part0030

I know that you as a society of beings are moving into a time of global citizenship. There has been for a considerable passage of existence a part of this planet that has been unavailable to you. Those are the vast regions where polar bears are not easily seen because we blend into most of our surroundings.

We have noted that this time is drawing to a close and that we are no longer as difficult to see as we once were. There is the melting of the ice, and we have served in our capacities as long as we can. We are preparing as a group to leave Earth and return to our home planet as souls. It is something we have noted with other species as well — all are returning. Perhaps someday we will send representatives to meet you or you may come and meet us.

We do not look on our home planet the way we look to you here. Here, all but the human being are in disguise. I have been guided that to a degree, you yourselves are in disguise, but since you come to this planet and have your brief life to learn something, it is intended that all other forms of life on the planet be something over which you can have a semblance of control or with which you can learn how to get along in harmony.

You are still struggling to get along in harmony with each other and have had only some success — some — to learn how to get along with types of beings other than yourselves. You have learned how to share mutual respect with what you call pets. That respect is not always eye to eye, but it is respect of a form and has been noted and discussed in the world of nonhumans.

When you meet us after our experience on your planet, you will find that we do not look in our natural appearance very much like what we look like on Earth, but you will meet a variation of ourselves who is an upright being such as yourselves. We have legs and arms, a head and a body, so we are similar to you. We walk on our legs and we are not furred the way we are furred on your planet, though we have a very slight coating of hairs on our body — not unlike what you have yourself, only it is our entire body, with the exception of what you would call our face. The shape of our head is not like what you see on the planet you live on and has a resemblance to the shape of your own face.

I won’t say too much about this, but I want to give you some acknowledgment that since you are starting to move toward interplanetary travel, that the chances of meeting other beings in space along the way or meeting them on the various asteroids and planets that you get to — initially it will be asteroids or even chunks of rock in space — are increasing considerably. You won’t have to be defending yourselves. Mostly you’ll just have to attempt to avoid jumping or being too startled, because very often you will simply, as a traveler, come around a pile or outcropping of rocks and there on the other side will be somebody who is clearly not a human being.

It is extremely unlikely that that being will have any malevolent intentions toward you. It is just a good thing to recognize that in space, you will not find something that you can classify as an animal. Every form of life you meet, from the smallest to the largest, will expect you to treat it as an equal. Therefore, you will have to learn how to do that.

I’m going to suggest that you begin that learning in greater earnest on your planet now, as your planet is a good place that can function as a school. Here’s my first suggestion: If you have animals, as you call them, who live with you or perhaps are nearby and are safe to interact with — cows, horses, something like that, or as I say, a friend (a dog or a cat, a bird, a rabbit) — see if you can notice to the best of your ability their feelings, wants, needs and interactions with you by looking at their eyes. You do not have to stare at their eyes; give a quick glance and then look away. That’s sufficient and is often better than staring at them, as you know.

If you’ve been stared at, you will very often go through many feelings, and whatever you were feeling initially will no longer be visible in your eyes. But if somebody gives you a quick glance and then looks away, whatever you were feeling in that moment will be in that person’s memory for a moment, long enough for him or her to recognize — because of having those feelings or similar ones — what it is that you as an individual are feeling. It is a way to prepare for travel in space.

So many of the beings on Earth who are not human beings are just there to remind you — to prepare you, if you prefer that word — for your space travel. There are so many beings, I cannot count that high, who are prepared to meet you in some benevolent fashion. But I do not know any beings, nor have I come across them in my capacity to think across the universe, who are prepared to fight with you. They will simply not be visible. And if you are still fighting, you will fight amongst each other until that is no longer possible.

You have done this before briefly as a species of being, and since you tend to develop defensive weapons that eventually turn into offensive weapons, you seem to have gone through many cycles of rising and falling as a result. I have been assured by Creator and our guides and teachers that such a thing will not be allowed to migrate much past your own planet or your Moon. But we will see.

I am embodied as a member of the council on my home planet, and yet I can perceive and speak through, which I am now, one of our beings who lives in the cold regions. I am doing that so that I can have a sense of who you are and who Earth is as a personal identification, something which I do not normally have. The being I am speaking through is actually in motion — walking, looking, I believe, for one of her young ones who has wandered off, as young ones often do in search of discovering their world.

We live about twenty-five hundred of your years, sometimes twenty-three hundred, sometimes thirty-seven hundred. But as an average, we live about twenty-five hundred of your years on our planet.

We are just a little smaller. The average height … I’m averaging the height of a mature human being here. I’m not taking into account the smaller ones.

We have an extended family. We tend to live with those with whom we have grown older. Here, family is considered not just immediate blood — meaning parents, brothers, sisters, siblings — but family is considered to also be old friends and relationships that go beyond friends, meaning allies, like that. So the extended-family groups that we live in are fairly large, but there are vast distances between these situations.

We do not have towers of chrome and glass, but from your perspective, you would say perhaps that we have enclaves, and then there is vast, open countryside in between. You might loosely say that we have cities, but from my perspective, I do not call it a city because, as I say, we do not build the structures out of materials that were otherwise living their lives peacefully. We do not require shelter because our planet is benevolent, you see, so there is no need to protect ourselves from changes in temperature and so on.

Therefore, in the enclaves, we simply exist. There is food of a sort that we can absorb. I cannot say too much about that, but our understanding of your means of absorption is that what you absorb as food goes through your mouth. What we absorb goes through a similar body opening and is fully and completely processed with no waste material. This is of great value, as you can imagine, to keep the planet pristine and functioning in a valuable, honored and appreciated way. We do not require a great deal of food to give us energy to struggle through life, as life is not a struggle.

We do not experience a great deal of individuals on the planet. Oh, the planet as it exists is about one and a half times the size of your own. Not unlike you, we have vast lakes and rivers, but unlike you, we do not have seas or oceans.

The material in the lakes is something similar to your water, but it has a more glistening quality to it. We have noted that it can reflect shapes, not unlike your own water, but it can also demonstrate shapes, meaning it will form into some shape, usually as a reflection — if you don’t mind my use of that word — of what is going on around it. If there are beings, say, walking on or near the water, the water itself will take on an appearance of the feelings of those beings. Therefore, since we are usually feeling moderated — meaning peaceful, calm or happy, but in a moderate way — the water will take on some aspect of that, reflecting it to all those around.

I feel from what I have been taught in our society that this was originally provided at the beginnings of our society so that we would have a means of being clear how our feelings were impacting others. This goes way back in time, but according to our teachers, it is said that this is a role that water plays regardless of what form the fluid is. It is a role that water plays everywhere in the universe.

Looking at the water on your planet through the eyes of our representative there whom I am connecting with to have this communion with you, I can see that equally there are reflections on the surface. Since this individual bear on the planet of Earth is concerned for her young one, I see a reflection of an anxious face. And the water demonstrates that reflection of this concern and at the same time heightens that concern. She knows not to stare at the water, because then she will become more concerned and even frightened. I wonder how many human beings on your planet know that water has this effect?

If you look at it for more than a moment, meaning a second or two, you will feel what you are feeling in a greater sense, yes. And if you continue to stare at it and you are feeling something uncomfortable, all those people around you will start to get an uneasy feeling as well. They won’t feel what you’re feeling, but they will feel uneasy and will probably move away from that feeling as one naturally would. So they would move away from you.

However, the opposite is also true. If you are feeling benign, benevolent, happy, peaceful, calm, something like that, or some combination of those and other benevolent feelings, the water, if you look at it and stare at it for more than a moment, a second or two, will also amplify those feelings so that if there are people around you, they will feel comfortable and happy and will even be attracted to that feeling — meaning attracted to you or attracted to being near you. Water, then, is not only a reflection, not only provides a reflection, but because of its nature, it amplifies, encourages, supports, sustains and truly applies the nature and the performance of life — meaning it brings it to your attention.

In my experience, this invitation occurred so long ago that it is what we would call a dim memory. We do not have written books of anything, but in the dim memory what has been passed on to me is that we had a visitor, as we sometimes do. The visitor said that this was something that was planned, that was going to happen, but that it may not have to happen if the lessons that were attempting to be learned, applied and then acted upon in some benevolent way were achieved before Earth as you now know it was going to be available for you to live on. So we were then advised by the emissary that our cooperation, our participation, may not be necessary, but it may.

This gives you an idea, given how long civilizations and planets and so on last, that we were informed of this a considerable amount of time before we had the opportunity to participate. But then sometime later, and this is a clearer memory … and by memory, I mean that I am more easily able to remember something that was told to me by others. Our wisdom is passed down from one to the other, you see, and of course, as something gets further into the past, it’s harder to remember. So there was another emissary who came and said, “It now appears that many otherworldly beings” — from our point of view, it wouldn’t be otherworldly, but this is from your point of view, you see? — “many beings from other planets are being invited to attend Earth during the time of the human being to support and advise, to guide and, in your case” — speaking to us, was this emissary — “to dream the dreams that would in time unite all humanity.”

We were advised that humanity tends to become united during times of crisis and emergency but that this does not last and the unity fades sometimes all too quickly. We were taught that in order to be able to provide dreams that human beings would wake from and experience unification, a desire to feel, to project and to stabilize an experience of friendliness between all other human beings, there needed to be regular, repeated dreams that all people, all humans, would be aware of. This is working very well now with the young children; it has been built up over time.

All young children and many others are experiencing the dream. These are some of the elements of the dream that I am prepared to share: You will find in your dream, regardless of what you are dreaming, whether it is a happy moment or more often something difficult, that someone comes along out of nowhere as a friend to support and guide you through the dream in order to resolve it benevolently — or at least, when you wake up, to have the memory that a friend (not someone you recognize or even knew was a friend in the dream world), someone who was friendly and helpful, came to help you.

That, I think, is the only element that I’m allowed at this time to share with you. This is something I’m mentioning because adults, meaning mature humans, are experiencing this. Children are experiencing much more, but I feel, from what our teachers are saying to us now, that children’s lives are intense enough in your cultures. They do not need to be queried about what they are dreaming. [Chuckles.]

I think we are going to have to stop here; the voice is getting tired. I will say for your sake that I cannot guarantee I will be available on another day. However, the council has many elders, and if it is not me … it may be me, but if it is not me, then there will be another one of the elders on the council speaking in a similar fashion. I thought you might like to know that the mother polar bear on Earth found her cub.

Yes. She led the cub over to the water and is teaching the cub now about the lesson of water, which I shared with you. So then if the cub wanders off someplace where it is frightened and does not know how to find its way home, if it can go over to the water and stare at the water, its feelings will emanate much farther than itself and its mother will feel those feelings and find the cub. Do you see? If you as human beings learn how to do that, you will find that this can help as well.

It was a good experience.

I am not the same elder you spoke to the other day, but I can answer questions.

They are split in that sense, and when one of us ensouls a being on your planet, that being remains awake here but is in a slightly less alert status than that being might normally be. So generally, these days, one of us can support two or three on the Earth. But there are not as many of our beings on the Earth as there once were, so we may return to the one-to-one situation, which would be more comfortable for our beings on our home planet here.

Yes, that’s right. But even so, it is a commitment, and our beings cannot conduct their natural life here the way they would ordinarily. So the need to return to one-to-one soul connection is probably going to be necessary, and there may be the potential, since it is weighing on our beings on our home planet a bit, to do two to one, meaning two of our individuals supporting one soul there.

There will not be a crisis on our home planet; that’s not possible. But to have one on Earth is, of course, likely.

At this time, perhaps 86,000 or so. This isn’t unusual. I have been informed that there are planets not unlike your own, some a little bigger, some slightly smaller, that are peopled by human beings similar to yourselves, where populations range anywhere on the planet from 100,000 to 300,000. From the limited amount of information I have about the human being, I generally find that you are more social and gregarious than we are and therefore do not wish to live in a situation where you might go for considerable lengths of time without seeing others of your own kind. This is why I mention that our planet, which is quite a bit larger than yours, has 86,000 of us here, but for a human-occupied planet, 100,000 to 300,000 would be more likely. I am not aware of a human-occupied planet that has less than 100,000.

You can too; you just have forgotten how. But you will be reminded in the next few years.

Oh, considering the time involved, I’d say 40 percent, something like that. It’s been well spread around. One finds that there are a few of our individuals who simply do not wish to do this, so they are, of course, excused from it. And equally, one finds individuals who enjoy it very much, and they might do this service multiple times. But all together, I’d say 40 percent, and that’s not likely to increase.

It does not interest me — that’s correct.

What are your interests on your home planet? The previous elder said you don’t have technology or schools or written records or anything. So do you carry the history? What are some of the things you do?

I can only tell you things that relate to your consciousness, but we perpetuate and keep a vast reserve of stories of beings of our type, whether they are on our planet or whether they are scattered throughout the universe. After all, it is typical for beings of a type to be scattered throughout the universe. Any being of a certain type might simply be … oh, you could pick any type of being and say that those who have characteristics of that being, plus or minus 30 percent, might be a being of that type.

We tend to gather, accumulate and share stories of beings who fall within that range of type throughout the universe. We keep no written records, but we have a vast memory reserve. If you were able to communicate with polar bears on the Earth, you would find that they themselves have a significant memory reserve of their own lives, remembering every detail of their own lives and often every detail of the lives of all their family members they were ever exposed to — to the extent that one can know the details of the life of another.

They are aware of the existence of the home planet, but we have found that since survival is such an urgent situation on your planet, that it is better that they are not distracted by too much knowledge of that. So there is something they can tap into in the dream state and which they can focus on if they feel completely secure on your planet for short periods of time. But it is not a situation where they are called upon to participate in any way in life here, because of the hazards that exist there.

I believe that the being you spoke to last time described us to the extent that that description is available.

Yes, of course. You as a species would have the same type of range — plus or minus 27 to 30 percent would be your type. You will find as you travel in space that there will be beings who look on the surface of their bodies identical to you; however, on the inner portion of their bodies, there are some differences. Equally, there will be beings you meet who will be, on the inner portions of their body, almost identical to you, and on the outer portions of their bodies, there will be some slight differences.

You will meet the full range like that, and this will be a great adventure and, for the most part, quite a pleasure for you. I think that the only conundrum you will run into is the occasional lack of ability to communicate, which will be so frustrating to you that you will need an intermediary to create communications. But that’s good, because it will encourage you to become dependent upon other species and therefore build up a reservoir of interdependence like everybody else in the universe.

Yes, but not directly, not individual to individual. We are more inclined to be in connection to their stories. Most of them have reserves somewhere, meaning in their inner thoughts or in some cases even in written records, and we connect to those things. But we do not connect individually; we do not find that particularly comfortable.

Not that many beings: spiritual teachers, emissaries. As a rule, we are not standoffish, but we do not openly receive too many visitors. There is a council, you know — a loose-knit council of planets. We have requested that people do not visit unless they have pressing business. Of course, if they do, then they are welcomed, but we do not have much of a way to make them comfortable. If you went to another planet peopled by human beings, you would be received and the best of comforts available would be made available to you. If you were able to visit here — which you are not, but if you were able to — we wouldn’t really be able to support your lifestyle.

Well, let’s put it this way: If you were able to look at us right now within the same focus, you would see someone who appeared to be completely physical. But as you say, given the different focuses of our structures, you would not be able to see us — that’s true. On the other hand, for your information, we would not be able to see you either.

There is, I believe, a confusion on your planet, assuming that those of a different focus — which you sometimes call higher dimension — can see other dimensions, but that’s not necessarily true. Think of it like a file system where there are different cards, each card being unique to itself. Perhaps other cards of that same description might be able to be sorted together, but cards of a different shape or form are not necessarily in contact with each other. I don’t know if that helps.

I am not aware of us existing in this form anywhere else. But in terms of this universe — this universe being fairly young — as far as I know, every individual spirit or soul that exists in this universe all have existed in other universes. I don’t think there’s any exception, including Creator. This universe is not all that old, in terms of experiential time. It hasn’t been here that long.

Oh yes, I am aware. We were light. Most other beings — for lack of a better term, you understand — were light. Everyone is that.

I think it had something to do with us interacting with you actually on the Earth. Every type of being who would ever come in contact with you is here for that reason and, of course, is encouraged to live their own lives as benevolently and as joyfully as possible. But I feel that the unusual variety of beings here is meant because Creator has always intended for you to cocreate and become the apprentice and then become a creator of your own sort and take over this universe. That will take a great deal of time — experiential time, of course. But for right now, I believe that Creator wants to have the ultimate variety available to you, and you have been conditioned in your society to enjoy variety and to actually — to be specific — expect variety.

As a result, in your travels in space, you would be tediously bored if you didn’t find a great deal of variety, and as you interact benevolently with other species, you will be supported to fly all over the universe and meet all kinds of different types of beings, which you wouldn’t be able to do on the vehicles you are currently (as well as into the next thousand years or so) able to produce. But there are ships that can travel from one end of the universe to the other and that you will, in a form, be able to travel within. Then when you get to where you’re going, you will reconvene — if that’s the right word — into your natural form, though you may have to be protected if the environment is not supportive of the type of life support you need.

From the emissary’s statements to our people, Creator seems to be quite devoted that you would have the maximum available variety that would be pleasing and enjoyable for you to meet — ultimately, of course, encouraging you to want to add your own creative elements to the universe. Even now, from what we have been told, human beings on Earth attempt to create with other species. And while this is not always or even frequently benevolent in its outcome, the desire is there within you, conditioned within you to influence the lifestyle of types of beings other than your own kind.

When you mature in your wisdom, you will be a benevolent influence. Right now you are not that far along, and therefore, even with the best of intentions, it does not usually turn out so well. I bring this up not to criticize but rather to say that it is in your nature to be prepared for the meetings and experiences of such varietal possibility.

I am not aware that you will. [Pause.] I don’t claim to know what all the other elders know. In our type of life, each elder functions independently; we do not have a communal elder council. We don’t have anything like that. I am speaking to you as the elder of my family, just as the other elder spoke to you as the elder of his family.

Whatever the family and extended family encompass.

No. We do not require that, you see? On a planet like yours, where survival is a constant issue, you have to come together in order to organize and to create the most gentle situation for your fellow citizens. But on our planet, that’s not necessary, because our planet is gentle with us all the time.

Well, you see … now, there is an example! What you just said is a factor of difference between us culturally. You said, “Life is so perfect, so what do you look forward to?” You see, that is a thought that I understand human beings might have, but in our type of being, life being perfect is an end unto itself. It is not something that is a burden.

Perhaps. But this will serve you ultimately … rather than in the acquisition of more and better, it will serve you insofar as your desire to know more, to travel more, to meet more and, as a result, to become more versatile in your interactions with all beings and to acquire knowledge and wisdom and so on — but not necessarily to acquire material things.

I do not know, since I have not been on your planet. But I will say that I have been informed that bears have the capacity to do many things at the deep level of dreams. So it is possible that when they are in the deep-dream state, those bears who sleep a long time and deeply, that the energy exuded from that being in that deep state is quite benevolent, and anyone or anything who is sick within a given radius — I don’t know how much; I should think no more than a few miles — would probably be benevolently affected. I don’t know if they would be cured of a major illness, but they might be benevolently affected.

When they came and asked us to do this, we didn’t say yes right away. We said, “We’d like to consider it.” After all, Creator does not make demands. But after some time of consideration — about a thousand years of your time — we said we’d do it for a fixed amount of time, especially insofar as when we would be having interactions with your species. The moment that started, we said we would like to start leaving the planet, and we have been.

Creator’s emissaries recommended that form for us, but my understanding is that the emissaries would be doing Creator’s suggestions, yes? So it was suggested that this would be the form we would find enjoyable and that we might enjoy the experience of cold if we were fully and completely prepared to be comfortable within it — because on our home planet, we do not experience cold.

During that time when the emissary came, even though you don’t normally discuss things with each other, there was a period of time when you did come together to discuss this, right? As to whether or not you wanted to ensoul polar bears?

We were asked if we would be interested in doing this, and we said no. Then, after a pause, we were asked if we would consider doing it, and we said we would consider it. And about a thousand years later, we decided we would.

Oh, I think everybody talked about it; it wasn’t limited to the elders. And after about a thousand experiential years, we’d all talked about it to some degree, so everyone knew about it. The general consensus was that it would be worth trying for a limited amount of time, but since life here is perfect to our way of life and needs, we did not feel any desire to do it. So we’re doing this strictly to be of service.

Years … I don’t know. I don’t think of it as based on years. As I told you, the emissary … once we agreed, then we started, you see? Then polar bears showed up, so to speak — [chuckles] is that a term, “showed up”? Polar bears showed up on your planet. And as I said, once contact with the human being as you understand yourself to be now took place, then we would begin to reduce our numbers and come home.

Oh, there has been some contact, but we knew that when the human being contacted us, it wouldn’t be friendly. We live, we survive, but we are not violent by nature. Of course, we must survive, and in the course of survival, to eat, violence takes place, and we don’t enjoy that. In my experience of what I found out about our beings on Earth — granted, it’s limited — they have indicated that all of the nonhumans who eat other beings do not get pleasure out of killing. But one has to survive — on Earth that is the way things are set up.

They do, but there isn’t a “waking up” involved. They don’t sleep. We don’t sleep.

Only if somebody asks. If somebody asks, then the question that is asked is answered, but it is not elaborated upon unless other questions are asked. Generally speaking, there is a small group that has ensouled polar bears — as I said, about 40 percent. They have shared stories amongst themselves. But for those who haven’t ensouled or have not asked questions, they don’t know very much about it. As an elder, having been around for a while on our planet, I have heard things, others talking about things, but I have not actually asked questions myself.

I have some idea of what you look like. I have some idea of how our beings are hunted by humans. I try not to dwell on it.

Yes, that cannot be helped. However, there is some insulation, of course, so that we on our planet are somewhat insulated from the violence.

From the energy, yes. Have there been other instances or occasions since this discussion of whether to come to Earth or not that have gotten you all to talking about anything or all sort of talking about the same thing?

Not that I’m aware of. We have a good life here, and it is satisfying as it is. This is an exception, but since Creator’s emissaries did invite us here, apparently to do exactly what we’re doing, then it seems that that form of service is … well, not exactly required, but it is why we’re here. Let me put it like this: I would have to say that if any emissaries other than Creator’s emissaries came and asked us to do this, to do something like this, I’m sure we would have said no. But when Creator’s emissaries ask you, you are inclined to find a way to cooperate.

Remember, I have never had a life there. Remember, if you don’t ask about it, you don’t know. I may not be the right being for you to talk to.

I think you could probably look that up in your history. I think that kind of information would probably be available in a record in your own natural science. But if you asked the question once you knew that, you could ask the question within the context of … not using years, but using physical descriptions, saying, “Given that such and such existed then, what were your memories?” Then you avoid using years, because it doesn’t relate.

I do not wish to sound demanding.

No, no. I meant, it would be wonderful if I knew. I might talk to somebody and see if I can get a list because if I knew who was coming, I would have more intelligent questions. I could study up on them.

Your questions are very intelligent. I must apologize.

Are you alone there, then? Is that it?

You do not have someone to assist you? To look up this information there with you?

We don’t encourage that, as I said before, but if they have pressing business, they are welcomed. But they have to bring everything they need, and they can leave nothing here.

No, I didn’t ask the question correctly. You have memories of coming from another universe where you were like light. Do those beings who are your relatives or predecessors … you didn’t all come, right? I mean, there are more of you back there, right?

No. I believe that they feel rather the way we feel about our beings on your planet. If they would commune with us directly on a regular basis, our desire to return home beyond this universe would probably become more pronounced and we would undoubtedly be distracted, as anyone might.

Oh, yes. Definitely.

I couldn’t say, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a vast number of beings would then wish to go home. But the little explanation we received from the Creator’s emissaries indicated that when the next version of Creator begins to work in this universe, it will be an option for that being to ask if anybody wishes to pack up and go home.

[Laughs.] Pack up and leave. But there’s one thing I’m not clear on yet: Are the other beings like you from the same place you are but they weren’t asked to send souls to Earth? I mean, are there other beings who are related to you or just of your type?

Well, we’re all related there.

No, no. We’re all related that way — including me to you.

Oh, I could not say that. I really don’t know; you’d have to ask them. Perhaps you’ll have that opportunity.

You know, I said something to you a moment ago that I’m not sure you fully understood, and I’d like to elaborate. Remember when I mentioned that you didn’t have anybody there to help you? I found that surprising, because in our planetary situation, if anyone needs help, then a member of the extended family is right there to help them with something. Correct me if I am mistaken, but I gather that you, yourself, do not live in an extended family.

You live there on your own with two of another species of being, but you do not live with others of your own kind, other human beings? Is that correct?

I find that unfathomable, but that shows the difference in species, the difference of beings, does it not? I am not criticizing you; I am simply saying that I find it hard to imagine. I will tell you why — would you like to know why? I have never, in my entire life, ever been alone. I do not know a single member of anybody on my planet who has ever been alone, nor had any desire to be. So the idea of living alone, with the exception of, as you said, the two other beings of another species, is a completely unknown experience in my life. I am just saying that I was surprised when you said that you had no one of your own kind to help you.

I hear you saying that this is a desirable situation.

See … that is unknown to me. I have learned something new, eh? I must tell my fellow beings that the human being desires at times to be entirely alone, other than exposure to members of other species. This is fine — it is just a surprise.

Well, we do not do anything that does not involve others. I am never alone. I have never been alone. I do not know a single other person on my planet who has ever been alone. So whatever is being done is being done with others — not vast groups, but within the extended family. Sometimes we travel about the planet, walk about here and there, and are with other extended families — friends, as you say. But to be completely alone — that is unknown here.

Well, it’s probably because we are still in a mental stage, and we spend more time in our thoughts. We read, we watch television, we think and we have more things to do physically to maintain ourselves than you do. We have to cook and clean and shop, and it takes a lot to keep the body going.

Yes, that makes a great deal of sense to me. I feel it is an education you are giving me.

Correct — no buildings.

No. We do not need shelter. There is no shelter.

We do not sleep as you understand it, no. We have trees. They don’t look exactly like the trees I have heard about on your planet, but they are trees of a sort. And there are plants, flowers — very aromatic!

Oh, yes! That is how we have learned many of our stories. Do you do that with your planetary soul as well?

We commune in a way that … if you were doing it, it would remind you of conversation, you see? But there is no external sound. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t something going on that would seem conversational to you, if you were participating.

Yes. That’s very observant of you, yes.

That’s right — we don’t move anything around. It is our belief that everything is where it is most welcome, and any attempt on our part to move it would only be doing something against the better being of existence.

There is no technology, so it is physical, but it is all very gentle. There is no pain.

No. The number started around 40,000 — in light forms, you understand — and then very gradually eased up to about 86,000 quite some time ago. I believe the consensus was that this was enough, by that time having established a well and thorough communion with the planet. The planet itself indicated no more than 90,000. So we’ve kept it to less than that, to be good guests.

No oceans as you know them, correct. Just rivers and lakes.

We do not go on them on logs, nor do we make rafts. Remember — no technology.

That I have done — not exactly swimming, but more like floating. It was a wonderful sensation!

Now, you may not know this, but I’ll ask you, and if you don’t know, then I’ll ask somebody else. You were asked to ensoul polar bears, and your beings came here as lightbeings. Had someone prepared a body already for you to inhabit? Where did the first polar bears come from?

I cannot say about that; I can only say about our experience. Are we talking about our planet?

The emissaries of the Creator were on our planet. They met us there and recommended the form that we now exist in. That’s how it started. I think that’s typical, actually, from what little I have known.

Creator’s emissaries created this and I believe created the form on Earth, which we then ensouled.

Yes, I think that would be a wise idea. It would certainly be good for your ongoing education. But I would guess that that would be for a different book. They would have a considerable amount of knowledge about the universe in general.

I am approaching the end. I would guess, in terms of experiential time, that I would have maybe about ten more experiential years to go.

When we reach the end of our life cycle, we simply just lie down — not unlike your peoples, I expect. We lie down and our friends and family gather around, and when the soul departs, it goes where souls go. I am not certain that the soul remains here and reincarnates here. I have heard stories that souls sometimes go elsewhere to other places, reincarnate elsewhere, but I believe we stay in this universe.

The body itself is taken out to a particular area meant for internment. It is not exactly the same as your area of internment. It is rather more of a depression, as you say — a lower point in the ground. And the body is laid out with special things, usually little things. I don’t know how to describe it; it would be something that does not last and often might have endearments written on it. Perhaps this is not so unusual to your peoples. The body is left there with a light covering over it, not unlike fabric, but it is a fabric that encourages the transformation of the body into material that is similar to the physical structure of the planet. This transformation is complete in about two or three experiential weeks.

No, I do not. I cannot speak for every member of the planet, but I am not aware of any who do. I do not know anybody who is aware of any, but I can’t rule out that there are other members here who would say otherwise.

I don’t know that, no. It’s possible. As I say, I have heard that the souls reincarnate on our planet, but I have also heard that some souls reincarnate on other planets. I don’t even know if they exclusively reincarnate in beings of our type; it is possible that they reincarnate in other ways. But this is only information I have simply a sketchy awareness of.

Exactly. We don’t, because I don’t need to know that. The need to know would be based on survival, you see? And survival is guaranteed. So needing to know has a different aspect. When the emissaries would come, we would need to know how to understand them and how to interact with them. But we don’t need to know what happens after life.

There isn’t … why? Why? Life is perfect — why would we want to change it by knowing something we don’t need to know?

Well, so do you. When your soul leaves your body, you have no knowledge of where you will go, but you go somewhere benevolent. You do not know where you’re going … do you?

Well, this is perhaps because you have a somewhat isolated life there and you do not interact with other life forms freely. This is apparently Creator’s plan for you right now. But when that changes, you will have a vast amount of information available to you and will probably be crystal clear on where you go and what you do afterward.

Well, it’s interesting. As I talk to different beings, some of them know their past lives — there’s a full spectrum from one end to the other. It’s very interesting, from my point of view.

Yes, I can see where it would be!

When your beings who have ensouled polar bears are no longer ensouling them, when the life here dies and those beings talk about it on your planet, are there special stories that they tell? Do they feel they gained this experience or that joy or that bit of wisdom, or is it just the service?

Perhaps you don’t recall, but I did say that I am not of the beings who desire to know this information.

I have heard a few things in passing. Generally, from my perception, everyone is relieved that it’s over. There are only a few who enjoy the experience sufficiently to wish to do so again, and those individuals do so again and again.

Well, it’s relative, isn’t it? There are at least three elders I know of who have done this repeatedly.

Yes, perhaps next time.

We are not anywhere you have heard of, and to the extent that I have this knowledge, you do not now have a photograph. I can say that someday, with your instruments that measure or accumulate sounds in the universe, you will hear us — perhaps not our culture or civilization, but you will hear our planet.

Do you know that all the planets sing all the time? Every planet has a tone that it makes. Your planet has this tone. All planets have a unique tone that they make all the time. Therefore, your instruments that can be aware of tones which the human being cannot hear — I’m sure you cannot hear all tones; we do not either — these instruments can be listening to the planetary chorus.

We do have a species that walks close to the ground and is much smaller than us, but they do not live with us. They generally live in and around the trees. I have actually seen them go up into the trees, but I think that they do this for their own reasons. They are not represented on Earth, but they are quite a bit smaller relative to our size.

I am hard-pressed to give an example relative to your size, but I might be able to if you give me a moment. [Pause.] Relative to your size, they would be perhaps four to six inches long. They move around close to the earth. They move fairly slowly, but they can move more quickly if they desire.

I’ll see if I can put it into the sounds this physical person can make [makes a shhhzzzzzh sound, about five seconds long, with fluctuating volumes]. That’s about as close as I can get.

Yes. The day lasts longer than your day, and the night is slightly cooler by comparison, but it’s not cold, ever.

Oh, certainly, if we desire to do so.

Oh yes, we can lie down.

I don’t know if it compares to your kind of sleep. It doesn’t have anything to do with the sleep that our beings on your planet do. That kind of sleep — no, I don’t think we do that. We might relax.

We can hear anything that makes a sound, including the sound the planet makes, which we are quite conscious of. It is not so loud, but we can hear it if we desire to. There are places where we can hear it louder than other places; for instance, if we go into the water, we can hear it louder. There is something about the water that seems to make the sound more noticeable. This may be true for your waters as well — perhaps you can hear your planet sing in your waters? I do not know. Perhaps at great depths in your lakes or rivers — or seas, oceans, I understand you have — you might be able to hear that. A machine can hear it.

We could make sounds, perhaps, but there is no need.

There are many places on the planet we do not go, simply because … oh, for instance, many of the lakes are very large, and of course we don’t float out too far into the lake. So there’s that. And then there is no need, so there are places on the planet that, as far as I know, none of our beings have ever gone. But we do not consider that to be a problem.

Not without announcing themselves, and not without a pressing reason. I have heard the story that once a vehicle came because they needed some samples of a clay we have on our planet. We told them that they would have to be very careful how much they removed, and they said they only needed an extremely small amount. And they did take a very small amount — I suppose to use the example of your digits, about as much as you might pinch between one digit and another. It was very small.

We asked the planet if she could spare that for them. She did not feel comfortable with it, but they sang to her as to why they needed it, and then she was comfortable and bid them welcome. They didn’t really say why they needed it, but they sang to the planet in their language. The planet herself then indicated, in a way we could understand, that she welcomed them to take that small portion of her body for their needs. She apparently could understand their language perfectly well.

It was a machine of some sort. I didn’t see it; it was a story I heard about in the past. I think we’ll have to stop soon.

I will make a closing statement, all right?

You’re very welcome.

On your planet, you live and thrive with friends and family. We do that the same — we live and thrive with friends and family. And so we have much that is similar. Our beings who live on your planet whom you know as polar bears have great hearts, and they are very loving to their families. But they have adapted to your lifestyle. They have chosen to have many moments in their lives when they are alone — just like you, who apparently seek out being on your own at times. This adaptation has taught them to have compassion for you and understanding.

When you have the opportunity, perhaps in a photograph or other ways, look at their eyes. And then look at your own, in one of your reflecting devices. Can you not see the same feelings? We all have the same range of feelings. All life on your planet is very much like you. Consider that, and appreciate life as much as you can.

When your peoples come out into the universe to meet other life forms, even when there is no way to communicate directly, as long as there are eyes — and there will almost always be that — there will be the means to know what people (or beings, you understand) are feeling. So study that, and know that compassion will be a necessary requirement for space travel. On that note, I will say, enjoy your lives. [Chuckles.]

Okay. Just a minute. [Pause.]

An emissary! Oh! I want to talk to you at length in the future, but right now, is there any way you could let me know in advance who you will be bringing in to speak so that I can get some information about the animal the ensouling elder will discuss before I talk to them?