March 2009 Kris Newsletter
March 29, 2009
Kris Newsletter March 2009
Finally! Yes, it’s true. It finally looks like Spring has arrived. How can I tell? Did I consult charts, mystical cards or omens, ancient oracles or other divinatory devices, or ask Al Gore?
None of the above I am glad to report. It happened quite by itself I guess. Let me tell you about it.
The other morning just after 8 AM I left the house to go to my chiropractor for my appointment. It looked sunny outside but over the last few weeks ‘looking sunny’ was often misleading, because there were strong winds and biting cold. So I braced for the almost bone chilling cold wind… and found none. None I tell you, truly I tell you.
Instead, it was surprisingly warm, the sun having its desired effect; brightness and colors everywhere. Best of all though was the symphony of sounds from several different kinds of birds. Easy to tell the Sparrow, the Robins while others were less distinct. What was certain however was the uplifting and totally enchanting greeting from this feathered orchestra!
I was emotionally and psychologically transported to wonderful heights as I walked into the chiropractor’s office, my adjustment almost a snap (pardon the chiropractor pun).
On my way home a few minutes later I am again greeted by the Feathered Orchestra and back into that sweet mood. Suddenly… I hear it. YES. Two hard pitches in amongst the dozens of other bird songs. It only takes me one or two notes to detect the Cardinal… my favorite bird.
I looked and listened, could not see him, even though he piped again. Where was he? I walked past a few more houses and I hear him, this time zeroing in on his call. It’s relatively easy to spot a Cardinal. The male calls for his mate from the highest branch of the tallest tree in the area.
I didn’t have to look far. His bright ruby red plumage gave him away almost instantly. There he was, bright as ruby can be, with the sun beaming fully on his open and proud crimson chest, like a flame in the tree top, calling and calling, enchanting the entire neighborhood with his magical call for Spring to hurry up, for the Sun to warm the air, the earth and everything in sight, for the sheer joy that it is a great day!
Spotting him up there looking so radiant and imperial, I could only smile at the wonderment of it all and taking all this into my heart I knew, I knew Spring will soon take the Cardinal’s magical song and with it tease the trees to release their buds so the leaves inside will burst forth and green the branches and clean the air and give more sunshine.
I’ve been smiling since. And making my favorite summer snack, a tomato and mayo sandwich. Another sure sign!
Well, that’s one way to begin Spring. Here at Kris Chronicles, we are as always busy with this project and that project. Kris has started delivering material for his third little book, having finished the second a short while ago. It also means Walk season with Kris is almost here, so there’ll be more Walk sessions as well.
Our Reality By Design Kris Radio Show is moving along nicely. Our last guest was Emmy from Netherlands, sharing the explorations of her WWII focus, which led to a two hour discussion following the radio show on our Conference system. Amazing!
Our next guest is Paul Helfrich, owner of www.newworldview.com, talking about his recent research and work on the channeling phenomenon. Check our website for the date of this special show.
There is also a strong possibility we will be presenting at The Colorado Seth Conference this coming September: to be determined. Last I spoke at this conference was in 2003, so if it happens we very much look forward to it. We will definitely keep you posted.
The June Toronto Workshop is coming soon and information is also below. June is possibly the most beautiful time of the year in Toronto. Not too hot, not too cool, just about perfect weather. We look forward to meeting many of you there.
We are also making small changes to our website. Details are below.
Our friend Reed from Arizona recently sent us a truly beautiful oil portrait as a surprise. We instantly felt a connection, a resemblance of sorts, as if we knew this person. So when I had a chance I asked Reed about it and he said that it’s a portrait of a younger Edgar Cayce and when he saw it, he instantly recognized Mark in it, so he painted it and sent it to us.
When we had a change at our Monday evening book session, Mark asked Kris about it and this is what Kris had to say:
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Excerpt from book #3 session — 3//25/09
KRIS: Do you have an inquiry?
MARK: On topic or off topic?
KRIS: Choose.
MARK: Off topic. The portrait of Edgar Cayce brings about a great resonance for Joseph and I. Reed obviously felt that. He sees me in that picture and I could relate to that.
KRIS: Indeed a most interesting event.
Though the portrait is based upon an early picture of Edgar Cayce, we believe that this was the most expedient way that Reed was able to express what he sensed. The portrait also bears a resemblance to another experience that actually incorporates both yours and his journeys in another time.
The individual… we will call Theodore H. Tuttle… (Pause) and understand that Theodore H. Tuttle is an entry point into a greater exploration of a specific set of focuses. Suffice it to say that for the time being, that unique individuality was expressed in the mid-1800′s. This individual traveled and preached as a spiritualist in European and Scandinavian countries. This began then to provide certain other focuses with a foundation or a base from which to begin exploring matters outside the box, so to speak. Does that make sense to you?
MARK: Yes, it does. So as a focus of Essence, it was sort of a beginning of what I do now as well as of many of my focuses?
KRIS: Indeed, in certain terms.
MARK: Even Philip, who came linearly before, was not necessarily before Tuttle, correct?
KRIS: Indeed. Many individuals underwent a similar process as it was indeed a quite revolutionary and often taboo subject matter as far as orthodoxy is concerned and it may still be taboo, but it at least provided a broadening of consciousness, a broadening of possibilities. It more or less brought a reassurance that the quote unquote “afterlife” was not the sole domain of religions but that there could be more, and the more was not as bleak as religion’s interpretations.
MARK: So in many ways he was a great thinker.
KRIS: He thought outside the box. As well, Theodore H. Tuttle, in those terms, another focus of Edgar Cayce. Edgar Cayce born in the late 1800′s.
MARK: So, Theodore Tuttle is a focus of mine as well… so it was a shared focus?
KRIS: There were shared elements. We would not necessarily claim them to be focuses of one or another. There were definite affiliations. Not everything has to be a focus, you understand.
MARK: Yes. So, suffice it to say there are relationships between my Essence and that of Edgar Cayce’s.
KRIS: Indeed. We are certain that the “ARE”, the Association of Research and Enlightenment, which maintains Edgar Cayce’s legacy, would not necessarily be in approval…
MARK: (Laughs)
KRIS: As they have their own orthodoxy that hampers their particular views.
MARK: Right. Thank you.
KRIS: Indeed then we thank you for your consideration and we will continue this at another time.
MARK: Thank you.
[Here's a picture of the oil portrait]
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CMI Phase 3 is ready to go
CMI Phase 3 is set to start up on Sunday, April 5th, 2009 at 12 Noon (EST). As you know, Kris originally stated that Phase 3 would be only for those people who plan on mentoring others, either individually or in groups; however that has changed.
Several people asked if it was at all possible to open up Phase 3 to anyone who has completed or is currently taking CMI 2. Kris acquiesced.
Those individuals who wish to participate in CMI 3, but do not wish to go on to mentor others will receive a Certificate of Participation. Those individuals who do plan on working with others in a therapeutic manner will be given homework assignments to complete and will receive certification upon graduation.
KRIS: Now, as for CMI, we would also like to add — now these are coming sessions — will also include hypnosis as a tool for individuals to use with those they will also be working within that therapeutic atmosphere. Thus, it will require that the individual dedicate their attention to those sessions in a very vivid manner. You may send out a reminder including this information. We will be tailoring the hypnosis in such a fashion that it becomes much easier to work with individuals, and that the quote unquote “therapist” may even develop some unorthodox methods, perhaps far from the mainstream of hypnosis.
MARK: Okay.
KRIS: And to keep things both simple and above board, it may be that it will not be called “hypnosis.”
MARK: Utilizing trance states.
KRIS: Working with altered perceptions will therefore become much easier for both therapist and individual.
For more details please click here: http://consciousnessmentoring.com/?page_id=148
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Toronto Workshop June 13th & 14th, 2009
Your Highest Enlightenment – The True Meaning of Ascension
KRIS: An Invitation for those that seek Sophos and Logos: Knowledge and Wisdom
If there is one thing known about all myths, all stories, all legends and each and every kind of spiritual teaching is that there are TWO meanings. One that can be taken literally for those who are involved in baby steps who need to eat some pabulum, and once you have taken sufficient baby steps, you can go from walking to running, running to jogging and eventually marathons.
Thus, all religious and spiritual teachings in your world also have an allegorical perspective and one of those that is the most misinterpreted is ASCENSION. So we will be offering a different perspective that can shift perception.
It is a presentation that will engage the participants, open the heart and the mind to SELF. If you wish to reconnect with Source, then you who are intelligent will come to this workshop. This is more than simply pasting a smile on your face. It is much more than learning how to make good feelings. It is much more than any of these things. You will leave with a smile. You will leave with good feelings, but you will also leave with a heart and a mind that have been opened up, perhaps beyond what you had expected.
For more details click here: http://krischronicles.com/?page_id=1895
Two Day Toronto Workshop
WHEN: June 13 & 14, 2009
LOCATION: Ramada Plaza Hotel 300 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario
Cost per Person:
Early Bird (Before May 30th) US$200
After May 30th US$250
Guest rooms in the hotel: $159.00 + tax per night (single or double occupancy)
Code Word(s) to be given to hotel to receive discount(s): CGLM
EARLY BIRD USD 200.00
~ Further Information ~
KRIS: When Seth spoke through Rubert (Jane Roberts), he utilized the term “Black Sheep of the Universe.” We will appropriate that infamous label — or famous label, whichever word you want — in the context of this particular workshop in June. Thus we are calling the black sheep of the universe to come and explore their own limitations as well as how to free themselves from it in the terms relevant to the workshop. There are many individuals who are simply unsatisfied, unfulfilled with the materials and the literature and the presentations given by many New Age philosophies and metaphysical jargon concerning ascension, that somewhere in their heart, these things simply do not sit well.
These individuals know intuitively that the much bandied about descriptions concerning ascension, the mortal coil, and spirituality somehow or other lack substance. Though they may not necessarily be able to put their finger on it, they still know deep inside that they are not being given the kind of information that proves to be truly satisfying in every sense of the word and because there are so many distortions, many people simply feel that they have to do with what is out there. Even though they may have great reservations, they may be prone to suppressing or denying those strong feelings. Do you follow?
MARK: Yes.
KRIS: They may even have misgivings. Since they might not be able to verbalize or express them in a concrete fashion, they might simply think that their reservations are nothing more than old-fashioned self-doubt and if they can quiet that internal dialog, then they will get the true revelations that they are looking for. But many have been working on the issues of the theme of the conference for a long time and are perhaps even recognizing that they are tired of always talking themselves into it or convincing themselves and at the same time silencing their own red flags because they may even have been convinced that this nasty thing, this bugaboo that you call the “ego” is what is keeping you, keeping the individual, from reaching that lofty goal. Thus, we intend to clarify many items in this area and perhaps assist you even in opening the doors to the meanings of your own ascension.
Too often, hodgepodges of metaphysical distortions all end up in the same bowl and then are fed to those who are hungry for information. Often it is even suggested that these tidbits of ideas and philosophies and distortions, some even pulled out of someone’s hat and sold as proverbial gold. Thus, our intention is to assist individuals in cleaning up that particular area and since most such individuals would be the proverbial black sheep, then it can also be suggested that the workshop itself will prove rather interesting.
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Changes to the Website
Many of you have already noticed some of the changes happening on the Kris Chronicles website. It currently costs $0.99 to download an audio file from the website. Soon the transcripts will also be $0.99, unless you have a paid membership. The purpose of this is to help raise funds to keep the Reality by Design Radio Show on the air and to help with the costs of operating our various websites.
Membership will be about $10 per month, maybe a little bit less depending on the plan that you buy. A one-year membership will likely be $100 USD, which is a savings of $20. A six-month membership is likely to be $50, a savings of $10. Anything less that a three-month membership will be$10 per month.
Mark is hoping to have the membership set up and running for early April.
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Website Statistics
The Kris Chronicles website had 7,439 hits in January 2009 of which 1,538 were first time visitors. February 2009 had 8,296 hits of which 1,511 were first timers.
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April Skype Workshop
The Mind in the Heart Skype Workshop, which was scheduled to start in April 2009, has now been postponed until after the June Ascension Workshop in Toronto. We will announce more details, as we get closer to June.
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Kris Books
Book #1: Statistics on sales from Discourses on Dreams have yet to be released from the publisher.
Book #2: This book is complete in that we have had all the sessions that we intend to have and all of the sessions have been typed up. Serge is taking a “first past” edit and proof read of the book. When he is done I intend to go in and add my own notes, possibly even entire chapters since this topic of this book is something that I am familiar with.
The current working title is, Exploration of Identity. Earlier working titles were, A Metaphysical Perspective of Sadness & Addictions as well as Sadness & Addictions from an Essence Perspective.
Book #3: Kris, Serge and I have begun work on a third book. Potential titles for this book are Mankind, Consciousness & the Next Stage of Human Evolution or How the Black Sheep Got into the Universe.
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International Conference Sessions
Feel free to participate in the International Sessions held every other Sunday evenings through Skype, which means through your computer and at no extra long distance charges except for participating in the sessions. These sessions with Kris are quite intimate and the material very expansive, as you can attest from reading previous such sessions. Very often Kris will ask for questions from the participants, given the opportunity to interact more personally. For more details click here: http://krischronicles.com/?page_id=274
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Discourses on Dreams Book
Kris’ book Discourses on Dreams is available from our site. The difference is that when you purchase it directly from our site, meaning us, you get a signed copy. We also have the instant download version of the book in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader is already on most computers, Mac or Windows, everywhere). It is at the bottom of the page. Click here to order your very own signed copy of the paperback version of the book (PDF cannot be signed): http://krischronicles.com/?page_id=1200
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Your Group with Kris
Have you been thinking about having your own small group of people get together at your place (or a friend’s) and have a group session with Kris? Now is the perfect time. Click here for more details: http://krischronicles.com/?page_id=273
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Radio for Newcomers to the Kris information
Any of you in the classes knows that Kris is constantly asking for those who do not normally speak up, to ask questions.
Here is another opportunity. Perhaps once a month, we would host one or two people on the radio show who are relatively new to Kris and the material, for the purpose of letting you ask whatever questions are on your minds, particularly about concepts you have heard mentioned that you wish a greater understanding about.
Rather than simply having Kris “preach to the choir “, we would welcome anyone who is trying to get themselves up to speed, so to speak, with the material, and the ideas that Kris has been presenting. It is too easy to assume that we are covering all the bases, and new perspectives are always welcome. So here is your opportunity.
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Cheers and thank you for your continued support and friendship.
Serge and Mark
Summary: RBD: What Are You Thinking?
March 26, 2009
During this Reality by Design Radio Show Kris takes the time to clarify and further explain what he meant by cause does not equal effect, that your past does not have to dictate your future.
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RBD: What Are You Thinking?
March 26, 2009
During this Reality by Design Radio Show Kris takes the time to clarify and further explain what he meant by cause does not equal effect, that your past does not have to dictate your future.
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RBD: What Are You Thinking?
March 26, 2009
Kris Chronicles Channeled by Serge J. Grandbois
Transcribed by Dorothy Franklin (Ellora)
Recorded in Toronto, Canada on March 26, 2009
MARK: Good evening and welcome to Reality by Design: A Kris Media Production here on ThatChannel.com. My name is Theodore H. Tuttle [John cracks up.] but you can call me Mark. And I am sitting here with John Hawkins.
JOHN: Well if you’re Theodore H. Tuttle, I’m Jimmy Jam Jar.
MARK: [Laughing.] I saw that. I noticed that.
JOHN: That’s my “nom de plume”, Jimmy Jam Jar. And who are you tonight Serge?
SERGE: I have no idea. You tell me.
JOHN: Well anyway, we’re here and we’re happening. It’s another Thursday night Kris Media . . . What are we calling this now? Reality by Design.
MARK: We’re going to have Alan shortly, I believe. And in the interim, Theodore H. Tuttle, I just found out, was a past life of mine, a past focus. And it’s really interesting that this individual . . . As you know, Reed down in Arizona painted a painting of Edgar Cayce. And he sent it to us. We had no idea that this surprise was coming and when we first looked at it, we had no idea it was Edgar Cayce. We thought, “Well, okay Reed did it. He probably . . . That’s probably one of his visions of one of Kris’ focuses.” Until we contacted him to thank him. He says, “No”, he says, “I saw this early image of Edgar Cayce, probably from the 50′s I think, and . . .
SERGE: Earlier than that because he died in . . .
MARK: Okay, so it’s a younger image of him. And he says, “I though it looked like Mark. And when I look at it, I see Mark and I think that maybe there’s a past focus there.” Or that Edgar Cayce may have been one of my . . . So I talked to Kris about it. And it’s not. Edgar Cayce is not one of my focuses. However, what he says is that Reed picked on, is that picture of Edgar Cayce resembles Theodore H. Tuttle, which was a past life of mine, which I had a shared focus of Reed. He was a friend or an associate or a relative or something, but we had this lifetime.
And what is fascinating is that Theodore was in the mid 1850′s, mid 1800′s and he was a thinker. He was going around Europe and Scandinavia countries and sort of preaching and thinking outside of the box. And that particular focus inspired many of my focuses, even some into the past, such as Phillip who was hundreds of years prior in linear times, and what I’m doing now in thinking outside the box and the whole spirituality thing.
SERGE: Wasn’t there a connection to its old or classic spiritualism?
MARK: What do you mean by “classic spiritualism”?
SERGE: Well you know, mediums and woo-woo and ectoplasm and stuff like that.
MARK: We didn’t get into that. But interesting . . .
JOHN: Did you look up T. H. Tuttle.
MARK: I found some.
JOHN: Did you?
MARK: I found some in New York in that time period. I don’t know if that’s them, because this individual was in Europe. Did he travel to Europe or was he from Europe?
JOHN: Yeah.
MARK: I don’t know. The other interesting thing is that Kris turned around and said that Theodore H. Tuttle was also Edgar Cayce’s focus.
JOHN: Yeah. That’s where it gets interesting.
MARK: It does. Because I said, “Well is that a shared focus?” He’s “Hmmmm. Well . ” So it’s interesting. I don’t want to get into it too much. I’d rather have the transcript in front of me when I get into that. I don’t want to distort it. But especially because the A.R.E., Edgar Cayce’s Institute there, I forget what it’s called . . .
SERGE: Just that.
MARK: . . . would protest the comments.
JOHN: So Theodore H. Tuttle was one of your focuses and also another focus of Edgar Cayce?
MARK: Yes.
JOHN: Well doesn’t that make you Edgar Cayce once removed?
MARK: No. No, it’s a shared focus, so to speak.
JOHN: Okay. Well . . .
MARK: They’re both very different essences, but chose to cooperate, so to speak, on that focus.
JOHN: Fascinating.
MARK: I thought it was. Do we have Alan?
ALAN: Well good evening, whoever you are.
[Laughter,]
MARK: Hello.
JOHN: Hi Alan.
ALAN: How’s everybody?
MARK: Very good, thank you.
JOHN: Very good.
MARK: Yourself?
ALAN: Oh I’m great. We finally got winter.
MARK: Again.
JOHN: No, really?
ALAN: Yeah. Waited ’til the second week of spring to give us about a foot of snow and fourteen-degree temperatures. But we really needed it.
MARK: You needed it.
ALAN: Yeah. It’s been kind of a strange period of time up here.
JOHN: Isn’t that interesting. And this coincides with you getting work. Are you working in a foot of snow?
ALAN: Oh yeah, yeah.
JOHN: Wow.
MARK: Hmm. That’s different. We’re getting spring here.
ALAN: You tell me. It’s the kind of time when any tool you left on the ground is now gone for the next three weeks.
[Laughter.]
MARK: Until you step on it and wipe out.
ALAN: That’s pretty much it.
MARK: Where did I put that shovel again?
SERGE: Now Alan, I understand that we’re working on our next guest. Is that right?
ALAN: We are indeed. I’m scheduled to talk to Paul Helfrich after the show and see what he’s been up to these last years, from my terms, and see what we can work out for a future appearance.
SERGE: Okay. And I believe that’s what, for the 12th of April?
MARK: It’s tentative, yeah.
ALAN: Oh well, I think . . .
MARK: He hasn’t talked it with Paul.
ALAN: I think it’s for the 9th [of April], but we haven’t really talked about it yet, so . . .
SERGE: Okay.
ALAN: . . . we’ll have to see.
SERGE: Okay. So it’ll be like the second Thursday of April or something like that, right?
ALAN: Right. That’s kind of what I’m wanting to shoot for.
SERGE: Okay. Cool.
MARK: Sweet.
SERGE: And what do we know so far about Mr. Paul Helfrich?
[Mark laughs.]
ALAN: I don’t know a dag-gone thing at the moment. I haven’t talked to Paul in a couple of years.
SERGE: Okay.
MARK: Serge probably knows a hell of a lot more about Paul than you do.
ALAN: I know he’s working gangbusters on a book.
MARK: Absolutely. Yeah.
ALAN: And getting a paper “peer reviewed”. And just what the topic of it all is, I’m hoping to find out a little later this evening.
MARK: Well what I find fascinating is that many years ago now, Paul published a paper on doing the EEG research and the brain mapping, so to speak, even though it wasn’t brain mapping back then, but analyzing EEG with channeled sources. And he did a paper on that. And so his work coincides with what we just did with Dr. Lewis. So Paul has a nice interesting perspective to share.
SERGE: Yes. I also understand that recently, Paul finished a program at the Ken Wilbur Institute for a specific certification, which would allow him to research and even, I think, teach, specifically on the lines of consciousness development of human beings. And in particular, Paul’s area of interest is channeled sources, or what that phenomenon means to us as people, as human beings. And Paul sees it very much as a next step in our human evolution or direction. So there’s some very interesting stuff going on there. And Paul is very meticulous about his work, so we’re going to, we’re bound to find out some very neat stuff.
MARK: Yeah. Absolutely. I’m looking forward to that conversation.
JOHN: Yes, he’s an interesting guy.
MARK: CMI III is coming up fast, kids. April 5th we’re having our first session.
SERGE: Yep. And for those who might not have read about it yet, or heard about it, Kris had wanted the Third Phase of CMI more so for those individuals, that have taken CMI I and II, who will be working with people either as one on one or groups and mentor themselves and stuff like that. But after some requests, he opened it up to any members of the CMI Phase I or II. The difference only being that those who will work with people will get a certification to that effect. And those who do not will just get a certificate of appreciation for their participation.
MARK: Participation, yeah. There will be homework assignments for those going for the full certification.
SERGE: Yeah.
MARK: And all the others can just enjoy the ride and the experience.
SERGE: I’m sure it’ll be transformative for them as well.
MARK: Absolutely.
SERGE: And Kris did let it know that it was going to be also teaching specific methods of hypnosis and stuff like that, to work with people for deeper relaxation. And I know there’s other stuff coming too so.
MARK: Yeah. That’s really cool. The Toronto workshop, that information is on the website now. And that’s for the middle of June there, 13th and 14th I believe.
SERGE: Um-hmm.
MARK: And I know some people have already booked their flights. I don’t know if they’ve started booking the hotel rooms yet, but there’s a special rate that weekend for us. And there’s a special code word or code of letters there. And it’s on the website. So you give that to the reservations desk and they give you the special rate.
SERGE: Yeah. And one of our friends and participants in the workshop has, Barbara, has mentioned that if there’s another person that may need a place to stay she has room for one more at her house. So if anybody is planning on attending and maybe if they had to pay for a hotel room it might toss the coin whether they can come or not, then let us know and we’ll forward it on to Barbara.
JOHN: I think that’s very sweet of her.
MARK: I think John can host twelve.
[Laughter.]
SERGE: Those are very wee folks.
MARK: The look on his face. [Laughing.]
SERGE: Those are wee folk, little leprechauns.
JOHN: I live in a one bedroom, thank you very much.
SERGE: But if they’re leprechauns they’re just “this” big.
JOHN: Fine.
MARK: They’re magically delicious.
[Laughter.]
SERGE: And don’t take any room at all.
ALAN: Hey, I can’t toss in a question real quick from the Skype world and that was wanting to know if people who take these course later on, can they get the same kind of certificate?
SERGE: Yes. If they go through the Phases, of course.
MARK: Ah, now CMI III, if you don’t take it . . .
SERGE: They can’t just take CMI III. They have to go I, II and III.
MARK: Yeah, but I’m wondering about the homework assignments.
JOHN: Oh, they’d have to submit them . . .
SERGE: On their own, too.
MARK: On their own, too.
SERGE: Yep.
JOHN: In other words, there are certain requirements to complete it, and that’s part of the requirement. I mean, you may, five years from now, be getting homework assignments from people taking CMI Phase III.
SERGE: And they can’t just copy and paste somebody else’s assignments.
MARK: No. We’re not going to make them public.
SERGE: Those we can probably hold.
JOHN: Don’t forget, we can hypnotize you.
[Laughter.]
MARK: Speaking of . . .
SERGE: We’ll know the truth.
MARK: I did want to bring this up. Change Your Life, the final session just last Tuesday, there was a meditation, which was really a hypnotic induction. And I sent out the audio file for the whole thing, and I know some people have it there and some people have extracted it. I’m going to be putting up that. But I just wanted to warn everybody, please do not listen to that while driving or operating machinery because you are going into trance and that’s not safe.
JOHN: I think that . . . I mean, obviously that applies in spades to that particular “adventure in practice”, if we could call it that.
SERGE: Yeah.
JOHN: But I think that that probably applies generally to all of Kris’ inductions.
MARK: Yeah. Definitely.
SERGE: Yep.
MARK: Sweet. So we don’t know what’s on the table for tonight.
SERGE: Well there’s a box of tissues. There are some papers, a phone.
JOHN: And a very literal gentleman.
MARK: Comedian.
SERGE: Well a hack probably. I don’t know.
JOHN: Well that’s normal isn’t it, for these radio shows? Kris comes through with whatever’s on his mind and we swing with it.
MARK: Absolutely.
JOHN: I’ve noticed that he very rarely, sort of jumps into a whole new topic. Occasionally he’ll tell us a story. Remember all those wonderful stories? He hasn’t told us a story lately. But it’s almost certainly going to be a continuation. He’ll pick up the threads of some of the things he’s been talking about. That’s his style.
MARK: Um-hmm. He likes to pick up things in our conversation too. He likes to eavesdrop.
JOHN: Oh yes.
MARK: Grab a little tidbit and run with it.
ALAN: [Chuckling.] You guys are salting the bird’s tail.
MARK: What was that?
JOHN: Salting the bird’s tail. Yes, we are. Yes we are. So that Change Your Life workshop, which was actually ended up being nine sessions, or let’s call it eight and a half sessions.
SERGE: Well, sort of.
JOHN: Remember 4.5?
SERGE: Because there was a half session.
JOHN: 4.5. Yeah. That was a very . . .
SERGE: How did you feel about that last Tuesday’s, Alan?
ALAN: Oh I’m still trying to recover from the trance.
SERGE: Still processing huh?
ALAN: Yeah. I even played it a second time and it certainly makes the dreams interesting later on. I can say that for a fact.
MARK: Oh, I know that feeling.
JOHN: And you were posting that you had a bit of a breakthrough in terms of a, the one aspect that was blocking the Ma’at State because of the implications of . . . Well, I won’t tell your story. As a matter of fact, we’re getting somebody coming through here now.
MARK: Salting the tail of the bird.
ALAN: I guess I’m off the hook then.
JOHN: Yeah. You’re off the hook Alan.
KRIS: Indeed. Consider us salted. Now we trust you are comfortable and we thank you for your consideration.
MARK: Thank you.
KRIS: Now the two of you had an interesting discussion at the food court.
MARK: Indeed.
JOHN: Yes we did.
KRIS: On the one hand we could say, “What were you thinking?” But it is not meant to be applied directly and specifically to the two of you. In general, “What are you thinking?” specifically in terms of causality.
JOHN: We had a good discussion about that.
KRIS: Indeed. What needs to be pointed out, and we have on several occasions alluded to this, that you do not need to be influenced by what you consider to be the past. Now the gist of your supper discussion centered around whether events of the past influenced or controlled your present situation. And you did go to some great philosophical lengths to grasp the idea from your conscious and logical perspective. Both of you seemed to have had a very progressive, logical, lying down of the card as they are supposedly meant to be. Does that make sense?
MARK: Yes.
JOHN: Yes, it does.
KRIS: And that is what, in some respects, can even be comical. And not to be disrespectful in any sense whatsoever, our main point is that it is not the events of the past as you consider the past, that truly have any influence upon you at all. It is what you BELIEVE about those events that has the greatest, and shows the greatest, and demonstrates the greatest influence, or not. In other words, it is your THINKING about these things, not thinking because you bring it up into your memory, but what you process about these things. That is what is important to discuss. In and of itself the past has no influence, because the past is always the present. The moment you bring something to conscious awareness, where is it?
MARK: In the “now”.
JOHN: In the present.
KRIS: Indeed. Therefore it cannot be “in the past”. We have said on many occasions that the present is the interpreter of the past and the weaver of the future. You recall these times?
JOHN: Absolutely.
MARK: Yes.
KRIS: Indeed. Therefore it also stands to reason that from your present perspective you give some events of the past an extraordinary influence upon your present actions, motivations, influences, and so on and so forth. Thus is it, by itself, the past that seems to haunt you, so much as it may be the fact that you are tweaking it in such a way that you manifest what you believe must be appropriate manifestations? Do you follow?
JOHN: Yeah. As you said, it’s what we believe about the past as opposed to the actual event.
KRIS: Indeed. In and of itself the event can truly be considered benign, except when you decide to put your nose in it, so to speak, and to charge it with a judgment of one kind or an other, just as easily as you can judge yourselves and sometimes critically so, in such a way that you determine then that “A” causes or makes “B” happen. And this formulation is also part and parcel of ancient Eastern teachings. You call it “The Laws of Karma”. The difference is that in the Eastern philosophies of the laws of Karma not only do you have to deal with so-called events of the past from a year, a decade, two decades ago, but now you have to deal with the consequences of events from millions of lifetimes ago, in those terms. Talk about self-punishment! Thus, you may do yourself a world of service by defusing those particular sets of thoughts or ideas concerning causality, and quite literally unburden yourselves from years or even decades of weight, literally dead weight.
We have also suggested that one of your reasons, so to speak, for taking physical life is to understand how to manage states of consciousness within this particular field of events. This is also part and parcel of the process. You install specific charges along with specific events. Perhaps when you were five “this” happened. Obviously now you may be traumatized forty years later. When you were eight, something else happened. Now you are also traumatized. Twenty years ago something else happened. And you pile it up and now you have triple trauma, which lays a pretty heavy burden upon your own shoulders.
It is, at times, no wonder you feel down, as in “weighed down”, because from the moment of the “now”, from this perspective, you have slipped in some judgments that these particular events qualify for heavier than usual infusions of judgment. They are perhaps signs of your failure, signs of your shame, signs of your guilt, signs of your anger, signs of your resentment, and so on and so forth. You create a heavy-laden tapestry. And yet, whom is doing the doing here? Is it the event, specifically, or is it the individual that has passed judgment on the event and has decided to make it so they must wear it on their sleeves?
JOHN: Well obviously it’s the latter.
MARK: It’s interesting. It obviously resonates because if the past really did affect or influence you, your entire past would influence you. But you notice how we pick and choose certain events, and usually the ones that we deem negative. What about all those happy events or all those events that we’ve completely forgotten and let go? You know. They don’t influence us. ‘Course not.
KRIS: There are many situations where, if you use numbers for instance, you may have ninety-nine wonderful events that seem to go with the ease of the wind. Event number one hundred comes along. It is a little sharper, a little colder. It has a certain difference. And all of a sudden that event becomes so heavily laden with emotional content of one kind or another that you believe it wipes out the other ninety-nine. And this one particular event, one percent, seems to acquire a phenomenally enormous importance. Do you follow?
JOHN: Oh yeah.
KRIS: Is it the event itself, or how it was dealt with, how it was interpreted, how it was more or less absorbed?
JOHN: Well again, it’s the latter. So the opportunity is for us to unburden ourselves . . .
KRIS: Indeed.
JOHN: … with this . . .
KRIS: You cannot expect someone else to do that.
JOHN: No. And we can release our association that past events influence our present or determine our present, let’s say.
KRIS: Indeed.
JOHN: I don’t mind them influencing a little bit, but I don’t want them “determining” the present.
KRIS: There are always influences, just as the moon influences your tides. But if you do not like the tide, for instance, you can move away from the seashore.
JOHN: Now, if I could just ask a question, which again we . . . similar to what we discussed over our dinner. When you speak about a negative event and that . . . that’s not determining what’s going on now. But I’ve also had, as we discussed . . . For instance, I took a wonderful program in hypnosis before Christmas.
KRIS: Indeed.
JOHN: That’s now my past. And I feel that it has really opened some doors for me and created some new opportunities . . .
KRIS: Indeed.
JOHN: . . . certainly some new understandings. And so, in a way, I’m thinking that that has a . . . doesn’t determine my present but I’m now a guy who’s had that program as opposed to a guy who didn’t have that program.
KRIS: Indeed. And . . .?
JOHN: So that’s in the past, and it’s . . . my thinking about it, my beliefs about it are . . . I’m choosing to have that greatly influence what I regard as my potentials now.
KRIS: Indeed. And you are entirely at liberty to do so. We have not suggested that one must not do that.
JOHN: No.
KRIS: But we have suggested that when you encounter critically and chronically restricted events, those that you have deemed the worst possible kinds of events that could have happened to you and you have simply bitten into them like a pit bull, never letting go of the event, you are, therefore, almost forced to drag the event wherever you go with you, because you have bitten into it.
JOHN: You know I’m just having a vision. It might be fun to, when I get home tonight or tomorrow, is draw up on a piece of paper, those half dozen or twelve or fourteen events that I regard as being definitive of my life now, and just, as you say, go through them and tick them off and unburden myself.
KRIS: Indeed. In other words, what if all of the events that you consider of the past that cause you trauma of one kind or another, only caused you trauma because you interpreted them as traumatizing and nothing else?
JOHN: Right.
KRIS: What would that imply?
JOHN: Well that would imply that if I, as I, change my interpretation of those events so that I say, “Okay that’s not necessarily traumatizing. In fact, that even may actually be liberating in some degree. It may be actually adding to my potential. It may actually be creating happiness.” In other words, I’m at liberty to change my interpretation of that event.
KRIS: Indeed. And what it would it feel like for you to realize that you no longer have to be burdened by any such event, but instead found freedom?
JOHN: Well that would mean I basically start each day with a clean slate.
KRIS: Because your beliefs work in your favor.
JOHN: Uh-huh.
KRIS: And that is the point of us bringing this up.
JOHN: Um-hmm.
KRIS: That you determine how the past will be viewed.
JOHN: Yes, actually, coincidentally . . . Oh yeah . . . Today I got an email from the Abe group. And somebody was talking to Abe and they were saying, oh, they were abandoned by their father when they were young. And Abe immediately came in and said, “Oh. You mean your father released you, released you, when you were young from what he regarded as being a negative influence being himself.”
KRIS: Indeed.
JOHN: And the person said, “I never thought of it that way.”
KRIS: Indeed, it is a way to reframe . . .
JOHN: Yeah.
KRIS: . . . the event in such that you can find the silver lining.
JOHN: Um-hmm. Well that’s very useful, very helpful.
KRIS: Indeed. Now we believe it is time for a pause.
MARK: Indeed it is.
KRIS: Indeed.
MUSICAL INTERLUDE
MARK: Welcome back to Reality by Design: A Kris Media Production here on ThatChannel.com. My name is Mark Bukator this time around. And I am sitting here with John, Serge and Alan, Skype-boss. Great conversation kids.
JOHN: Yeah. How are you doing out there Alan? Is . . . Have we caused any controversies in Skype-land?
ALAN: Oh yeah. Things are just full of questions. But that’s all in my past and I’d just as soon not deal with it.
[John and Mark crack up.]
JOHN: Excellent. Excellent.
ALAN: I would say, in all fairness to people, that there is quite a bit of commentary about this whole thing. Not so much that there’s questions, but there’s certainly a lot of ideas about, “Well what about the influences of things that you’ve forgotten about?” Which I think, in a way, is kind of amusing, because if you’ve forgotten about it, how do you know it has any influence? Or someone else asks, “What about other focuses and the effect that they have on you?” And I think that there’s a whole bunch of us here that, when it comes down to really wondering about the past and things that have influences on us, have a great deal of difficulty even imagining that there isn’t a past in some sense.
KRIS: These inquiries are most interesting indeed. It is important to keep in mind that having an influence does not your reality make. You are the one who chooses whether or not something will influence you, whether or not the beliefs that you hold shall have sway over you, or you determine how it will influence you. Does that make sense?
MARK: I think so.
JOHN: It makes sense here. ‘Cause influence is one thing but determination is another.
KRIS: The cookies in the jar may influence your taste buds and they may say, “Come eat me. Be a cookie monster and come eat me.” However, you are the one who determines if you will or not be a cookie monster.
JOHN: You can always order pizza.
KRIS: Do you follow?
JOHN: Absolutely.
KRIS: In simpler terms, you always have a choice. It is only when you are convinced that you have no choice, you have no recourse, you have no resources, or any other processes to act differently than to be as a puppet to the puppeteer of your beliefs. Does that make sense?
JOHN: Yes, it does. But you’re giving up that control as a choice. In other words, not . . feeling you don’t have a choice. It’s a choice.
KRIS: It is also a choice to give it up.
JOHN: Yes.
KRIS: Just as it is a choice to continue.
JOHN: Um-hmm.
KRIS: The whole crux of the matter is just that – who determines what influences you or not? That is a very interesting question. Does that make sense to you in Skype-land?
ALAN: Yeah. What it’s making me think is that if we become aware of something that is, that we think is an influence, that we think is an impasse, and it’s like we almost have to create a past in order to explain it to ourselves.
KRIS: You indeed do, in so many words, just that. You are “makers of meaning”. You are Akosha. You will always be. Thus, in order to explain to yourselves certain events, perhaps without realizing that you can make a different choice, you must pick from your files, if you wish, those stories that justify your situation. Does that make some sense?
ALAN: It certainly does.
KRIS: And we are not saying it is a bad thing. Indeed not. But there are other stories that you can pull from your hat or other places for that matter. But definitely there are other places, other choices [and] other stories you can create that can give you a different experience. If you train the mouse to go through the maze to get the cheese, it may come to a point where if you make the cheese readily available to the mouse, it will not take it. It will prefer to go through the maze first. Do you follow?
JOHN: Yes and I’m very fond of cheese. Yes.
[Alan chuckles.]
KRIS: We hear that Wallace and Grommet also are.
ALAN: I think I’m very fond of mazes.
JOHN: [Laughing.] Yes.
KRIS: Thus in order to give yourselves, as a species, an understanding of your story, collective or otherwise, you make the stories. They are called your “creation myths”. They are your ancient sacred writings. But you have become so convinced that there can be no other that it is difficult for you to understand your own origins, especially in terms of what the present moment is. And for all intents and purposes everything is always the present moment. But how you determine how that present moment will be lived and experienced by you is another issue altogether. That statement has powerful implications.
And we invite anyone to peruse older transcriptions, perhaps as old as yesterday, and allow your mind to roam through the words and the concepts and notice things you have not noticed before, things that can open your mind and your eyes, as what you read carries implications. And as you do that, you may enjoy submitting these things, perhaps through an email or perhaps through these open mike sessions, for further exploration. We have, over the last many years, dropped many such concepts, embedded in small talk, generalizations, what appeared as “off the cuff” comments. And they are all very nicely available. But it is up to you to hunt them. Consider them the ultimate Easter Egg of consciousness that you can hunt for. Do you follow?
MARK: Yes.
JOHN: Yep.
KRIS: It would give us great pleasure, in those terms, to expand upon some of these concepts. And some of these concepts are very small indeed, perhaps only a few words, a sentence embedded within another concept. As some of you have already figured out, we speak in many layers, not many tongues just many layers. And it will give us great pleasure to assist you in unraveling those layers so that you can find the treasure within. And this process has gone on for many years. So when you discover something of this and have an “AHA” moment, you sense the depth of the implication, do note it. Do bring it forward. And as you may be tempted to say, “Let’s party.” Now we believe it is time for your second pause.
JOHN: All right.
MUSICAL INTERLUDE
MARK: Welcome back. You have the floor Kris.
KRIS: Indeed. It is very important to note that you can just as easily retain or reclaim your own power, your own authenticity, as you can abandon it. It is merely a matter of choice. Thus you are entirely at liberty to do what you want. Our point, however, is if you choose to be influenced in such a manner that you manifest victim-hood, then ask yourself whom must come to your rescue. We cannot answer that one.
JOHN: It’s a paradox, because how can a victim rescue itself? And yet who else is going to rescue a victim who creates it’s own reality?
KRIS: Indeed. On another note, these little tidbits, these tasty crumbs we have scattered throughout the materials over the many years, are not new. We will share a dream that Joseph had many, many years ago. A dream that he had when all that he knew were the Edgar Cayce materials. And as we have explained in the past, even though we communicated with and through Joseph, even then, because his references were limited only to Edgar Cayce, we had to “follow the rules”, so to speak, until eventually he could move forward in his own direction.
In this particular dream, Joseph found himself in an orchard that stretched to the very ends of the horizon. So large was this orchard [that] it appeared to be an orange orchard, at least in appearance, which represents “fruits of labor”, his own. But in the very centre of this orchard was a tree so tall you could barely see the very tip of it. And this tree bore fruits of many different colors as well as shapes. And these fruits were much larger than all of the other fruits in the orchard. They were even larger than a human being. And at that time, since we had to “don the guise” of Mr. Cayce, so that Joseph would still feel comfortable and within his elements, we invited Joseph to extend a hand and reach for our own.
And as this was occurring, we started to rise, as if there were an invisible elevator on the outside of the tree at its edges that could afford a magnificent view of the tree in its magnificent stature with all of its lovely fruits ready and waiting to be harvested. And the journey up the tree continued to the very top, which could afford a view of the entire tree and the orchard together, so tall was the top of the tree. And keep in mind the orchard went to the ends of the horizons. At that point Joseph felt overwhelmed and saturated with feelings well beyond anything he had experienced up to that point in his life. And this dream is almost three decades old, almost.
This particular dream is the foundation of Joseph’s journey with ourselves, the central tree representing the entity Brahm – we, as an extension – Joseph also as an extension of that process – the fruits representing endeavors, actions, and everything can and is and will flow from these actions, this engagement, this exchange.
We share this simply because in many respects, the dream also represents the dreams of every man, woman, child and human being in your plane of existence, not just your planet. Every being in this plane of existence has dreams, hopes and aspirations. And everyone has the potential available to them to reach for these fruits of their own labor. And by labor we do not mean bone-breaking labor. Simply the act of being can bring about many fruits. And in particular, there are different ways to accept influences. And whether Joseph has recognized this or not, at one layer he has accepted then to make some of the fruits of these labors available and to share it, as each of you. The decision is yours. Does that make some sense?
JOHN: Yes. It’s a lovely, a lovely story. So he’s . . . so really what we’re doing right now is one of those big old fruits.
KRIS: We could say, “Speak for yourself.”
[Laughter.]
JOHN: Okay.
ALAN: I’m staying out of this one.
[Laughter.]
KRIS: The voice of the wise.
JOHN: No. That’s a lovely, a very inspirational concept. I love that big tree in the middle and the going up the elevator. I was right with you all the way.
KRIS: Indeed. It is a very graphic and inspiring dream.
JOHN: And that’s thirty years ago.
KRIS: Almost.
MARK: I was going to say, “Where can I order one of those trees?”
JOHN: Apparently we all have a tree like that.
MARK: Something else that I’ve just recently discovered, or come to understand through analogy, is that I’ve always thought . . . I know Kris plants seeds and we plant seeds. And I always thought, you know, “Okay, when you’re starting from seedling it takes considerable time, sometimes years, sometimes months.” But Serge and I recently went out and bought some seeds. We’re planning on doing some gardening this year. He’s going to plant some vegetables and I want some climbing flowers and scented stuff. And we went out in February, or early March, and bought seed. Well we thought, we’d better plant them, and got the trays and all this and expected that, okay, by the March long weekend, the May long weekend, we’ll be able to plant them. Well, within one week they’re already four inches high. It’s like they’ve outgrown the little boxes that they, the little trays. We’re now planting them in pots throughout the house. And that’s telling me, and helping me understand, that these seeds that we plant don’t have to take lengthy periods of time. Some of them sprout really quickly and flow.
KRIS: Indeed. It is truly about what you do with the results. So it is our humble suggestion that all of you, whether here in the studio, in Skype-land, anywhere in the world and everywhere in the universe, give yourselves the opportunity to cultivate your deepest seeds of desire and allow them to bear fruit. And with that, we return Joseph to you, and thank you for your lovely consideration, fruits and all.
MARK: Thank you.
JOHN: Thank you Kris.
MARK: Wow.
JOHN: That’s a wrap.
MARK: That’s a wrap. Thank you everybody for listening. Thank you Alan.
ALAN: Yeah. And Kwaa’ Ji says to tell Serge his seeds arrived today. And it sounds like the seeds arrived for all of us.
MARK: [Laughing.] Sweet. More seeds. Okay, that’s our time for the night. Good night everybody.
END OF PROGRAM
Summary: Authentic Self
March 22, 2009
During this International Sessions Kris asks, What is the Authentic Self? Many individuals, group and organizations have a definition of the Authentic Self that they utilize to teach or mentor others with, but what really is the Authentic Self?
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