Kris: Joy of Being

Presentation by Kris channeled by Serge Joseph Grandbois at The Channeling Symposium on Saturday, October 19. Transcribed by Denny Hall

Kris: We wish you a most pleasant and warm welcome.

You have had most interesting perspectives. You have shared of yourselves today, and you have enjoyed the company of others.

We wish in our humble way to add to your day by speaking about the joy of being and that, as strange as it may seem, there are some people who do not know what being is or what joy is. And these appear in your lives in a variety of fashions, often because they reflect your own inner experiences.

There are times when you experience some small moments of joy and you understand the nature of being. But it often escapes you and sometimes rather quickly, especially over the last year.

It seems that people are reserved in their giving, receiving and exchanging of joy because you are told by either the media or others that now is a time of graveness and seriousness and you must watch out, you must guard yourselves in case you are bombed, you are sniped at, you are mugged, you are beaten or bitten, if the mosquito is big enough!

Is it perhaps to awaken deep within you that joyous state (within yourself) or reminding yourselves that, first and foremost, you are eternal, immortal consciousness, that your source of being is beyond the confines or the parameters of time and space, that you exist truly in another continuum -- one that is timeless, one where the simplest of thoughts can create the most joyous and celebrated moments?

And that your joy of living and being yourselves slowly trickles away from you as if you had a leak without your notice. And you awaken one day in a somber or foul state of mind and you have forgotten who you are and instead have accepted to be what others expect you to be in so many ways.

Understandably, you play many roles in society. You are a father, you are a mother, you are a lover, you are a friend, you are a teacher and so many other roles that you play. You wear the masks and the hats, and once you get accustomed to the roles, you forget that you have decided to wear masks or a hat, take on the role; and your sense of joy at being yourself has slipped away, and you wonder where the spontaneous, impulsive nature of life has gone, and you say, “I have grown old”.

Now, we are much older than all of you combined and yet you will not find us wondering where have put ourselves, what we have done with any of our personalities.

We hope that in some small way we can rekindle your sense of joy at being yourselves. Now, some of you and some other people may say, “He must be a crazy old ghost to dare talk about being joyous in these dire times” -- again, where you can be bombed or shot at. And it seems through the venue of the media that could happen right on the corner here, waiting for you. And it seems that you buy into it hook, line and sinker because there is more of it all of the time.

You may have forgotten what the sixties were all about where it seemed that every moment you were under the threat of nuclear annihilation. You could be bombed or attacked by any other hostile nation.

Now, it seems these times are revisited once again to do what? Why have you brought yourselves into this probable reality where you have to deal with these conditions again? Is it perhaps to awaken deep within you that joyous state (within yourself) or reminding yourselves that, first and foremost, you are eternal, immortal consciousness, that your source of being is beyond the confines or the parameters of time and space, that you exist truly in another continuum -- one that is timeless, one where the simplest of thoughts can create the most joyous and celebrated moments?

That is indeed where you have your roots. The human being has often been compared to an iceberg where barely one-third floats above the waterline and the balance floats underneath.

If you ever get the chance to find pictures of icebergs floating in the high Arctic as it comes down the Labrador coast, and especially those pictures that show you what exists under the surface, to get an inkling that there is so much more to yourselves and your being than you could possibly surmise. And because you are timeless, immortal and eternal consciousness, even the total description of the iceberg cannot completely define you, but only as your syntax and neurological structure can allow.

Above and beyond that, you are so much more, which means that you have so much more capacity to create joy and abundance in your lives than you can possibly imagine unless, of course, you are afraid to imagine that you can have joy and abundance in your existence.

So that is not a philosophical question, it is one we are asking each one of you to answer for yourselves. Why you are withholding joy in your existence?

You have the ability to create numberless scenarios which fill your daily moments on a perpetual basis but it seems that most of you are more apt at creating serious questions, serious situations. And yet all of that needs joy to be realized.

In fact, without the constant sustenance of joy in your lives, none of your other questions about existence can really and truly come to terms.

None of your enquiries, none of your quests, none of your searches can truly be made manifest without the large and intense injection of joy -- and not the kind of joy that must be regimentally manufactured as when you have to cook eggs in the morning but when it is joyously, spontaneously explored.

When was the last time you tried to see how much joy you can create today, how much fun can you have tomorrow? Can you even deal with having fun tomorrow? Can you enjoy yourselves just because you are yourselves or do you need all sorts of psychological and psychic accoutrements like the S&M mistress with her whips or can you simply be without the toys?

You have microwaves, you have televisions, you have cellular phones, you have fast cars, you have all the modern conveniences of daily life. What would you be like if you did not have those? What would you be left with? Could you stand being yourselves without all of this? And we are not saying that there is anything wrong with any of this but it becomes such a part of your society and yourselves that it would be difficult, sometimes, to find where you are amongst all of these things.

You rush to get up, you rush to shower, you rush to dress, you rush to the bus, you rush to the office, you rush through your day, you rush back home, you rush to watch television, you rush to go to bed!

Where have you been throughout all the day? Have you had time to smile or to love? Do you actually understand that you "ARE", and nothing else matters? Being filled with joy is not a cure-all, but in our eyes, it is a damn good one.

You enjoy comedians, stand-up comics; you enjoy television comedy. Why? Is it because it reminds you that you have three feet of paperwork stacked on your desk? The contrary is why you enjoy laughing: because it takes you away from all the burdens of your daily existence.

So indeed we are suggesting some simple methods -- that you rekindle the state of the joy in yourselves. Even your sex lives, for the most part, are probably very boring. And when someone says to you, “Love yourself”, you think, “Oh yes, I will think pretty thoughts”.

Now, as scandalous as it may seem, if we tell you to love yourselves, we not only mean that intellectually, psychologically and so on. We also suggest physically so that you can reacquaint your own existence in three-dimensional form.

It is a fine thing to say, “I will become a more spiritual person. I will evolve my consciousness but I will do that by ignoring and neglecting anything that relates to my body of flesh and bones”. And if you cannot relate to your bodies, to being here in the present moment, you will not expand your consciousness. In fact, you will thwart it, you will sabotage your best intentions because what you do here, now, is what leads to joy and leads to an expansion of consciousness.

“You get what you concentrate upon”: what the mind focuses on is what you have in your life.

Being aware that you are here now, breathing, that your heart is beating where you sit, that you are listening to these words and that the wheels in your brain are working.

There are many simple ways to get back in touch with joy: You can find a beautiful sunrise or sunset; you can go on long or short nature walks; you can re-examine the people that are in your lives and do they bring you down and suck you dry of energy just like you do them? If that is the case, then seriously consider changing some of your alliances.

There is one primordial, eternal truth: Above all else, in all realities, your thoughts make things. “You get what you concentrate upon”: what the mind focuses on is what you have in your life.

So the more you start turning your thoughts to states of joy and happiness -- and not in a Pollyanna fashion but in a realistic sense -- the more your mind becomes a focused instrument that draws to you what you have focused on.

And if you use that simple, most basic-of-all tools, you'll find that the universe is no longer working against you as you may sometimes surmise, but that instead it is entirely prejudiced in your favor -- and in your favor -- and in your favor -- and in your favor (pointing to different conference attendees).

The universe looks after you, and if you ask it what you want by using this tool -- your mind -- and you focus upon a certain thing, the universe cannot do anything else but to provide what you have given it as a task.

We suggest a few small steps: Build a scrapbook and in it paste snapshots, postcards. Buy beautiful magazines of all the things that uplift you and make you joyous and periodically review and add to your scrapbook.

Then every few weeks start changing the old pictures in your scrapbooks for newer ones so that your mind never settles for second-best but always will seek the most interesting things that will provide a deeper sense of joy – photos, pictures, magazines images of long, beautiful beaches, tropical settings, northern forests – anything that soothes the soul and puts you back in touch with yourself.

And as an addition to that, make it your most sincere and joyous celebration to recognize each morning when you arise – to recognize that you are the most powerful and influential force in your life at this moment and that nothing can supersede the state of joy that you exist in now, that this joyous celebration of being is the only state that truly matters. Because once you are joyous, once the self, including the body -- the spirit, the mind and soul -- once the self recognizes what you are doing, it will expand. It will allow more in. It will not contract and block off the flow of life force as when you dwell in states of misery and despair.

So once you start experiencing joy, your whole being opens up. And your thoughts will cooperate you, perhaps not initially but they will, simply because the whole physical organism, itself, functions through cooperation.

You do not ever have to worry whether your liver cells will start competing with your lungs and start becoming a lung. You do not every have to worry that your nose will start growing a toe, or do you ever have to worry that your toes will suddenly freeze up on you because they have a hissy fit.

The whole physical organism cooperates at the cellular level to maintain you in optimum health up to a point. When you decide to focus on the despair and the misery, (which can only attract more of the same), your physical organism starts contracting and starts limiting or mitigating the flow of life force because you decide to disconnect yourself from the universe.

As soon as you return to a state of joy, you will feel the flow of life and you will be able to return the body to a maximum state.

Now, we are not saying that if you are one hundred and fifty years old you will once again have the vitality and the virility of a nineteen-year-old. But we are saying that within the parameters of your existence -- the universe -- the body will function to support you, not fight you because you decide you will be miserable, because you have decided to be filled with joy -- and enjoy, relish in the state of your being.

You can experiment on a daily basis within five minutes. Within five minutes daily you will know unbound joy. You will live unfathomable happiness. And if there is resistance to the idea, then understand that you have set those limits yourself. So it is a good idea to decide to not play the game but to stay focused within your goal, then give it up after the five minutes. Release it completely and then examine how the rest of your day goes from that five minutes.

Those small experiments will show you that your attempts are not futile. There is not a force set out against you but, indeed, a force set out to work with you.

And once you recognize that you are worth celebrating and give yourself a party whether it is a party of one or a party of one hundred. Celebrate being yourselves.

That is our challenge to you. The joy of being yourself and celebrating that self is our challenge to you.

We have been around in the medieval times and when one man dropped the glove, he challenged another. Those days are gone.

But there is a new challenge and that we have just launched to each and every one of you. We challenge you to insert five minutes of joy and celebration a day.

Now, we will take two moments to give Joseph (the name Kris gives to Serge) a drink of water and we will return to answer some of your questions, preferably upon what we have presented initially and then to other questions.

You are in agreement? (Yes) Then do enjoy your brief moment.

--- A brief recess.

Kris: Now, we trust that you have enjoyed your small break. And as Joseph has let us know, you have, each and every one of you, survived.

Now, it is our intention to remind each and every one of you that you are eternal, immortal consciousness; that you presently express that eternal and immortal consciousness through a physical body -- flesh and blood.

You are simultaneously experiencing your immortality in your mortality.

The Bengali people have a saying: “Achyntia beda-beda tattva”. That means that you are simultaneously one and different from the godhead. So through your joy, through the celebration of your being, the universe, whether you call it “God” or any other name you use to put to it, the universe expresses itself and sends its energy through the state of joy that you happen to cultivate -- or not.

That is why we suggested that once you have dived into this ocean of joy and recognize it as your true nature, then the self opens up because the universe flows freely, and it gives to others what you have given to yourself.

With that, we will open the floor to questions. So do feel free to ask.

Q1: I have a friend and family member who's on the last legs of cancer -- a young woman. Can she turn it around in these last stages with the concept of using joy?

Kris: The possibility is there, just as the possibility of sinking further into a state of despair as if her own body had turned against her, also exists.

The determining factor depends on her -- on her choice, what she intends to do with the being that she is now presently manifesting or does she still prefer to cash in her chips now and see about manifesting some other personality?

Do you understand?

Q1: Yes. It doesn't matter, anyway.

Kris: The choice is hers.

Now, you can also send her joyous energy from your own heart unconditionally so that she is entirely free to do with the energy as she sees fit, and it could be to help turn around the situation, just as it can be to actually use the energy as a final fuel to leave.

And there are no judgment calls on either decisions. Both are potentials.

Does that help you understand?

Q1: Yes.

Kris: Other questions?

Do not be shy. We have never bitten. We have been loud but never bitten.

Q2: Is it realistic for somebody to achieve a state of joy, say, ninety per cent of the day, then be able to go throughout their day and their life fully exalted in a state of joy? How realistic is that?

Kris: It is as realistic as you make it happen, and not one percentage more or less.

Now, does that mean that you'll find yourself kicking your heels and singing on the rooftop?

One also has to be realistic in that sense. You can still spread joy as silence by simply being present, as you can by singing and dancing or smiling.

How you choose to express it must become your creative challenge.

Q3: My friend, Michael is working on channeling and I think he's looking to channel somewhat similarly to the way Serge does. Can you maybe give him a pointer or two?

Kris: One of the most useful tips is first to understand that you need to trust your own being, nothing more, nothing less.

That means trusting your impulse to gather and actually express information that may not be so readily forthcoming to the conscious part of your mind but to trust that you are more than the conscious mind, more than what you think about yourself.

Do you understand?

And that is, perhaps, the most difficult for all of those who are called "channelers" and who do so with integrity.

That is the one main ingredient that must be cultivated – trust and integrity within yourself.

Do you understand?

Now, there are, perhaps, millions of techniques, millions of processes. What do you feel right now in your own solar plexus?

Q4: Warmth.

Kris: Let it grow for one moment.

How far did it get? (Up to the throat area). Indeed.

That simple trust should give you some guidelines on its own as best as we can in a public forum.

Do you understand?

We hope that this helps.

Q4: Thank you.

Kris: Yes?

Q5: I suffer from many diseases and the physicians treat each one of them differently so I have pills for the heart, pills for low pressure, pills for the arteries, pills for cholesterol.

The only one I miss, I think, is pregnancy!

I ask you, is there anything to treat them as a whole thing?

Kris: Now, Joseph heard an interesting joke and though we sometimes laugh too loud and make others laugh, we rarely mention jokes but we will.

It is the story of two older people, Mabel and Jack. And at the advanced stage of ninety they fall in love so they decide they will get married and they go to the druggist and they ask the druggist, “Do you have pills for the heart?” and he says, “Yes”.

So they ask, “Do you have pills for blood pressure?” He says,

“Yes”.

“Do you have pills for the kidneys?” “Yes.”

“Do you have pills for Alzheimer's?” “Yes.”

And after several hours of questioning about his pills, Jack says to his beloved, “We will have the wedding registry here. They have everything we need!”

Now, even in such a situation it is rather difficult to tell you other than what your medical practitioner has been suggesting.

You do understand?

But we will suggest that you start utilizing the two simple exercise we have provided earlier: keeping a scrapbook, and practicing joy for but five minutes a day. And if you spontaneously practice this, it is quite likely that some of the vitality of your own life will return to you, feeling less burdened by your worries and your concerns.

Do keep in mind that we have said that the greatest tool and the most basic of all laws is that “thoughts make things”.

Do you understand?

So when you are focusing constantly on the medications you need to take and what possible other medications you will be taking in the future, you will find yourself there.

If you -- any of you -- wish to know what your future holds, examine what you concentrate on now.

We hope that helps.

Other questions? Please.

Q6: The Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012. That's ten years from this year.

What is the significance of that?

Kris: We do not believe that your toasters will turn against you and start toasting you!

Q6: That was the Y2K bug!

Kris: There is an additional mention with the end of the Mayan calendar that all of your inventions will turn against you.

Now, if truth be known, the ancient Mayan calendar dates back far more thousands of years than your archaeologists and researchers are willing to admit, and they were based on the movement of stars and the planetary systems and celestial bodies.

And as your own planet not only spins on its own axis and wobbles and travels through on its own solar system orbit and the solar system orbits in its own galaxy, things change.

You are preparing to enter into another age, we are told, the Age of Aquarius where everyone can get wet!

Now, keep in mind that just as what you concentrate upon makes what you get in your lives, what the collective concentrates upon, the collective will get.

If you are fixated on the thoughts and the dire prophecies of end-times ad infinitum, you may find yourself experiencing that probable development. But that only means that you have chosen that probable reality against many others that do not end in that way.

You always fixate, as a race, upon your end-times being the total destruction of this and that, the annihilation and elimination of the people and the civilization and not one of your prophecies about the changing times tells you that you may actually end up in a probable reality where instead of destruction you have growth, you have understanding, you have peace, you have joy, you have fun, you have realization.

You do not need, as a race, to put yourselves through the food processor in order to gain enlightenment. So these warnings, they are not to warn you of end-times but to warn you that your concentration will bring you results always. Unquestionably, undeniably, it is the one stable thing in reality.

You say if there is anything guaranteed at this stage -- if anything is super-guaranteed, indeed it is that your thoughts make things.

Do you understand?

Q6: Yes.

They say that Atlantis was a place where civilization co-existed in pure bliss and harmony; everything was wonderful. And suddenly, of course, the destruction collapsed.

If that existed, what was the fall? What was the cause? Was it a collective thing?

Kris: Now, there are -- there has been more than one Atlantis. And just as some people were saying that the ancient Incas, the ancient Mayas were a wonderful people, they had a wonderful civilization, nice inventions, they are also now discovering that most of these people were blood-thirsty warriors who sacrificed humans by the hundreds to their gods.

So now the picture is less bright, a little more tainted.

It is said that the Atlanteans perished because they were punished by higher powers. We have yet to find in all the galaxies a higher power that punishes on that scale, except perhaps those that are of the Judeo-Christian faith and believe this entirely.

That is why there are priests who tell you how bad you are! (This was a joke).

The three Atlantis, as we see them, perished because of mismanagement of the lands and of their stewardship of the earth -- and disrespect for what you call human rights. They perished because they put above the individual -- they put technology -- their brand of technology and warfare above respect and the rights of the individual.

So in some ways, those experiments of consciousness had to be scrapped, to go back to the drawing board, which is where you come in.

What will you allow your civilization and your technologies to do to you?

Do you understand?

You have come at a space, a place and a time where you are made to believe that the self is nothing more than the product of bubbling mud and muck.

Perhaps your descendants will **.

On the contrary, you have always been. You will always be. That is what being an immortal and eternal consciousness is about.

What you do with that is another matter. That is why we are reminding you that your true nature exists outside the continuum of time and space and that, indeed, you are meant to be joyous because that is what you are all about.

Return to your roots.

What is the time?

Q6: Quarter after five.

Kris: We will take one more question.

Indeed.

Q7: Since we're in the time that looks very similar to the time of the Atlantean destruction --

Kris: That is what we have just described.

Q7: So from your perspective it looks to me as if we are almost on that same collision course. It looks as if we haven't even learned from our history.

(A voice: Did the Atlanteans have symposiums)?

Kris: Did they have Kris?!

Q7: Did they have a David? Did they have a Kris?

Kris: That is why we have suggested an alternative to forms of misery and despair because if you focus on misery and despair it is because you have refused to focus on joy and a celebration of your being.

You can make the choice. You can make the transition. You can turn your technologies that you often see as destructive into loving technologies that help you understand, that help you evolve, in your terms.

You need not be stuck anywhere but where you choose to be, and if we were you, we would definitely choose to be stuck in an ocean of the joyous celebration of life.

With that, we thank you deeply and joyously for your kind attention to our sometimes loud voice, and we send you blessings.

Those blessings which we do not have to give you, you must give to yourselves in true kindness and joy. Do love. Love and have fun.

Note: this transcription was made possible thanks to my long time friend Denny Hall and his generous offer to transcribe Kris’ delivery at this presentation. There are a few words that could not be made out and they are indicated by either a single or double **.

About the Channel

Serge Joseph Grandbois Serge Joseph Grandbois is one of the most insightful and clear channelers to emerge in over 20 years. Serge speaks for an engaging, original and intelligent "Energy Personality Gestalt" called Kris. Together they have spoken in many North American cities. Whenever Kris speaks, he introduces the individual to his/her potentials, as well as outlining tools with which to lead more fulfilling lives. Kris' material is clear and concise, challenging conventions and clichés, addressing both the person's intellect and intuitions, awakening critical faculties and a sense of self-discovery. www.krischronicles.com