A talk given by Kim during the 2022 Webinar for America – The Resurrection of Democracy.
I want to say a little bit about decrees. We just gave this decree [before the QA session] at a fairly slow pace so that you can clearly understand the words, you can clearly pronounce the words. This is quite a contrast to how decrees were given in especially the Summit Lighthouse but I think also in the I AM” Movement, but they were often given much faster. In the Summit Lighthouse, for example, you would give them so fast that if you were not trained, if you were not used to it, you could not understand the words. It was just [humming sound]. A person who was new to this, they could not understand what they were doing and it often actually sounded almost scary to people because it was just so, it was just like a hum.
Personally, when I first found the Summit Lighthouse, I was very eager to learn decreeing and it did not take me very long. In the beginning, you just cannot follow this fast pace, but it did not take me very long to work up what they called a decree momentum. I could follow even the fastest decrees and I got to a point where I could walk into a decree session that was in progress, they were giving a decree and I could easily hear where they were at and just start, go right in with it and I was proud of that at the time because at the time it meant something to me that I could decree at this fast pace and I could follow the requirements for being a good chela.
We would often decree for hours and sometimes, I remember there were some times where we would have a service when it was supposed to be a dictation but we had to—the saying was—we had to set a force field for the dictation by giving enough decrees that there was a force field that the master could descend through, and sometimes we decreed for six or seven hours before the dictation came and later it was actually revealed that part of the reason for that—I’m not saying the only reason—but part of the reason was Elizabeth Clare Prophet had this illness and so sometimes she could not take a dictation for some time and so we just kept decreeing. I do not have any negative feelings about it, it was what it was, but a lot of the times you would be at a very high level of consciousness after decreeing for so many hours so you would actually receive the dictation better. Other times you’d just be sleepy and tired and therefore you could not receive it as well, but what I have found is that, especially over the last several years, I do not really feel any need or desire to decree so fast. I actually prefer giving it at the pace like how we were giving it now because I feel that I can pronounce the words better.
That means I can actually put my attention on the words and the meaning of the words. I can also put my attention on a master and tune into the master. I feel actually much more connection to the master when I give it more slowly. When you give it as fast as we were doing it in the Summit Lighthouse, and actually I still have some recordings that are that fast pace, you cannot think about the words, you cannot even focus on words.
I used to say that when a decree session started, usually the decreer would start a little slower and then at some point they would get up to the speed and I used to say that it was like going on autopilot, like a plane has gotten up to his cruising altitude now they just put it on autopilot and it is just cruising along and that is what you did with the decrees and after you got used to it, it almost became automatic. It is not that it was not a flow, it is not that it was not effective and worked, I just feel that it is too easy to get into this, it is almost like rote repetition, it is just, you cannot really put any anything in it because it is so fast that you are just mumbling the words.
When you give it slower and you pronounce the words more it is like you can put more spirit into it and sometimes I feel actually a better flow with the slow decrees than I felt with a with the fast decrees. The fast decrees have a momentum and you can feel that, but it is not necessarily the same as the power you have when it is slower. I just felt like mentioning that because it is a very different style, but I actually feel that it has some advantages that I feel are important now.
I am not saying it is not valid to do them fast if people feel like it. I think it was valid for me for a period of many years to do it that way because it kind of neutralized the analytical mind, but now I feel like it is actually more important to give them with more pronunciation, with more, in a sense, more feeling, even though it is not human emotion, but you just feel more connected and you feel more of the flow rather than momentum. There is a difference between flow and momentum, I realized. That was all I wanted to say about that.
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