Transformation

Episode 66: Despair and Its Uses

Posted on January 12, 2026 | by jeremy

Given the state of the world at the outset of 2026, Jamie and Jeremy discuss the Confederation’s thought on the subject of despair. Laleema shares their view on the condition with regards to the mind, body, and spirit complexes, finding spiritual despair to be an absolutely necessary experience for the seeker. The task then becomes to work with our bodily and mental despair to transmute them into that of the spirit, where we can surrender our limitations of mind and body to the Creator and do Its will. The ideas of Søren Kierkegaard on despair are sprinkled in, and a Q’uo transcript from a few years sheds light on the operation of despair as part of a cycle in the life of love.

Show Notes

Laleema on despair (September 22, 2005)
Sickness Unto Death (Kierkegaard, A&D Press, 2008)
Q’uo on Empathy (First Channeling Intensive, Session 10: August 1, 2021)
Q’uo on Witnessing Planetary Sorrow (Sixth Channeling Intensive, Session 19: November 4, 2024)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
Reality (Kingsley, Catafalque Press, 2020)
Q’uo on the Cycle of Desire, Love, Despair, and Healing (First Channeling Intensive, Session 11: August 2, 2021)
Auxhall on Freedom and Direction (March 12, 2023)
All despair-related sessions on HARC (High Altitude Receiving Center)
Working Notes (Substack)

Episode 65: Know Yourself

Posted on November 26, 2025 | by jeremy

When asked about the disciplines of the personality, those of Ra responded with three directives: “One, know yourself. Two, accept yourself. Three, become the Creator.” What does it mean to know yourself? Which self? How much knowledge? What is this knowledge, its nature? Jamie and Jeremy discuss these questions in light of emotions, dreams, energy system blockages, desires, and the neverending search for the center of ourselves and other selves.

Show Notes

Episode 17: The Discipline of the Personality (inaudible.show)
Ra on the discipline of the personality (Session 74, Question 11)
Q’uo on working with emotions (January 7, 2008)
Ra’s balancing technique example (Session 46, Question 9)
Hatonn on knowing the universe through the self (November 9, 1977)
Ra on imagining infinity as a unity (Session 1, Question 7)
Laitos on desire magnetizing the self (November 9, 1977)
Episode 62: A Deep Dive Into the Archetypes, Part 3 (inaudible.show)
Q’uo on “Who Am I?” (September 22, 2007)
Contact Jeremy via email: jeremy at otherselvesworking period group

Episode 63: Depression and Renewal

Posted on May 6, 2025 | by jeremy

Returning from their hiatus, Nithin and Jeremy look into what Confederation entities might have to say about the subject of depression. We look at depression in several senses: as a starving of love from its source, a rejection of the self and the circumstances in which it finds itself, an opportunity to empty the self in order to make room for the new, and more. Applying their experience with depressive states at various moments in their lives, Jeremy and Nithin delve into the nature of this condition as one milestone in an overall process of transformation. We are not asked to understand so much as to have faith in the goodness of this transformation and, in so doing, take responsibility for our small role as instruments of our Creator.

Show Notes

Q’uo on catalyst gone awry (May 2, 2004)
Q’uo on the influence of different melodies on the self (October 15, 2005)
Q’uo on the spiraling nature of recurring catalyst (May 1, 2005)
Latuii on the opportunity of depression (February 28, 1982)
Latuii on depression and transformation (May 20, 1984)
Q’uo on transformation and the light touch (July 12, 1992)
Q’uo on depression and red ray blockage (November 24, 2007; May 10, 2008)
Q’uo on the role of all energy centers in depression (October 8, 2006)
Q’uo on depression and its archetypes (July 26, 1987)