June, 2009
Back to TopELOHEIM: Energetics of June 2009 – Living from your Soul’s perspective ~ 6-3-09
Hello everyone,
The Eloheim channeling of June 3, 2009 focused on the energies of June 2009. Eloheim has been telling us for some weeks now that June would be a powerful month of transformation.
This week they explained that the openings of June will allow us to start living from our Soul’s perspective.
This video is a portion of their opening talk where they share some of the ways things will change as we start living from our Soul’s perspective.
Everything becomes brand new because nothing has been experienced in this way. It is bit like saying you have run around this entire lifetime with a blindfold on. When you take off the blindfold everything is new.
Opening up to seeing things in a new way.
You have to continue to allow this transformed state presence in your system.
You are in a place where continuing in the habitual reactions….is just no longer as interesting as it used to be and it is certainly nowhere near as interesting as your Soul’s perspective is.
It is your birthright to live in Grace, Ease, and Bliss.
6-3-09 85 minutes
The connection between us all and the repercussions of every action on the ALL. Gaining awareness of these effects from a soul’s perspective.
All things seem brand new and fresh and alive!! Commit to the truth of YOU.
The only thing that’s common between all people is the need to breath. No amount of proof can change this. If their perception of reality doesn’t embrace an idea, it cannot be true for them, it will be false and they will block out any proof offered.
When you are asking for insight-you are not asking to think-you are asking for something new. A new way to BE, not what can I DO, but a new way to BE.
TOOL-CONNECT TO YOUR GUIDES
Connecting to your guides BEFORE you NEED them is advised.
Recommended Reading:
Audio recordings of the four meetings held in June 2009
May, 2009
Back to TopELOHEIM: Death, Accident, Disease – How to Respond Consciously ~ 5-27-09
Hello everyone,
Wednesday May 27 was a big day. First a little background.
About three years ago, I was the co-host of a talk radio program here in Sonoma, CA. Michael and I were on the air from 7-10am weekdays. We had the opportunity to interview everyone from the boy scouts to celebrities and all sorts of folks in between. All total, we did about 750 hours of radio together.
Live radio doesn’t give you the chance to ‘do over’ or film another take. You are flying by the seat of your pants and living by the quickness of your wit.
Who might be on the phone when you push that blinking button?
Who might walk in the door and want to have their say?
What does that email contain if the subject line is: WHAT THE **** ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT THAT FOR!
It makes me laugh just thinking about it.
Michael, a radio veteran, picked me, a complete radio novice, to co-host the show with him. He knew I could do it. He believed in me. He taught me how to run the board, how to interview, how to trust yourself to lay your opinions and your heart out there.
Radio is weird. You talk to a microphone. There is very little feedback. You really need to believe in yourself to maintain it for three hours.
Michael trusted in me and I learned to trust in myself. It was cool.
It was also hard at times and, for an empath with my specific core emotion, sometimes virtually impossible, but it was COOL.
Late Tuesday night, Michael, while riding his motorcycle, ran into a man on a skateboard. They both remain in critical condition.
This incident and my interaction with it created the theme for the Eloheim session of May 27. I have prepared two 10 minute videos. There just didn’t seem to be a way to convey what Eloheim was sharing in a shorter time. I have also added a video from the end of the meeting where they define Grace, Ease, and Bliss.
5-27-09 78 minutes
Veronica has a friend involved in a motorcycle crash and is in critical condition in the hospital.
-Eloheim-this is an opportunity to grow-easy to go into habit in this type of situation-there is more here that I am not conscious of I am willing to offer something else neutral observation practice.
-The biological reaction will be survival mode-associate self with incident.
-Saying I’m sorry for your loss is neutral if you keep your vibration out of victim.
-On a soul level it is not a loss; it’s an experience
-Recognize the body’s need to release crying or sleeplessness.
-It’s not about stopping the crying, its about owning the reason you are crying.
-Opportunity to consciously experience body emotions.
-Several group members share experiences along lines of trauma.
-What’s happening is that you are no longer able to physically make an unconscious statement. Better to keep your mouth shut than lower your vibration to fit in.
-Its about EASE, GRACE and BLISS
Audio recordings of the four meetings held in May 2009.
ELOHEIM: You’re Already READY! ~ 5-20-09
You, as a Soul, already have it all clear. You already have clarity.
You [as the personality] are ready for a collaborative experience [with your Soul].
It’s been ‘Earth school’ and you have been learning. And, you know what you’ve learned? You’ve learned that there is nothing here but you being and you’ve learned to open up to the idea that a new way of being is your birthright. So it’s time to get out of the classroom and get out on the playground.
5-20-09
Eloheim says it feels like the crest of a wave tonight, embodying all that has been learned.
-Its really time to let go of the morbid curiosity.
-Its time to BE here, BE ready, observe, and realize the playground of the experience; no longer school.
-Take off the costume of fear, habit, and biology to really BE the expression of your soul in physical form.
DEFINE LOVE:
-Romantic Love: My body and your body are yummy.
-Parental Love: Its hard to see my life without you in it.
LOVE AS A UNIVERSAL FORCE:
-It’s the binding agent. It is the nervous system of God, In the end it is knowing that there is a plan, a purpose, guides, sense. It is the atunement of the parts to the whole so that reactions happen.
-Detectable Input: information from your guides. Eventually from your soul; the soul needs a high vibrational body to interact with; guides are more go betweens.
-Why would life be easier living somewhere else? (One of the group is moving).
-some people learn by recognizing habitual patterns.
-others learn by making big changes.
-Why are we all so tired? Rest; pay attention. You’re not only on the bus of ascension, you are the bus. Slow it down or sleep more in order to keep up. The point is the bliss, balance, and grace of the process.
-Ask for support, but not to go back to what you once knew.
-Transform your habits become more conscious raise vibration make room for soul.
-Avoid planning ahead and anticipating an outcome-allow it to come and be what it is.
-As shifts of awareness happen, avoid fear, avoid thinking. Ask for help to flow into the shifting.
Audio recordings of the four meetings held in May 2009.
ELOHEIM: Go or No Go – Energies of May 2009 – 5-6-09
Hello everyone,
The May 6, 2009 channeling meeting found Eloheim FIRED UP. I was a bit hoarse after the meeting and that is always a sign that they had a lot to say. Whew! The energetics of May 2009 are Go or No Go. We are really at a point of choice.
Here are quotes from the clip:
I have learned all I need to learn about living this way and I am ready for a new way of living to be the way I live. That means that each time an opportunity comes up you are more emphatically choosing the new paradigm and more emphatically releasing the habitual response.
You are making a boundary with yourself!
Habit is not who I am!
When habit gets to tell you who you are, the scenery doesn’t change!
5-6-09 107 minutes
Open up to the Possibilities of the Moment
You are early adapters to the shifting consciousness
The GO NO GO time-similar to rocket taking off are things a go or a no-go?
Each and every experience is considered a success
TOOL -Answer the question you wish they would have asked.
-someone asks you a deflating question-answer them with the answer to the question you wish they would have asked you instead.
-Healing your core emotion gets you what your un-healed core emotion kept from you.
-I am open to new possibilities.
-Cosmos energetics all around intensifying like a pressure cooker.
-Ask the cosmos to give you back the awe of this experience.
-Eloheim discusses the time variances that the group has been going through.
-Ask for more crayons in order to realize the expansiveness of each moment-Savor the moments no such thing as a mundane moment. Part of Living in Bliss is realizing that every moment is the Golden Ticket. You may be standing in line, but that just means that you are about to get on a ride!!
Audio recordings of the four meetings held in May 2009.
ELOHEIM: Embrace the Change ~ 4-29-09
Hello everyone,
Normally, I have quotes and video from our weekly meetings to share with you. However, this weekend is the Well Being Expo in Sonoma, CA which I am producing.
Preparation for the event has taken up the time I typically dedicate to creating the weekly Eloheim posting. My plan is to post more about this meeting next week.
Until then, here is a bit of information about the meeting and the link to order the files if you would like to hear it in it’s entirety.
In the April 29, 2009 meeting, Eloheim focused on where we are now, how their recent teachings about “superhero powers” fit into the changes we are experiencing, how to stay at the cutting edge of spiritual growth, neutral observation, core emotion, and much more. There are also examples of “superhero powers” showing up in the lives of the group in unexpected ways and forms.
4-29-09 108 minutes
Summary:
Un-healed core emotions
-The point of this exercise is to know that when you are living from your healed core emotion, your outside world changes.
-Change is going to come with the change (unhealed to healed) and it could be huge.
-What crayons can I color with now.
-Get perspective-this is just one life/day/week-take a deep breath
-BLUE BUBBLE TOOL
-This is ENERGETIC WORK-it’s like running uphill. Transformational Stress.
-Open up to changes stick with it there is no failure!!
-Eloheim talks about staying focused so that the group does not need to re-group each time
-Do your homework!! You can’t fail. Stick with it.
-Language your un-healed core emotion.
-How does your Super-Hero desire apply?
-Neutral observation is shutting off the brain so that new information can come.
-If you buy new clothes and love them and then put on the old clothes again, why wonder why you feel different?
-You can’t have change without change.
-You are taking your body with you into Homo-spiritus. You’ve got to connect with your body.
-Our least favorite word is Hoarding. When you sense things that don’t fit; own that. Also, I’m looking forward to it is energetically deflating takes you out of the moment. Pay attention to when things like that happen and make changes.
Audio recordings of the five meetings held in April 2009
April, 2009
Back to TopELOHEIM: Shovel or Ladder? ~ 4-22-09
The Eloheim channeling meeting of 4-22-09 covered many subjects. This 10 minute clip is from the middle of the meeting. In it, Eloheim talks about setting boundaries, asks if you’re giving yourself the “energetic bends” by vacillating between low and high vibrational states, and introduces a new concept: Are you choosing the shovel or the ladder?
Yes, the choice for consciousness is challenging, we will never discount that, but habitual response is a pit of pain that you can’t get out of through any other means we have seen.
So we will give you a shovel or a ladder. It is your choice.
Ask yourself, “Do I have my hand on the ladder or my hand on the shovel?” Am I going to dig myself in deeper out of fear, guilt, lack, victim hood or am I going to put my hand on the ladder and say, “Something has to change!”
Am I going to keep climbing the ladder even when my ‘pit partners’ say, “What are you doing, where are you going, who do you think you are, are you getting too big for your britches?”
4-22-09 95 minutes
-Infusing Transformation. You are an inspiration to those not in body. Gracefully navigating the waters of life.
-You are role models for this transformation – role models without responsibility
-FORGIVENESS-
-Without judgment, there is nothing to forgive.
-There is no right-wrong, bad-good; neutral observation with boundaries
-Pointing a finger at someone else actually points 3 back at yourself
-The habit is: this happened to me – Victim
-The reality is: this is happening for me what can this teach me?
-Boundaries without consequences are just hot air.
-Ladders vs. shovels – Both are work but which one gets you where you want to be?
TOOL – In the moment, ask yourself, am I picking up a shovel or climbing a rung on the ladder, conscious journey, awareness in the moment of the moment.
You are not allowed to be mean to yourself!!! ? It’s like hitting yourself with a hammer; energetically same damage as if you smacked your physical self with a hammer.
-Each moment is a gift disguised
Put bows on every moment and see the gift – unwrap the package and get to the gift inside each moment’s happenings
-Matching energy with situations – aware of consciousness level about situations can change the situation regardless
-SUPER-HERO POWERS continues
-Eloheim discusses Native American energies
-What’s the thing that you want to see different in your life – if we flipped a switch, what would you notice most that was different?
Audio recordings of the five meetings held in April 2009
ELOHEIM: Change is coming, what change do you want in your life? ~ 4-15-09
The Eloheim Channeling meeting held April 15, 2009 was a continuation of the meeting held on April 8th.
This clip is from the beginning of the meeting. Eloheim summarizes the reason for them asking, “What is your superhero power?”
As we move into Homo Spiritus, things will change. As Eloheim has told us many times,
You can’t have change without change.
Part of the coming change is the experience of new ‘abilities’. Eloheim has dubbed these superhero powers. They explained:
You are putting all this transformational energy into being human.
The result of this transformational journey is that things start to be different in your life.
The invitation we extended last week was, “What do you want to have change?” The way we phrased that is, “What do you want your superhero power to be?” Because a different way of experiencing the human form (ie: flying, breathing under water, extra strong, etc) is what you have referred to as ‘being superhero’ in the past.
We could have come up some much more serious way of describing this, but why would we have done that?
We wanted it to be fun!
The focus is to open us up to ‘coloring with more crayons’ and changing our paradigm to include things that we have never experienced before.
The entire meeting is Eloheim talking with different group members about the superhero power that they were attracted to. The process is fascinating. It becomes really clear that the superhero power you are attracted to has what Eloheim has dubbed, ‘the pit’ attached to it.
Two examples which came up (These are summaries, Eloheim is far more detailed and explains them at length in the full meeting):
Superhero power – invisibility. Why choose invisibility? So that I don’t have to deal with other people. “The Pit” – trying to use invisibility as a coping mechanism for the challenges you feel in being human. Becoming conscious of ‘the pit’ and healing what it reveals removes the barriers between you and the actual experience of the superhero power.
Superhero power – teleportation. Why choose teleportation? So that I can easily travel around. “The Pit” – how does your family react to this new ability? Do you keep it a secret? If not, what if your kids start telling their friends? It is important to be conscious of the environment in which your superhero power operates. Are you choosing teleportation as a coping mechanism so you can ‘get away from it all?’
Personally, I have gone through about 12 superhero powers in this process and still haven’t settled on one that doesn’t feel like it is primarily a coping mechanism! The process is VERY revealing about things I want to avoid or areas that I am still healing. It also shows how far I have come in certain parts of my life as I know that the answer to the question, “why do you want that superhero power?” has evolved considerably.
Remember, superhero powers:
Be cautious that you are not choosing a superhero power that is actually a description of your naturally high vibrational state (perfect health, unconditionally loving, abundant, healed core emotion, etc.)
Superhero powers are something ‘out of the box’ and brand new!
I noticed a typo in the title of the You Tube video. I decided to leave it there! It takes about an hour to fix it and I am not inclined to spend that hour in that way. Having spent YEARS as a perfectionist I am happy to say I can leave it there and it won’t even bug me.
4-15-09 93 minutes
Summary:
What do you want changed?
What are you afraid of that your powers might solve?
Super-Hero Power Guidelines:
-1) It’s Fun
-2) It sounds good on a t-shirt
-3) You haven’t done it before
Phase Two of Super-Hero Powers: The Fears—The Shadow Side of the Desire-Take a deep breathe about all of this – you go in the pit, you work your way out. No big deal. Take a break. It’s all just helping you to sort out the un-healed parts.
Audio recordings of the five meetings held in April 2009
ELOHEIM: Superhero Powers, What’s Yours? 4-8-09
I suspect that we will remember the meeting of 4-8-09 for some time to come. As I write this the following morning, I can still feel the meeting unfolding and the energetic expanding.
Two days before the meeting, Eloheim asked me to send an email to the group asking them to prepare. Here is a portion of that email:
They have made it clear that we need to bring ‘all of our tools’ Wednesday night.
If this email message brings up:
Fear
Unhealed Core emotion
A desire for certainty
Disaster thinking
Bringing the past or the future into this moment
Habitual response
or any of the other things they have been teaching us to transform,then, deal with it (using your tools) before Wednesday. Ask each other for help if you need to. I would suggest that speculation (although tempting) is not helpful in this situation.
They asked me to email so folks would have a chance to shift any stuff that comes up before hand rather than during the meeting. They want to hit the ground running. They are asking for as much consciousness as we can bring. They aren’t fooling around on this.
Eloheim has taught for some time that we are moving from homo sapiens to homo spiritus. They have also taught that “you can’t have change without change.”
During this meeting, they started teaching us what it is that actually changes during this process of personal transformation.
They did this by asking us:
1. If you had a superhero power, what would your superhero power be? What brand new thing to you want in your life?
2. Why? The why is going to get us where we are going. Let’s call this equivalent to your second level core emotion process. This is as important as your core emotion was when we did core emotions.
3. Now that you have looked at why, answer the first question again as it is very likely you found in your superhero power choice: fear, unhealed core emotion, pattern of trying to cope with life, a desire to change your life in an unconscious manner, etc. Now that you have looked at why, what is your revised superhero power?
There is a shadow side to what you decided your superhero power should be and we want to know that you know what it is! As you start having these new experiences you want to make sure that you are investing in the new experiences that actually further your conscious journey and don’t instead fuel habit.
The temptation is to take a superhero power that will help you keep coping rather than increase consciousness. Because all of your life everything you have been able to do has been a coping mechanism for things you haven’t been able to do.
3. What do you think your superhero power fixes in your life? What problems do you have in your life that it would fix?
4. What do you think is the current block to getting this power?
Some people in the group chose states of being (ie: unconditionally loving) as their superhero power. Eloheim sent them back to the drawing board for a more ‘selfish’ choice and explained:
1. Superhero powers feel fun
2. It is something you are not currently experiencing. It is something you have not ever had. It is not just your healed way of being in the world. STRETCH! It is something new! It is a new crayon in your box!
3. The description of it makes a good t-shirt (this is Eloheim after all)All of these things may feel ‘pie in the sky’, they feel ‘pie in the sky’ because there is unhealed energy between you and it.
The meeting includes the group offering their choices and Eloheim discussing them. It was quite powerful! Here is a portion of the meeting toward the end.
4-8-09 – 110 minutes
Summary:
– SUPER-HERO POWERS
–If you could have a Super-Hero Power what would it be?
–Why?
–What does this tell you about your core emotion? Or
–What is the shadow side of this power?
–What is your revised Super-Hero Power based on this observation?
–What thrills you about having this power?
–How might this separate you from your spiritual journey?
–What is everyone else going to think of you when you are so different?
–What is this teaching me?— Where am I not trying to see the possible color crayons?
–Time to get specific about what different looks like.
–Why are you afraid of coloring with all of your crayons?
–Coping Mechanism – Body protects the survivability.
–Eloheim discusses the Portal that opened last week during the meeting’s discussion.
–Check your fears at the door – Stay in the moment and own your stuff.
–Understanding is over-rated – unnecessary to understand how the rest of the Earth will adapt to Homo spiritus
Audio recordings of the five meetings held in April 2009
ELOHEIM: 2012, Ascension, and much more! ~ 4-1-09
Hello everyone. The Eloheim channeling meeting held on April 1, 2009 was incredibly powerful. I was in an extremely altered state until about 2:00pm the next day. I feel I received a preview of what it is like to live from my Soul’s perspective.
It was confusing.
I had a completely new grasp on how time, creating our reality, physical structures, etc. work. Yet, I couldn’t understand spacial relationships.
I didn’t know how we were going to get the car out of the parking area since someone was parked behind us. It didn’t occur to me that they would move and then we would move.
When I got home (no, I didn’t drive myself! Thanks Margy and Randy) I didn’t know what to do. Randy had to instruct me to put down my purse, take off my cape, and sit down.
Most intriguing of all, I later found that my arms no longer moved. I laid on the couch, unafraid, examining my habits. I could only watch the impulses to get up, to have a snack, to watch a show, to scratch the itch, etc. I couldn’t react to them physically so I just watched them come in and go out of my attention.
The most interesting habit was the habit that said, “As soon as this passes we can get back to our habits!” That one came up a lot.
I am not sure how much actual time passed before I could move again. My guess is 30-60 minutes.
When I woke up the next day I was still deeply in an altered state. I called Margy and we talked as I manage to figure out how to make toast. Now, I am typically unskilled in the kitchen, but I have never struggled to make toast before!
So, what is this teaching me?
I realized that this altered state was a higher level of awareness. I also realized that I couldn’t function in my current life from that state. I found myself feeling like I was forced to choose: Accept this advancement of consciousness (and be non-functional) or go back to my normal life and lose these insights.
Time for a call to Marne.
Marne helped me realize that I could ask Eloheim for a recalibration of my system. The recalibration would assist me in integrating this new level of consciousness into my life.
I asked Eloheim for this recalibration and slowly started to feel like I could function again.
I am deeply in this journey.
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The meeting of 4-1-09 covers many subjects. There is a further explanation of the energetic billboard, a discussion of meditation, and many other items.
At about an hour into the meeting, the conversation turns to ascension, how to bring the energies of 2012 into the now, black holes as the galactic vending machine, and so much more!
At the end, there is a tool for releasing excess energy and getting back to sleep!
As you en-soul your body, raise your vibration, and walk the path of ascension, you are expanding what it means to be human, transforming the physical vessel, and empowering yourself with the perspective of your Soul.
That’s what an ascended human looks like. The ascended human vibrationally offers a shifted paradigm to the planet and offers a shifted paradigm to how one is on Earth as well.
The shit needs to get shifted before the shift gets here!
The video clip is an interesting take on the energetics of 2012 and how to bring that powerful transformational force into this moment. It also shows how much fun we have at the meetings.
4-1-09 – 96 minutes
CELLULAR PURGING–Past Life release-open up space for higher vibrations to come in Akashic Records-Pull IN the information that can serve you; Stay in the moment in order to release the negative energy in the now-make room;
BILLBOARD—Eloheim discusses the billboard messages in multiple settings: a new job, attracting>
friends, consciously approaching un-healed subjects;
RE-LANGUAGING key subjects for conscious attraction; Spiritual Tools–Take a deep breath about forgetting to use tools–be willing to go from a screwdriver to a power tool;PULLING IN VIBRATIONS FOR HEALING–Stay neutral–Stay present–Avoid resisting incoming energy–Re-language meditation expectations–no longer absence of thought; conscious thought –Be willing to re-language “old tools”–don’t overvalue a quiet mind now;
2012 is not as relevant as NOW
-HOMO SPIRITUS PARADIGM SHIFT–Black hole opens like “Galactic Vending Machine” for availability NOW– STEPS –1)transform fear 2)satisfy core emotion 3)tap into the Galactic Vending Machine 4)”All Access Pass”
–Don’t the rules change for everyone once the shift occurs?–Aborigines don’t know/care about the internet…
–Each CREATING NEW LIFE FORM – Homo spiritus
-ONE DIMENSION AT A TIME–Going from 3rd-4th to 5th–Let that thought be enough for now
-Eloheim discusses “ASCENSION” and the process involved in shifting–Focus desires for transformation
-Keep walking toward consciousness
-THE BIG CIRCLE TOOL–Tool describes how to “vent” excess energy in order to rest/sleep
-APRIL MONTH-April personifies physical life journey–it begins with the “Trickster”; we pay taxes; the Resurrection is celebrated
-All PROPHECIES are in flux–The moment is plenty-stay in what the moment can teach you-worry not about prophetic outcomes –
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Recommendation:
I am reading, Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born, by Robert Schwartz. I have never read a book that so clearly explains what I know to be true about ‘why we are here’ and ‘what it is all about.’ I read 80 pages in one sitting the first time I picked it up. The author has an amazing way of describing the new paradigm of living as a creator and letting go of the habit of being a victim.
For more information, you can follow this link to the Amazon listing.
Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
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However you come to it, I highly recommend this publication.
Audio recordings of the five meetings held in April 2009
March, 2009
Back to TopELOHEIM: Emotions and the Spiritual Journey ~ 3-25-09
REMINDER: Eloheim will be in Martinez, CA this Sunday the 29th at 4:00pm. Email eloheimchannel@yahoo.com for details.
I received a request for Eloheim to talk about emotions and how they relate to the Spiritual Journey. This meeting includes a lengthy discussion of romantic relationships including information on living with an unconscious partner.
This meeting is so full of information that Lois took 8 pages of notes!
Here are a few highlights from the first part of the meeting.
Later in the meeting:
The end of the meeting:
3-25-09 – 108 minutes
Summary:
-How do we trust the emotions we are having?
-What about “sleeping partners”? When romantic love vs. spiritual growth becomes a necessary choice.
-Telling the truth is an act of consciousness-deep lies are embedded in fear.
-All relationships can teach, but what are you wanting to learn?
-Re-learning is only necessary if you choose.
-The choice for consciousness does not need props;-i.e. equipment, place, environment, etc.
-The ultimate act of Free Will is to align your desire for free will with your desire for consciousness;no one can make you and only you can decide to.
-Consciousness has a global effect–hundredth monkey syndrome.
-Spiritual Cleansing-break down the emotion-Why Why Why Why-be willing to see.
-Negative self talk is NEVER allowed.
-People habituate out of boredom;fill your space with neutral observation-body evaluation.
-Define the stimulus of ALL emotions; happy and sad.
-Eloheim talks about who they are-who is present at the meeting.
-We cannot tell you anything until you ask! the gate must be opened by you and your questions.
Audio recordings of the five meetings held in March 2009