LINDA: I think my main question is too long for now.

GOTTLIEB: No, start with the question, Linda. It’s okay.

LINDA: It’s really very hard for me to understand. I want to ask you about a subject matter I’ve been very busy dealing with lately. I hope you can bring a little bit of clarity in my mind about this, because it has started to become very frustrating for me.

My question pertains to your so often mentioned phrase that everybody is creating his reality himself, regardless the choice of another individual. I thought for a long time that I could understand that and it would be acceptable for me. But I’ve been reading Session #894, where it seems to me you make no difference between the creating of a car and the creating of another individual, and you mentioned that you are not speaking figuratively or metaphorically, and I can’t understand anything anymore.

Suddenly it seems to me I would be completely alone in my reality. I can’t understand how it works if two individuals deal with different choices and why it matters not, why it doesn’t concern the other one. Does another individual really not experience my choice but only his own? Does that mean, simplified, that two individuals with different choices would depart from each other and create themselves a very new other individual instead of the original one for living their own choice? These thoughts drive me crazy almost, because it seems to be a very lonely game with puppets around me, if all and everyone is my own creation.

I hope this makes sense and you understand what I want to ask you. What makes me feel so frustrated is that I ask myself if I ever can see a pure expression of another individual, of another essence therefore — and what about love? What is it I love or I appreciate of another individual? Consequently, it must be my projection and not his own expression.

The last thing is, what I wanted to mention, is that for my perception, that all seems to be a contradiction to other suggestions that somebody might accept somebody else’s choice, for example their choice of illness or pain. But if there is nothing around me that I don’t create myself...? That’s really hard for me to understand.

ELIAS: Very well, let me offer an explanation which may express somewhat more clarity for you. I am understanding that this is a common misinterpretation of what I am expressing to you.

Now; you have chosen to be manifest in this physical reality. You are not the only essence that has chosen to be engaging this physical reality, and in this, every essence that is expressing physical manifestation in this reality is expressing energy.

Now; what may be confusing to you is the concept or in your terms, the idea, that you create every aspect of your reality, even other individuals; but this is not to say that you are isolated or alone or that you do not interact with other individuals, for you do. Each of you projects outwardly an energy expression and other individuals receive that energy expression and translate that through their perception into an actual projection or a manifestation of the individual.

Now; for the most part, the projection that you create of the other individual is highly accurate. It may not necessarily be precisely exactly the same as what the individual themselves are projecting, but it is so very close that you would not notice any difference. For the most part, this is the action that you automatically incorporate. You do not alter the expression of the other individual. You receive the energy and you generate a manifestation that is almost identical to what the other individual is projecting.

Now; at times there are variances in what you create, and you offer yourselves actual evidence of these time frameworks but you ignore them. You initially may be paying attention, but you do not offer yourselves what you call to be logical reasonable explanation objectively, and therefore you dismiss the event.

Every individual within your physical reality, within your physical dimension, has incorporated experiences in which they may be interactive with another individual in the same time framework, in the same location, engaging the same event, and you may exchange or share information concerning the interaction and your perceptions shall be quite different and you shall be baffled. You shall view each other and scratch your heads and express to each other, “No, this is not what occurred!” And you shall offer your explanation and the other individual shall view you and express to you, “No, that is not what occurred! This is what occurred.” This is not uncommon. Or you may engage a conversation with another individual and subsequently the other individual may express to you that you have never engaged that conversation or that you did not express certain information to them. And you may insist that yes, you have.

These are your evidences of the time frameworks, which are not often but they are not so uncommon, in which you may be receiving the energy expression from another individual and reconfiguring it into a very different manifestation. But this also, as I have stated, is not hidden from you, for you offer yourself the evidence of those time frameworks quite clearly.

Let me express to you, in association with what you term to be love or affection, you do genuinely express connections with other individuals. You do share interactions of energy. You do project outwardly your energy and you receive energy from other individuals. You create your projection of that energy in physical manifestations, and they are consistent, generally speaking, with the energy that each of you projects.

Therefore, what you project to an other individual they shall accurately configure in energy and manifest you as an individual, expressing what you are expressing. And you, in like manner, do the same in association with other individuals.

My explanation of physical manifestations in association with objects and individuals is addressing to the manner in which you create through your perception. This is not to say that you associate in the same manner with different types of manifestations. You generate very different associations with individuals than you do with a vehicle. But the actual physical mechanism, so to speak, or action of how you create these manifestations is the same. It is an expression of energy and it is created through your perception.

Now; there is somewhat of a difference in the creation of objects or elements within your world and individuals, for the objects and the elements are a projection of you, yourself. You individually are creating them. The creation of a manifestation of an other individual is created by you individually, but there is an input of other energy from other individuals.

Now; in this, you may recognize certain expressions that appear to you to be quite baffling in the discrepancies of perceptions. In those time frameworks, you may be creating a manifestation of another individual through your perception and may not necessarily be interactive with an actual energy projection of that individual associated with their attention. You may be interacting with an energy deposit of the individual, which does not incorporate the individual’s attention. Therefore, the other individual shall incorporate no memory of the event, for their attention was not incorporated in that manifestation. This is a situation in which an individual may create some type of interaction without the energy projection directly from another individual.

Now; this type of action does not occur very frequently. For the most part within your reality, you do project a manifestation of another individual directly associated with their energy.

Let me express to you also, all of you recognize energy expressions immediately and accurately, much more so than any other type of interaction or communication. If you are allowing yourself a recognition, you may be understanding what I am saying to you in recall of any interaction that you have engaged with another individual in which you immediately recognize a certain type of expression of energy that they are projecting and their communication to you in words may be quite different.

Example: You may inquire of another individual as what may be troubling or concerning them and their response to you in language may be that they are not troubled or they are not incorporating any concern and that they are quite well. You shall not believe them, for you know what you are receiving in energy. You may choose not to pursue the conversation, but you shall hold to your recognition of the genuineness of the energy communication, regardless of what the other individual expresses to you in words. This is an example of how you project energy to each other and this is what you actually encounter, interact with and manifest through your perception.

Now; this example may be also instructional to you, for this is also an example of how clearly and how accurately you do receive the energy projection from another individual and how accurately you do create the manifestation of them. For in a situation such as this example, the other individual may be attempting to disguise or camouflage or hide what they are genuinely expressing. You receive the energy of their genuine expression, but you also receive the camouflage. Therefore, you create the manifestation of the individual expressing language to you that is contrary to the energy which you have received. This is an example of how highly accurate you do translate energy.

Therefore, my friend, do not be confused or dismayed, you are quite not alone. You are actually engaging interaction with other individuals, and you are engaging your expressions of love, affection, and even contempt, at times. This is not an isolated expression from merely yourself.

I merely offer information to you all concerning perception, that you may more clearly understand the tremendous power and creativity that you incorporate in this reality. For regardless of what you want and how difficult it may appear to you to create, allow yourself to recognize the wonderment of what you create in every moment in every one of your days, generating without thought and in tremendous ease the creations of physical manifestations of every other individual within your world, all of your world itself and all of your universe, which requires no thought and no effort, and you generate it immediately.

http://transcripts.eliasweb.at/session?session_nr=1267

ELIAS:  ...Shall you not engage another confusing emotion? (Grinning)

FEMALE:  Sure — anger.

ELIAS:  And what shall be the nature of your concern in relation to anger? (Laughter)  This is a vast subject matter presently!

FEMALE:  Vast!  I find ... here comes the judgment! (Elias chuckles)

I find my own anger appalling.  I find it boring, that it continues to last when I find little reason for it to remain a volatile force, like a volcanic aspect that has a continuous molten core, always hot and always ready.  I can define that in many ways, like (inaudible), and fiery, and in some other definition or interpretation, there are things that in fact I accept, that this is a part of my makeup, that this seems to be, in this manifestation of me, this seems to be ... there’s a certain amount I find acceptable.  If I give myself a good definition for anger, and others, then it’s a really neutral force.  It can be utilized in a million different ways.  It does not have to be destructive.  It does not have to be what we would term negative, and it isn’t.  It’s neutral.  It’s an incredible energy.  Volcanoes make new land.  There are many plusses for all that.

And yet, I find it to be, in my own life, a kind of ... I’d rather not have that be my motivating energy.  Even if I use it well, I’d still rather that not be the tone of my energetic pattern.  I don’t like it, and that’s my absolute judgment — I don’t like.

ELIAS:  Quite!  And many individuals may be expressing in agreement to you, that they do not like it either! (The group cracks up)

FEMALE:  Right!  I totally agree! (Laughing)

ELIAS:  And many individuals express this within themselves, that they are not liking of this emotion of anger.

But let us be remembering that anger is not the emotion within itself.  Anger is an extension of an emotion.

FEMALE:  Fear?

ELIAS:  It is an extension of the emotion of frustration, and in this, it is an extreme.

Anger is expressed, outwardly AND inwardly, in a lack of acceptance of self, and I may express this to you quite strongly and quite definitely.  It matters not how very many examples any of you may offer to me of other individuals creating any types of expressions that “make you angry.”  Other individual are not making you angry!

Anger is expressed from within, and it is a direct expression of a lack of acceptance of self.  It is created inwardly, regardless of outside circumstances or situations.  You may become angry in your expression without any interaction of other individuals.

I have interacted with individuals that express extreme anger in relation to situations of objects!  They are incorporating great conflict and experiencing extreme anger in relation to their vehicle!

FEMALE:  Yeah, cars! (Laughter)

ELIAS:  They are experiencing great anger in relation to their new machinery of your computers (laughter) and their “malfunction,” or your vehicle’s “malfunction.”

Now; I shall express to you, this is quite amusing, if not bordering upon ludicrous! (Laughter)  For I shall express to you, first of all, that your machinery and your designs of your creations are not — any one of them — malfunctioning.  They are not broken.  They are not malfunctioning. (Pause, staring at everybody)  HA HA! (Laughter)

FEMALE:  Yes?  How so?

ELIAS:  (Emphatically)  You PERCEIVE them in this manner, and you create this type of reality through your perception.  YOU create a judgment.  YOU create an identification and a definition through YOUR perception, which in actuality creates your reality!

Therefore, if you are viewing your vehicle to be broken, you are viewing what you perceive in your definition as broken, and therefore you are creating it.  But it is in actuality not broken, for you merely may turn your perception — within one moment, one singular moment, as quickly as turning your gaze — and in the turning of your perception, the vehicle shall NOT be broken, for your perception shall view it as not broken, and your perception, in reality, creates your reality!

In this, I have stated many times, there is no aspect of your reality that is broken.  There is no necessity for “fixing,” for there is no aspect of your reality, be it physical, be it emotional, be it mental within yourselves, be it within objects that you create or with your own self physically, emotionally, intellectually ... in ANY aspect that you may identify throughout your reality, regardless of how you identify it, there is no element of your reality that is broken, for there is no expression of consciousness that is less than perfect.

That incorporates YOU.  That IS you.  It is merely the identification of your beliefs that influence you in the association that you are less than perfect, or that any element within your reality is less than perfect, or is broken or is malfunctioning or is inadequate....

FEMALE:  Which takes us back to anger.

ELIAS:  Quite, and this is created through a lack of acceptance within YOU.  At times it may be created in an extreme of frustration, in your lack of allowance of yourselves to view choices.

FEMALE:  To view choices?

ELIAS:  Correct.  You limit your viewing of your choices, and in this, you create a frustration, and as you continue to spin within your wheel of frustration, you block your viewing of choices more, and you perpetuate this action, and this creates an extreme which manifests in what you identify as anger.

You may engage in interaction with another individual, and you may be expressing anger in relation to what other individuals are creating or what they are expressing, and in this, the lack of acceptance may be expressed in your inability to identify or express control.

In situations that you may not be “dictating to” a situation or another individual, or that you may not be controlling — within your identification of control — the situation or the choices of other individuals or the expressions of other individuals, you create a frustration within self which manifests in extreme and becomes anger.

MALE:  So it’s a reaction.

ELIAS:  Yes.

FEMALE:  But not to them.

ELIAS:  It is a reaction to self.

I have expressed many times, control is an illusion.  There is no actual element of control.  You do not control your environment.  You ARE your environment.  You do not control other individuals.  You do not even control yourselves!  This is a construct of your belief systems, but it is a very strong aspect of belief systems.

You identify this expression of control quite clearly within your definitions.  You also clearly identify and define a lack of control.  Both are an illusion, but both are created quite realistically within your perceptions, and in this, you are quite responsive to your identifications of both of these counterparts of the same illusion.

You create the frustration, in objective outward terms, in relation to outside elements, outside expressions, or other individuals; in your feeling of lack of control concerning the choices and expressions of other individuals.  But you simultaneously are creating an inward lack of acceptance that you are not expressing control of yourself!

MALE:  By demonstrating anger.

ELIAS:  Quite, and that you are not exhibiting an expression that shall BE manipulating the situation or another individual, therefore expressing a lack of control of your ability.

FEMALE:  And then trying to control better!

MALE:  So, what do we do?

ELIAS:  HA HA! (Grinning, and laughter)

First of all, you identify this and acknowledge this to yourself — that you ARE allowing influence of your beliefs upon your perception.  You are allowing these beliefs of control to be creating a film over the lens of your perception and clouding what you view.

You also may allow yourself — once again, in like manner to the identification of the jealousy — [to] recognize that you are holding your attention outside of self.  Your anger is being expressed as you incorporate outside elements — activities, interactions — and in this, your attention is not upon you and your energy.

Even within the time frameworks in which individuals turn anger upon themselves, and are not interactive with another individual and may not necessarily be interactive with a physical situation, but may be creating anger as an emotional expression within self, the attention is not upon self inwardly.  The attention is upon comparisons and judgments, which is outside of self.

For in turning this anger to self, you are placing a judgment upon yourself that you are not creating some expression good enough, and what is the basis of this assessment?  You are not creating in like manner to other individuals.

FEMALE:  We do it through our imagination at that point.  We’re not in actual relation to a person or a circumstance.  It’s being done in here, but it’s being done as if we’re running a movie.  We’re having our own discussions and we’re creating our own pictures, and we make those comparisons or we have those conversations or we create those circumstances without anything actually happening out here.

ELIAS:  Which is quite real also!

FEMALE:  Right ... so our attention isn’t really with self as a core.  It’s still with a belief-created reality, with all of our assumptions and all of our guesswork and all of the rest of it to boot.

ELIAS:  Quite.

FEMALE:  So, to move to the self at that moment, let’s say that we have identified this process, that it is happening, and we recognize that we are holding ourselves outside of ourselves, whether it’s out there or in here.  To move quickly, throughout the ages, it’s like, go meditate ... there’s a million ways, supposedly, to get there.

ELIAS:  No....

FEMALE:  But what’s the quickest, fastest, easiest way to get back to self, to truly, truly get back to self?

ELIAS:  Now; in what we have been discussing, you SHALL move your attention to self.  What you are expressing is not the question of moving your attention to self.  What you are expressing presently is, how do I eliminate the emotional response?  How do I eliminate this emotion of anger?  And this is the goal, and this is not the point.

FEMALE:  I didn’t think I was asking that.

ELIAS:  Ah! (Grinning, and laughter)  But in this, you wish the feeling to dissipate.

FEMALE:  Sure! (Brief pause)  No.  Okay, I got it. (Elias grins)  So, we’re not looking for that to dissipate.  In fact, we are looking for ourselves to encompass it, embrace it....

ELIAS:  This is the situation and the subject of perception.

Let me express to you, you may be incorporating actions, and you may perceive an action in many different manners, and how you perceive it shall alter the expression, therefore altering the reality, in actuality.

In this, you may create a physical pain, and if you are perceiving this pain to be bad, and if you are placing the judgment upon this pain that it is unacceptable and you are not liking of it, you shall hold a specific perception and experience in relation to that identification.

This is an influence of the belief upon the perception.  If you believe it to be bad, you shall perceive it in a specific manner, which you shall thusly identify as uncomfortable and that you are not liking of this, and your automatic response is to be eliminating it.

You may create a pain, which is merely a physical incorporation of feeling, and as an influence of your beliefs, you may not necessarily identify this as negative, and in this, your beliefs shall influence your perception, and you shall create a reality and an experience entirely different ... with the SAME action.

FEMALE:  Right.  I know people who do it!  I’m around people who do it all the time.

ELIAS:  (Intently)  The pain itself is neutral.  It is merely a physical feeling which is incorporated through your senses.

In this, the physical affectingness is not necessarily the aspect that you seek to eliminate.  In actuality, you are not seeking to eliminate....

FEMALE:  ...the pain.

ELIAS:  Correct.  You are seeking to alter a perception.  How you alter your perception is, allowing yourself to widen your awareness.

You allow yourself the recognition of your beliefs; what beliefs are influencing your perception.  You allow yourself to identify your creation of your perception, your participation in these actions.  For many times, in relation to this particular emotion of anger, many individuals are NOT identifying their participation, EXCEPT for the creation of the emotion!  But you ARE participating quite fully in an action that is occurring.

Therefore, identifying your participation, identifying the beliefs that are influencing of your perception, allowing yourselves to be within the now ... key point!  For many times within the exhibition of this emotion of anger, you are NOT within the now, although you express that you are, and “if you were not within the now, you would not be participating within this emotion of anger.”

And I shall express to you once again, this is ludicrous!  You are participating within the association of past or the anticipation of future: “I am angry for the reason that this has occurred pastly.  I am angry, for I anticipate that this shall continue futurely.”  This is not what is occurring within the now!  Therefore, key point — that you allow yourself to hold your attention within the now.

And as you accomplish these actions ... and let me express to you as an aside, merely in the identification of these actions, you shall sufficiently distract yourselves in this type of attention that you shall not be experiencing the intensity of the anger, for you are too BUSY (laughter) identifying all that you are participating within!

But shall you incorporate these actions, you also may allow yourselves to turn your attention to self; to discontinue holding your attention outside of self, which is an automatic response and moves quite efficiently in the expression of duplicity, which shall influence you quite strongly to continue to hold your attention outside of self, for you are exceedingly fond of this: (Elias starts pointing around the room)  Pointing, pointing, pointing, pointing, blaming, blaming, blaming, blaming.  “It is not myself that is creating this.  It is every other individual and situation upon my planet, in my universe, within the cosmos which is exacting all of these actions upon me, and woe is myself!  I am the poor victim, and I am responding quite angrily, for I wish not to be the victim.”

For in the role of the victim, you eliminate your choices.  You discount yourself.  You eliminate your power.  You do not acknowledge all that you are.  You do not view your choices.  You allow outside elements to dictate to you.  This reinforces a lack of trust within self and a lack of acceptance.

I shall express to you quite strongly, you are expressing, in the emotion of anger, a lack of trust and a lack of acceptance of self, and you camouflage this in the expression of a lack of trust or a lack of acceptance to the outside expression, be it a situation, a circumstance, an object, or an individual.

FEMALE:  It becomes a whole other thing.  My dear daughter is such a teacher to me.  She’ll stop me in the midst of that angry response to something that she’s about to do or is doing or isn’t even doing with that exact question of, why do you assume that I am doing what I did before, or that I will continue to do what I did before?  Actually, if a child....

ELIAS:  And a lack of trust is expressed in what you term to be defense.  This is your expression of protection.

FEMALE:  Yeah, that it is....

ELIAS:  This is your shield that you place before yourselves, that you are not trusting and accepting of yourselves, and your fear is that this shall be discovered.  Therefore, you place the shield of defense, and this shall block the energy of other individuals.

MALE:  The shield is what exactly?

ELIAS:  Defensiveness.  It is an efficient shield, for it not merely blocks energy of other individuals, but it also blocks your own energy to yourselves.  It turns your attention away from yourself.

You may view how very convoluted all of these expressions are in actuality, for you view yourselves to be doing quite the opposite!

FEMALE:  Convoluted is a good word!

ELIAS:  You express to yourselves, as you are exhibiting defense, that you ARE paying attention to yourselves, but you are not.  You are focusing your attention quite intensely upon the actions and expressions of other individuals.

http://transcripts.eliasweb.at/t_session?session_nr=683