in the upper right hand corner of your head, near your shoulders, perhaps near the waist, or in front, or on the other side? Do you understand?

JOHN: Yes, so actual geographical location.

KRIS: Indeed, in terms of energy of body. Is it perhaps here, (gesturing) or there, or here, in a manner of speaking. Try and acquire the general sense of where this is, even more so when you sense the shadow of another idea fitting itself in.

JOHN: Ah! So the two of them together are a real good clue that there is something…

KRIS: Indeed and if at all possible, and you can train yourself for this, start noticing where this is from. Is it near your head, near your shoulder, front, back, side, above? And it may be different when another idea comes to you. But pay attention and notice these things so that you can return to those areas. And as we suggested earlier, take note of what you perceive within them. And then as you go about your daily affairs, start recognizing such things as, ‘Yes, I picked that up today. I picked this up earlier.’ Do you follow?

JOHN: Yes, and putting the two together?

KRIS: Indeed, the idea being that, though it may not be 100% accurate, you will have legitimate accuracies and sometimes there will be interpretations of those accuracies. You may initially detect that you see a blue vehicle crashing into a brick wall… as a potential accident. You may notice that one day. And there may not be such an event. Not in those terms. But you may also notice as you walk about you see a poster advising against drunk driving with the depiction of an automobile crashing into a brick wall. Do you understand?

JOHN: Right.

KRIS: So not everything will be 100% depicted in actually physical living events but may still be part of that scenario.

JOHN: So here we get the idea, the powerful idea of allegory.

KRIS: Indeed, in one form or another.

JOHN: Yes. That idea of allegory? I have to tell you that just as one little gift, that understanding that the ideas of a psychological novel are more appropriate to understand life here, than the ideas of science or religion, is a big breakthrough for me and wonderfully joyous.

KRIS: Indeed and keep playing with life in that manner.

JOHN: Ok. Now, I just have a couple of questions. Here I am going to, in a way, sort of tap into Serge’s wonderful knowledge of herbology. Is there anything that you can suggest, that comes to mind in terms of herbology that it would be helpful for me to balance the physical body? Not that it’s terribly out of balance, but is there an herbal tea or something that would be helpful?

KRIS: (Pause) There is indeed a tea from South America that could be very beneficial, giving you all of the benefits of Chinese green tea but without the side effects of caffeine. This tea is called Yerba Matte. You may ask Joseph for some of this tea since he has it in abundance.

JOHN: Ok, great. And would this be a tea that you drink on a daily basis like your morning cup of tea?

KRIS: You may drink a few cups a day. It will give you a great deal of bounce as it is said, and acts as a wonderful adaptogen which means that it adapts to the necessities of your body, as well as an excellent blood cleanser, among many other things.

JOHN: Well that is great! One of the questions that you challenged us to ask ourselves, perhaps before Christmas, stuck in my mind and I’m just going to ask you, if that’s appropriate. What am I afraid to love?

KRIS: (Long pause) Where is the John that used to be predominantly displayed in terms of characteristics, personality traits, say 10 years ago, either before or after your heart difficulty?

JOHN: My heart difficulty?

KRIS: Indeed.

JOHN: I don’t recall a heart difficulty. Did I have a heart difficulty?

KRIS: Indeed.

JOHN: Hmm. Ten years ago…

KRIS: Perhaps less or more years?

JOHN: Heart… You mean physical heart or emotional?

KRIS: Indeed. It can even be both.

JOHN: Honestly, I don’t quite know the answer. This is very interesting to me. I wasn’t, in a sense, really very aware of having had a heart difficulty.

KRIS: For a moment focus on the individual you were at least 10 years ago.

JOHN: Right.

KRIS: How did you feel about being that person?

JOHN: Well, ten years ago? There were some problems. I needed a change. I wanted to make some changes. Yes. Ten years ago, 2006 so that would be 96. Well… Wait a minute that would be maybe when I was living with this guy. I was actually, if I’m thinking of the right timeframe, I was having some problems with someone in a relationship and I remember a couple of times kind of crying out and saying, ‘God please help me’. I was quite unhappy with myself at that time.

I don’t know where that guy went but he can stay there! (Laughing) I’m much happier with myself now.

KRIS: Indeed and our answer to your question would be to extend a loving outreach to that individual. Does that make some sense to you?

JOHN: Yeah. That guy needs… That guy needs a loving help, some loving helpfulness. Absolutely. So I’ll spend some time giving some love to that guy. Yes, definitely. I mean I DO love the guy and he was crying out for love. He was crying our for help.

KRIS: Indeed.

JOHN: And I feel like I’m in a position to help. To offer it!

KRIS: That is your answer to that cry from so many years ago. Intuitively, emotionally you can make that leap, that connection, and in some respects see that you are answering yourself.

JOHN: Yeah that’s a great idea! That will be very nice.

Ok now let’s finish with a trick question if I may. (Chuckling)

KRIS: Indeed.

JOHN: If you were in my shoes and you had this opportunity to talk to yourself, what would your last question be? (Chuckling)

KRIS: On the funny side we could say, ‘Why am I asking (myself) that question?’ But for all intents and purposes, (pause) we would ask (pause) for being able to continue the journey towards happiness.

JOHN: Ok! Ah ha!

KRIS: Happiness to many people is very many different things, but first and foremost it involves fulfillment. Does that make some sense to you?

JOHN: Yes. I’ve decided actually, just very recently, that I’m beginning to value happiness and fun above just about all the other stuff that has been goals and objectives of mine - handed to me by other people mostly. Yes, Myrna and I were talking about that the other night, and I was saying I’d rather be happy than have money because you’ve already won the game. Whereas money you’re hoping might buy you happiness, but you’ve still got that transaction to transact, whereas if you’re already happy, you’re home free.

KRIS: Indeed and if you have to buy your happiness then one has to question as to the durability of that happiness. And what will occur if one day you do not have the means to buy happiness.

JOHN: That would be a sad day.

KRIS: Indeed.

JOHN: Ok. I think we have actually just time for one more quickie, if that’s all right.

KRIS: Indeed.

JOHN: A friend of mine, my boyfriend in fact, spoke to me recently and it quite affected me. He was going to go to a test, and he didn’t have time to study for the test, and when he went in he just had confidence in himself, because over the year that I’ve known him, I’ve really taught him two or three things. One of which is that he’s perfect already. He’s already perfect. So he went in to take this test. It was having to do with acupuncture or something. And he did quite well on the test and his teacher complimented him. And he said ‘I did well on the test because I have wisdom’. And he was telling me this – very proud, very happy, very fulfilled – and I said ‘Well, I told you that.’ And he said, ‘Yes, but before you told me that, I DIDN’T KNOW!’

So, my question really is, is there a simple, easy way for me to share some of these basic truths with people in a way that will have that kind of impact for them? I’d like to do that.

KRIS: Indeed and perhaps we may ask you why do you think that you have been developing and honing some of your writing skills? Because there is potential here in a story line to impart through parables and allegory those teachings of wisdom that are forever bound to the human heart.

JOHN: Ok. Well that’s good, that’s good.

KRIS: So this is an excellent message through the allegory of storytelling. This is how all the mythologies have been handed down. There never were any great divine beings that handed stone tablets or other books to measly mortals and said, ‘This is my laws and you will obey them lest you piss me off.’ So this book is a book about how not to piss off the divine. There have never been any such things. There have always been stories that hope to instill and awaken within the human heart that ancient, timeless wisdom.

And over the course of centuries and millennium these stories become something much different than their intended purpose. They are seen and interpreted as revealed truths, and everyone must do exactly as the story says, verbatim, and so on and so forth. And the rest you know.

JOHN: Yes. Well that’s good. I’m happy to feel that I can make a contribution there because I felt very good to feel that what I told my friend made a difference.

KRIS: Indeed, as it should.

JOHN: Ok, well thank you very much, sir. You’ve been very kind.

KRIS: As have you. So please continue your adventures with the written word and see where, and on what kind of journey, they take you. And with that we thank you for your consideration.

JOHN: Thank YOU.

(End of session)

ENDNOTES:

¹ JOHN'S NOTES: When I got home from this session, I was sitting at my computer and suddenly felt that I was picking up a nodi. It was to my lower right and a little towards the back, about two feet from my body. Now here is the neat thing. When I turned my attention towards it, a little ‘window’ opened in my mind and started to display what I can only describe as ‘streaming video’ which stopped if I turned my attention away. There was no audio in this case. The scene was a racetrack and a couple of young redneck-types with baseball caps were talking. I was delighted at this early success even though I had (and still have) no idea what the actual communication was about. ~John