To Save This Planet Earth

 

The Only Planet of Choice (1993) was compiled by Phyllis V. Schlemmer and Palden Jenkins.  Phyllis was the 'deep-trance medium' (or 'channel') whose sessions were tape-recorded during a long-term research project with participants that included Andrija Puharich and John Whitmore.  The communicator who spoke through the body of Phyllis was known as 'Tom,' who referred to himself as "the spokesman for the Council of Nine" and in other puzzling ways (see preceding articles 1 and 2) — ways that are revealing when one compares them to what is documented in published transcripts of other transcendental communication chronologies.  

 

The title of this 400-page collection of transcripts presents an insight that one otherwise would never have conceived — Earth as the only "planet of choice" throughout the vast universe.  This article presents passages from transcripts of channeled discourses that express the need for human evolution in relation to spiritual understanding and cognizance about the necessity to end devastating pollution and environmental damage to the Earth.  A recent New York magazine article is entitled "The Uninhabitable Earth" with the subtitle "Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think."  Tom articulated a message that expanded spiritual awareness among humanity is necessary for saving the Earth.

 

Tom: This your planet is a planet of balance, for you to learn to balance between the physical and spiritual worlds.  Planet Earth is the only one of its kind, the only planet of free choice in the entire Universe, the only planet created for the balancing of the spiritual with the physical, in other words, the creating of paradise.

The book title and this quotation from chapter 1 reminded me that in the annals of transcendental communication numerous transcripts have offered simple phraseology and metaphors to express metaphysical truths that otherwise would be impossible for humans to understand, having only the knowledge gained during one's present Earth life.  In this example, 'paradise' becomes comprehensible as an existence where people (each an individual soul or consciousness 'unit') have all learned to live in complete harmony with the will of 'God' (the omnipresent spiritual Force/'Oneness' greater than the sum total of all units) — this is the intended plan for people of Earth.

 

Tom is quoted in chapter 5 —

You must remember that all of you and all of us have the Christ within us.  It will be a collective consciousness.

The following passages are from the first two chapters of The Only Planet of Choice.

 

Tom: It is important for you to evolve, because without this planet being evolved, the other planets in the Universe are not able to go forward.  It has stopped the growth of the Universe.

It is important for the level of consciousness of this planet to be raised.  It is the love from this planet that generates the energy that feeds God.  And this planet has stopped the growth of part of the Universe.  In other words, instead of evolving in the manner it should, to become one with the Divine, it is going backwards.


For some souls, their choosing to be born in this time was not in the evolutionary process of growth for themselves, but in service to Planet Earth, to bring about the importance of understanding the place in the Universe of Planet Earth, and the human beings upon it.


. . . Know this: that in your time, through you and others' dedication, through the quality of your being upon Planet Earth, you may bring it to the fulfilment of its creation.  That for us is a great joy and we thank you.


The cosmic aspect of this drama is to save this planet Earth . . .


There is never just one future.  There are several choices of future.  This is involving your will.  If we know what is the future then that means that we in truth have become involved, and have manipulated your free will.  It is not for us to be involved with your free will, or with manipulation.  We see many futures.


There is one situation we will guarantee to you from us: we will not permit the total destruction of the planet Earth.  We will interfere at that point.


It is a time of awakening.  It is a time to understand that within the self people hold the key for bringing Planet Earth to its fulfillment . . .


It is important for the peoples upon Planet Earth to understand they are not alone, and that they carry within them the coding that can evolve Planet Earth to achieve its proper purpose.


Remember this: those who seek to control are in high profile in the front of society and lead people in a direction that helps them evade their own responsibility.  But bear in mind that acceleration is now absolutely important.


We have come to the time of acceleration of evolutionary forwardness of Planet Earth.  There is a great necessity to accelerate, for the oceans of Planet Earth, the trees and forests, the skies and atmosphere, the very essence of breathing, the life-force, have reached a level of contamination bringing the downward destruction of this planet Earth.

We call upon your energies and commitment for alerting the peoples of Planet Earth, the governments of Planet Earth and the communities of Planet Earth.  The innermost core of humankind is beginning to grow and to glow.  The essence and understanding of their beginnings is awakening, to bring about change.

You are part of that change.  You are children of that change, you are responsible for that change.  Without your commitment to acceleration, if the change were to come in its own time, without your input, then Planet Earth would be in a situation in which most of humankind could not continue to exist.  Accept your ability to create the pattern that brings about understanding, and accept the truth of who you are.

When the question is posed to Tom about the timeline of potential environmental destruction without any improvement in human consciousness, an estimated date of 20 to 25 years was indicated with the authors noting: "The above time-estimate was based upon things continuing the way they were going at the time of the communication, in 1978 . . . he [Tom] notes that individuals and groups are making a positive difference in the world [back then]."

The following transcript excerpt is from 1989 in relation to the conditions of pollution in the environment.

Andrew: You used an interesting phrase earlier, that "time is accelerating."  What's the real meaning of the acceleration of time?

Tom: If this planet Earth were to pursue its course in the way it is doing, without acceleration, then you know that that would bring destruction?


. . . It is now the time of the people: beforehand your governments and your religions and society kept your masses in ignorance and kept humankind tied down.


But the way to reach people, we have finally decided, is through their own physical body and the healing of their physical body.  Many people will be healed and many people will become open to healing.  It is through healing that the consciousness of the wider Universe will be raised.

Previous articles about spiritual healing at this blog include such cases as Arigo (studied firsthand by Andrija Puharich), John of God, Ambrose and Olga Worrall, Harry Edwards, Rubens de Faria Jr./'Dr. Fritz,' Matthew Manning, and Ray Brown/'Paul.'  The preceding quoted passage about healing from the book is followed with this paragraph —
 

It is important for humankind to know that it must begin to take responsibility for Planet Earth, and that science must begin to understand that it does not hold within it the power to dictate to the rest of humankind, but it is only a portion of humankind.  In its elitism, science has discarded the other echelons of humankind.  Science has become the religion that manipulates and controls, and those who lead science must now begin to accept their responsibility.

In a chapter 3 transcript, Tom expounded on the environmental predicament facing us.  Here are some excerpts.
 

Tom: . . . And you have grass-roots movements within your country, and other countries, of small, micro-peoples that are fighting to dissipate the power of those organizations which bring pollution.  They will succeed if they continue with that thought.

If humankind does not utilise all that exists upon Planet Earth in a manner of non-destructiveness, it is not you that will be in bleakness but your youngest ones.  Humankind has a responsibility not only for this planet Earth, but for the Universe. as Planet Earth is part of the Universe, and the Universe needs it to survive.  We wish you to understand the great importance of your human destructive element in removing oxygen from the Planet Earth, in destroying dolphins through hunting, and in the contamination of the waters on your Earth.

There are those nations that lack the source of life, water: envision this happening to all of Planet Earth through the destruction of oxygen provided by your planet life.  Then take that a step further and understand that the pollution-destruction of your oceans then eliminates all possibility for rebuilding Planet Earth.  For there exist different means of removing salinity to rebuild those nations that do not have the source of life [water], but if your oceans are in contamination and poisonous with your chemicals, then how can you rebuild?

You have a choice of the doorway and threshold you wish to pass through.  You are Planet Earth.  The peoples of Planet Earth must begin to take responsibility.  It is your youth's future.

As you know, on your planet, there are upheavals in humankind, and also upheavals in the physical aspect of Planet Earth, with its eruptions and its corruptions: the entity of Planet Earth is attempting to purify and cleanse itself.  And there is the burning of Planet Earth by your sun, brought about by the corruption of your ozone layer protection.  Therefore you must understand the power of your mental and emotional capability to change things for the better.  As you have power to create a situation to protect Planet Earth, there are those who have power to attempt to negate Planet Earth, in ignorance, not often deliberately through pollution and error.


Your planet Earth, in itself, creates gases that create a problem for your atmosphere, but then humankind compounds it, by raising so many meat-fodders - animals create gas emissions, and humankind creates gas.  Therefore, it may seem inconsequential to you, but the forests that chose to come as forests (oxygenating the air) are removed, and then animals are placed on the land (emitting gases through flatulence), so you have a double-dangerous situation.

Therefore, is it not good for each of you to incorporate every means possible to remedy this, to create less movement [in vehicles and planes], to create fewer emissions of gas [in industry], to correlate your space and time so as not to use unnecessary gas-making equipment [in transport and heating], or to create processes that do not emit gas?

Put a small shift in the mind, and you humans will also understand that you can release yourselves completely from all this bondage to what you believe are necessities - for when you understand who you are, you will fly with your own wings.  We use an analogy, to explain that you each have the power to make a complete difference upon Planet Earth in creating a shift.  However, if people do not want the responsibility of it, then they say it is not possible.  Then there is more of a problem.


You must take responsibility for stopping the devastation, beginning with yourself, extending it to your family, and including your community, to stop the destruction of those resources which exist for the benefit of humankind and its paradise.


Do not use any produce that can contaminate - this includes products that affect other things and do not dissolve properly.


Elevate yourself in information, and when you have found information pass it to others and organise for publication.


Know this: you are not alone upon Planet Earth.  You are not alone in the Universe, be joyful among yourselves.

Chapter 17 "Antidoting Disaster" includes the following passage about energy forms for the future. 
 

Miki: Once you spoke about hydrogen being an energy form for the future.  There is a person who is said to have invented a hydrogen engine using very little energy - oxygen and hydrogen being separated for combustion, creating mainly water as exhaust.  Is that possible?  Is that the way for the future, or would it be better to have solar energy to generate power?

Tom: The utilisation of all the natural elements that are non-pollutionary is serviceable, and also use of sunshine is of benefit.  One method may function in some arenas, others in other arenas.  Both have viability.  You understand that there are many on Planet Earth progressing in those directions . . .


If you have a means of developing communication for encouraging forwardness - not to [accept] pollution and removal of resources from the Earth, or collapsing the Earth - then we would ask of you to be responsible to communicate this.

Ian: Am I correct in saying that the key for an almost endless energy source might be magnetic energy?

Tom: That is absolutely correct, yes.

Ian: The big puzzle is that if you have a permanent magnet there is a constant force that never gets smaller . . .

Tom: You know that that is the force behind the transportation of vehicles from other domains?  It creates a form of energy that is like anti-gravity.

John: I heard that, counter to our thinking, the knowledge and understanding of gravity that we have at the moment is very poor, and that when we understand gravity, we will come to understand a lot.

Tom: That is correct.

Susan: Is a pyramid something that is useful for working energy?

Tom: The energy of the pyramid has not yet revealed its secrets.  By working together, people may find this out.

John: Tom, we humans seem to have got fixated on large amounts of force, and it seems that the future lies with weak energy fields . . .

Tom: Subtle, yes. The scientific arena is now beginning to understand subtle energy in a form for using for Planet Earth and humankind.  Also they are beginning to understand the interlocking and connection of all, with one unity.  Yes.

Ian: So in order to generate energy there may be ways of using resonances and amplification at a very subtle level?

Tom: That is correct, yes.

Miki: Is it necessary to use large amounts of energy to separate hydrogen from oxygen, or can subtle magnetic fields separate them?

Tom: The more smooth and subtle, the more beneficial.  You have enough energy forms of destruction on your planet, do you not?

At one point in the transcripts Andrija Puharich asked Tom about how "a few humble beings like ourselves . . . or others like us" can be of help.  Tom is quoted:  ". . . Everything needs an energy base.  We are energy, and through people like you this planet will be saved.  We work through people."  Tom offered a possible way of helping Earth people.

 

With our technology we will be able to help rid the Earth of the problems that your pollution and your technology have created.

Andrew: Can you give us a thumbnail sketch as to how this knowledge will be transferred from your world to our world?

Tom: It will be necessary for us to become visible and physical on your planet.  There is not enough time to give this data, and for you to work out the technology, and the years that it will take.  As you know this planet will not be able to sustain itself.  Its waters will be polluted, its earth will not be able to produce the food necessary. 

In the book Tom explains the origin of the Universe and the 'Twenty-Four Civilizations.'

 

Tom: . . . It was in this nature: there was one Creator, one energy, one pure light, one pure-being Self that contained all components of all that is.  It is extremely complicated, but in simplification, this Self came into that beingness, knowledge, and wisdom to begin to divide the components of which it consisted, not to remove them but to build a structure, the Universe.  For in its aloneness it had only self for companion.

. . . it was more valuable to create a situation whereby there was a separate element - to create a universe that would then have the structure to give the atoms or cells that would be populating the Universe different environmental existences, in those proportions necessary for each atom's attainment of its choosing.

It was then found, in the creating, through observing that which was created out of nothing, that there would be the necessity to expand and evolve this creating.  What would be the purpose of creating nothing out of nothing?  It was important to have created something.

So the Twenty-Four universal civilisations were created, as guides, elements of direction, elements of purpose.  Also they were created to govern and guide all over the Universe, in the context of that facet of universal reality that they exist in, as Ashan does with colour and sound and arts, or Altea with technology.

 
During another session, Tom was quoted in relation to differentiating the Twenty-Four major civilizations from other civilizations by saying: "But there are twenty-four heads of civilisations."
 

John: . . . these are all working on the same side, the positive side, or . . .

Tom: The positive and the negative must be blended to make it whole.  It is as we have explained it to you: to be positive with no sense is not as good.  They are balanced civilisations.


When you speak of positive, remember: refer to it as a balanced positive.
 

Andrew: Now, under those Twenty-Four, could you give us an example of one civilisation?
 
Tom: When you speak of the Twenty-Four, you speak of the heads of the civilisations.  There is one you know of as 'Jehovah.'

Andrew: Jehovah?  The God of the Jews?  And then around him is a civilisation?

Tom: Yes.  It is known as Hoova.  But he would have as a pyramid many under that.

A transcript in chapter 6 "The Universal Civilisations" also provides Tom's commentary about the necessary preparations for the landing of the 'Twenty-Four Civilizations.'
 

Tom: It is of great importance for you to understand that your governments of your world of Earth have refused to publicly believe, or to convey to the people, our existence.  If there were an attempt by the civilisations to land upon Planet Earth in a mass situation, which in truth will come to pass in the course of time, the people upon Planet Earth would panic, for they have not the understanding, the knowledge, that we would mean no harm to them.

Remember this: there are also certain civilisations, not of the Twenty-Four or their helper civilisations, that have a great desire to control Planet Earth, to keep souls in bondage.  And these civilisations have landed at times upon Planet Earth and have created difficulty, which they forced on Planet Earth people.

Tom: We need to convey to the people that there are others that mean them no harm, but have an interest in saving Planet Earth.  For in truth, if there are no other civilisations to help Planet Earth, it will bring destruction to itself.  We do not come to control, we do not come to hold in bondage, we will come with love and patience and understanding - but since there is the denial of our existence, how can those of Planet Earth accept the fact that the civilisations of Altea, Hoova, Ashan, and the rest of the Twenty-Four, mean well?

A transcript in Chapter 2 "Accelerating Earth's Evolution" also involves this topic.
 

Andrew: So, it is a matter of believing that you exist and acting thereon.  Is that the essence of the message?

Tom: That is true.  Because without acknowledging our existence then we cannot help you.  And the preparation will be to bring to people the knowledge that we will help, and that we can help, and that we do not create a problem, that we only come to help, in love and peace.

And there will be many of the masses that will not understand the life-form of which we speak.  They will not be able to understand the cosmos and the bottleneck that this planet has created.  But remember: this is not always necessary.  The fact that we do exist, and the fact that they accept this, and the fact that they will see that we come with no harm, that we come with love, is what matters.  And when we help this planet in technology, we can also spread truth and love, so the souls of this planet can then evolve and can prevent the problems, which are turning the Universe inside out.

  
If Planet Earth can be saved - and it will be saved - the entire Universe will be raised to a level in which all souls will have gained the nature of what they have searched for from the beginning of time.

And remember that when the souls of the Universe have calmness and joy and peace within their hearts, and generate this love, it overtakes even those souls that are negative and dark, and brings life and love to them.  And can you imagine that when you accomplish what you have come to this planet to do, the entire Universe will be glowing with a light that will seem to be blinding, because it will be a light of pure love.  And all will become one, and that is what all have striven for.

We ask only that you never, even in your darkest moments, even when you are disturbed with each other, even when you are disturbed with nations and with peoples, that you never lose sight of what we have related to you.

When we look over the planet now, we see only a small glow here and there, and there are many dark areas, but we know that what you have come to the planet Earth to do, when it is accomplished, will be a releasing of pure love in the entire Universe.

The term 'landing' may be considered to encompass all authentic documented cases of preliminary contact from 'space people.'  Previous blog articles include a variety of accounts about experiences of contact or clairaudient communication involving space beings: (including) Orfeo Angelucci, Guy and Edna Ballard, Truman Bethurum, Daniel Fry, Dana Howard, Paulina Peavy, Mark Probert, Arthur Shuttlewood, and Partana Vegan.
 

6/8/18 Update: This week the Business Insider website is reporting "The giant garbage vortex in the Pacific Ocean is over twice the size of Texas".
 

8/4/18 Update: This week the Miami Herald is reporting "Toll from worst red tide in decade grows": "This is horrific what we're enduring now but it needs to be a wake-up call to people that clean water is important to more than just wildlife," said Heather Barron of Sanibel's CROW Clinic.

 

Cosmic Revelations from 'Tom' of 'The Council of Nine'

Phyllis V. Schlemmer (1929-2013) was the 'deep trance medium' or 'channel' for 'Tom,' "the spokesman for the Council of Nine."

 

Transcripts of transcendental communication associated with 'The Council of Nine' (or 'the Nine') are presented in The Only Planet of Choice compiled by Phyllis V. Schlemmer and Palden Jenkins.  This article presents some background information about the publication of The Only Planet of Choice along with quoted excerpts of statements about 'the Nine' that were spoken through the entranced Phyllis.  Also included are passages from the book about the subject of 'God' and metaphysical aspects of life in the universe.
 
A chapter about channeling provides some details about trance sessions.  "The communications take the form of question-and-answer sessions, usually lasting 20-90 minutes, convened as and when necessary."  There were two or three get-togethers each year with group participants attending from different countries while there were "more frequent smaller sessions involving specific individuals."

Phyllis counts herself down into deep trance, following a procedure she has developed over the decades of her work.  As she is counting herself down, it looks as if she is falling asleep in her chair.  After a while she suddenly becomes animated, raises her head and hands, and announces, in a new voice, Tom's, that he is present, and offers greetings and blessings.


During a session, the channel speaks in Tom's voice, which is high-pitched, slow, and uses somewhat archaic English (which I have edited into readable English in compiling this book).


The quality of Tom's answers varies according to the character and psyche of the questioner.  Hence that, in this book, I have identified regular questioners by first name, so that you can gain a sense of the different characteristics of questioners.


The presence of the Nine is quite distinguishable: you get the sense that your thoughts are known, plus a sense of uplift, plus the uncanny experience of having issues elucidated and questions answered even when they have not been verbalized.


At the end of each session, Tom always says "tell to our being [Phyllis] of our love for her" — and if no one tells her, she does not know!

In an Introduction, Palden Jenkins explained about his co-authorship of the book:
 

The Council of Nine has asked that what they have communicated be made available to humanity, and this book contains that information, presented with as much care as possible.


The quotes from Tom the 'spokesbeing' for the Nine, are as received, and are thematically sorted, with but small editorial modifications to make them more readable.  They were not delivered in the sequence presented here.


The group asked me to join them to write this book in 1991, which I duly have done, during 1991-2.  The material gathered from the Nine was so vast that it needed an outsider to be able to see and present the whole picture clearly, which I hope I have done.  This has been one of the most profound experiences I have had in my life: it has been a privilege and blessing to write this book.  The group, and the Nine, have given me great leeway in editing and sorting the material and compiling the book, and have been exceptionally supportive and trusting in the process.

An Afterword by Phyllis V. Schlemmer profiles her life prior to her work on the book and she acknowledged: "Before I knew who Tom was, Tom was already a part of my life."  After Phyllis was born, her mother was quite ill so Phyllis was raised by her father's parents in Pennsylvania during the time of the Great Depression.  Her grandmother taught her about 'nature spirits' and Phyllis remembered:

One of my jobs was to pick the potato bugs off the potatoes and the nature spirits helped me with this.  They also helped me when I went looking for mushrooms which could be found in the local cemetery.  I would see many people in the cemetery, some trying to talk to visitors who did not respond.

 

My grandmother would explain to me who they were, why they were there and how their families kept them earth bound.  She also explained that although I could see them, they were not so solid as I was.  But I would try to hold their hands and sometimes I succeeded.

When she was around the age of five, her grandfather became ill and aunts told Phyllis that he was going to die.  She began praying to God that she would not die and her grandfather would not die.
 

Suddenly I heard a voice saying "Hush child, hush, you will never die, I promise you."  I looked round.  No one was in the room with me and the voice seemed to come from the ceiling.  I said again "Promise me God that Popup will not die, I will be a very good girl."  Again the voice said, "Hush child, hush, your Popop will not die, I promise you."  I had such a wonderful feeling of peace, space and light.  It was as if I was filled with such joy.  God was my friend; He gave me his word that neither I nor my grandfather would die.

Seeing her grandfather outside of his deceased body assured the child that the promise was a true one.  Phyllis remembered: "I was so happy he was no longer ill." 
 
Phyllis wrote that both her grandmothers were sensitives and recognized that she also had this ability.  Her father's mother had been born in Ireland while her mother's mother was born in Italy and was a medium in a family known for their healing abilities.  Phyllis opened a school in Florida to teach metaphysics in 1969 at age 40, commenting: "I would go into deep trance, and the class was taught by one of my spirit mentors called Dr. Fiske."
  
Phyllis's research collaborator Andrija Puharich is represented by the name 'Andrew' in book transcripts.  The fourth chapter of The Only Planet of Choice presents transcript passages of perspectives from Tom about 'The Council of Nine' while chapter 5 is entitled "God and Creation."  Excerpts presented below are from these two chapters and are presented in sequential order as appearing in the book.  There are instances in the transcripts when Tom is quoted to have said "I will consult" and there was a pause before communication resumed.

Gene: To whom am I talking?  Do you have a name?

Tom: I am Tom.  I am the spokesman for the Council of Nine.  In truth I am Tehuti.  Yes.  I am also Hamarkos, I am also Herenkar, I am known as Thomas and I am known as Atum.

Gene: Are you one of the Nine or are you a separate being?

Tom: I sit in the Council of Nine, yes.  I am one that is in wisdom that speaks to you.  But the Council has said that, in communications, at times I sound not wisdom!  Yes.


Andrew: I was particularly interested in 'Hamarkos.'  Could you tell us . . .

Tom: I am the day, and I am the evening, and I am the mid-noon.

Andrew: So did the Egyptian name the Sphinx after you?

Tom: You found the secret.  But the original time that I was on the Planet Earth was 34,000 of your years ago.  I am the balance.  And when I say 'I,' I mean because I am an emissary for the Nine.  It is not I, but it is the group.  And the principle of the Nine is infinite intelligence, and what we bring to this planet is this type of intelligence.


Tom: We are nine principles of the Universe, yet together we are one.  We are separate and one at the same time.  Each represents a portion of energy, knowledge, wisdom, love, kindness, technology, and continuity, and each principle applies itself until each portion of a spiral is composed of all that is important to bring complete understanding to each atom, and so one, until it becomes one with us.  There are in actuality multiplications and more, but in principle there are nine.

We are what is identified as the Elohim.  We wish you to know we are not God.  We are a collective and become one with each other.  We wish you to know that we are you as you are we.  You created us, and out of that creation you were created.

Do not underestimate who you are, and your ability.  Know that all people are in essence pure, that you are perfect, and that all things are possible with you.  Know also that we cannot exist without you and all souls, and neither can Planet Earth nor the Universe.  When you understand that, you will understand your own life.

At times in your world people create confusion, for the density of it is a density of darkness.  But always hold the light of truth of your own being, who you are, in your heart.  We are with you always.  We give you love, we bring you peace.


Tom: We are soul.

Andrew: You are soul.  Now, in your relationship to the Nine for example — are the Nine of the same nature as you are?

Tom: We are one and the same.

Andrew: I see.  And then could you explain the profound mystery why there are nine basic manifestations of, I guess we should use the word 'God,' for lack of a better term?
 
Tom: I will try to explain it in a manner in which you may understand.  Nine is complete.  Everything is nine.  In your world you have said seven so many times, when everything is truly nine.  There are nine chakras, which are the nine principles and nine elements of what you call God.  There are nine bands around this planet Earth.  There are nine etheric bodies, and the purpose of growing your etheric bodies or growing through your transformations and transitions is to attain the nine etheric bodies.  Nine is a complete number, it is whole.  When you go over a nine it cancels, it becomes one, and a nine is complete.  This does not change.  But remember this: we ourselves are not God.  All of you and all of us make God.


Andrew: What we would like to know is something of your natural history.  We would like to know what you look like, how you reproduce, what you do for nourishment, what is your role in the Universe, what is your interest in the Earth, and so on?  I think it would help all of us enormously if you could just give us  some idea of who you are in the more descriptive sense.

Tom: We do not have a physical body.  Although we may put on the mantle of a physical body when it is necessary.  It would be difficult for us to describe to you exactly what we appear like.  We appear in many forms, when that is necessary.  And in your thought process we may appear as a human, we may appear as an energy ball, we may appear as a very bright light.  We have evolved beyond the point of needing a physical-type body as many souls need.

We are always here, but you do not always see us.  When I say we, I do not mean me, but I mean all of us.  We are often observing.  There are particular times in your life when we do not observe, and that is when you are involved with your desires.  We do not understand this, and it is none of our affair.


Andrew: What part of the Universe do you work in, or what is your management . . .

Tom: We are the Universe.

Andrew: Are you saying the total universe now?

Tom: We are not speaking of a solar system.  We are not speaking of a galaxy.  We are speaking of the Universe.

Andrew: Now in this Universe, there are worlds of matter, anti-matter, photons, rays, energies, particles, and more.  Which part of this domain do you exist in, or is it beyond our comprehension?

Tom: It is beyond your comprehension: we come from the zone that is cold.  This is perfection.


Tom: . . . We are in the centre, and we are balanced.  We are trying to bring other forces into balance.  We have never been out of balance.  It is other things in the Universe that are not in balance.  We exist at the pivotal point of the Universe.


Tom: Your over-population is because of the trapping of spirits, because of reincarnation.  So the Earth people, and the souls and spirits that surround your Earth need to release themselves of greed and desire, because that is the trap.


Tom: Remember that in you is a seed of purity and beauty, and that if you do not maintain a balance, ugliness or an ugly part may appear.  But remember forgiveness.  We hold no animosity within us, and you should not do so either.  Even though you exist upon a physical planet and the densest of all planets in the Universe, remember that all souls may be saved.


Tom: Love is God.  And it is love that creates the energy which feeds God - and makes God.

In your world there are religious groups that say that God is within.  And this is true because there is a portion of divinity within each individual.  But what we have told you is not the same.
 
Andrew: It took me a long time to square up with this, the notion that the Nine collectively are God, and that we all collectively are God . . .
 
Tom: Remember that as God we all carry a heavy burden but also we carry joy.


Tom: What is God to you?

John: Well, there's many ways I could answer that.  Uhm, I could say that God is the Ultimate, Love, or . . .

Tom: It is unified, infinite intelligence, supported with pure love.  And it grows with pure love.  It is absolute faith and absolute love.  That is God.


Tom: When you understand that you hold within each of you the total power to change all, and you accept that, you truly become a divine being.  When you also understand that what you term 'religions,' have in reality emanated from physical civilisations of the Universe, you will begin to understand more about the Supreme One that is unknown.

Do not create gods from physical beings, do not give power to physical beings - except inasmuch as you consider yourselves equal to them.  Understand that your planet Earth is on a precipice - if the pollutionary direction is not abated, it can contaminate your planet Earth to the degree that physical beings may not continue to exist upon it.  It would not destroy it, but a physical being would not be able to live.


Tom: There are those that are called 'God,' that are appendages to God, that also create.  But there is One, of the highest order, that is the purest of light, that is a composite of all, that creates all.  Each soul in the whole Universe came directly from the true Creator, so each soul is imbued with this energy.

There is a collection of beings that generate outward points of this source, but when they come together as one pure energy of community then that energy becomes what you call 'God,' that creates all.  Each of these entities has individual knowledge or principle, but not of the whole.  There is only one that has the whole.

When these energies that you call negative upon your planet Earth attempt to destroy, attempt to control others, it is because they are in competition with God, the one Creator.  For in their cells they know the divinity within them, and their personality holds forth, and they then attempt to be God.  It is sad, yes.

Miki: Thank you.  So in my understanding, 'God,' so-called, also represents the negative side.

Tom: That is not so.  God created all, and that which became the negative went in competition with God: he does not represent them.  I will attempt to explain.  You are a gardener.  As you know in your planting, as you plant each seed with equal love, with equal nurture, with all that is necessary for it to grow strong and straight, in a manner of purity, there are some that are weaker and some that are strong.  There are those that you plant that become stronger to the point that they then may strangle others, is this not so?  Then you must remove, weed, transplant.  But the Creator does not weed, does not interfere in free will, as you do with your plants.  Then those who attempt to strangle and to take over others are fed by the energies of what you call negative, as we are fed by love, and they then begin to strangle all.  They go in competition with that that planted it, that that created it.  Is this some clarity for you?

Miki: Yes.  So originally, what is now the negative once came from the Creator - but did God leave them?

Tom: When you say 'did God leave them,' we understand not.  Do you mean did he forsake them?  Do you mean he threw them out?

Miki: Yes.

Tom: No one can compete with God, for they have not truth within, for God is a collection of purity which means only goodness for all the Universe.  They threw themselves out by going in competition and having the desire to become all that is.  That is not possible, for in order to do that you must return to God.  That is the sadness: they had not patience for understanding.  They are attempting to disrupt the work of the Universe.

If you have one that you have loved, nurtured, fed, and have transferred great love to, and all you wished from it was for it to grow in beauty, straightness, flexibility, and love, giving as it has been given to, but it chooses not to do that, then there comes a time when you come to a realisation, that it must find itself, that it may not destroy others - and so in the Universe it is not discarded, but it is also not fed and supported, for that which loves loves it, it attempts to destroy.  What we are attempting to say is that God did not discard, but he does not help, for the negative refuses help.  Is that clear?


Tom: It is the Holy Spirit that governs us.  There is what you call the Son, the Father and the Holy Spirit: dare we say to you, you are the sons and daughters, and through us emanates the one of Holy Spirit?  And then there is what you call the Father.

From the Creator (the Primordial Parent) comes the divine inspiration, the verve, the logic, the spirit which infuses all Creation (the Holy Spirit), which is mirrored and completed by the souls of the Universe (the Son or offspring), some of whom are us.

 
Chapter 2 "Accelerating Earth's Evolution" concludes with these sentences:
 

Tom: . . . Now is the beginning of the days of great importance for you, but most important for us.  You will heal yourselves and the planet Earth.  The beginning of the healing lies with those that have been through self and removed themselves from blocking.  Understand our great love for you, our great joy in you, and remember and understand, we wish Planet Earth to know of our love and of our existence.  We give to you love, we bring to you peace and we are in gratefulness that you are with us.

'The Nine' and the New Age

Andrija Puharich, M.D., LL.D. (center) and Uri Geller

   

Andrija Puharich wrote in Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller (1974) about transcendental communication that began in 1952 with the following reported to have been spoken through the entranced Dr. D. G. Vinod, a Hindu scholar.

M calling: We are Nine Principles and Forces, personalities if you will, working in complete mutual implication.  We are forces, and the nature of our work is to accentuate the positive, the evolutional, and the teleological aspects of existence.  By teleology I do not mean the teleology of human derivation in a multidimensional concept of existence.  Teleology will be understood in terms of a different ontology.  To be simple, we accentuate certain directions as will fulfill the destiny of creation.

We propose to work with you in some essential respects with the relation of contradiction and contrariety.

As this first quoted message continued, it was said: "Soon we will come to basic universal categories of explicating the superconscious.  Just as Jesus said, 'It is not work, but grace.'  A fruitful, creative approach to the superconscious is indeed a progressive reception of grace."

During following anomalous communications over the course of many months from 1971 to 1973 while Andrija was conducting research centering on Uri, there were strange and unexpected voice phenomena with reported comments such as "Spectra, Spectra, Spectra: That is our spacecraft."  During one conversation when Andrija asked "Are you part of them ['the Nine']," the response was given: "Yes, that was us, but in different units.  We are under their control . . ."  Some of the details are reviewed in a previous blog article about the case study book that is available for reading online at the Uri Geller website.   

Two books written by Andrija Puharich (1918-1995) that preceded Uri are The Sacred Mushroom: Key to the Door of Eternity (1959) and Beyond Telepathy (1962), the latter including his research findings after testing psychic Peter Hurkos and trance medium Eileen Garrett.  In the introduction to Uri, he profiled his research into the case of the Brazilian healer known as 'Arigo' whose death in 1971 prompted Andrija to reflect about the need for humanity to understand the nature of Arigo’s trance work to facilitate spiritual healing.

 

In a You Tube video of an Andrija Puharich interview, he recounted first meeting Dr. Vinod circa 1951 at a reception given by Eileen Garrett.  Many months later, Andrija missed his train and after being rushed to Pleasantville he boarded a train to New York City.  The person who took the seat beside him was Dr. Vinod.  A visit was arranged to Andrija's laboratory in Maine and it was on December 31, 1952 that the fateful first trance occurred when Andrija was introduced to 'the Nine.'  In the interview video, Andrija commented that he later found out from Dr. Vinod's wife and son that he had never before done trance work — that he was a religious leader besides being a professor in India.
 
In 1993 was published The Only Planet of Choice with the subtitle Essential Briefings from Deep Space compiled by Phyllis V. Schlemmer and Palden Jenkins.  The book presents transcendental communication transcripts made during the years Phyllis served as a deep trance medium for Andrija and others beginning in 1974 to bring information about 'The Council of Nine.'

An Internet search revealed that two short interview videos of Phyllis may currently be viewed on You Tube (1, 2).  In the first, Phyllis commented: "I've worked with Dr. Andrija Puharich for about 25 years . . . I do deep trance.  I go into an unconscious state, have no memory and these beings spoke through me — or one of them does."

This is how many of the discourses from The Nine are reported to have begun:
 

Tom: We are here.  This is Tom.  We come in love and peace.  Greetings, blessings, joy.

  
The word 'we' is often noticeable in transcripts of transcendental communication with some examples provided in a previous blog article.  
  
Introductory information about the book has been available online for many years (see theonlyplanetofchoice.com) presenting background details about the book, including how the research project originated between Andrija and Phyllis.

In early 1974. Phyllis V. Schlemmer, a prominent Florida psychic, asked him for his help with a distressed client, and it was while she was in a trance that she brought through beings whom Andrija immediately recognized as The Nine. 

The core of the group investigating the communication was Phyllis, Andrija and from Britain Sir John Whitmore, who is identified as "a primary witness and interviewer of 'Tom.'"  Also: "The group was comprised of scientists, doctors, teachers, ambassadors, athletes, and filmmakers from several countries.  One group member was "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry.

Thousands of transcripts of these sessions were gathered and it soon became apparent that the information coming through provided key insights to humanity's present predicaments and appropriate solution.

One of the quotes of 'Tom' about the soul is:

Tom: . . . The soul is a particle of us.  If you have a giant electric spark, and you put two together that would cause a giant electric spot, there would be sparks that would come off it.  Those sparks would be part of us — but each of those sparks would either die out or continue to grow.  Some may create a fire, and some may grow slowly, but it would depend upon the ambition of the spark.

 
Here is an excerpt with one of the quoted statements about the human relationship with God.
 

Tom: In your physical world, you as God are being tested.  Not that God can be tested, but your physical limitations to yourselves as God are being tested.  And though we know that this may sound a contradiction to you, in being God and having a problem in the physical world, you must come to understand these problems of the physical world.  There are some of us who have never had this problem, and it's difficult for those of us that have never had this problem, and it's difficult for those of us who have not had it to understand.  God is all-knowing and all-seeing but there are parts of God, as there are parts of every atom.  The whole together makes one, but not all parts experience the same.

In this article I am presenting some excerpts from The Only Planet of Choice (Revised edition August 1993): first about 'channeling' and then on the subject of 'the New Age.'  

 
A chapter of the book by John Whitmore and Palden Jenkins is "About Channelling," presenting their view of 'channeling' and providing some of the transcript material wherein 'Tom' commented on the topic.  Here is some of John and Palden's perspective in 1993 —

That some people have never heard of channelling, and many more would not give it a second thought, is because, on the surface, it is easy to dismiss it as an act or hoax consciously perpetrated by the channel.  Hoaxers however have to have a motive.  Could there really be so many hoaxers, in so many cultures, whose only reward is often physical and psychological pain and, at least in 'developed' societies, a fair amount of ridicule?  The payoff for manipulating people in channelling is not significant enough to attract widespread hoaxing.  However, institutional psychology is incapable of producing an explanation of channelling that fits within current scientific orthodoxy, and therefore ignores the subject, in the same way that physics ignores dowsing — even though most water supply companies and mineral and oil prospectors employ dowsers with profitable results.


. . . the thought that larger influences can come through an individual draws in many other major questions, such as those of reincarnation, the soul, the transpersonal roots of the psyche and the very meaning of life.

Here is a transcript excerpt wherein 'Tom' answers questions about 'channeling.'

Gene: If people can accept the reality of channelling at all, they are then faced with all the problems of interference in channelling and, and in receiving these messages, coming as they do from a different dimension.  Can you comment on the possibility of how much of the messages we are receiving from you are garbled by static and interference, and whether or not it is possible that we occasionally are receiving misinformation because of difficulties in communication?
 
Tom: Misinformation would be in the interpretation, and in limitations within the mind of the channel — in the usage of words, of which we do not have sufficient in the mind of the channel.  There is not within the minds of humans the language to even attempt to explain our knowledge or the knowledge of other civilisations.  But the channel is in our control.
 
Gene: Can Phyllis be unconsciously affecting any of the communications from her own inner self?  How certain can we be that our method of communication avoids all thoughts and needs and so on, that Phyllis herself has?
 
Tom: Do you understand that our Being [Phyllis] is not in the body at the time of communication?
 
Gene: I didn't understand that, but I understand what you're saying.
 
Tom: Do you understand that the functions of the body in most areas are in a state of stoppage?  Do you understand that the heart and the circulatory system is kept to a minimum of function?  Do you understand that we are in complete maintenance and control?  There is not a word in your language to explain, except for the word that we totally possess the body.

Here are some other excerpted passages about channeling. 

Tom: There are two ways in which your channels can receive and get into problems in your physical world.  One would be when the channel is weakened, either by lack of rest or illness.  The other will be when the channel is willing to be used negatively because of the desire for power.

Our Being was not a willing channel for negativity.  In this particular case we may interfere and we help.  In a channel willing to channel negativity we may not interfere.


Tom: You must be extremely careful with whom you deal.  And when I speak of this I mean contacts that you make with sources from other civilisations or the spirit realms.  Not always are contacts valid, true and honest.  Because a contact is made, it does not mean it is a true contact.  When I say this I mean a contact that says it is working for us.
 
John: Be careful because there are all degrees of spirits.  Is that what you're trying to say?
 
Tom: This is correct.  And we are not a spirit, and this is what we speak of.  We do not wish to be involved with the spirits.  The spirits are those who have passed on in this world and are hanging around this planet Earth.  We are not spirits.  Spirits of your world that are in the atmosphere and around the bands of your world, are as confused as the physical beings on this planet Earth.  There are those that are evolved but most are not.  We are not spirits.  We are trying to save this planet Earth so that these spirit beings also may be released and be evolved.  Be careful whence you work.


Tom: . . . when we say spirit we mean a physical spirit attached to the Earth.

John: I have another concern.  Phyllis' use of the English article word 'of' has increased about ten times from the first to the latest communications.  In the earliest communications with you, the language was quite colloquial.  Now, in recent communications I find the word 'of' being used in many ways, and is now used as many as eight times in a simple declarative sentence.  Can you help me with my confusion regarding that?

[Authors' Note:]  As mentioned in the Introduction, we have edited out most of these 'of' words and similar language flaws, in order to ease the flow for the reader.  We have deliberately not edited the following paragraph but indicated how we would have done so.  The humour of the language of their reply is not lost on us nor, I suspect, on the Nine themselves.

Tom: We will attempt to explain to 'that of' you.  In 'that of' working of communications with that of our Being, it is of an adaptation from 'that of' us.  In the beginnings of 'that of' the communication with 'that of' our Sir John and 'that of' our Doctor, it became 'of' important for us to have 'of' clarification of 'that of' whom we would speak and of what it would have meant.  Perhaps we are not using in 'that of' the terminologies that are 'of' correctness, but it became of more 'of' clarification to us with 'that of' our Doctor Andrew, our Sir John and 'of that of' others, and 'that of' our understanding that we were communicating to 'that of' them.  They say I have not clarified 'of' that for you.

Complexities of transcendental communication are found among passages in transcripts of preceding cases of transcendental communication — such as 'Messages from Michael' ("Remember that when the medium through whom we are transmitting is fatigued, contradictions occur.")  

The following are question and answer transcript excerpts from The Only Planet of Choice where perspectives of 'New Age' and 'the New Age' is reflected.  The first passage is from chapter 8.

Tom: We have begun a new time in your land and your universe, and it is a time for you to remove the string that attaches you to the past time in the physical and to doubt.  We know that what we ask of you is much, and we know that it is difficult with those that surround you — we speak of those people that are also in a sense involved with the work — it is difficult to prove to them what you say.  They have difficulty believing you.  The proof will come in time.  Has not proof come to you of the knowledge that you have held within you in years past?  There have been parts that now have been proven in this physical world.  Yes?

Consistent readers of this blog will notice that some of the selected quotations from the book show parallels with perspectives chronicled in other transcripts of transcendental communication (see the preceding blog article for some examples).  Beyond the correlations, readers should be aware that the annals of authentic 'channeled' information' usually have little in common with commercially published literature providing some manner of 'feel good' sentimentality.  There have been numerous cases of transcendental communication that have been extensively documented.  (See Channeling Cases - Articles and Videos Links Index.) 
  
The following excerpts are from chapters 18 and 19 of The Only Planet of Choice. 
 

Tom: There are actually three bodies [of each human], including the one you see, which is physical.  The etheric stands outside the astral and it is similar to an envelope, but that is not correct.  I will explain in another matter.  If you had an egg, inside that egg would be a chick which would be a physical thing,  Then around that chick would be a membrane which adheres to that chick.  That would be the astral, and the shell would be the etheric.


David: To what extent is sickness caused by emotional stress, karma, wear and tear, or learning experiences?

Tom: What we see upon Planet Earth in this time is the creation of a new belief, you call it the religion New Age, which is a belief that one brings forth from the past an element into this life, called karma.  It is also said that one has chosen in order to teach others.  Know this that most of the illnesses upon this planet Earth are brought about by the peoples of Planet Earth in their error of thinking, with their foods, with their pollution of lands and waters, by contamination from ingestation, or by those who make business at the expense of humankind.  There is a portion created by stress of emotion, there is more created by stress involved in pleasing others.  There is [a] portion created by a program in the brain coming from the time of youth, but the greatest portion is created out of humankind's behaviour.

Humankind was meant to be born to live a full, fruitful, healthy, non-disease life, and in the passing of the physical body, not to have aging or suffering as now exist, but to pass on quietly in sleep, after a good portion of a hundred years.  It is always in the last years that knowledge and wisdom are brought together.  But humankind has lost that for many  reasons: those that we have spoken of, and also it has become a collective thought that all must be ill, and not well, and ageing.  It is difficult to override that.  Yes.


Tom: . . . Humankind was created for the joy and glory of the Creator, who in truth is humankind.  Do you understand that you created us?

Ian: Yes, in a very abstract sense, we can understand it.

Tom: You also understand that you created the Creator?  Therefore you are the Creator?

Ian: It's hard to get, but we have a sense of that, yes.

Tom: So what is important is to know that upon Planet Earth you are the Creator that created you.


Tom: . . . You also know that with your power, which is infinite, all can be changed.  You know in science that if you place a drop of one item it can change the properties of the whole.

Ian: Yes, I wondered about that, and it's great you confirm this, this is absolutely how it goes, yes.

Tom: Therefore realise that those of ours can change the whole.  You as a scientist understand it when you analyse it: you must now understand it when you cannot analyse it.

Ian: Yes, that's the difficult part.  But I see the importance, yes.

Tom: Also realise that what you are creates the ability in you to change all things.  Yes.


Tom: What is also important, is the understanding of the cosmology of what you term the hierarchical situation of the Universe.  We do not like that term 'hierarchical.'  But to understand that there are other physical civilizations that are attempting to bring benefit, that there was also the seeding, and to understand that the Twenty-Four civilizations are what they call the twenty-four elders in the Book of Revelations.  What is important is to begin to clarify the errors that have crept into the religious aspect that holds man in bondage.


Tom: . . . Know also: it is time for humankind to understand that they are of us, and must be freed from the burden of poverty.  Remember it is religion that created the idea in humankind that it is more worthy to be less, to be poor.  It was their way of controlling humankind.


Tom: . . . It [Earth] is the planet of free will, of choice, and it has been kept in a form of density which has entrapped souls in rebirth-recycling.  It is now coming into a state of true consciousness.


Tom: Also, understand that the fear of people, when they speak in the 'New Age,' is always that growth goes on until they return to the source, and in the subconscious nature of humankind they say 'then we will lose our individuality and it will be boring.'  They do not speak of this for they are not willing to have those in association with them see they believe it, and so each keeps this to themselves.

In truth, that that you are, that spark, that essence of individuality always remains that individuality and is not ever consumed, or digested, or negated.  In the attaining of balancing the spiritual with the physical there is great release of joy.