This channeling concerns a group question regarding the well known channeled phrase "All Is Choice".

You may have already noticed in thinking about the statement "All Is Choice" on a big picture, theoretical basis, it is not all that useful in a practical sense.  It can be comforting to have that as a basis or background, but the human mind finds it impossible to maintain a real connection to that idea when also faced with mundane, day to day activities.

In other words, when you pick up your coffee cup to take a sip, it is not that useful to you in that moment to imagine how that small action fits into the overall arc of your life as a projection of a soul. How does taking a sip of coffee serve you in the larger sense?  It's almost impossible to grasp that - and then the question arises: "how does the act of taking a sip of coffee affect me, either positively or negatively, in terms of the overall arc of my life?"   From that moment, from the human perspective, it's almost impossible to tell.

And so for some, a sense of "bullshit" can erupt from this.  The human mind invents reasons to stave away inner chaos.  The concept of "all is choice" can be used to push away feelings and to rationalize acts or feelings about acts in a way that's typically not very useful to a person. An intellectual, older soul can have strong feelings about an act, but step back to intellectualize under an "all is choice" motto in order to be "loving" and deny negative feelings.

While stepping back and becoming part of that larger perspective is part of the old soul experience, there's a not so fine line there. When that stepping back is done to create a denial of what's being felt in the present than that is not particularly useful.

Our suggestion about how any person can view their life in terms of choice in a way that's empowering would be to instead of looking at things at the macro level to look at the micro level and to connect emotion to every moment:

As I pick up my coffee cup to take a sip, what am I feeling?  Am I feeling energized?  Am I feeling frustrated?  Am I feeling hurried because I need to gulp down a whole cup of coffee before I leave for my day?  Am I feeling complacent?  Am I feeling bored?

That's only a small fraction of the kinds of feelings that someone can feel in the simple act of picking up coffee cup to take a sip.  The more you are present and aware of what you feel in a given moment, the more you will feel connected to your own empowerment regarding choice.

Choice within Simple Actions

Let's examine this more.  We will go back to the coffee cup analogy. In that act of picking up the coffee cup, you have all kinds of choices. Perhaps they might be in some ways dependent upon or connected to other factors. If you're in a hurry, then you might pick up the coffee cup in a certain forceful way. If your mind is engaged in something else and you reach out with a fumbling hand because you decide you want a sip of coffee while you're staring at your laptop screen, that's another way of being present in that moment.

A small word of caution: while it is possible to be mindful and aware of what you were feeling in every given moment, that again is not necessarily useful to the human experience. In other words, you can get anal about it: "I'm sitting in a chair.  What am I feeling now?  I'm leaning back a little.  What am I feeling now? I glance out the window.  What I am feeling now? ... "   And you can get caught up, lost in the midst of intellectualizing.  You would be trying to feel instead of allowing the feelings to be present. There's a balance.

Not everyone that we're speaking to can join in what's referred to as an "old soul perspective" of stepping back and becoming distant. And that's okay - it's not necessary in order to feel empowered in your own life or feel good about what's going on in the world.

When we are referring to empowerment in this instance, we mean feeling that you yourself have the ability to make changes in your life as you see fit.  The very first step in that is assessing where you are in a given moment.  This is why we talk about the micro level, or bringing in an element of mindfulness.

The most useful way to apply that concept is when you feel the "big feelings" - when you feel a fair amount of emotion.  That's when you rest in that and simply ask "what am I feeling?" from within your presence - from outside your intellect.  Allow the feeling to be there while you rest in it.

Question:  I recently had an experience where my child was misbehaving and getting very angry, screaming and not listening.  I felt a very strong impulse to spank him until he "behaved", but then I caught myself because I know that is very bad for him.  I guess my own childhood pain came out - I don't know.  But then I got very tense and pushed away the feelings, but I still noticed him being very frightened of me and seemingly feeling threatened.  I guess by stuffing away those violent feelings, I was also being unloving.  This relates to the nature of choice to me - both were fairly automatic.  Either I behave like my parents did to me or I try to repress and do the opposite, but somehow create a similar dynamic.  I didn't feel I had any other choice.

This situation is a moment of big emotion.  The parent, feeling all this welling up inside them, has a moment to create that change from how they themselves were treated as a child. So the parent can assess this, starting with the knowing of "I'm feeling this big emotion."

Realize first that immediate action is not necessary. In other words, following through with that spanking energy is not necessary.  Removing or changing the emotion is not necessary.  If there is a big emotion there then this is a time for the parent to sit with that emotion for a moment without taking action.  Allow it to be there.   The action arises from believing that the emotion can't be there.  It wants to move through and out.  Tensing is another way of saying that the emotion cannot be there - and it also communicates to the child that their own mirroring emotion should not be there.

Again, this is an invitation for the parent to truly be with that emotion without moving into action.  This "action" can be external or internal, such as tensing or rationalizing.  Understand that this moving into action is likely a pattern for that person that came from their own childhood (such as with the pattern of self destruction).  Whether or not they tense themselves and try to try to deter any tendencies that feel negative, or they go ahead and strike the child:  those are two opposites of the same spectrum of non-acceptance.  The trick them would be to simply sit with the emotion and to let it be there without taking action.

Once the parent does that, other perceptions begin to come up: realizations that this is a connection to my own life. Realizations that I don't need to perpetuate this with my child, that there are other choices available now that the need to push an experience away has dissolved.  Emotions are simply energy.  They are an experience.  From our perspective, all emotions are good emotions, as energy itself has no value judgments attached.  But people can feel disempowered by emotions when they have not been encouraged to actually feel them.  Surrendering to the experience of an emotion is a tremendously empowering act.

The child's experience is a little different.  A child is naturally feeling a little bit disempowered, especially in western cultures, because of the physical dynamic that already exists. In other words, they're a small person and surrounded by big people who make the rules, provide the structure and play the "authority figure". There's already an atmosphere of not feeling that they have a choice.  But also within the child is a beautiful invitation to create a sense of choice in the midst of what could feel like a disempowering situation. The choice is about feeling.   The child too has the impulse to take action:  Do I cower and cover my head?   Do I run away?  Do I try to smile to defuse the situation?  Those are all potential actions.  But the child too can simply be with the emotion.

A child naturally does this at a very early age, but in the western culture is largely educated away from this.  This is true in the modern world in many Eastern cultures as well. The role of "parental authority" is a factor in 90% of the cultures around your world now.

We can offer a practical exercise beyond the theoretical which we've already given you that can increase your ability to feel connected to the choices in your own life.  We've already talked about stepping back while feeling and allowing yourself to feel when a big emotion comes up.  Again, that's useful situation by situation as it comes up for you.

In order to assist, provide support and create a pattern of energy movement within you now that can become a foundation for you whenever those big emotions come up so that you can practice what we've already told you, we can offer this.

This exercise is best if done seated and your spine is relatively straight. If you are accustomed to a particular meditation posture this is a good opportunity to take a particular posture but it's not necessary; you can be seated in a chair. 

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Closing your eyes, take a deep breath and allow it to float out if you.  Take another deep breath, hold it for a moment and allow it too to float out if you.  As you release that breath, imagine your conscious awareness expanding.   Every time you breathe in and breathe out your awareness expands. In other words, rather than being tightly placed inside your head, perhaps, it moves to a space outside yourself. You can start with a space that extends about a foot away from your body.

Just as you breathe out, allow your breath to float into that space about a foot on all sides of your body and allow your awareness to extend to that distance.  It's especially important to bring your awareness up over your head to that distance.

Now you can imagine that your awareness has expanded to a place that's up above and slightly outside of your physical body. This causes you to have the sensation that your movements would be slower, more flowing than you are accustomed to.  You feel wiser, perhaps.

Understand that within the space you may also incorporate all your emotion world by stepping up and back and out just slightly. You have the opportunity to include an awareness of more of yourself than you are accustomed. Yet this is not a  place of overwhelm. This is where you can be with those big emotion's without being overwhelmed by them.

If the idea of choice and empowerment has been particularly troubling to you - in other words if at times in your life you have felt buffeted by the winds of chance - then we would suggest taking a few moments of each day to perform this exercise.  Understand that when those big emotions come up for you this is the place that you can rest in while you are allowing yourself to be present within those emotions. And when we say "be present with" we are not suggesting that you become detached from and intellectual about them.  But we are suggesting that from this space you can see them for what they are. You can allow them into you without creating a need for action.

From time to time, Polaris speaks in parables and stories.  This is a wonderful short story about a brickmaker, art, beauty, and blame, which was told when a question was asked about the nature of blame.  For your enjoyment, we've included the audio, so you can hear the story as it was told.  It runs about 9 minutes.

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On Apr 14, Karen was invited to a 30 minute segment on ThatChannel's flagship TV and radio program, Liquid Lunch.

It was quite an event, with half being an interview with Karen herself, and then Karen allowing Polaris through for some wonderful new and live channeling on the nature of time and how presence and awareness affects the flow of time in your life.

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We have been creating some guided visualizations over the last few months.  These are a wonderful way to experience the channeled energy of Polaris in a much more personal and powerful manner via your own audio player.  They are also incredibly relaxing.  As a gift to you, here is a short visualization that we are making completely public as a general introduction.  This is a guided visualization regarding transforming pain.

More in depth guided channeled visualizations and meditations are available at the Guided Meditation Library.

After experiencing the energy of Polaris, people often wish to know how they can access that energy themselves and to help bring that energy out into the world.

This meditation is from a public channeling in April 2008.  Polaris offered a simple meditation that helps you to both be more present and to access the energy of Polaris.

Question: It seems to me that all my life I have felt out of place in some way.  I'm wondering if this is because I'm ahead of the "wave" of level of consciousness on this planet.  Or is it because I'm in a life of growth and having a difficult time?  Do people who are way ahead of the curve ever feel comfortable?  Or people who are way behind the curve, do they feel comfortable? Can I feel comfortable?  I would like to feel comfortable on this earth plane and I would like to have that experience!

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The energies were extremely positive - people were affected strongly simply by being in the same room.  Thank you everyone there - the questions were wonderful and appropriate.

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Transcript of the channeling (with questions)

Good afternoon. We are here.

We are pleased to be speaking with you today. We have noticed that several of you have some curiosity about us, about who we are and about the process of us coming together that eventually evolved in us being here with you today. So we will tell you a little more about that.

As you know, we are four, yet we are one. Now, that doesn't mean that we are "reunited", but that we are acting together as one as has been previously discussed. We are four - and you are familiar with some of our more individual energies. Most of you are: you have read material, you have felt energy, you have studied our words ... you will have that familiarity with us. So we would like to tell you more about our "individuality", and we would like to tell you also about what we do as a group. We think you might find this interesting.

Many of you know the Michael aspect of us, and you know your perception, of course, of the Michael aspect of us, which is authoritative yet warm, with a dry sense of humor. You this about us. We are pleased that you know this about us. There is more to us, of course : you yourselves present a face to the public, but that is not the entirety of you. So you have not yet seen the entirety of us, and it is through our working together as a group that we hope to be able to express more of our entirety to those of you who are on the Earth plane of existence. It is not out of a need for expression, necessarily, that we hope to do this, but it is because through the entirety of us we can give more to you.  You see, it is through the entirety of you that you give more to one another. Why would we not want to express more of who we are so that you can use that energy, you can use that knowledge, you can use that humor to be more fully who you are?

It may not help for us to tell you more about our Michael aspect in terms of descriptive words. So we will allow you to take a moment and to experience what the totality of our energy feels like. That is not to say that some of you are not already aware of more of the totality of us, but we invite you now to take the opportunity to feel what we are presenting to you.

If you will close our eyes. Take a moment .... and we are here. [silence as everyone went into a meditative state]

Let us lift that a little so that we may speak to you more. You may open your eyes. That is more of the totality of us. Those of you who are energetically sensitive felt what you felt.

Now let us move into the Seth aspect of us. (humorously) We are not as a dry as we like to make out that we are. We have a fair amount of humor, and you have likely noticed this. You have read our words. You see more than what is there on the page, do you not? You feel the love and the acceptance that comes from us. We do not - none of us do - we do not judge you in any of your conditions. We simply tell you where you are. There is no judgment in that. But we tell you where you are so that you can know more who you are. You see?

And we do not hold back when we tell you where you are, because to us it matters not. All of the lessons that you are engaged upon are beautiful to us. All of the lessons: even the painful, or horrific, or devastating lessons. They are all part of the beauty that is what happens when you are part of the Earth plane. So, we are now in our more Seth aspect, and we would like you again to feel the totality of us. So again, we will bring our energy down and you will feel what you will feel. So you may close your eyes, and we are here.

[meditative silence]

And we will lift that a bit and you may open your eyes.

Now, you are feeling energy - what does this this is tell you about who we are?  Would it not also be useful for us to explain more you? Well, the energy comes along with the words as you know!  You are - all of you - quite energetically aware. We are finding this a pleasure to interact with. Not everyone is like this, you know.

So again, moving back a bit. When each of us are in our individual aspect we are able to present, to you to those of you on the Earth plane, a portion of who we are, and we do this via sending energy through channels like the one you are looking at, who then translates this energy into words. And you know that much of our words - that is translated energy - comes across very much the same, and yet there are differences. How could there not be? We are coming through different channels, different translating devices if you will. So there are individual differences based on the channel's perceptions, based on who the channel is. We have spoken a little bit about this recently - some of you have heard this. Again, we present as much of ourselves as we can, but what comes through is a portion of who we are.

Robert is here, and would like to speak a little. Robert doesn't often speak as Robert. Robert is the dramatic one! Robert has a flair for the gesture. You may have seen these gestures.  Robert is a bit of a performer. Robert likes to talk about himself in the third person. So, you may feel some of Robert's energy now. Simply Robert - now.

[A dramatic gesture and then a meditative silence]

And Robert lifts his energy.

Robert has spoken through channels but chooses often to engage himself, if you will, in other projects.  We can speak more about of more of the projects that each of us are engaged upon in our "day-to-day lives" that may be of interest to you. But first we would like to introduce you specifically to a Aesha.  Aesha has of course been here the entire time.  Aesha has a hard time removing themselves from the totality of everything because Aesha is everywhere, and since Aesha operates simply on a vibrational level, it is difficult to to separate Aesha.  However we will do so for you now. Welcome Aesha.

[A very gentle gesture and then a meditative silence]

Now Aesha is going to step back a little to their customary position all around you.  And we will talk a little about how we came together to work as a group of four - as a quadrate.

We are engaged, as you may be aware, on multiple projects on our plane of existence. Part of our lessons we are involved in is staying in supporting the lessons that you are engaged in. So a great deal of our energy, each of us, is involved in assisting you with various aspects of your lives. Some of this comes through energetically in terms of words that you can then take, read, assimilate and bring it into your life in order to see things differently or to change your perception.

This is all very wonderful, but that is only a part of who we are, as we were explaining earlier. The larger part of what we do that affects you is simply energetic. As you know, everything is energy anyway. So why would we separate out the energetic part of ourselves that ends up in words from the energetic part of ourselves that simply surrounds you and supports you?  We are always here. We are always with you. We are always accessible to you - all of us. It is only in your minds that you need to separate our energy from yours.

Again, we will tell you how we came together to work as a group. But first we will tell you more of what we do on a day-to-day level.

As we were saying, we are engaged on in supporting you in your efforts. We have existed on your plane of existence and we have experience about that. We have since expanded our perception because of our growth into other planes of existence, and it is through our larger (if you will) perception that we are able to assist you with yours. So that is very much what we do. However there are plenty of mid-causal plane lessons that we are engaged upon learning ourselves.  Another great part of our energy is engaged in making in our way through our causal plane lessons, just as you are making your way through your physical plane lessons. Because of our wider perspective, though, we are able to divert much of our energy to your exploits in your lives and your well-being, while at the same time we are tending to ours. If you will think of us as similar to what a teacher or parent is in your perspective, where you are at once yourselves and at the same time you are assisting someone with their own lessons, this is much like how we operate.

Many times through our own causal plane lessons we try new things, just as you try new ways of approaching your own challenges that arise within the context of your lifetime. For some time now we have been working on various ways of moving through certain causal plane challenges, and we determined that in order to do so successfully that it was necessary to revisit some of what we have done before. All of you do this in the Michael Teachings system. Many of you are looking at lessons particular to a certain soul age level. But yet you visit lessons and opportunities that are typically associated with a different soul age level. So this is much like what we are doing now. We are revisiting some of the realities of where you are, but seeing them through our wider perspective.

(humorously)  We're sitting around with a cigar and a drink, thinking "how can we do this?" And we decided that it was a lot of fun interacting with you folks in the past -  so why don't we get together and see what that feels like doing it as a group?  We are all used to interacting with the Earth plane and physical plane separately, if you will, even though our awareness of separateness is different from your awareness of separateness.  So we decided to come together and to work together in this way. There is a certain amount of information that we are interested in passing along to you, and that is what we are engaged in doing.

After this information is passed along, will we still work together? Probably! Isn't there an infinite amount of information that we could possibly pass along to you?  Well, in some ways, yes, and many of you have remarked that upon of the spiritual information coming through multiple sources is simply different ways of saying the same thing over and over.  So all of us - and we say all of us we mean the collective everyone - on the causal plane is a very interested in assisting those of you on the Earth plane because this assist us.

There are many of us are beyond the four that you were speaking to now that are transmitting a great deal of energy in your direction. This is resulting in a similar message coming through in many different ways, and we've been doing this for some time - all of us - and so you will notice things almost being repeated. Well, it's not for the sake of repetitiveness, it's for the sake of reaching different people at their own right moment in their own right way. There is no right way of sending this message - it is simply there. All of us on the causal plane are very interested in helping you be more of You, and there are almost an infinite number of ways of helping you do this. It's up to who you are in your perception as to what works for you in terms of what you can hear and what you can then take with you. It matters not to us.

Again, we are in our experimental mode and we are having a great deal of fun with this and we look forward to speaking to many more of you in the future.

We have told you a little bit about us and we anticipate that you may have questions. There is of course much more to tell, so we will invite your questions now.

Questions and Answers

Question: When each of the four energies came in, I immediately got 4 distinct colors, one for each entity. The energies just manifested as colors. Would they say this is how the energy appears or is it just one different way of interpreting it?

Energy can be interpreted in a variety of ways, and we were having some difficulty last night, expressing what our perception is on the causal plane.  We were expressing it in terms of vibration, but we were also expressing it in terms of color, and certainly on the physical plane level, there is a direct correlation between color and frequency of vibration. You can think of this as a spectrum of light,  if you will, which is a type of energy, a type of vibration and each color vibrates at a slightly different rate.  As you are visually oriented as well is emotionally oriented, then this was a meaningful way for you to interpret our energy. We would not say that it is the only way to interpret our energy, but it is an extremely useful way to interpret it, and we are pleased that we were able to a project energy in such a way that it became visually meaningful to you.

Question: I was wondering, you said you are a teacher and you can tell us where we are in our existence - do you have a teacher?

We have many teachers. Ironically you are our teachers even though you have less (maybe) than awareness of this, but we learn through you, not only because of your physical plane experience but because you are also involved on much more than the physical plane. So you are part of our teacher also.

But there are more formal teachers for us?  Absolutely.   Everyone - at any level - is always be engaged in supporting the efforts of those involved in other levels of experience.  So yes, we do have teachers.  We are sometimes feeling nudged ourselves!   (laughter)  We our share of difficulties as well with our own experiential challenges.  To you we seem excessively wise and "all knowing" and have this wonderful wide perspective, but we have times of feeling very small as well, because we have this wider knowledge of All That Is, and we know that we are that and we are also "not quite that".  There is a level of (you might feel it as ) frustration at times.  We don't have the sense of time impatience that you do, but we are aware of all that goes on at all times. Again, we suffer our share of difficulties or resistances, we will say, to our own experiential challenges.

Question: Is there any other way of thinking about energy except in terms of energy and vibrational rate. What is energy? Is there any other way of defining it except in those terms?

We would like to offer you an analogy. This may take some time.

Imagine if you will, that you are standing on the beach. You are barefoot. You feel the sand beneath you. The sand has been warmed by the Sun. So the sand contains the essence of the Sun, the energy of the sun. You feel that in your feet. It is quite hot. It is starting to become uncomfortably hot. You are feeling a great deal of energy coming up through the soles of your feet and you are looking around now for some shade, or to see if you can make it to the water's edge where it is cooler because this energy is now coming up through your feet at such a rate that it's quite uncomfortable. There are those of you who experience energy on a very physical level, so thinking about it in terms of vibration is an intellectual exercise that is almost meaningless. You need to feel it!

We would like, then, for you to think about energy in terms of how it makes you feel. There are those of you who can feel energy in your hair!  Hair sort of feels lifeless to some of you, but to others it is something with a consciousness of its own, for indeed it has a consciousness - every part of your body has one. So if every part of your body has a consciousness, then every part of your body can feel energy, and every part of your body then deals with slightly differently because each part of your body is of composed of something slightly different.  You may want to think about energy in terms of what you might feel on your skin, versus what you might feel on a heart level, versus what you might feel on a gut level, versus what you might feel in your hair, or any part of you.

That is what we would like to impart to you.  Because everything is energy, it can be experienced by you on the physical plane in a variety of ways, and there is no one way to do so.  So if you are comfortable experiencing energy as color, then that is what works for you.  If you are comfortable experiencing energy as the physical sensation, then that is what works for you.  If you experience energy as something that you translate in your head as words, or thoughts, or pictures, then of course that is what works for you.  Because the physical plane is confined to form and time, it is difficult to experience energy on any other basis.

Think about that.  The physical plane is nothing but form: three dimensions, as well as time.  Energy, therefore, like everything that you experience, can only be experienced - truly known by you - on that basis. There is no judgment attached when we say this.  It is simply a fact of the reality in which you exist.

So when we talk about energy as a vibration, that's not necessarily something that you can really wrap your mind around, that you can really feel that you are experiencing. So you have to make experiencing of energy a very personal matter. It takes really knowing who you are to know how you experience energy.  And each one of you are going to experience it slightly differently. What is true for you is not the same as it is for another.  Have we answered your question?  (yes)

Question: The energy is so strong for me. I almost feel like I'm going to faint—it's way stronger than it was last night. So I'll try to make sense.

I wanted to ask: there are many people in this world now that say that the vibration of our physical plane is changing rapidly, elevating, and the veil (or whatever you want to call it) between our world and other dimensions is becoming thinner and easier to transgress. Do you on the mid-causal plane experience any difference in this energy shift when interacting with the channels here, if the shift is in fact happening. And can you talk about also where the shift is going in our world? What will eventually happen? How will our experience with other dimensions change?

As you  - on your planet collectively - move through your experiential growth lessons, it does affect the overall vibration that surrounds you in terms of the energy that is of your planet. So we would say that, yes, that rate of vibration has been changing. It will continue to change.

Now has the rate of this vibrational change increased lately?  Well we would say that, as we were saying earlier, there's been a great deal of energy transmitted toward the physical plane. There is no "grand design" to do anything in particular with this.  It is simply part of the agreement that you all hold. you understand.  There is a collective global agreement to move things along at a different rate.   This is something that all of you are taking part in.   Every one of you - not just in this room, but globally - you have a collective agreement to make some changes that affect your planet. This will have a variety of effects. So,e of you are becoming impatient with your lessons. Some of you would like to see more things happen.

We do expect there to be a continuing snowball effect of of an increased level of movement. This is partly due to the the effects of momentum as you collectively move on through your experiential growth lessons.  In other words, through the soul age.  You become interested in having different kinds of experiences collectively, as a whole.  So if the overall vibratory rate of all of you is centered around relationship issues, as opposed to issues of acquisition and power (you see where we are headed with this?), if collectively you were mostly interested in relationship issues, then that will have a marked effect on how your world looks.

It will change your economic basis.  It will change how you interact with one another on many levels.  It will change your political systems.  It will change your attention to the environment. In other words, it will change every single aspect of life as you know it.

How long will this take? When we talk about things speeding up, we're talking in a relative basis.  Most of you in this room have noticed a significant change within your lifetime.  Some of you are sensitive to changes in energy. So on that basis we have to say yes. Now, will most of you see a marked change in the way you live your lives within the course of your lifetime? Probably not - unless you make specific choices to do so.  However, interestingly enough, the pathways are opening up, more now than they have been, for you to be able to make those kinds of choices.

If, for instance, you are interested in intentional communal living, there will be more choices available to you in this lifetime for you to experiment with.  That it is just one example, but overall, worldwide, would there be a large change within the context of your lifetimes in terms of day-to-day living and how they are lived?  Not likely, but there is always change.

So we've answered part of your question, we were asking if you would like some follow-up?

Response: yes - about the opening up to causal plane connections

A very simple answer to that would be yes, but here's what is taking place: there is more overall openness to other energies beyond that of the Self. In other words, overall, on a global level, there is more and more openness to energy such as ours.  So it makes our job easier.  It just means that there is more connection, you see, because there is more openness to that connection.  The energy that is being transmitted has not changed, and has always been there. It simply has been connected with on a different basis in the past.  There have been other periods in human history where there was a great deal of connection, such as there is beginning to be now. So this is not the only time in human history that there is been this level of mid-causal energy affecting things on the physical plane.  This has happened several times in the course of human history and some of you were there when that was happening!  Some of you remember on some level what that was like, and some of you were involved with it. So there is a familiarity there for you.

Question: I feel a distinct energy change. It just changed now. It's very different from before.  Whoever it was, it felt like a very distinct energy change.  Does that show who it is that was coming through?

You have all felt our individual energy, and more of the totality of us.  So those of you who are very sensitive to how energy feel in your body will have awareness, yes.  Now do we do this to them to play with you?  Well, yeah!

(laughter and a comment)

That is correct.  We also do it to bring forth more of who we are.  We are all expressive beings - just like yourselves.   It's not that we are fighting among ourselves, "oh, who gets the microphone?"  It's more of "who needs to be present with that energy at that moment?"

But yes you did notice a shift in energy, and it did occur at that moment. It is good that you brought that up!

Question: Where is Karen now?

Karen likes to think that she's here.   A part of her is.  She's not aware of what we're about say - or she hasn't been aware of that up till this moment.  Karen is right now reclining on a very comfortable bed. Somewhere up in the clouds, it feels like, although a part of her is very present here.  There is a good deal of her just having a nice rest right now.

Are there any other questions?

Question: It seems to me that all my life I have felt out of place in some way.  I'm wondering if this is because my soul age (though I'm still a mature soul), because I'm ahead of the wave on this planet.  Or is it because I'm in a life of growth and having a difficult time?  Do people who are way ahead of the curve ever feel comfortable?  Or people who are way behind the curve, do they feel comfortable? Can I feel comfortable?  I would like to feel comfortable on this plane and I would like to have that experience!

There are a number of answers to this question.  We'll take them individually.

Regarding you yourself: you made a number of pre-incarnational choices to experience things in a certain way, from a certain perspective.  And part of the perspective that you chose in this lifetime was one of isolation, one of not fitting in.

Now, a number of you have made similar choices in your lives.  This is not an easy choice by any means, but it is a choice that moves you into the opportunity of making certain choices in your lives, of drawing to you certain experiences that you have chosen in order to manifest the Self that you most wanted to be in this lifetime.  There are a large number of those on various spiritual paths who have intentionally created situations like that for themselves happening at this time.  Now, why would you do this, other than to learn a lesson:  "Well, okay, that sounds a little painful, and I can sort of understand that -  but I why now?  Why so many of us?"

You touched on part of this.  There is a momentum, in fact, that takes place.  We have spoken before in other venues about how and when you have an interaction—any interaction, even something in passing with someone else—,because you are who you are, however that is manifesting at that moment, you have an effect on a person or in that. group that you are connecting with.  And they take a little bit of who you are with them forever.  It changes them forever.  So, then, why would this sense of isolation and being out of step with everyone else help on a more widespread communal level?  How could that help?

This is how we see it. We don't like to put it as something 'sacrificial', but in effect, it is almost that.  Many of you - a great number of you, and we say this collectively in addition to those of you in this room - have made choices to intentionally isolate yourselves to some extent from community inasmuch as you desire it, inasmuchas you desire to feel a part of something.  Because sometimes when you are kept from something that your heart really wants, you strive harder to make it happen.  And what you are creating through this pain is a greater overall community.  Again, 'sacrificial' is too strong a word and too imbued in cultural martyrdom, but you intentionally created a situation where you could create community among you that would not have existed were you not compelled to make the choices, from pain, that you have made in this lifetime.

Now, is there a way to make a similar choice through joy -- yes!  But sometimes you wouldn't see it.  So it is very intentional, what many of you are doing.  And lest you think that your efforts are not noticed or felt by anyone else, let us tell you that everything you have done in your lifetime up to this moment has been felt by the entire world. You are that important.  You have that great an effect on the entire global community of the human population.  Each one of you, simply by living your life and being who you are.

Do we expect more of you making similar choices?  Yes, this will occur for some time, in our perception of what we can see happening for your future.  It is part of a cycle of choices.  In other words, there are certain thematic lifetime, choices are made on a cyclical basis, and there will continue to be a lot of incarnations into lifetime similar to the ones that you are feeling - slightly out of step.  And again, it is simply to help move others along to help create this global community.  Because one day, perhaps the next time you incarnate, things will appear very different.  They will feel very different and you will enjoy some of what you are creating now.

(Response:  What was I thinking?)  (laughter)

Question: I was wondering with your experiments on the physical plane, were you focusing more on just the Earth?

No.  Earth is a very small part,  as you know, of the physical plane.  You are living lifetimes on other Earth-plane worlds, and your energy is everywhere, just as ours is.  And yes, we - our little group as well as the collective causal plane - is transmitting a great deal of energy to the physical plane as a whole.  While we would say some of the "experimental nature" is centered on Earth at this time, there are similar experiments occurring on various plane worlds on at the same time.   It of course would look different: the transmission process is very different depending on the species that we are working with.  But it is essentially a means of support and helping others to move through their own lessons.  Of course other worlds on the physical plane aren't in the same "place" that Earth is at this point.  There are different ways of connecting with different worlds on the physical plane.

So in some ways our answer is, no, the Earth is the only one.  And in some ways, the answer is yes: there is much more happening throughout the physical plane serve.  In some ways, you are quite unique.  We would say that the exact way that we are working with you all now is unique to the Earth, but there are other ways that we work with other worlds also on the physical plane.

Question: Could you say more about this global community and what it will look like in the future?

Some of you are aware that there is a network among you on Earth.  In other words, there are energetic connections between you and among you.  Some of you have specific conscious connection to others across the globe and others who are not incarnate at this time, and there are connections among you throughawareness.  There are also connections that exist among you on a less than conscious awareness level.  We would say that there has been an increase in conscious connection.  There has been an increase in the rate and the energy expended toward the less than conscious connection.

So this "global community":  part of it is (currently anyway) simply that there is more awareness of the oneness of it all.  This message, you see, is being repeated throughout many spiritual traditions, through many teachers, all at the same time, and it is making its way into being assimilated on a cellular level by more and more people all the time. What we see eventually occurring on your planet, and we spoke about some of the momentous changes that will likely be occurring in your world , would be more of the conscious recognition of the oneness.

This would be on a day to day basis. You would begin to be making choices with the knowledge of the connection that you hold with everyone on your planet, as well as everyone based on your planet who is not presently in a body.  So again, we spoke about economic changes,  political changes environmental changes: those are just a few.  Every decision, every choice that you make, would be made with this greater awareness.  Not every person will be doing this on a conscious level, but the level of overall energetic connection will be greater so that there is both a more conscious awareness of the oneness, and more choices that are made on a less than conscious level but still with that connection in mind.  Because, you see, you have this global consciousness and more of you will be tapped into that.  And that is what we mean by the community that you are creating: an overall change in the global consciousness of everyone associated with your planet.

Question: I've been struggling with trying to make sense with some of the spiritual teachings I've read and I'm hoping you can help me with this.  I struggle with a lot of waste energy.   I very much do my best to change the world to something better in this life.  Suffering captures my attention:  war, hunger and social wrongs.  The Abraham teachings say that the greatest good that I can do in this world is to live in peace and joy and give no attention to those issues.  My nature is to wave a flag and confront those issues and change them.  I can't make sense of those teachings and I don't know how to approach this.

This is the truth of those teachings.  In other words, the greatest good that you can do on a community level is to be at peace with who you are.  But first you must find out who you are.  If the true manifestation of you is to create intervention to things that cause you emotional pain, then you need to be that!  If the true manifestation of who you are is simply to be at peace in your world, then that is what you need to be doing.  We encourage you at all times to maintain as strong a connection as you can with who you are, and what you manifest, what of yourself that you can present to the world and be that.   Because every interaction that you have where you are as much of you as you can be is an interaction that will forever change that other person, or that group, or that community, or that idea.  You see, you simply just need to be who you are.

Question: I know that Michael incarnated on this Earth.  What about the other entities?  Did they incarnate here?

As you are aware, there are parallels to Earth itself.  There are other worlds, but you do that you exist on as a parallel to Earth.  Our interpretation is that the majority of the beings who are now comprised as Robert, for instance, were incarnating on an Earth parallel.  The majority of the beings who are now comprised as Seth are not from in an Earth world, but had their lives on a similar Earth-plane world. It wasn't even exactly a planet. It was a "reality".  There were some similarities to what you are experiencing now, yet in your terms it would be difficult for you to recognize that Seth physical plane reality as a reality that you would experienced.  Some of you took some shamanic journeys this morning and some of what some of you were seeing was similar to the reality experienced by the Seth individuals.  Aesha has existed primarily on an energetic basis for, in your perception, a very long time and Aesha has been through the cycle of incarnation, but in a world and a reality very different to what it is that you experience.  Yes, all of us have been through the incarnational cycle.  All of us have experienced physical plane reality.  But without looked very different to what you would expect in terms of a physical plane reality.

Question: You say more about grand cycles and about other planets which have other types of learning experiences?  I've heard that the purpose of incarnation on Earth is to learn Love - or to experience the conflict between love and fear and to eventually resolve this into Love. what would be some of the experience on different planets and different incarnational cycles?

From our perspective the incarnational cycle is essentially identical bo matter what reality it is based in.  The overall overarching lessons, if you will, are more or less the same.  It is just a matter of how those lessons look and feel.  It is a difference between, say, going to a public elementary school ,as opposed to a Waldorf school, as opposed to a bilingual school.  There are different ways of learning essentially the same information.  They both get you into college eventually, but they are going to look and feel and sound very different while you're moving through them.  The "Love lesson" that you spoke of: that is a universal lesson.  It has been a simplified so that it is something that is understandable on the on the physical plane.  It is difficult to look at things in this non-dual fashion because you are used to seeing things as either they are or they are not .  So it is difficult to think of love and fear is really part of the same.   It really is all about Love.  So we would say that the lesson that you are all Love, that you are all the Tao,  you are all everything is the lesson of the physical plane - no matter on what kind of world it is played out in.

Comment:  why here?  (bemoaningly)

(laughter)  Different schools for different folks!

Question: Are there many planets that are similar to ours in terms of physical makeup?

Besides the Earth-parallels there are a number of realities and worlds that have some similarities.  Yours is a popular choice in some ways in terms of the diversity of life that exists on your planet and the dual nature of how you perceive things.  This duality is not necessarily experienced on every physical plane world.  It is an elementary (in some ways) way of looking at things, and most incarnational beings like to experience the concreteness of what it is that you see in your world. There are many other choice, it is almost like different vacation destinations, with yours maybe being like the peace corps where you go to work, and there are others that may be are thought of as more relaxing and fun.   They are all, again, about the same lessons.  It's just how you learn them or how you look at them.  So, yes, there are several other world-realities that are similar to yours.  We said it was popular, but we did not really mean that it was populous in terms of the overall makeup of all the physical plane worlds.  We would say that the majority of them than look quite different from yours.

Question: The Earth is a few billion years old and humans have pnly been on the Earth for a relatively short time.  Has the Earth ever been populated with other sentient energies?

Yes, there was a purely energetic species that was experimenting with a existence here.  They were here for some time and decided collectively to go elsewhere.  It left a bit of a vacuum for a time in terms of an energetic presence and then it was decided collectively by all of you with your humanness to attempt to populate this world.  So yes, there was another species here.

Conclusion

We are going to say a few more words, and then we will conclude for today.

We have been talking to you about a variety of things.  We had the pleasure of telling you how we came to be and how we came to be speaking to you today, and it is our pleasure to be connecting with each of you this afternoon.

We would like for you to take something from this talk that we've been having, and if you take one thing from this talk we would like you to take with you the concept that you are having in an effect on everyone around you at all times.  You are changing lives simply by being who you are.  And the more you can be who you are, the more effect you will have on those around you.

And this is a gift of being on the physical plane. This is how you manifest Love into your world, and for us, watching you do this is a beautiful, joyous process, and we are so very pleased to be a part of it.

You give to us as much or more as we attempt to give to you. And that is the message that we wish for you to take with you today.

It has been our pleasure to speak with you and we look forward to connecting with you again in the future.

Thank you.

This is a recorded channeling from Karen Murphy at the Twin Oaks Intentional Community in a gathering there on April 20, 2008.   For most of the participants this was the first time they saw, heard, or felt Polaris.  The time and energy - and there is much energy used during channeling -  for this session was donated without recompense to the community and the Twin Oaks gathering as an offering of love.   Please keep the energy circulating and donate - this will help keep free information appearing on this site.

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Transcription of Channeling

April 2008 at Twin Oaks, VA

Good morning, we are here. We are pleased to be among you today. Some of you we know quite well, and each of you has your own connections to various elements of us, and so we are pleased to be speaking to you in this group today.  Now, typically, we like to talk about things that affect all of you--that affect you on a perceptual basis.  In other words, we tell you how you look at things--how you are regarded by the world around you. We would like to address, however, today, something specific to this group that you are among this morning. Many of you mentioned recently thinking about the concept of community, and you are each cognizant of the connections that exist among you.  So we will tell you a little bit more about that and how that works for you and what perhaps there exists between all of you here today.  And why it is, in a grander sense, that all of you are here today together, making these connections and having these interactions.

You know, of course, that it was no accident that you are here as a group this weekend.  Each of you came for your own reasons, but there also exists among you interaction that occurs on a less-than-conscious basis. Now, you are all aware that this goes on.  Sometimes you interact with others during your sleep-time in dreams, or even in other sleep-time activity, on an astral level.  Often there is also interaction that occurs while you were consciously awake, when you are perhaps thinking about someone. That is an interaction; that is communication.  Simply thinking about someone is communicating with them. You are connecting with them on an energetic basis.  They may not always be consciously aware of this, but there is an awareness nonetheless.

So you have formed this group and you have made, in some cases, deeper connections with one another than you had before.  Some of you here--you are meeting in the physical sense for the first time.  Others are old friends such as we are, and you have known each other a long time in various circumstances.  So specifically, what we see as happening among you during this gathering is an integration process.  In other words, you all came here with your own perceptions about yourselves, about one another, about this group, and about your wider community, your wider spiritual communities. And the interaction that has occurred over the course of the weekend has allowed you to integrate much of that in ways that you hadn’t before. So what is the purpose of this? Is there a purpose--a specific grander purpose--for this gathering this weekend? Well, we would say yes.

What we see are a number of things. We see four.

Number one:  You will, of course, take the energy from this interaction back to where you live, and it will then affect all the interactions you have with everyone forever after.  So you will be taking energy of whomever you are interacting with this weekend, and taking a little bit of that with you, and then going back to where you live and using that energy to interact with others, forever after. So a little bit of each of you follows all of you to wherever you go after this weekend.  So there is that.

Number two: We have spoken before, how your physical self is altered by any interaction with anyone else.  In other words, you are affected, on a cellular level, by any interaction you have with anyone else, and that includes on a physical sense, face-to-face, on the telephone, through electronic means, through thought--any kind of interaction affects you on a cellular level.  This is why some people cause you to feel good after interacting with them and some people cause you to feel not so good.  And it depends on their energy and how they, how they affect you in many ways.  So you are changed, in other words, by the interaction that you have had this weekend. You are not the same person that you were two days ago.  Now, why is this important?  Well, your body will continue to move along its path, based on where you are at this point, and since this point is different than the point it was in two days ago, your path is, as a result, altered as well.  So where you are going from now, how your body is and reacts and responds, is a little bit different from how it would've been had you not had these interactions all weekend.  Now, is it specific to this gathering, this weekend, this place? Well no, of course not. You are always being affected on a cellular level by every interaction that you have with anyone. Your path is always being altered just that little bit by every interaction you ever encounter. Now, what is the use of this? Does this somehow take away choice if you are always being affected by others? Well, no, because on a wider sense, you always have the choice to enter into those interactions. So you all made a series of choices which led you here this weekend. On some level you had awareness of who all else would be present and were choosing to avail yourself of the energetic changes that would occur as a result for you. That’s number two

Number three: There is going on within this wider--we will call it the Michael teachings community and you all are aware of what of what we mean--there is a series of changes that is taking effect, and has been for some time. And we cannot tell you exactly where those changes will lead, but we can say that on the whole, within five or 10 years from now, things will look quite different. Things will feel quite different. Now, if you were to jump ahead five or 10 years and find yourself immersed in that wider community and compare it to what you have known, there would be some disorientation.  There would be some consternation, for it would feel quite different, but you will have the ensuing five or 10 years to move through and you will see these changes slowly taking place. And for some, those changes will be painful.  It will be a departure from what they have known. Things don't always remain static, as you know.  Things always continue to change.  It is clinging to what you think can remain the same that causes pain, when you acknowledge that change is always occurring and change is a part of your lives. So changes are afoot, in other words, and this gathering and other gatherings like this are part of what is creating that change.

Now, where will these changes lead? As we have said, we cannot tell you exactly, and there are of course a number of other factors that will continue to affect this. But overall, overall what we see is a return to embracing the newness and the excitement of information that comes through, and of how you can use this to change your own lives. It has been said that this wider community has been mired in theory for some time, and we would say, on a surface level, that is as we perceive it as well. There has always been a great deal of new information coming through. It is the choice of those in the wider community whether to acknowledge that new information or not. And we see now, as a result of gatherings such as the one that you are now in, a sense of excitement and welcome for the newness that is always present for you. That is number three regarding this wider Michael teachings community.

Number four: You are each learning, in your lives as part of what you do, elements of your own interaction with others. And through this interaction with others, you learn more about yourself. Sometimes, you see yourself mirrored in others, and it helps you see yourself more clearly.  You were feeling energy recently. You were feeling energy of groups, were you not, where you were within a group and you felt either like or unlike that group.  So, by looking at the group around you, feeling that, you could judge whether you, yourself belonged in that group. This is a very simplified and distilled way of looking at all your interactions that take place for you all the time.  You are always considering how you fit in with others. And you do this on an energetic basis.  You do this all the time without realizing it. So that is number four.  You are learning more about yourself through this interaction with others.

Now, we have talked about why you came together this weekend, and what you have accomplished. Let us talk to you now about your collective role in this wider Michael teachings community. Now, each of you, again, have come to this for varying reasons of your own.  That is as it should be. If you each came to this with the same reason, you would all be more or less the same person, and you are clearly not.  So your role in this wider community also varies on an individual basis, but overall, we see that each of you and many others similar to you, are involved in creating this change.  You are involved in creating a series of interactions that will have a wider, like a rippling effect, upon others, and allow them to avail themselves of that same openness, to the excitement that is all around all of you.  So your effect, then, from being here and being who you are and making the choices that you do, will have a wider effect on this greater community. And this will occur whether or not you are truly committed to creating a Michael teachings community or not, for it is there whether or not it is something that you choose to focus on on an intellectual level.  You are all part of this wider community, whether or not you feel a strong connection. It is there nonetheless.  Perhaps you know about the community of spores that exists in the soil under your feet.  There is a large and pervasive community. We will call it a mushroom mat community of spores that exists in the soil, and these communities run through the entire earth. There are several of them, and they all have the ability to communicate within the community, even without direct interaction. So we will compare the community that you are in with that community of spores that exists in the soil. For you are having communication, whether or not you are consciously aware of it. And this occurs, then, at a cellular level, on an energetic level.  Now why would you be interested in this?  Why are you making choices in your life that lead you here to be creating this new community, if you will. There is a group, of which you are all loosely members, that is very much interested in changing the nature of the structure of the human population in terms of social identity and social interaction.  There is quite a large group involved in this, and has been for some time, and we would say that enough energy has been poured into this project at this point--it has been going on for about 200 of your years--to begin to see some real changes in the structure at some point relatively soon. And this is part of what you are all loosely engaged in, see.  There are about half a million people involved in this project.  It's not really very many compared to the entire population of the globe, and certainly not very many compared to the entire fragment population, if you will, of the human race.  Those include everyone in a body and everyone not presently in a body. But roughly half a million are concerned with this project and have been for some time, of changing the social structure of the human population. Now, what will this look like in the future?  Well, some of you have glimpses of this.  There are idealists among you who see how real and open communication and interaction can be between people, and you have glimpses of this from time to time.  (A cell phone rings.) You see how communication is with you. (Laughter.) So again, this half a million, roughly, people are involved in this project, and how will this look in the future? And as we said, some of you have glimpses of this. Some of you have experienced this on some level, and you know what this can be like. And we will say overall, you could be looking for more openness, more frankness, less hidden aspects. So this will result, then, and this is in terms of just communication and interaction.  So there will be a move toward disclosure. No, not for everyone. This is not easy or comfortable for everyone, and you know this. But there will be, overall, more disclosure and more room for this kind of interaction, and how this will affect people will happen on a number of different levels.  Again, there will be pain for many people. Many people are existing within their own small shells and find it difficult or fearful to disclose who they are, for their fear of emptiness inside. You will see quite a lot of this.  But having more room for this openness of interaction will allow closer interaction in many ways and allow a sense of interdependence to develop. Now, human society has had this in the past; now you’ve moved away from it. Well, cycles as you know, happen. There is a waveform pattern: Things go up, they come down, they go up again.  So you are moving into a time where there will be an increased amount of interdependence among the human population. Now, will this occur in the next 10 years? No. Will there be movement toward that? Certainly. And many of you will start to see more of that in your life because you are creating it around you, and you are playing with it, to see what that feels like. So we’ll jump ahead, perhaps 200 years, and, yes, really start to see more of that interdependence, more of that openness, more of that disclosure aspect in intercommunication between people. Now, when you have that, and everyone is open and up-front, there is also an increased nonverbal communication that is going on, because there is simply more room for all types of communication.  So you are all involved, again loosely, in that project. Whether or not it is something that you feel personally committed to or not, you are part of the experiment, if you will, of learning how to implement this, and learning how it works, and figuring it out how best to move into that state of being for the entire population as a whole.  Now, this, of course, will have effects on social levels and political levels, and anything that affects the population on political levels will have effects on economics and environmental issues, et cetera.  So there will be an enhanced sense of connection to the earth, and however that manifests in terms of social and political and economic issues.  So this enhanced sense of connection will also bring with it changes and that's part of what this enhanced sense of interdependence among people will also bring. So again, within a couple of hundred years, you could zoom ahead to that time and start to see something that looks quite different from the social structure that exists now on a global basis.

Let us start with some questions.

Ed: How did the four of your soul groups get together to do this, and is this something which, are there many thousands and millions of other soul groups like us who are also doing the same sort of thing?

Yes. At our level of development, there comes a time where it is quite useful to begin to move together in groups, and to form entity groups in order to exert influence on certain projects.  So, we have our own ways of interconnecting with each other and interacting and learning things on that level, if you will. But a great deal of our learning comes through our teaching, and we are all of us, all four of us, engaged, as you know, quite heavily in the teaching aspect. Not every causal entity is engaged in teaching, but many of us are--the majority of us are at this point, at our level.  So, part of our evolution, just as you are learning how to interact in groups, we are also learning how to interact in groups as well. And these groups are various sizes up to quite a few entities, and we are, all of us, all of our four individual entities, are also involved in groups of other size and structure.

Ed: Were you involved with each other when you were physical, or has this coming together happened after you graduated from the physical?

Certainly there were interactions between some of us on a physical basis, but that was not the means by which we chose to come together at this point.  We have all of us been through many cycles,  just as you have, and have knowledge of one another from various times in our past.  But our coming together this way is, for us, relatively new at this point, and we have been working together for some time and have only relatively recently chosen to utilize this group structure, this group energy, to enhance our collective teaching.

Would you like to see our various energies? We know there is a great curiosity about this. (Response – Yes). Alright, we will do this; we have done this before.  We find it amusing. So, most of you know Michael fairly well, not just on this plane of existence, but in other ways, so we will separate ourselves for you and we will show you just Michael.  Michael is here. Now Michael, as you know, is made of Kings and Warriors, and speaks with some authority, yet with humor. But we would like you all to feel the energy right now, of Michael.  (Silence while Michael’s energy is felt.)

Alright.  Now, we will introduce you to Seth.  Some of you have seen Seth, at various times, through various guises. Seth is particular about coming through on an individual basis and this is not a preference necessarily for Seth at this time, but Seth would like to visit with you now. (Silence while Seth’s energy is felt.) You may have noticed that even though we do not necessarily come through so much on an individual basis, it is much of our energy that you see when we are speaking as a group.  Not all the time.  We do not necessarily take turns, but for some of our structural information, then we, Seth, is who tends to come forth more.

So, we will lift, and next we would like to show you Robert. And here is Robert. (Silence while Robert’s energy is felt.) Robert is very much interested in speaking to you on certain levels.  Robert, as you know, has a flair for the dramatic, and is responsible for many of the gestures that we make.  Now you may relax into Robert for a moment. (More silence.)

Now, in a moment we have Aesha. There are some of you in this room who know the energy of Aesha.  So we will bring in simply Aesha. (Silence while Aesha’s energy is felt.)  There is someone over here that Aesha would like to speak to. It is the message of nurturing and of assurance that the person in your life that you are caring for is very much aware of the gestures that you make in order to make her life more comfortable.  And this is what Aesha would like you to know.

Ed: Is it me?

Yes.

And we are back as Polaris. Now, we will welcome further questions.

Bill: Thank you. It is a pleasure to meet you. I feel a--it's very strange--I feel a strong connection with Robert, and, I feel, although Aesha is very quiet, there is a strong connection there as well. Just, really, I'm just feelin’ it, wow, it's like, wow. Love you all, love you all! Ok, it's a quadrate--four entities in a quadrate. And I’m wondering if we have, my guess when I first heard that, was that you would have four positions in a quadrate, and tell me if this is valid, it may not be valid, just a guess. And thinking, like, Michael would be in power, Aesha would be in support, Robert would be in love, Seth would be in knowledge. But that's--I have no idea if that’s valid or not--and perhaps you could comment on that.

We would say that it is valid to look at us that way, under that framework. And yes, you have our energies associated correctly.

Bill: In other configurations which you had intimated occurred – that you are in other configurations with other entities--how does that work? Are we talking, like, quadrates, septets, that sort of thing, or is that the way that's working at all? What kind of configurations do you seek out for your own growth?

Just as you meet in groups of varying sizes and structure, so are we. We spoke to you of a group of around 500,000, which you are loosely associated with, and there are groups that size that we are also loosely associated with, on a similar basis. There are also groups of a smaller size with a more defined structure that we are also involved with. And this is done on an individual basis, much as your own group participation is done on more or less an individual basis. So, there’s not a set rule about the structure. However, there is an overall design, as you can imagine, a geometry, if you will. And we are all a part of that and we have awareness of our place within that--more so than do you. But simply because we have the perspective from which to see this and we are not tied to the perception of the physical plane, which is limited to form and time. So we have a much easier time seeing our overall place within the geometry of all that is. And we each, individually, as an entity, have our places within that that we have awareness of. Does that answer your question?

Bill: Yes, it does. I have just one last and I’ll pass it on. On a personal level, given who I am and my personal limitations and so forth as they exist at this moment, perhaps, how can I strengthen that connection with you? I’d like to strengthen that, because I just--like you!

You have asked. That is all you need.

Thea: I wonder if you could provide some perspective for us Twin Oakers who are experimenting with the communal structure in ways that we could act interpersonally, structurally, as a community in order to be more in alliance with our intentions as a group.

We would say that overall there has been a relatively efficient use of your abilities to connect with one another on a less than conscious basis, in order to evolve the formation of your community.  The needs of this community have changed, of course, based on the structure, the makeup of the members within it, and you have awareness of this. In terms of how you can make this better, well, some of you are there simply to have experienced conflict, and conflict doesn't always feel good.  There are some of you who are very much involved in making conflict go away.  So, not everyone has the same needs, in other words. There is, however, an overall awareness of the community as a whole throughout most of your members. And in some ways this can provide the larger community with a pretty good working model of how this works in reality, at least how it works among the various members that are a part of it and their perspectives. Now, one thing we can suggest would be to invite members with more widely variant perspectives than what you have. In the Michael teaching terms you mostly have a community of mature-perspective souls. If you were to want to really design a model community that could be an experiment to show what it could be like on a global basis, then you would want souls with perspectives that are both a less-wide viewpoint and a wider viewpoint than the mature level.  However, that may cause some of your structure to fall apart somewhat and could cause some other difficulties.  So that may not be the most comfortable thing that you could do, but it would certainly give you a stronger idea of what a community structure could look like on a wider basis simply by observing it in a microcosm, which is what you are. But in terms of working with what you have, because we don't see you making those kind of changes in the foreseeable future, as that would upset the balance of what you have built in terms of what you have and how you can move forward from there, we would suggest putting some attention toward defining what it is each of you wants on an individual basis.  This sounds like it may run contrary to thinking about things on a community level, but certainly if everyone were very clear about what they wanted on an individual basis, then they could relate that to the community as a whole somewhat more easily. This won't work for everyone, but we would say that it could be quite effective for the majority of your population. Does that answer your question?

Thea: Yes, thank you.

Luann: What kind of advice could you give for people who are ready and wanting to start a new type of community but probably don't want to make it that all-inclusive. In other words, want a little more selective, like-minded, and don’t have a whole lot to go on right now, except a little bit of financial backing. What would be a next step, what kind of selection would be advisable? And advice you could give us....

It is useful to begin with, just as we were advising here, to ensure that everyone who will be involved is very clear about what they want, and then to communicate about that in an open fashion.  Not to leave anything behind, to have it all out there so that there are no surprises. And once everyone who is going to be involved is very clear about what they want, you can see if your picture aligns with the picture that everyone else has. Now, this is not to say that such a community will necessarily be successful.  If you have, say, a community of people who are very interested in relating, but not so interested in the doing aspects of this, simply more the reaping the benefits, then you will have a community that will not last very long because there is no one actually doing anything.  So, you will also have to look at the strengths and weaknesses on an individual basis and see if those add up to something that would actually make a viable community.  If you like, we can make some of our energy available to you in the future, simply, again, for the asking to assist you in this process of building a community and we can guide you, perhaps not on a conscious level for you, but we are more than willing to help guide you into shaping the community that is something that will be work and be sustainable for you.  We're sorry that we’re not able to give you too much more specific information at this time without knowing more about the individuals.  It seems that there is some question as to who all might be involved with this and it is difficult to project that far. We would say also to imagine what this community would be like once you have identified what everyone wants and then to really project into the future how that will actually work and to spend some time and energy doing so, doing that future projection. And you'll find that it's quite an effective process to use to find out what things might be like in the future. In fact, all of you can use this technique of looking at exactly what you have, and being very clear about what you have now, and very clear about what you want, and then projecting that energy into the future to see if it really is going to work and really going to be in alignment with what you want, and this technique works for almost anything which you see available to you, perhaps on a future basis.  Have we answered your question?

Luann: Yes, we’ll be in touch.

Marion: Perhaps this has been asked before and I haven’t read it, but how did the name Polaris come up? That’s like a submarine or missile or something like that to me. I know it’s a star, but why pick that? There’s a million things you could pick. I’m just curious about how that was chosen.

The name Polaris was given us, but it was also chosen by us if you will. There was some communication between us and the channels and we were playing some games that made them more conscious of what they were looking to get out of our interaction with them, and eventually that conscious intent was able to focus enough that it became a name. And having a name associated with guidance seemed like something suitable, and we are happy with it.

Marion: Thank you.

Mary: This may be too generalized, but I just wondered, I feel like there’s a message that you have for me? But, maybe not.

Yes. We would like to tell you that it's okay to be more comfortable in your own space of clarity, clearness. That around you there is a great deal of uncertainty as to what shape that clearness should take. And that uncertainty is derived from a number of factors in your history.  But we are just telling you that it is okay to let go of some of that and just to be okay in that space of clearness that is there around you, and just open up to seeing what’s there.

Mary: Was that coming from anyone in particular?

Who did you feel?

Mary: Aesha. (Karen nods.)

Mary: Ok.

Rebekah:  Michael has told us that many of us have been students in other lives of theirs. Have any of us been particular students of any of the other members of the quadrate in either this life or other lives?

Each of you can answer that on an individual basis, but we would say overall the answer is absolutely yes.  You are each students of multiple teachers, if you will. Some of you have made choices to align yourselves with the energy of a particular teaching energy, simply because you are focusing some time to really study and assimilate that. But we are all known to all of you in one way or another throughout some point in your history.

Amy: I’m just curious, is there any part of physicality that you will miss?

We are able to experience physicality through you, and this is part of what we are learning through you. And we are experiencing the physical-ness of you, but through this other perspective, and this gives us a comparison basis.  We remember, of course, what it's like to be in a body such as you are, and to have the perspective that you do, but now we are looking at the physical plane through our perspective, but we do that through you. So in terms of really missing it, not necessarily, because we are again experiencing this through an entirely different perspective now. We are able to, if we really wish to, manipulate a body, and feel everything that there is to be felt about being in a body. The only thing that we would lack is the physical plane perspective, although we could, if we chose to, completely narrow ourselves to that perspective and to experience everything that it is to be you except we would still have the knowingness that we can move out of that again and we would retain a greater knowingness of the facility of movement that we have between the planes.  So we can’t get it exactly like you have it, in other words, but we can come quite close.

Amy: I was wondering if there were things like the sun on your face, the wind on your skin, the birds in the trees--are there things like that that there's any longing for at all?

Again, we are experiencing all of that, but from a different perspective. So it is as if you know what the sun was like--as a child--on your face, and you know what it is like as an adult, and you may remember that--what it felt like as a child--but you may not particularly want to be that. Perhaps for a moment, and, again, momentarily is something that we are able to experience.  So we would say, overall, if we had to choose a yes or no answer to that, the answer would be no, we don’t really miss it.  But we have something similar in our experience through you.

Don: Is anyone continuing the work of Jane Roberts in channeling Seth? And I have a second question. Do you have any comment on the work of Robert Monroe, whose headquarters were not too far from here, on astral travel and other phenomena?

Alright, so the first question has to do with the channel Jane Roberts?

Don: Right.

And, I'm sorry, your question?

Don: She channeled Seth, and is anybody doing that?

Ah, yes, Seth is being channeled at present.  There are several who are channeling Seth. Some are not aware of this.  Some are calling Seth by other names, but that energy is still existing and still being channeled, even individually. Seth is not choosing to come through individually in this instance, other than as what you saw earlier today.  But yes, Seth is being channeled.

In terms of the man Robert Monroe.  Is there something specific you wish to know? Just terms of the validity of his information?

Don: Well, his headquarters before he left was in a small town not far from Charlottesville, and there are several books in which he traveled to many parts of the universe, astrally, and some people are continuing his work. So I was just wondering if you had any comments on that?

This was a man who was quite connected with, for lack of better terminology, extraterrestrial energy. Some of you are, not necessarily those in this room, we'll say, you, collectively, humans, and he was accessing that energy in order to facilitate a greater understanding of his own humanity.  So there are many of you who perform experimental lifetimes like that where you are making comparisons, and we spoke about ourselves making comparisons and on a communal level, perhaps, making comparisons--what you have and this other energy that you can compare it to, then. And we would say this is what the man you speak of was doing. He was comparing the energy that he possessed, partially on a physical level, certainly on a--there is no English word for it--on an intuitive, cerebral level, and he was making comparisons between that energy and using that, again, to enhance his understanding of his humanity and putting forth information that assisted with his understanding that. It was mostly for his own understanding, but he also understood that there would be others who would be able to utilize that information to enhance their own understanding. Does that answer your question?

Don: I think so.

Are there any other questions, then?

John D.: I’m not sure what the ground rules are here. I would like to know what my late wife--how she’s doing?

She is spending a fair amount of her time resting. And when we say resting, we mean really allowing all of her consciousness to be completely at rest. There was a great deal of her life involved in resisting. A great deal of her life was involved in resisting and now she is simply resting and allowing all of herself to completely relax and be at one with as much of everything as she can be. And it would appear to someone on the physical plane, perhaps, as a state much like sleep.  However, she is actively resting, knowing that at some point she will be saturated with this and be able to move on into other states of study and exploration. But for now, she is allowing all of her to really rest.

John: Thank you.

Linda D.: What would be a good meditative exercise to help us pull in these energies for ourselves so we can bring them into our lives for others?

So you would like to--you would like a meditation that will allow you to access our energy?

Linda D.: Yes

Yes, alright, let us lead you into one. This will allow the facility of your accessing the Polaris energy that is, of course, available to all of you, and this will help you differentiate this energy from the Michael energy that you are already familiar with.  So, you all arranged yourselves in your chairs already to become prepared for this.  So take a couple of deep breaths. And as you do so, become aware of the breathing of those around you. As you breathe, you realize that you are connected by your breath--what one breathes out, you breathe in. And as you do so, you become ever so much more a part of one another. And you breathe in, and you breathe out, and every time you do so it deepens your connection with everyone and everything around you. And as you breathe in, you begin to move your awareness in wider and wider circles until you notice that we and our energy completely surrounds you. You are breathing in our energy and breathing out our energy. And as you do so, as you breathe in, and as you breathe out, our energy permeates every part of your body.  There is no separation between us. We are around you, inside you, we support you, we guide you, we are there with you, and as you breathe, you will have awareness of this. And any time you wish to, you can simply take yourself to the space of breathing, and breathe us into you once again.  So take a moment now to really feel what this feels like through every pore and every cell of your body.  As we support you--all around you--we are one with you, and you are one with us, simply by breathing. And, if you like, now that you are so intimately connected with us, you may choose an intention for this connection, and every time you choose to connect with us in this manner, in the future, you may again choose an intention for this connection.  So, if you will, use this space, right now, to create an intention for the connection that we hold with you at this moment. And now, every time you exhale, you activate that intention, simply by the act of breathing. Every time you breathe out, you strengthen the intention that you created. And now you remember your own abilities to create the life around you that is always present for you. And to enhance your own connection to yourself and to us simply by breathing, and every time you perform this exercise, you strengthen your ability to connect to your own self, to your life, and to us, simply by breathing in, and breathing out.  Now you may wish to take a few moments to come back into your own space of being, or you may stay in that slightly altered space if you prefer it.  We would like to conclude our conversation with you this morning by telling you, again, how pleased we are to be among you speaking to you this way, and how pleased we are to have enhanced our own connection to you and yours with us, by interacting with you this morning.  We thank you.

This is an introduction by Polaris during their public live channeling before a group in Tuscon, Arizona on March 14, 2008.  It is approximately 13 minutes and includes a short visualization.