2001-10-20-Lost Oliver Tape

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Topic: Lost Oliver Tape

Group: Costa Rica TeaM

Facilitators

Teacher: Alana, Legion

TR: S. Butterfield

Session

Opening

T/R : Father, I thank you. I thank you. Father/Mother, I surrender my fear to your love. I surrender my doubt to your love.

Alana : Yes. This is Alana.

Oliver : Alana, it is nice to meet when the human emotions are not swamping over us, or over me. Just to meet and hang out with you, how about that.

Alana : Yes. Like hanging out with the laundry. Yes? Allowing the sun to sterilize the germs of overuse, and the cares and worries of the day. We hang out with you.

Oliver : Yes. You hang out with us a lot.

David : It must be a terrible revelation to them. (laughter)

Alana : No. You are not the revelation to me. I am the revelation to you.

David : Indeed. Indeed. I meant that we are such poor students and get in to all kinds of nonsense. I’m kind of making fun of us, Alana.

Alana : Yes. And I would hope that you, both of you, would understand that as I am revealed to you, you are revealed to yourselves. Yes?

David & Oliver : Yes.

Dialogue

Alana : And so, like the laundry, we will approach your emotions, your prejudices, your fears, your doubts, your quarrels, as that which periodically must be cleansed from your hearts and your minds. Yes? And it is the living waters of God’s love, God’s joy, that would accomplish this laundering task. Yes? And it is not, your recognize, similar to your clever laundromat, but rather it is unique to each individual that they do the work themselves to open up and allow God’s love and joy to enter into their hearts and launder those emotions, wash those hatreds, fears, doubts and misunderstandings away. Allowing God’s love to fill you. Opening to allow God to………

(Tape ran down. Batteries were out. This was not noticed, so an hour of tranmitting was lost. The tape recorder was then plugged in to an electrical outlet.)

T/R : Surrender disappointments.

David : Nothing of value is ever lost in the universe.

Legion : This is Legion.

David : Welcome, Legion.

Legion : Thank you. So, you realize, even practice does not always make perfect. The human being stumbles. Forgive yourselves. Use each stumble as an opportunity to remain upon your knees for a moment, to have the humility of respect for your limitations, for the conditions upon your planet, for the limitations of the others with whom you live upon the planet, even if you have not learned to share. Have humility of respect for the limitations of your families. And in the kneeling before an obstacle, an imperfection, a mistake, kneel as well in a prayer of gratitude for your ability to recognize, acknowledge and surrender your limitations, your obstacles, your mistakes. Surrender these to God’s love, and in the surrendering give a prayer of gratitude for God’s love.

So, you have understood a small part of the mythology surrounding forgiveness and love. Yes?

Oliver : Yes, Legion.

Legion : One moment please.

Alana : This is Alana. Yes, she (T/R) must be more rested to sustain the focus, for his (Legion) energy is great. Allow. We can take a question or two, but she (T/R) must return another time for Legion.

David : You constantly speak of opening the heart. Could you give us some guidance on how to open the heart?

Closing

Alana : There are many pathways. We have spoken to you about the stillness practice. I have introduced you to the heart room. Others focus upon their understanding of Michael’s lifetime, of Jesus upon your planet. Some would use a particular piece of music, or a particular note, a tone. All pathways include willingness; willingness to know that which may be unfamiliar, unfamiliar because the individual life has had very little love, unfamiliar because the individual has accumulated enough disappointment, or suffered enough pain to shut the door, blind the eye, empty the mind of the recognition, the welcome, the understanding of love. It is first a choice. But how can I open my heart, even make the choice, if I know not love? You do it any way. You open the door, shall we say, and you look, you turn on the music, perhaps, or enter the stillness, and you listen. Still, what if you are mistaken, and understand the stillness, or the music, or beyond the door, incorrectly? This is the human difficulty for…she (the T/R) is, she says, loosing it. She hears me and can not speak. She sees many people, many people understanding and knowing love, and passing this on, and teaching others how to open the door to love, how to open the heart. She sees the knife’s edge between open and closed, love and hate. In her seeing she recognizes the value, shall we say, of the….excuse me, we shall release the transmitter at this time with no shame.

Oliver : Thank you, Alana, for this very, very valuable teaching today.

Alana : Thank you.