Summary Roll Call: Serge, Mark, John, Myrna, Ellen, Brian, Jennifer, Ella, Tom, Lisa and Anya

[MARK'S NOTES: For those of you with Adobe Acrobat and can read .PDF files, which I am sure is most of you, John has created blank Happiness Maps for you. Just click HERE.]

(Session begins 7:47 PM)

KRIS: Now we trust that you are all very comfortable and we thank you for your consideration. This evening we would enjoy bringing a previous discussion on magic into the presentation, and in particular, we would specifically like to discuss map-making, but in a very particular way, in a manner unique to our modus operandi. And we would call this "The Happiness Map."

Now, in standard terms, a map is a representation, hopefully in clear detail, of a particular geographical area, or a country, or even the entire world and certain branches of science, such as astronomy, each attempting to create a map of the cosmos, certain metaphysical studies such as astrology attempt to create a psychological and psychic map with the various houses and planets and so on. And it is, to a certain degree, worth investigating what it is that you map out during the course of your daily adventures and ultimately, during the course of your existence.

And of course, some of the subject matter will be familiar to you as it necessitates recognizing some of the various highlights, or even low points during the course of a day or week or month. And this requires a recognition of what you normally focus upon or pay attention to which includes what you worry about, what you stress yourself about, and even what you deny to your own self during the course of those adventures.

So this entails the creation of your own personal, psychological map and we hope to assist you in laying down a specific type of map that may even be akin to an old-fashioned treasure map, the treasure being “Happiness” and we can show you there are no pirates out to get the X that marks the spot, but most definitely this small exercise can also bring about a very real, conscious, undeniable representation of what you experience during the course of a day or week or more.

And we mention it in this way because we are well aware of the very human tendency to hide things from oneself, to censor and block out that which you do not want to deal with in one way or another, but this small happiness map will render the process much easier and assist you in transforming what you would normally deny or not want to deal with into a transformative process, leading to a treasure hunt for happiness. Not that happiness is found elsewhere, halfway around the globe, but rather right where you are to be found.

The process itself is relatively simple: On a sheet of paper you can draw a large circle and on and within the circle itself you can fill the space with a variety of smaller circles. The smaller circles can vary in size, as you please, or they can be of even sizes, the point is not to get all of the circles absolutely perfect. Once you have filled the large circle with a variety of smaller circles, you can begin to write or even abbreviate different portions or segments of your day with various activities that you engage in.

And this should be as true as possible, even if you think an activity should never appear on paper, we trust that by now you have a sufficient understanding to accept even those parts, aspects and activities of your own that otherwise you might still perhaps consider simple or otherwise. And if such are still carrying that stigma, then we highly recommend more Triple 'A' or even the very recent energy point exercise. With this out of the way, try and write something in each of the circles.

And once all of the circles have been filled with a description or abbreviation, whether one of the activities or some of the activities involve struggle, worrying, stress, and so on, take inventory of the numbers of activities that you might even consider perhaps unpleasant, unfulfilling, frustrating; in short, activities you consider might not make you as happy as you would have wished for that day or that week. And write perhaps beside, outside of that circle, the major circle, the number or percentage of activities that lead to unhappiness as well as the number of activities that actually are fulfilling and bring happiness.

Now we do understand the very real and practical necessity to often accomplish tasks that are absolutely necessary for human survival and so on and so forth, perhaps some of those are tasks you would perhaps not have to do that are necessary, but there are also many other tasks that you do that are fulfilling and fill you with happiness. And once you have finished writing the numbers and compared each one, take another sheet of paper, re-do the major circle and fill that with varieties of smaller circles. (Pause)

And in this, write down in each of the smaller circles as many activities as you would like to engage that do bring you genuine happiness, regardless of what it is, even if you think it is beyond your reach, Perhaps you would enjoy being one of the first people to go into outer space on a commercial vehicle, even if you think such an activity could not possibly be within your reach, write it down. And perhaps each time you write such an activity that fills you with happiness, even joy, take a moment to delve in that action. Imagine what it would be like if....

And after a moment, write something else in another circle, until you fill the page. You do not have to merely and strictly stay within the realm of fantasy. There are many, many things that can make each and every one of you happy in real and three dimensional terms. Feel free to delve into any of these as well. (Pause) Once you have filled all of the smaller circles we suggest adding up those happy activities that you consider fanciful in one way or another, and those that are, according to you, within your reach and add the numbers, and compare.

For example, you may have twenty different smaller circles, nine of them would be filled with activities you might consider flights of fancy, and the balance with those that are practical, so you would write those two different numbers. And once you are done, take a third sheet of paper, again make a large circle, again fill it with smaller various sized circles or evenly sized, as you wish. And this time you will divide the large circle, starting from outside its periphery, from one end to the other, north, south, east, west, creating four segments.

This is merely for practical purposes and you may name each of the four segments on the outside of the large circle, perhaps something along the lines of the upper left segment as "early morning", the upper right as "early afternoon," the lower left: "late afternoon," the lower right: "evening." These are merely suggestions, you may play with those things as you see fit.

Now within the first segment and you can also name segments one, two, three, four, however you like, segment number one: you can begin to fill it with activities, even if they are mental activities or actual physical activities that give you happiness, that make you happy. They would be activities that you DO engage in, that you would encounter in the day, or that part of the day, or that you will deliberately create within that part of the day to provide you with happiness. And you would do the same with each other segment. The idea being that you would hold this as a guideline to follow for those various parts of the day.

And you may even include, as does occasionally happen in real life, for the unexpected events that pop up in your reality and that even such unexpected events can be incorporated into your happiness map. You may even invite such unexpected moments of happiness to become part of your map of happiness. With a small amount of practice, such a process can take but a few minutes of anyone's day. However, the happiness map model is sufficiently open-ended for anyone to modify it to whatever adventure they wish to incorporate within it and especially to periodically, say every few weeks, if you carry this proposal to any length, compare your first map with your most recent map and gauge the differences, the changes, that make themselves known to you as you create them, utilizing such a map-making process as a guideline.

There is no hard and fast rule for such a process and as this development unfolds, you may even incorporate goals of happiness as a foundation for unfolding days ahead. We believe it is simple enough, but its impact can be very deep if you make such allowances, considering that the map is not the happiness, the happiness is what you create, the map being merely an assistance that can help you dig up treasures from deep within you, and help bring it up to the light of day and conscious experience. Does this make sense?

(Yes)

What is the time?

MARK: 8:21.

KRIS: Then we suggest a small break so that either you may discuss the map or ideas you have along those lines.

(Break begins at 8:21 PM.)

MARK: The very first map he did, it became apparent to me that, obviously everybody's day is different, but a map each day is a good analytical way to see where you are each given day, but there are probably, in some of those smaller circles inside, you can create a larger circle. For instance, I go to work, and at work I can have a variety of different things that I do. I could create a whole map just for work.

BRIAN: Couldn't this also be like the NODI, because it's a bubble?

ELLA: I think I got a little lost on the happiness map, because he said to write down everything you do, even flights of fancy and those things that you think aren't in your reach and I sort of have a blockage there. I have to re-analyze that. Some things I don't know if they are really in my reach or not.

MARK: Well, on today's map you might hypothetically put down some of them [that are] out of reach. Next week, some of those same items might be IN reach.

ELLEN: Yeah, and I think Brian made a good point about it being like the Nodi. Some of those little circles on the inside might be something that normally you don't really enjoy very much, but there might be times when you're doing that activity and you find something that you do enjoy...in that activity. You open up a new opportunity within that activity.

ANYA: That's why I was thinking about cleaning, Ellen, because Kris mentioned the other day when I was listening to Tom's private session, he said that a lot of the times when we're involved in some dirty, unexciting activity, like doing the dishes, sweeping the floor...a lot of ideas flow in and it's a very good time to…

ELLEN: Oh exactly!

BRIAN: You daydream and meditate when you do an activity [like that].

ELLEN: Yes, that's what she's saying, that's an excellent point.

ANYA: He said that sort of activity is like a net, where you're trying to catch little ideas and then visually, he said, which really struck me, he said those ideas that seem unrelated to other things, that just come out of the blue, out of your processes of thinking, he said you learn how to judge those little ones, then you will basically establish for yourself more and more with those bigger chunks outside of your physical flow that you are able to perceive.

BRIAN: Plus you are drawing it to you. I keep thinking of how we use the magnetic of our minds to draw events to us. That's what he's mapping out: draw the happiness to you.

ELLEN: Yeah, suspend your feelings of "Oh, I hate doing this!" and allow yourself to…

MARK: Dare to dream.

BRIAN: Well, we do. We call it "daydreaming."

MARK: No, but how many times do you sit down during the course of a day and say, "This is what I would really like to do..." whether it's…

BRIAN: (Laughing) I do that everyday!

MARK: But by doing that, you're using the imagination and daring to do it on a daily basis, you start to create it, because you get what you concentrate upon.

ANYA: I think there is a strong power of intent that will be used when you do this exercise, but I'm also thinking that, like last time, I thought, "I just want to be happy" and doing, doing, doing those things, to what purpose? …so I could be happy, so I set the intent to be happy and now I find many times during the day I'm already happy, but I'm not paying attention to that.

ELLA: What is "happy"? Is it a feeling of balance? How do you know it? I think everybody defines it differently.

ELLEN: I think I know it when I feel it.

ELLA: I feel happy when I feel free.

ELLEN: Being in the "zone," no matter what you're doing...when you're in that zone...

TOM: Well, I think we haven't been planning our days and our happiness, and I think that's the point he's bringing up, because if we haven't done the planning, we just expect what's going to happen is going to happen, and we haven't really looked at what was happening very closely, you know, trying to get the overall view...so I think this is going to be a great tool.

BRIAN: It focuses you.

TOM: Yeah, it's like trying to do a budget for your home.

ELLA: While doing it, it sort of puts me in that [mode of] "I choose to be happy...I choose to have advantageous events." It's all part of this conscious creation.

BRIAN: [Through utilizing P'Taah's "Morning Song" each day] you draw to you...just thanking Source for providing you with, even if you don't yet have it, it can come about.

ELLEN: "Thank you for what I SHALL have."

MARK: Brian, it's also taking the moments that you may not consider to be bringing you happiness and choosing to make them bring you happiness.

BRIAN: Exactly, Mark. Good point.

MARK: It's a change of perspective about events and circumstances of the day.

BRIAN: And knowing that it is your canvas to paint upon. It's your ball game.

ELLA: He is doing that. We are learning to paint upon that canvas.

TOM: It's almost like we're sketching it out first, then we're coming in with the colors later.

ANYA: I heard him also say within the past couple of weeks about how to get fun and excitement, which is to me part of feeling happy and he talked to me about this...I had no dream recall for about three weeks...and he said to think about it like you are going to Disneyland, create that feeling of a child who is about to go to Disneyland and experience that like "Oh, that's the element I want to bring to a lot of things to the day", to see something wondrous and to expect a miracle and it's going to be there.

MARK: That's very true because most of us in the morning or during the course of our day are imagining the negative, you know? "What's THIS day going to bring? What have I missed at work, I got to do this today, and all this paper work," etc. And if you reverse it and start thinking about all the good things that that day is going to bring instead…

BRIAN: Yeah, Mark, when you start thinking that the day is going to be bullshit, then you get it!

MARK: That's right.

BRIAN: I'll tell you, since I started doing what I've been doing with these exercises, not a day goes by that maybe 15 to 20 co-workers say, "How is it you stay so happy?" And you know what I tell them? "Because I choose to." And you know what? They're stunned, because they can't believe it's so simplistic. I just choose to!

(Kris returns at 8:35)

KRIS: Now, as we suggested earlier, do feel free to play with your happiness map. Consider it as part of the very process of happiness that you are cultivating. As was suggested during the break, feel free to implement change, to implement various aspects of your lives in such a manner that it works for you. The material we gave you is an outline and a guideline and not to be considered religious dogma. Have fun with the process.

We would even suggest that for those of you who are avid dreamers and who record your dreams, to create a similar map for your dream adventures. This would necessitate a revision of your dreams past for you to get a clear lay of the dream land so to speak, so that you can then create a similar mapping process and from there look for similar outcomes as your Happiness map; simply as a different way to work with and enjoy your dream adventures, giving you yet again a different perspective.

The whole idea with this happiness map process is to give the opportunity to become proficient and conscious of the very actions of consciousness that you go through on a daily basis, increasing your awareness of Self and what the Self does, motivated by your beliefs and similar structures, giving you a better inventory. And once you have this clear vision, it is considerably easier to actually understand what it is that you do over and above the general mentalizations that you process that gives this material to you in a manner that is concrete, and gives you a glimpse into the nature of your own activities, both physical and mental.

And again, as was briefly mentioned during break, this notion of writing down even those happy moments you may think are out of reach, can have a profound impact if you acknowledge those desirables and not brush them away because you judge them to be unfeasible, unattainable, not-in-this-lifetime kind of thing. That is not the point. The point is if it gives you a certain amount of joy and happiness, even to mentally venture in this area. [Let’s] say, for instance, you would enjoy flying to a tropical paradise, even if in all practical circumstances it would appear as if you could never make such a journey, but it gives you happiness to imagine it, put it down.

In so many short words, who are you to judge just how much happiness you can allow yourself? If you venture in this area, then you may very likely discover the very things that keep you from actually partaking of such happiness. When you automatically stamp down, shut the door, censor such thoughts because you have been brought up to think that such things are not yours to imagine. It would be selfish of you, arrogant, and so on and so forth, and that perhaps you should feel guilty for indulging in such pleasures, even if they are mental only.

Thus exploring that might actually unlock further treasures of the mind. But all in all, this happiness map is an assist to make you get a better picture and from there engage those divine-like, god-like, goddess-like qualities; activate that Micro and Meta magic to your advantage. Taste it! Breathe it! Touch it! Engage with it! This may give you a taste of the powers of creation that you have often relegated to the realms of the gods in the old-fashioned way, those states of community far removed from the human experience, as if the human experience is somehow or other a dirty secret.

Therefore, utilize such a thing as this Happiness map to come out of your own Divine closets. In days gone by, in the Gay and Lesbian community it was indeed a stigma to walk down the street and hear people whisper "There goes one of those queers, one of those fags and lesbians." Now, such stigmas, at least in many North American and western cultures, are taking a back seat to the reality. But imagine for a moment what it would be like to go down the street and hear almost out of earshot someone say, "There goes one of them gods or goddesses! They are coming out of THEIR closet!" Now though we jest, there is also a ring of truth to this. So play with your happiness maps. Have fun. And if Philip cares to, perhaps the lines can be opened for your questions on this subject.

MARK: The lines are now open. Any questions?

ANYA: Okay, my question is, what we have created as of now is probably in alignment with our beliefs, so if we create a map of things that are way beyond our reach, wouldn't beliefs that are a match to those beyond the reach of desires and goals, wouldn't they come up quite a bit to show that...you know...wouldn't they come up more into the unconscious gray area into our conscious awareness?

KRIS: We believe that we have answered that question. However, to summarize: the point is not, primarily to put sticks in your spokes, but to release those energies to effectively bring to the surface those particular beliefs and limitations you have imposed upon yourselves. By making yourselves conscious, you effectively attempt to Triple 'A' that information and leave the limitations behind. Now, we did suggest that you do keep a certain amount of practicality. For instance, we do not necessarily recommend that you put down "walking on water" and "raising the dead." In common vernacular, "been there, done that!"

(Group chuckling)

Do you follow?

ANYA: Yes, I do.

KRIS: Does that answer your question?

ANYA: Yes, it does. Thank you.

KRIS: Indeed. Are there other questions?

JOHN: I have a question that may be peripheral to the topic, but it does bear...you know how we say, "You create your own reality," and I just want to clarify for my own thinking...it's not me as Sohars that's creating this reality. From what I'm beginning to understand and take responsibility for, it's me, Johnny, the focal personality who's creating this reality. Is that fair?

KRIS: In part, but do keep in mind that you are not one hundred percent some kind of offshoot and separate Being. You are indeed a gestalt. So there are multiple layers of consciousness that you cycle constantly. Who exactly is this focus personality? It is not one thing only. Self is vast, yet occupies no real estate. Does this assist?

JOHN: Yes, that's great. That's helpful. The correction for me...I had been thinking that Sohars was doing the major pulling there and I was separating, I quite understand what you're saying, and what I'm beginning to understand as a real possibility is that just what we've got here now, at the conscious level, this is the God on Earth [pointing at Self] and this is the focal point of creating my experience here.

KRIS: Indeed, just as the map is not the territory, so is the focal personality not the whole self, but a representation of certain aspects.

MARK: I think what you're coming up with, John, is you're cluing in to Johnny's participation in that reality, and realizing that it's not all Sohars. We're starting to use these tools to understand our role as physical parts.

KRIS: Consider this: What part of you may have been involved in creating Michelangelo’s art work, or Da Vinci's creations, or any other individual. You do understand that the focal personality alone could not accomplish such great feats, but there are other parts of you that can.

JOHN: Right. It's like difference in emphasis that I'm beginning to recognize.

KRIS: Indeed. The emphasis is on the em-PHA-sis.

(Laughter)

Are there other questions?

ELLA: I have a question. I just wanted to review regarding the map. Basically what I heard, it sounds like everybody will choose their own methodology of how they will work with the map, with what frequency they will work, etc. Is that fair?

KRIS: Indeed.

ELLA: My question is, for example, I will review in whatever period of time my Happy map and I potentially I see that out of ten things I do, three things that I feel attainable, and I keep doing that and doing that and still three things remain that I feel are attainable, so I have to then try to concentrate what is blocking? Or how does one analyze this type of work?

KRIS: The general idea with the map, with this Happiness map process, is to keep increasing those events and activities that give you happiness, that are the results of the happiness you already contain. If you consider a treasure map, for instance, where X marks the spot where the treasure is buried, then these happiness maps, in a manner of speaking, are meant to have you discover that YOU are the X within which the treasure, the happiness, is buried.

The maps are guidelines to have this happiness dug up, brought to the level of the conscious mind so that you can greatly benefit from the happiness that otherwise may have remained buried. It is not important that what you write down appears to be unattainable at this point in time. And there is NO judgment meant at all if out of ten things, only three you consider attainable. The idea being that there is even happiness in thinking about that which is unattainable.

But if along that particular moment you notice that you cultivate and harbor beliefs that prevent those moments of that happiness from being part of your life, then feel free to Triple 'A' or work with the process as there may very well be reasons why it is considered unattainable by you. But ultimately the goal is simply to release that happiness. And we must also point out that just as it appears to be unattainable, whatever it is that is unattainable. Appearance is the key word. For your world, your entire physical reality is just that: a set of appearances and that is for your lovely self and anyone else and everyone else to ponder. We hope that answers your lovely question.

ELLA: It does, but I would just like to confirm what you are saying, that actually exists with me a lot. The only wrinkle with this, why I asked this question, when you asked us to draw the circle, particularly the happiness circle, you asked us to count how many circles are within and how many were attainable and how many were unattainable.

That made me think that there was some variation this way and I actually would prefer not to count them because that in my mind makes me judge. I know I shouldn't, but it makes me judge. "Oh, I only have that many attainable and that many unattainable." and when I just view all of them as a particular way to feel happy, whether mentally or in my reality, it feels very good to me.

KRIS: Indeed, as we suggested earlier on, the idea is that at a certain point in time, when you have been working with this method, you may go back to your first or very early maps and realize that the numbers of unattainables may indeed have miraculously, magically reduced in number.

ELLA: I see. That makes sense, actually, thank you.

KRIS: Indeed. Are there other questions? (Pause) Indeed then, what is the time?

MARK: 9:06.

KRIS: Then indeed, we send you all to your lovely happiness maps. Use them wisely, creatively and with complete abandon and have fun. And we return Joseph to you.

ALL: Thank you, Kris.

(Session ends at 9:06 PM.)

[MARK’S NOTES: After the session John started talking about Michelangelo and Picasso and was trying to understand what Kris had said about what part of John was Michelangelo or Picasso.]

(Kris pops back in at 9:10 PM)

MYRNA: Okay, Kris. Are we Michelangelo or not?

(Laughter)

MARK: (Jokingly) I'm David!

KRIS: Indeed, what aspects of your own creative nature participates in the events that you refer to as Michelangelo, Picasso, Rembrandt, Rubens, or any other artist?

MYRNA: Okay, the way you worded that is very important....so it's our own creative impulse, right? … is represented by what we see there?

KRIS: Indeed. The events of your consciousness will be reflected in one way or another as best as it can be interpreted. This does not invalidate the individual that you refer to as Michelangelo, Picasso, and so on and so forth. They retain their authenticity, but there is a part of you that also not only responds to that art, but participates in its creation as well, even if you think it occurred so many hundreds of years into the past.

JOHN: So is that, basically, because of the fact that inspiration....and at a deep level I....an aspect of me shared with Michelangelo? Or is it a more surface level, where, within Sohars, never mind [the concept of] no separation, there are those creative possibilities?

KRIS: Perhaps there is even another alternate factor.

JOHN: Oh, good!

KRIS: Consider all of these things as a different kind of map of consciousness that represents not a geographical, but a psychological area of yourself.

JOHN: That, in a way, allows me to expand my sense of Self. For instance, Picasso has been a lifelong hero of mine.....huge, protean, creative force that was the man....and it's lovely to feel that that's a reflection of that same huge creative force in me.

KRIS: Indeed.

MYRNA: And you did talk about getting back to your painting, your art.

JOHN: I just made a note of that today, actually. That's an easy way for me to have more fun...to do art. I gave it up for some reason, I'm not sure why.

MARK: This particular conversation reminds me of one of our walks, where we talked about the personality of your environment, and how it reflects your own personality. As well as, we create our environment through different aspects of ourselves in cooperation.

KRIS: Indeed and in that light, then, there is a portion of your energy, an aspect of your Being that revels in its creativity THROUGH the great master. It is NOT the master, but it reflects itself in that energy.

JOHN: I see, okay, well that's helpful.

MYRNA: Explain that to me? It is not the master....?

JOHN: I'm not Picasso, but that fabulous energy that I love…

MYRNA: Is you.

JOHN: Is me.

KRIS: So for you then, the Picasso is a reflection of your own resonance and it is the same for each individual. Now, take this map to another degree. What would Picasso or Michelangelo’s own resonances be reflected through?

JOHN: Well, if we're going to a different level, at this level they are reflected through all the other masters that they experienced in their life.

KRIS: Indeed!

JOHN: At another level up here....it's their own Essence stuff that's being reflected there.

KRIS: Indeed, so that gives you almost a three-dimensional map of consciousness. It can get complex because there are deep layers of resonances that your species is completely unaware of, but it gives you an inkling as to the interrelationships that weave themselves from one pattern into another, constantly transforming the very concept of creativity.

JOHN: Well that's....you've gone too far now.

(Riotous laughter)

If we're going to be creative with the concept of creativity, I...I...you know...it gets pretty spooky for me!

MARK: (Laughing) Map it out!

JOHN: How do you map the darn thing if it's changing all the time?

(Laughter)

KRIS: That is the difference between consciousness and the world of appearances. The world of appearances APPEARS to be a world of sameness, of consistency, continuity, but it is changing in ways that are often not perceived.

JOHN: Actually that raises an interesting question now that we're offline. I recently read a piece by the Pleiadians. Here's my question in brief: all this stuff about expanding our awareness of Self, loving ourselves, paying attention in the now, all these basic things that we've been getting into in the last decade....I have been thinking that these were an end in themselves and that the goal was to be paying attention to the Now, and to be more aware of the breadth of Self, and choices and the fact that I can create what I want in this life. I'm beginning to catch a glimpse of the possibility that all of this stuff is just the footsteps in the hallway and that there's a very big and wonderful surprise just over the horizon for us as a species.

MARK: Always.

KRIS: And it should also be pointed out that it is not necessarily that you are expanding your awareness and so on and so forth, but simply recognizing the extent to which you have limited your perceptions by breaking down the barriers to recognize that which is already expanded.

JOHN: Right. Yes, I understand that. I understand the distinction that you're making there.

KRIS: Indeed. The child does not strive to become a teenager and strive to become an adult. It merely grows into those states and stages. They are pre-existent in themselves. The difference is how the child WILL grow into the adolescent and teenager and the adult. Those states already exist.

JOHN: Right, so it's a remembrance.

KRIS: It is indeed a discovery because it is pre-existent, just as Columbus did not discover America. It was pre-existing and fully inhabited.

JOHN: So from Columbus' point of view, the issue for him was how precisely he sailed across the ocean, not getting there. So the issue for me in my life is how I'm living this moment, not how expanded I might be compared to yesterday.

KRIS: Indeed. What is the Now for you?

JOHN: And where am I locating myself in the map of consciousness in this Now.

MYRNA: Kris, I'd like to, with Mark and John...I was told this week by somebody who's observed me....doesn't know me well...but has observed me…I work out at a Curves and she said to me as she has observed me, that I am the most unthreatening person....I would just like to mark how I have let go of many limitations to get to the point that somebody can say to me that I'm unthreatening...and she was saying so much more than that.

KRIS: Indeed.

MYRNA: Because that's not who I was, and I just want to celebrate my journey and appreciation of myself for getting here!

(Laughter and applause)

JOHN: So marked! Let the record show.

KRIS: Indeed and a lovely observation that you recognized that you are not a threat to your own self.

MYRNA: Right.

KRIS: AND this individual could only have noticed this because you created a resonance within her as well.

MYRNA: Of course. I will ponder that...I missed that part where I'm not a threat to self! (Laughs) Which is very important!

KRIS: You never were.

MYRNA: I never was?

KRIS: You had to acknowledge it. Now then, we will leave you to your wonderful resonances, your wonderful, artistic, creative selves…Picasso's, Rembrandts, Michelangelo’s all.

JOHN: Thank you Kris.

(9:23 PM)

Detailed Roll Call:

Toronto: Serge (Joseph), Mark (Philip), John (Sohars) and Myrna (Shara-Leene)
Hawaii: Tom (Desire)
N.J.: Ella (Lazuli)
Oregon: Lisa (Lauromar)
Salt Lake City: Anya (Greensleeves)
Delaware: Ellen (Kwaa'Ji), Brian (El-Don) and Jennifer (Alma)