Exploring Self
  The shift is not a thing. It is the action of increasing your self-awareness.

Session 284:
"Strange Times"

Saturday, May 30, 1998 (Group Session)
Participants: Mary (Michael), Forrest (Ellius), Carole (Aileen), Tom (Thomas), Monica (Bridget), and thirty new participants, of which only the following names are available: Betsy, Debra, Doug, Ellen, Fred, Joanne, Lee, Linda, Mari, Mary, Nancy, Pam, Rodney, Sally, Sharon, Suzanne, Tom, and Tony.
This is a group session held in Connecticut at Carole's house.
Elias arrives at 6:26 PM. (Arrival time is 20 seconds)

ELIAS: Good evening! (Smiling) This evening, we shall begin with an examination of your present time framework.

Session #270:
"An Introduction and an Overview"

Thursday, March 19, 1998
Participants: Mary (Michael), Forrest (Ellius), and six new participants: Nathan (Robertt), Diane (Juan), Richard (Zephel), Laura (Lynya), Robert (Pierre), and Erik (Mosten).
Vic's note: This is the first group session held in Vermont. I think the audience consists mostly of young people.
Elias arrives at 6:53 PM. (Time was twenty-five seconds)

ELIAS: Good evening. (Smiling)

GROUP: (Hesitantly) Good evening.

ELIAS: Greetings to all our young Sumafis present! This evening I shall present myself in introduction to you all, and I shall introduce yourselves to you also.

I am Elias. I am an energy personality essence. I occupy an area of consciousness which shall be known to you henceforth as Regional Area 4. In this realm, I occupy a position of teaching. I am in conjunction with many other essences which are also in the capacity of teaching. I speak to you in response to you all in your questioning of this shift in consciousness, which is occurring upon your planet within this time framework in this present now, in which you are all involved.

With this introduction I am assuming that you are familar with who Elias is and that you probably have read my introduction about Elias.

In order to describe what the shift is I will start with a few quotes from Elias session #160 (March 1997) where he explains what he means by his term of shift.

Consciousness connected with physical focus moves through seasons, just as your planet holds seasons in nature. These seasons within consciousness are slightly different, for they endure for much greater time frameworks. You now enter a new season of consciousness within the creation of your shift.

With this text I'd like to present a bit of explanation about who or what Elias is. It is my intent to provide an overview which will be meaningful while at the same time I want it to be presented with the least amount of possible distortion and with the least possible lending of energy to existing spiritual and new age belief systems.