Of course, We are here, We are with you each and everyone… please sit in an open manner; don’t cross your arms or legs so that you may allow the energy to move without blocks…
If you want to protect yourself from a situation or the energy of another, you can cross your fingers in front of your solar plexus – thumbs as well… in this way you maintain your own field… you know with the left you receive and with the right you give – by creating this type of circuit, you move the energy inside of yourself or around your own centre…
So, say you are at a meeting and you feel yourself becoming a bit emotional about the exchange of information; if you, deliberately, close yourself like that, close your eyes for one moment and you will begin to return to your own center – that’s a little bit of magic…
Of course, you can all look out on this body of water (lake) as We are working with the water elements for the last two Meetings, and We will be also working with it today here, for the third…
This lake is unique: it has a particular characteristic that is not very common and this is the fact that it’s part hot spring and part sea water… so those of you who were at Sounion yesterday can meet the god in this body of water if you like, if you remember the instructions to surrender to the flow of the water…
Besides that, there are healing qualities in the hot spring here combined with the clearing properties of the sea – you know the salt is a very good cleanser… if you believe in that ‘evil eye’ (giggle), you can take coarse salt and clean your neck… any time you want to clear your energy field, you may use salt and rub your neck…
Today as you look at this body of water, you are going to be requesting an opening inside yourself to reveal your own shadow…
There’s a mystery concerning the depth of this body and there’s a possibility of reaching the underworld through this water… so what you are going to do is imagine that you are diving deep into that body going as far as you can in order to reveal your own shadow… first, you are going to close your eyes and imagine diving in, you are going to swim as deep as you can with your imagination and you are going to look for something… perhaps you find some type of a relic, you might find a piece of gold, you might find silver, you might find gems, you might find a feather – this has to do with your own individual needs… with your imagination, after you take that item, you are going to rise to the top…
If you decide to go into the lake after this Gathering here, you can make this operation even more effectively: you can dive down, not trying to swim into the cave, but imagining that you are doing it and you do the same exercise… that item that you find will be a representative to the shadow self that you are looking to uncover… you might not realize what that shadow is for some days, but if you use your will and your imagination, it will be effective…
We want to go around and touch you again in order to create that receptivity for this exercise… after We touch you, then you close your eyes and go into that meditation… at this moment We want you to be gazing the water, so you are looking at the water until We touch you and then you close your eyes and follow the instructions that We gave…
– (M.) What will we do with the relic we find? Are we going to use it somehow?
– Because it will be an imaginary item, you will be carrying it in your energy field until your shadow is revealed and then it will dissolve or it will disintegrate… with your will and imagination, after you take it, you will be carrying it in your field – you don’t have to, deliberately, discard it and you don’t have to even think about it: after you take it up, it’s yours and We empower it to do the job that We just described… this is a cooperation: We create the magic and you play the game – and by playing the game, the magic works, it’s effective…
– (D.) What if we don’t come up with something?
– Why wouldn’t you? Don’t be judgmental about what you are carrying, don’t judge that ‘you don’t have a diamond, you have a piece of coal’… if you dive deep enough, you will find something – maybe it’s something alive like a bird… don’t judge! Whatever you see, pick it up…
– (R.) When the shadow is revealed, how do we deal with that – being the difficult part?
– Welcome it, first – it’s a part of yourself, it comes to support your evolution, it comes to assist in your balanced walk on the planet earth… if you have to have a catharsis, don’t block that either! Be grateful that you see something else about yourself… ask Poseidon to give you the strength to illuminate that shadow… what do you think?
– (R.) I’m afraid…
– That’s normal, that’s good because that means that you will be careful: you won’t throw your shadow on someone you love because you will realize that it belongs to you, you see? Fear itself is part of the shadow…
– (K.) I don’t understand what it means ‘revealing the shadow’…
– You will see a part of yourself that you weren’t aware of, that’s operating in your life…
– (S.) Is that good?
– If you want to grow, if you want to know yourself, if you want to evolve, if you want to have a clearer relationship with your own spirit, with your own essence… usually, it’s the shadow self that blocks the direct contact with the soul or the inner guidance or the intuition… you have to decide if it’s good or not… is this your first time here?
– (S.) No…
– So you know how We work…
– (K.) I usually have trouble following the visualization – what if I don’t see anything?
– Keep swimming, try harder to play, don’t take it so seriously… if you make even the smallest effort, We do the rest, We don’t really demand that you are the best one with visualization – some people are better than others… you just have to try if you want to play this game – maybe you don’t want to play… you can choose not to play, you know, you don’t have to do it… you can even tell Us ‘don’t touch me’ – We don’t mind; it’s your decision… find something, anything, maybe it’s a bottle cap… what happens in the mind is too much judgment: that’s not worth anything, I’m not taking it, I want a diamond… so dive deeper then, keep searching… but maybe that bottle cap was more symbolic of your shadow than a big diamond…
– (M.) I intend to dive so will it happen while You are touching me and then again afterwards?
– Yes, please…
– (M.) What if I find two objects?
– Better for you… can you swim and carry both?! Do you want to deal with two shadows?!
– (M.) Yes…
– Why not? Maybe one helps the other to balance…
– (T.) Do we have to wait until we get into the lake or is it ok if the relic has already appeared in our mind when You mentioned it?
– In the lake you are diving into the underworld… the underworld represents your shadows or where you hide – and you hide from yourself, you know, everyone hides things from themselves for many different reasons… maybe you think that quality is impolite, for instance, or that behavior is unacceptable so you don’t realize, you don’t see when you are impolite or unacceptable because you keep it underneath the table… so by diving you are bringing it out in the light… of course, it’s better to do the exercise in the water, but We understand that many of you don’t want to go in the water so We give you the exercise here…
– (D.) I was about to ask what the underworld represents and You just answered it… I’m wondering if the Ancient Greeks had the same idea concerning the underworld because You’ve mentioned the Underworld in at least three Gatherings – once in Elefsina, and I kept thinking what it symbolizes…
– Let’s say ‘yes’, but they extended it: it also represents punishment because if you don’t know that you are making a mistake, when your goal, really, is to be impeccable and as close to the spirit as possible, that is a bit like punishment… so being in the underworld is a type of punishment, it’s being in the dark… you know, ‘keep them in the dark’, all those sayings… this is the reason why it is associated with the shadow…
– (D.) The Ancient Greeks called it the ‘world of shadows’…
– You might say that your goal is to operate in your life directed by your spirit moving towards the light… the battle, the symbolic battle is with your own shadow that resides in the dark, the underworld, the hell, all that… so by bringing your shadow into the light, you give yourself the opportunity to work it out, therefore creating more receptivity to the spirit to guide you… what blocks the guidance from your spirit? Your shadow…
– (D.) As it’s been said before, it’s the dark that defines light, actually… it only makes light more important…
– But the boundaries, the borders block expansion, don’t they? This process that We take through is about the expansion of your consciousness – before you can know everything, you have to know yourself, you have to know your limitations, you have to know your abilities and you have to know your shadows… so ‘the shadow defines the light’ can be interpreted as ‘knowing your shadow puts you in the light’…
– (R.) Does knowing our shadow make it go away or it’s simply there not blocking us anymore?
– It doesn’t control you, it doesn’t direct you unconsciously… the shadow self is mostly responsible for unconscious actions…
What is ‘conscious action’? You know what you are doing, where you are going, how you get there, what will be the result of being there – no shadow, no surprise showing up from your shadow…
Honestly, the shadow doesn’t really exist – that’s why We would never give you an exercise to pick up something and say ‘this represents my shadow’… what do you want it for?! Symbolically, you pick up something – when it transforms into your shadow, you see it and it disappears, it disintegrates… the shadow can’t exist in the light…
– (Ch.) How are shadows created? Is there a way to prevent their creation?
– It takes a great deal of awareness… as a parent, if you are conscious, you clean up your own shadows so that you don’t overshadow your child… so some of the shadows don’t, necessarily, originate from your parents, but you share them with your parents… how does that happen? Maybe you choose your parents because you are not enlightened yet and you are bringing a shadow self from a former existence, a former experience from a former existence… you could say that shadows are the unconsciousness that needs to be illuminated so that you can reach enlightenment…
– (W.) While You were describing this previous exercise I couldn’t help but imagining myself diving in the water and in the deep end I saw a golden cross – Your comment?
– So, that represents your shadow: persecution – why your shadow feels persecuted sometimes in life and when that sense arises, you experience periods of unawareness, of lack of awareness… when you bang yourself on something, when you trip or if you are exposed to persecution… you work very hard not to persecute another and sometimes you don’t take care of your own needs because you are resisting the idea that you might be persecuting another… does it make sense?
– (W.) Yes…
– (T.) I saw a golden trident – can You direct me a bit?
– You dove already? Why aren’t you following the directions, you guys?
– (D.) Renegades…
– We said We wanted you to be gazing at the water now, all of you and when We touch you, you will dive… so you, T., dove and found a trident – anybody care to comment on that?
– {laughs from the participants} ‘Where were you yesterday?!’ is what We will say…
– (D.) He tuned in…
– It’s your anger – that’s your shadow… or your shadow works through your anger… when you get angry, then you get a bit confused…
– (K.) I, too, dove into the lake and found a big pearl in a big oyster which I closed, took it with me and rose to the surface…
– (laughs) Eager people… self-esteem…
you know that this is not a door that you open and then close… what will happen in the next weeks is that you will be experiencing the effects of that shadow so that you can shine it up… so for you, K., it’s about hiding your self-esteem… the shadow is the shell so you will have the opportunity to face an experience – or more than one experience, where you must choose to esteem yourself rather than go hide in yourself…
– (Ch.) She closed it so that she wouldn’t lose it…
– (laughs)…
– (T.) How can we work with our shadow the following days or even months?
– Of course, first, recognize it… witness the effect of it and know that We are available to assist you to illuminate it…
– (Ch.) So We will call You to help us?
– Certainly… you can, also, call Poseidon… you can, also, use the sunlight… if you review any of the previous Ceremonies, you can find ways to operate – even if you weren’t there… it doesn’t matter, We are with you so We will help you! If you put all of your attention on doing the exercise, We will be looking over you, watching over you… but We would never call Ourselves angels…
– (Ch.) Point taken… this has to do with me, I guess…
– How many will jump in the lake?
– (…) About ten…
– Very good! Those who will not jump can imagine again that they are jumping… even if you bring up two items, it might represent the same shadow… Let’s change it! Let’s have it represent the same shadow other than hit you with two, with a double dose… except for M.
– (M.) Thank you!
– He wants to hurry up!
– (Ch.) In my dream last night – being totally aware of our connection with Poseidon before going to bed, I saw a creature looking like a water-snake hiding behind the bathroom towels, which I tried to take out and free and it started taking animal shapes of a dog or a wolf and then it jumped out of there into the street where a group of scientists were working on a big project … explosions started taking place there and they began leaving the building and I remained confound…
– This has more to do with today’s Ceremony than yesterday’s… you were searching for your shadow using some totem that represents yourself – you know which one – and the others represent some individuals that you’re interacting with… the scientists etc have more to do with this body of water here as they’re still puzzled concerning the depth of the lake…
– (D.) Was this place created by an earthquake?
– Yes…
– (Ch.) How deep does it go?
– We don’t know (giggles)… let’s say it goes deeper than you can imagine… there’s more power in this body than you could imagine connecting to other waters in the earth… you, all, should be looking at the water all this time… do you imagine Poseidon shows up here sometimes? (giggles)
– (D.) That sounds fierceful…
– (R.) What is Poseidon’s relationship with the shadows? In mythology all his children looked monstrous…
– This originates from a fear of the underworld, the fear of the depths of the sea, what you might find, what creatures live there… those of you who were present yesterday might do that flattering eye imagining Poseidon rising out of this water to give you strength to dive and find your shadow…
– (D.) Yesterday You somehow connected the Temple of Poseidon – the god of the sea, at Cape Sounion, with the Temple of Athena – the goddess of wisdom, on the Acropolis… Would You comment on that?
– (Ch.) I may add that Athena is the Goddess-Protector of Athens and their competition for this position…
– If Poseidon lives in the sea, where do you think he lives? In the depths? In the deepest parts? What do you think?
– (…) Yes… there he built his palace…
– So if you go to the Acropolis what does that mean? The top, the highest point, correct? So you are going from the lowest to the highest, correct? So that you can know everything in between, all those other processes that are going on in your energy system… you need the wisdom to deal with your own shadows – you don’t want to destroy yourself because you have some shadows, you want to be wise about it…
– (D.) Was there a matriarch settlement in Sounion?
– We will say ‘no’…
– (D.) How come?
– Too windy (laughs)…
– (Ch.) Not good for the hair…
yesterday You mentioned the way that the wind works with the sea and it occurred to me that wind is moved by the Sun and the wind moves the surface of the waters creating the surface currents… we, also, know that the heat of the Sun hitting the ocean in different ways creates the deeper currents… Could You give us some guidance as to how these currents are driven by the Sun – that is the Spirit, and shape the movements in our emotional bodies and, especially, the deeper currents?
– You might just assume that the power of the Sun is greater than you will ever know… We don’t want to get too scientific, your realizations are very powerful – for yourself, too… this is for everyone: the emotional body is affected more so by the mental blocks that you create yourself as you go by your life… or the boundaries that you place around your expressions… if you were completely free, you would more easily become one with the water now…
why do We have you looking at the water? So that you become one with it… the longer that you stare at it, the more you can surrender… and then a free emotional body moves very rapidly from one emotion to the other – it doesn’t dwell… the mind creates the well or the lake where the waters of emotions dwell… if you have a body of water like this with an endless depth, it’s difficult for an emotion to dwell: it will get sucked into the moving water…
– (M.) This came to me last night… in the past I have been to some spiritual groups of personal evolvement where I have often felt manipulated by the leader of the group or their ego was too big, thus not allowing me to get the full experience from the group – what are the signs or characteristics of a leader in order to help the members’ evolution and in order to create safety in the team?
– We don’t want to give a list of characteristics because each person is an individual… each, so-called spiritual leader has their own particular character that they use to travel through their experience of life… We would say that, personally, you should feel at ease, you should feel a sense of trust for that individual, you should feel that you are accepted so that you know that you can grow, so that you feel safe to expose yourself knowing that you will be accepted… there are many who want to be leaders…
A true leader is born, not trained! Beware of those who call themselves Masters – a true Master is called by others, they don’t call themselves… at the same time, don’t forget to forgive everyone even if they are trying to be something they are not – you don’t have to follow them, you still have choice and you can choose to say ‘thank you, but no, thank you’…
– (M.) How do we recognize a leader?
– A person is born to lead… they tend to be independent, they tend to be not so concerned of what people think about them, they tend to be individualistic, ‘they walk to the beat of their own drum’…
– (M.) They don’t conform… ok…
– Was Jesus Christ a leader?
– (M.) The greatest!
– (K.) He had all the characteristics just mentioned…
– But He didn’t have so many followers… He had a number…
– (N.) I recently read that the difference between Socrates and Jesus was that Jesus wanted to be recognized whereas Socrates didn’t… since we can’t know anything about that era except for what is in the scripts, I’d like to know if Jesus, at some point in His life, asked for recognition…
– Socrates wanted more recognition that Jesus… who wrote that book?
– (N.) Osho…
– Jesus Christ received more recognition than Socrates… those two great individuals chose different paths, but both had similar goals: Truth… We might say that Jesus Christ is the most misunderstood individual on the Planet Earth – too many people talking about Him… or too much gossip, let’s say – and you know how gossip goes: you might get a completely different message than was intended…
– (Ch.) It always perplexed me that Socrates chose to be the gadfly of Athens to wake people up from their sleep and I was wondering whether it was an aggressive, an uncalled-for strategy or a necessary one to save them from destruction…
– He felt he had to do it, that it was his mission… he was a leader, he wasn’t worried about what were the people’s opinion of him… he was following the beat of his own drum and he paid with his life…
– (Ch.) Just like Jesus…
– You stole the words from Our channel’s mouth… that’s perfectly fine, that’s what happens when you stay so close: you also will receive the transmission…
– (Hel.) I came to Athens last September for a month, but for some reason I’m still here; I tried thrice to continue my trip elsewhere, but always something happened and I wouldn’t – is there something that keeps me here and to which direction should I be heading?
– You should spend more time around the Acropolis, you might go and pray to the goddess… you have a responsibility that’s holding you, energetically… so you go there or you sit across looking at it and you pray to the goddess and you ask her ‘what do you want from me?’ or ‘what can I do for you?.’ or ‘how may I serve you?’… as We had the participants yesterday, you might collect some wild flowers or take some flowers and offer them to the Temple there when you walk on the Site… where do you live?
– (Hel.) In Germany…
– That’s what We have to say…
– (K.) There’s a Temple on Aegina island in honour of the Afaia Athena – can we go there and do what’s necessary instead of going to the Acropolis?
– You may… you might get more response from the Acropolis, there’s more power in the Acropolis, We might say…
So We will come around – you stay seated while We will be walking past you and give you a tap… then you either do the meditation here or do it there before you get in and as you are getting in the water – both times if you like…