part0040

We live on a distant planet. We are not dissimilar in appearance from the way you observe us on Earth. We do not, however, live in impermanent webs the way we live on Earth, but we have structures like that — a bit more permanent, a bit more solid, yet with a similar weave pattern in which we live and move. On our home planet, we do not require having to eat, and we have facilities for visitors from other planets who do make occasional visits, although rarely.

Several of our species interact with the occasional visitors through an elaborate translation device. The visitors never actually see those individuals but speak through something that would look to you like a piece of stone, but the stone has inscriptions of what we look like and symbols that honor the visitors as well. This is a possibility given the flexibility of the stonelike substance, which is alive in its own right and can create a temporary appearance to appease the visitor.

Most visitors we get here are humanoids, not unlike yourself, and although they are not offended by our appearance, given that they are much bigger than we are, we feel a certain need to protect ourselves. We are a little bigger here on our home planet than we are on Earth, and we are of only two or three appearance-type varieties as compared to the multiplicity of appearances one sees on Earth.

Before we came to Earth, we were advised by Creator’s messengers that Creator would like us to come to Earth only if we were willing to produce certain patterns in our temporary home structures there that would inspire and even stimulate a poetic reverie — which has, I believe, occurred. It was also a request that we take on as many different appearances as were practical and comfortable, given that our general desire was to remain many-legged. We find that most comfortable. You can identify with this somewhat.

Think about it: If you had only one leg, you would feel terribly inconvenienced at the very least. Given that you have two legs, you take that completely for granted, you see? If you had had more legs than that, you would find many uses for them, much as we do. You have many beings on your planet who have more legs than you do, and they find uses for those legs.

It is relative, you understand. Remember, we only have about three appearances — none of which are on Earth. But I would say that we are about three inches across. You may have one or more species on your planet that rival that size. I realize, looking at a distance, that there is at least one, maybe two. But we look a little different too — similar, but not exactly the same. Our bodies are a little bit bigger here and our legs a little bit shorter, the planet being much more comfortable and accommodating of us.

We are not alone on this planet; there are several other species here. As I say, we do not have to eat and neither do they, so there is comfort with one another. We don’t take up that much room here, our numbers being of a fixed variety, roughly between 5,250 and 5,600. We find that very comfortable — not a lot. So there is room on this planet, albeit the planet is smaller than yours, for several other species, although we do not have any flying ones or swimming ones. They are all land-oriented.

We communicate on occasion, but since everyone has their own culture, there is no more than what I would call diplomatic exchange, planetary necessities, discussions of a friendly nature. But we do not all live together.

Oh, mostly they are just traveling about. Sometimes they are looking to trade, but we don’t have much to offer them. We are self-sustaining here, and we do not require a great deal of extra objects. We think a lot here, and we are happy with our thoughts and feelings and our immediate culture, as are the other species here. So those who come to trade stay for a polite amount of time, and then they go and don’t return.

Generally, we get visitors who are just exploring in this part of the universe. And of course, we welcome them, and we have a nice place for them to stay, which we did not build. It was created by some visitors from the distant past who built something for us so that we could politely receive beings who may come. There is a considerable amount of flexibility in the facility so that for very large and very small beings … all different types of accommodations are available for different types of beings.

But generally speaking, those who come to visit don’t stay more than a few days, in terms of Earth time. And of course, since they come in their own vehicles, they bring what they need, though a certain amount of refreshment and so on is available here.

Oh, of course they are aware. The means they would communicate through … this object does have what would appear to be etchings of our appearance. Sometimes it is misunderstood, but generally it’s understood that that is our appearance and the size is true to life. So they understand that.

They also understand that we are somewhat shy. We have, on occasion, met in person. We have several beings diplomatically trained, but this has happened only on rare occasions, such as with Creator’s emissaries and so on. Of course, they are happy to see us. Sometimes various beings are a little shy around us, but I find that this is not typical of those who are exploring the universe — they are eager to see new life forms (new to them) and are always happy to communicate. But we are usually a little more shy than them. We do not explore, and therefore, perhaps that is why we are more shy. We may not have the social skills, I grant.

I’ll have to convert this to your terminology. A moment. Perhaps 800, roughly 850 square miles.

Yes, we live in family units. We do not have what you would call cities, so figure family units spread out over that amount of space. There are trees here, plants, vegetation, though the vegetation does not have fruit or things like that which you would find on Earth.

It does have what I would call an enduring seed, meaning that if something reaches the end of its life cycle, it drops to the ground, and the stem — let’s call it that, but you could also call a tree trunk a stem, couldn’t you? — cracks open after a time and within it is a seed. So it will reproduce itself. But it doesn’t have a means of reproduction like fruit or nuts or something like that which you find on your planet. It is that way there simply because food is needed by so many. But that is not a factor here.

About a hundred. They are volunteers. To a degree, they are a revolving community. By that I mean that there are about eight hundred involved in the hundred, because it’s a very intense occupation and any single individual can only stay focused on it for about ten to twelve hours of Earth time. So there’s a revolving group of about eight hundred, of whom one hundred are always, for lack of a better term, on duty.

Yes, quite a few like that. But I wouldn’t say that we ensoul them. No, I wouldn’t say that. They are ensouled where they are. All beings, according to my understanding, are ensouled where they are on your planet, but we are available in service to them should they wish to feel their home. We are available to connect with them to support that feeling, and we are also available to advise them if necessary.

No, rarely, but we like to remain alert. I will give you an idea: In any five-hour period, there might be eight to ten queries.

So this has been going on for thousands of years. Did the volunteers live their lives on the home planet, then spend a certain amount of time on this, and then go back to their lives? Or do they do this their whole lives?

Generally speaking, it is a lifetime commitment. It’s not a heavy burden, because they train for it and it is something they enjoy doing. If it happens that some decide they no longer enjoy doing it, then of course they are released and there are others who will fill in for them. But even if forty or fifty decided to do that, which is unheard of, the pool of those who are volunteering to do it could still handle it. In my awareness, only one or two have ever dropped out, and that was usually because of pressing family matters.

Oh, roughly a couple thousand years.

Yes, although I have found that here on this planet, most of us do not reincarnate here. The interesting thing about our souls is that we feel connected to all life forms. This is perhaps why we represent our philosophy on Earth with the appearance of the web — which, if you look at it as a central area, is often a circle and has branches, so to speak, going out from that circle, not unlike what one might see in the rays of the Sun on some occasions. So generally we prefer to go on and be some other life form. That’s our philosophy. Thus one might have a life here, but then off you go when you’re done and you become something else, whatever and wherever.

I do not remember the past, no.

I am available, yes. We have elders, but they are engaged in other duties. As elders, they advise. They advise the young ones and sometimes the parents of other young ones. Family is a big thing here.

We teach them — there’s no technical means. We teach them our ways by stories and songs, not dissimilar from what you do, except that we do not have schools. But you know, from what little I do know of you on Earth, schools are a relatively recent aspect of your cultures. My understanding is that back before schools, knowledge was passed on by elders. So there is some similarity.

When they are communicated to, they can see clearly what is happening to the individual communicating with them, and they can see for some considerable distance around them. So after a while of accumulated amount of experience like that, we have a pretty fair idea what the planet looks like. There are not spiders everywhere, so when it comes to the sea, for example, we do not know much about that — although there are beings related to us who can live in waters, but they are not so directly related that we communicate.

We are told about it. It is available, like stories, yes? Just like you hear stories in your culture.

That is apparently filtered. We do not have that problem. Also, I think part of the filtering might be that our fellow beings on your planet do not have those feelings. So when they reach out to us, none are transmitted.

They don’t have feelings such as anger and rage — like that. They don’t have feelings like that. They are benevolent. They eat to survive, they love their young, they teach them what they can. But they don’t have anger, rage, hate and so on. So when they reach out to us, we don’t feel that.

It does not flow through them, nor do they take it in. They are immune to it because there is nothing within them that is of that. Should they bite something, short of it being in self-defense or defending one’s young, it is only for survival — you know, to bite and get away [chuckles]. It’s not done with any intention to harm; it is strictly survival. And generally, one does not even have to bite. Those legs will carry you pretty fast, if you give them a chance.

For some reason we are not appreciated there, though the spider people on Earth are very much prepared to offer you great wisdom. Because of the nature of our philosophy, they have a great deal of knowledge and wisdom about other species. They also have knowledge and wisdom about … well, simply Earth wisdom. They are very well connected to the planetary waves. Do you know what planetary waves are?

Planetary waves are something that the planet you are living on emits in order to reveal to all species — granted, you must understand planetary waves — when she is going to move or when she is going to do something that she does for herself (speaking about Earth in the feminine). This would be volcanic activity or even tsunami activity or earthquake activity — in other words, the kind of activities that she must do for herself that would necessarily impact others.

The waves themselves are constant. They are not in any way disturbing, but it is a background tone. This can also be felt if one is sufficiently sensitive. But when the tone breaks or reveals a different pulse in the tone, almost like a staccato pulse, then you know it’s probably time to pack up and move on — or at least get to higher ground. It depends. There are certain types of pulses and staccato sounds that interrupt the normal wave sound, and these can be interpreted by those who understand them.

It’s a little hard to explain here. I think your instrumentality is close to at least hearing them. After a while and with enough study, you will probably know the sounds for yourselves and can thus give some warning to your citizens. Generally speaking, when she sends out those different pulses, one has anywhere from twenty-four hours to two weeks — something like that — to pack up and get out or move to higher ground. You really need to know whether it’s going to be an earthquake or a volcano or waters rising, but it can be interpreted so you know which one. Of course, if it’s water rising, you may not have to go that far, but you’ll have to go fast!

Oh, just from living there. We feel very well. Some life forms on Earth hear very well, but we feel, so we can feel the wave. And if there is a change in the wave, we notice it, we feel different. We actually have a physical feeling in our body that we can interpret. You can do this, I think; you just don’t remember how. But at the very least, the people exploring magnetic-wave resonance on your planet are close to discovering this. Perhaps they may have already discovered it — they just don’t know what it is. So it’s good we’re having this talk.

Oh, I think almost every being can other than humans. And humans can too, you just have to train yourselves. People will probably train themselves in the scientific community — that I can look at right now. They will amplify the sounds, and then they will see how their physical bodies react.

Once you hear even a synthesized version of the sound, you can go out, go somewhere. Probably the best place to go as a human being would be someplace where there are as few people and as few buildings as possible. So you might go somewhere … oh, maybe out on the ice or something like that. Or you might go out on … oh, I don’t know … on water — I don’t know much about water. But just go somewhere isolated — on top of a mountain, on top of a mesa, something like that — and you will feel it more easily.

Do you know that the sleep cycle for all beings is affected by that? When the wave happens that is demonstrating a warning from Mother Earth — it’s very kind of her to do this — almost everybody wakes up, even at the deepest level of sleep. Human beings, animals, everybody — you wake up. As a human being, if you don’t know what it means, you go back to sleep. But take note: If you have animals around you, if you have a farm, if they all look like they want to get away, probably you ought to pack everybody up and get away too.

Part of the reason we know enough about humanoids to talk about them is that we’ve had quite a few humanoids come to visit us. But we actually haven’t had any of what I would call human beings. Nevertheless, the humanoids have come to visit us, as I say, because they are exploring this part of the universe or, on occasion, because they might feel there is something to be gained, to learn, to study. So these are students, educators, and then we learn. They like to tell us things, or they like to provide information.

At the visitor center, it is possible to leave information there, where those who are trained to do diplomatic duties may listen to it or absorb it or take it into themselves. And if they feel something or they have an awareness that something might be good for us to know, then they will pass it on. Generally speaking, this is how we have managed to assimilate a certain amount of information about humanoids, and thus we are able to extrapolate. I cannot say for certain whether what I am saying about you humanoids on your planet is absolutely accurate. I am, to a degree, extrapolating.

The visitor center is actually set up for all the species on the planet. And occasionally one of the other species will share with us if they feel that they have been told something of mutual interest. They will do this directly; one of their numbers will come over here or they will invite us to go over there.

Generally, we don’t have social occasions where we do that, but on the rare occasion that we do meet, we have something that resembles … if you were to see it, you’d call it a narrow highway. It allows us to remain in the line of sight. You see, the other beings are all much, much taller than us. And so that we do not experience any danger from their moving about and they, conversely, do not experience any sadness from causing damage to one of us, we have something that is like a ribbon that is firm which we can walk on to go over to where they are. But usually they will come here. Since they are much bigger than us, they can cover a great deal more ground with a simple motion than we can cover, since we are so much smaller.

They are not humanoids, so it is a bit difficult to describe them, because you don’t have anything on Earth now that looks like that, with my limited knowledge of the Earth. Let’s see if I can find something on the Earth that looks like that. [Pause.]

You have something. All right, this appears to be a sea creature. I’m examining it … it is a creature that apparently lives … that’s why I can see it, because it lives not in the sea but … you have a creature that looks like … it’s called a crab. One of the creatures looks like that, but it doesn’t have the kind of legs that your creatures have on your planet. It has legs that are very tall, somewhat like our legs.

I’m not too good at that. A couple of feet.

Yes, there are others. I don’t think it’s even possible to describe the others, but they are all taller than us.

A little bit, yes. I think if you were in the neighborhood, so to speak, that you would not be able to see us. I think that some of the species speaking to you may or may not have told you this, but there are other focuses of this planet that would be more easily available to you if you were here, but you wouldn’t find us there.

This is something I think is important for you to know, because after reading this book, the reader might come to the conclusion: “What good is it to know about all these things if we explore this part of the universe and we don’t find anything?” The thing is that you yourselves are moving into a different focus as well, and then also, it will take time to assimilate some flexibility in those areas.

If you were to find, say, even a little bit further, a slightly different focus that is a little bit more expanded than you are now, you would find a version of the planet that is our home planet. But I have seen that version, and there is no life on it like we have here. It looks rather like a small version of Earth, but with plants and water only. Our version does have water, but mostly it’s underground. The water comes to the surface sometimes with the plants, and there is no rain. We don’t eat, nor do we drink, so there’s no need for it, and it would actually be detrimental.

It is so very different! And of course, it is a place of infinite variety. That is why our beings on Earth have so much variety — at least from my point of view, there’s so much variety.

Oh, I wouldn’t go that far, but in the larger sense, everyone is a creator. We are all a portion of the Creator. If you look at it this way, which we do — which is part of our lore — Creator is one being, and Creator has created this universe in which we are living. And speaking to Creator’s emissaries, our lore was significantly reinforced by the simple fact that they spoke to us as if they had known us — individually, you understand — our whole lives. For instance, when it took place … this is our lore. I wasn’t there, but for those who were, they kept records. When the emissaries of Creator spoke to our peoples, they knew every last detail, including the nuances of personal preferences, of every being.

As near as they could tell at the time, this was based entirely upon Creator’s perception that all beings in this creation are a portion of Creator, that there is no differentiation whatsoever. Therefore, taken in that light, you could say that the spider on Earth does play that role — but then, so does everybody else and everything else. Everything is a portion of Creator. This is not academic; it is not a philosophy. From the experience of our beings, you understand, there was literally a sense of absolute familiarity. This is a story that has lived on in our lore all this time, because of … well, think about it. It’s quite amazing, isn’t it?

Well, now, that’s an interesting thing. You know, they looked exactly like us. Do you know that they take on the form of whoever and whatever they are speaking to in order to put those beings at complete ease? When you think about it, that makes complete sense.

Everything. But you could tell they were different, because … this is going to sound a bit strange, but they glowed.

It was our philosophy, I believe, and the fact also that all spiders everywhere are involved in thought. They said that the human beings on Earth were going to move more toward a thinking society, at least for a time, and they felt that our energy might support that.

Yes, and it is a possibility that our beings will migrate back here or come to the end of their time there on Earth. But they might stay long enough so that you as a species can understand all the knowledge and wisdom we have to pass on to you. But, of course, we’ll have to be approached delicately for that. [Chuckles.] You are so big, you have to approach us delicately.

Well, that would require another talk at another time. Oh, it’s not that difficult really. The process of what is going on here would be sufficient. What you would do, then, is there would be someone who would ask questions about whatever topic, and you would discover what topics were available. The beings there on Earth would be able to talk a lot about different animal species, who they are, who can speak to you in that fashion, who can offer advice and wisdom, and who is there doing their own thing and doesn’t have advice and wisdom. In short, there is a great deal that can be asked about — even a certain amount of medicinal qualities of plants and so on.

Yes, and they do think a lot. They have time for that.

Oh yes, always — an accumulated wisdom.

Yes, but instead of keeping books and so on around, they connect them to the fibers of consciousness. Do you know that every single web that is spun is really an extended brain? The fibers that go out and travel around are a portion of extended consciousness. When a spider on Earth sits in that web or retires to the center of the web — as they will do very often in order to give birth or to prepare to give birth — they will attract the knowledge and wisdom that they require from the extended consciousness of the web itself.

When they wish to teach the young what the young need to know, they will do the opposite. They will have the web broadcast to the young so that the young know and understand what they need to know and understand in order to live reasonably well on the planet and also to know how to construct a web so that it can assimilate knowledge and information from others around them and pass on that knowledge. Do you know that you can simply be around the web of a spider without the spider even being there (perhaps it is traveling around), and if you know how to do it, you can assimilate knowledge and wisdom from the web itself?

No, each web is associated with the individual who created it.

No, no, no. That’s not necessary.

Think about it: It would take forever to teach all that is known, and much of it is unnecessary for a spider to know. But since they are carrying the wisdom for others — for human beings and the occasional animal consultant — then they put it somewhere. So the web itself is not only a home and a sanctuary, but it is also, you might say, a library.

Yes, and in time, it will be possible for a machine to take in some of that wisdom — not by touching a web, but by being within, say, fourteen inches of it. But it won’t take in very much, because the machine will only be programmed with the known Earth languages and perhaps some so-called dead languages. But so much of the web’s information will involve actual visuals. You could take about twenty minutes to describe how a deer walks, yes? But the web would have a picture of the deer walking.

So you see, a machine wouldn’t be able to pick that up very well. But a sensitive well-trained human being might very well be able to pick that up. That person might also be able to see something that occurred, say, a thousand years ago — because, remember, the web is accumulative. And on Earth, it is different for spiders. Here we live a couple thousand years and we go on to be something else. But on Earth they have a reincarnational cycle. Therefore, when they reincarnate, they reincarnate as a spider on Earth.

So the web has accumulated information and wisdom through family ties, so to speak, because one is constantly reborn on Earth as long as you choose to be there. Most beings will choose to be there for thousands of years, maybe longer. They don’t live that long in an individual body, but they are reborn — there is the birthing cycle. And through families of consciousness, they accumulate vast amounts of wisdom and information.

This allows a considerable amount to be placed within the web that the web makers themselves do not really have to know. But it is available for interpretation by the sensitive who comes along. Usually, these days the sensitive would be another creature on the Earth. But humans, I believe, are destined to learn how to do this.

How on your home planet, then, do you use that principle? You said your webs were more stable and lasted longer, but do they also transmit information?

The webs on our home planet are permanent.

Yes, but it is permanent, you understand? We don’t need all the information you have on Earth.

No. It may have been an analogy I was using.

Webs don’t usually last too long on Earth because of seasons and the effects of other beings.

It’s not totally gone. If it is destroyed or dismantled in some way for some reason, which often happens, all of that information is still in whatever remains of the web. It’s a bit garbled, but it can be extracted with care.

Yes, but I believe this is probably available in your reference books there.

Yes, I understand. They would build another web, yes. Sometimes there are those who migrate on your planet, and they’ll build a web and then they’ll purposely migrate, not just out of necessity. It’s just part of their life cycle. Perhaps their food will no longer be there and so on and so forth. Human beings migrate too, I believe.

You mean, how far back have we been here? We haven’t been here forever. We’ve only been here, oh, a few million years.

We came from a universe beyond this one. Our ancestors, you understand, were invited here by Creator, saying that Creator wished to create a project and would like our life forms here. There were some volunteers, and there are others in the beyond.

That’s true. We are all created by the Creator now. But originally there were emissaries who came … I believe they originally came the way many beings have migrated here. Granted, this might be my own personal bias, since we are a thought-oriented group of beings, but the original ones who came here came as thought, showing the way they would like to be represented. And Creator represented them in a form that they felt comfortable occupying.

Yes, I do feel that. And given the nature of our personal philosophy, where we like to try different things, when you consider the infinite variety in this universe (which is almost overwhelming), that might have been part of the charm — to inhabit all kinds of forms all over the place.

We only rarely have to ask for advice beyond our own wisdom, but when we do, we have a teacher who looks very much like the interpreting being at the visitor’s center … which … I’m calling it that. It’s not called that here, but that gives you an idea of it. It is a little smaller, more our size comfortably, and it is alive. But if you were to see it, it would appear to be inanimate — meaning, you would consider stone to be inanimate. We don’t consider that to be so, but you would consider that. If you were to see it, you would think, “This is a piece of carved stone,” when in fact, it is a living being — it just doesn’t move very often. That’s our teacher. And so our teacher is here.

Well, I believe that the visitor’s center was built by visitors. They knew how to do it quickly and did so as a gift to visitors who might follow — including their own kind, should they return. And they built it on the basis of their then knowledge of life forms and what they might need. Also, of course, we had room on the planet to build a large, involved visitor’s center, and we said, “Fine! Go ahead!” If you were to see it, it would be quite a big place. It doesn’t go up very high in terms of your frame of reference, but it spreads out over quite a distance.

Probably about possible visitors who might be coming. The teacher knows the future — at least from what I understand, the teacher knows what I would call the probable future, meaning there’s a 97 to 98 percent chance that it will happen. So, generally speaking, questions might be asked about some future event. Or, “Is the asteroid going to miss us? By how much?”

No, but it looked like it was going to.

Well, you’d certainly be welcome! And we have a visitor’s center that will accommodate humanoids. By that time, perhaps there will be further modifications to accommodate your species as well.

I couldn’t say. It’s possible. One thing I do know about the teacher is, the teacher is the consultant to the other species as well. Thus it is possible that the teacher is more flexible. I do not know. The channel is getting a little tired, but perhaps next time it might be possible to speak to the teacher. You could inquire.

Yes, that seems like a good idea.

Oh yes — service! Service itself — you gain from service! Everyone does!

That’s part of being in service — to have to adapt. Service is, in its own right, an adapting/expanding experience. One does not do it unless one has a certain degree of social altruism, though.

You implied that one of the reasons Creator wanted your beings to be here is that you were so good at thought and that you would support us as we moved into focusing more on our mental body. So as we move into feeling and that isn’t needed anymore, do you think that your beings may then quit being in service?

It’s hard to say. As I said, there’s a possibility that we may migrate or not continue to reincarnate on Earth, but we don’t know that yet. It’s too soon.

Well, one might be interested in other life forms, and that’s only natural, healthy, wouldn’t you say? And yet one has one’s own family and culture and existence, and that generally takes up most of one’s time. So anything else is more of an activity but not necessarily a life influence.

Well, we have time — everybody has time — but it’s just not measured time. You measure time because your existence is fleeting, so measurement has its value. Plus, I believe you also use it for navigation. But aside from that, given how short your life is, a measurement for time beyond simply daytime and nighttime would seem to be attractive. And I believe you also use it for the growing of crops — food, in other words. It has practical applications. But since we do not eat and we live lengthy lives, it is not the same.

[Chuckles.] Well, I don’t think we really … that’s part of your culture. Here one is an equal when one is born, and one is an equal when one is at the end of the life cycle. There’s no hierarchy.

Every generation does not. Think about it: One lives several thousand years, but we don’t all shift over after two thousand years. My life will come to an end and there might be three or four others whose lives will come to an end around the time mine does. So the population is fixed comfortably between 5200 and 5600, and when one or more needs to be replaced, it just happens. It’s hard to describe. It’s not the same as there.

Yes, they are fairly rare and therefore much appreciated by all.

Yes, but we can have community thought, and therefore, we do not talk as you understand talk to be.

“Commune” — a nice word.

No, things are pretty good!

I have been told by word that passes on from the visitors that this is not untypical in the universe. Your life on your planet — that is what is untypical. So you’ll know, then, that once you move off of your planet at the end of your natural cycle, things will get easier.

Yes, but what I was saying is, you don’t really have to do anything. You don’t have to build; you don’t have to do any of the things that we see as “have to.” You exist and enjoy the existence and the interactions.

Yes, and this is typical to the universe except on your planet. Your planet is a school — an advanced school, I’ve been told. Therefore, you have a significant amount of responsibility in order to study what exists elsewhere. You learn the fundamentals of creation and, I believe perhaps, sometimes the consequences of error. That’s a challenging one!

Well, you know, I cannot claim to have worked this all out in my mind. I am simply available for this communion. But we all here can tap into that knowledge.