Perhaps a month ago, I was reading an article about a prehistoric creature called Henodus Chelyops in a back-issue of National Geographic. Paleontologists describe it as a ‘turtle-like creature’, and do not consider it a ‘true turtle’ (although it looked and lived like one) because of some anatomical indicators that indicate it was a member of a different class of prehistoric reptiles than the one that gave rise to the grouping of creatures we call turtles today.
As I was reading about Henodus, I started to get what I amusedly refer to as ‘Incoming Call’ flashes from Inner-Infolded-Infinite-Space. The flashes consisted of a quick image of Henodus, followed by an equally quick picture of the face of a male Being who himself looked like a turtle crossed with a human. He was smiling and shaking his head, and although he did not speak words, I understood clearly that he was telling me that what I had just read was in some way incorrect, and that he wanted to talk to me about this.
After I finished with my day and was able to sit in meditation for awhile, I went to my Inner Healing Space. Sure enough, there was the Being, smiling and waiting to talk with me. We went into a stupa-like Temple that is in my Healing Space (and that is a Port within it for accessing a whole spectrum of Healing Energy) and sat down on the Temple floor to talk…
Being: It is delightful to see you, Akkarri.
Me: It is very nice to see you, too. I heard you earlier, and I knew that you wanted to talk with me.
Being: Yes, I wanted to tell you something about what you read, but I first want to tell you that You are Turtle.
Me: I think I understand… Is this because I have Turtle as my totem? Something like a natural affinity for the energy?
Being: That is not what I mean. You are literally a Turtle, as a human would understand literally being something. But you are a Turtle who has chosen to wear a human shape for awhile. That is why you see Turtles all the time when you enter Within. They are your Family, coming to help you. Your People and your own Origin as a Being are not earth-human, although you have spent a lot of time exploring the form.
Me: Okay, then I guess I haven’t been understanding the whole ‘Totem/Spirit Guide’ thing correctly.
Being: It is more that you just need to be clear about how Living Energy manifests. All Beings arise out of Something that, for the purposes of explanation, can be visualized as a rainbow pool of energy. ‘Turtle’ is a ‘color’ in the pool. The turtle ‘color’ creates the bodily form of the Beings that spring from it, and the Beings feed back resonance into it, so that within the main ‘color’ Turtle, there is another rainbow composed of Turtle variations and developments. It doesn’t matter where the ‘color’ Turtle manifests anywhere in space-time, any more than it does when you, as an artist, create an image of Turtle. Your image will follow the Turtle-form and be recognized as ‘Turtle’, whether you make it out of clay, paint it on a rock, embroider it on a piece of cloth with thread, or make it out of silver and wear it as a Jewel. This is where the limited point of view of those who were looking at the Being they call Henodus is apparent: Henodus was Turtle, and arose from the ‘Turtle Rainbow’. There are Beings throughout the Cosmos, on many, many worlds, that are Turtle, and would be instantly recognized as such by the people living on your current world. Humans would see these life-forms and say, ‘Oh look! It’s a turtle, and here, on this far-away planet, of all places!’ Of course, current human-based science would insist that such Beings were not ‘true turtles’, which is analogous to saying that, among your artistically-made turtles, only the embroidered ones are actually ‘real turtles’. All the other ones– the one of clay, the one painted on a rock, and the one made of silver– ‘only look like turtles, but aren’t really turtles’. This view is both arbitrary and incorrect.
Me: So Henodus was Turtle, despite the ‘genetic media’ used to make the turtle-shape it had.
Being: Yes.
Me: Well, then why don’t I look Turtle-like if this is my ‘color’?
Being: Let’s go back to the Turtle Rainbow within the ‘color’ Turtle. As Beings of the original Turtle-color manifest Turtle, they expand the Turtle Rainbow. Turtle was one of the first Colors in the original Rainbow Pool of Energy– even on your current planet, Turtle is a very, very old form. This means the ‘Turtle Rainbow’ is very developed, and has expressed more of its ‘colors’. To use another analogy, it is like a flower that is open in full bloom, rather than a flower-bud. And when a flower opens all the way, what does it do?
Me: It is the reproductive organ of a plant, so it makes pollen and/or seeds.
Being: And does the flower keep all its pollen to itself?
Me: No, usually, it is best for the flower to spread pollen to other flowers, so that their seeds will be strong from shared genetic resources. So what you are saying is that I am essentially ‘Turtle-pollen’ that has been spread to a Human ‘flower’?
Being: Yes.
Me: But doesn’t that ‘mess up’ the Human flower?
Being: Go back to the flower analogy again. Both the Turtle Rainbow and the Human Rainbow are Flowers that have sprung from the same Seed– the original Rainbow Pool of Energy. Also remember I have been using the analogy of rainbows and color to describe ‘Turtle’ and ‘Human’. You are a ‘Bearer of Turtle’ to Human-ness because it is energetically appropriate that this can happen.
Me: So it is a case of the Turtle-flower being, say, a yellow variety of rose, and the Human-flower being a pink rose: they can in fact share pollen.
Being: Yes, but remember the flower analogy is limited somewhat. With regard to earth-flowers, pollen is shared and goes on to produce seeds, which produce other individual plants that express the mixing of parentage in their flower colors. This analogy breaks down with regard to what we are calling the Turtle-Rainbow-Flower and the Human-Rainbow-Flower, as the ‘pollen-exchange’ is done to affect the flower receiving the pollen and to enhance and improve the ‘receiving’ flower’s development. It isn’t about producing seeds, and so on. The flower analogy in this regard is inexact.
Me: But that leads me back to ‘messing up’ the Human flower– the way you describe things, a lot of ‘Turtle-pollen’ could do that.
Being: Yes, which is why only a little ‘Turtle-pollen’ has been allowed into the Human flower. Turtle-pollen has just been used to awaken the Human flower to the idea that it is sufficiently opened to the point where it can now begin to ‘accept pollen’.
Me: In other words, the Human flower can direct its own development by deciding what pollen it will accept?
Being: Yes. Turtle-pollen, such as you are yourself, is both restrained and trustworthy. You can be counted on to just deliver the message that it is time for the flower to start figuring out how it wants to change itself and grow, without insisting that the Human flower needs to ‘become Turtle’.
Me: How do I do that? I mean, without getting anything I might share turned into yet another cage with religious bars?
Being (laughing): Your reticence does you credit, Akkarri, and is so very Turtle! I am happy we are Flower-kin. To help you find the answer to your query, I will pose another: What do the Turtles you see here, in your Internal Space, do with you when they come to visit you?
Me: Oh, They are wonderful! They have taken me on their backs to many Places, and have brought me energy when I have needed it. In turn, I have tried to give energy back to them, by making water, food and flower-offerings to them, for their health and well-being, and to help keep my connection with them strong. I also try to mirror their generosity and patience, and I behave that way towards others. I know that it is good for me and my development as a Being to have this kind of attitude.
Being: Good. Now, have you ever seen Turtles, out in the everyday environment of your planet, with other things resting on their shells?
Me: Yes. I have seen photos of Turtles with everything from leaves and flowers to frogs, pebbles, birds and even other smaller Turtles sitting on their shells, and I have seen live Turtles carrying around clumps of mud and water grasses.
Being: Do the Turtles seem to have cared about what was sitting on their shells?
Me: No, the ones I saw seemed pretty intent on just going about their own business, irrespective of what was perched on their backs.
Being: Can you offer to others in the same way that Turtles offer their backs?
Me: You mean without particularly caring about what use is made of what I offer, or whether or not what I offer is accepted?
Being: Yes.
Me: I think so.
Being: Good. Just remember that though the Turtle’s shell can be really useful to a frog seeking a place to sit and look for insects, it is first and foremost there to be of use to the Turtle.
Me: Meaning that I actually develop others simply by demonstrating that I am capable of developing myself?
Being: That is precisely it. In fact, there is no other way to do it, since it is basically impossible for the Turtle to coerce the frog into sitting on its back. It’s the frog’s decision whether or not to take advantage of the Turtle’s Shell.
Me: And the Turtle’s ‘offer’ is essentially the byproduct of it manifesting a Shell in the first place.
Being: Yes. If you keep this firmly in mind, you will take no harm and your development will aid and assist many other Beings. Also bear in mind that you are Loved greatly by your Turtle-Flower-kin. Recalling this adds immeasurably to your own Offering.
Me: Thank you for the reminder.
Being: You are most welcome, Akkarri.
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One thing only will I add as postscript to this– everyone who lives and breathes has direct access within themselves to the Teachers, Teachings and all the information each individual needs to fully unfold and develop her- or himself. The Truest Love and the Highest Wisdom are inside of You, ready to be expanded in blossoming expression. So…
WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE SEVEN HELLS AND THE SEVEN HEAVENS ARE YOU WAITING FOR, AND WHY ARE YOU UNWILLING TO GIVE YOUR OWN INFOLDED TRUTH AND LIGHT THE PRIORITY THEY DESERVE?
