The Teachings of Tobias

Lesson 1: Foundation — Read Along

Tobias

Okay, so we're doing a follow up from lesson one with Topia. Tobias. So we'll just move the camera around. Thank you, my friend. It is good to be back. It is good that you have been discussing. And let us just say, finding more information. If you want the back screen to show the wall, bring it more the other way because it has got the edge. If you're not minding, then that is fine.

Um, I've been listening to you. It's been interesting to hear how you have, uh, been interpreting and, uh, dissecting as you would as you align yourselves into that, which is the energy of the focus that you are doing. Let me address the tribal issue first. You are a tribe amongst you. You are part of a tribe. You are born into that tribe. Humanity is made up of various tribes, whether they acknowledge it or not. The tribe runs through you, from the stars, from the galaxy into this place of being that you are at this moment.

Try not to get so locked into the literal understanding or definition of tribal. Rather feel it. What is my tribe? What is my resignation? And if I am resonating with a particular way of being in a tribal manner or a family manor and understand tribal and family are different things. Your family is your blood. Your family is that which you were born into, that which trains you and identifies you in a certain manner and a certain way. Your tribe is, your tribe is energetic, and you can belong to a tribe that is physical and metaphysical. So don't get too tied up in it, other than to focus on the questions of allowing yourself to see if the belief system of belonging to a tribe Palladium, octoroon, Syrian lion, whatever is narrowing you into a avenue that you are being molded into, what is it allowing you to do? What is it not allowing you to do?

Tobias

Go above this. Go into the cosmic. Go into the very connection of the universal Touch to see where you are going at a much higher level of family or of the tribal ideas. If you get them. Once the book is given the opportunity to be with you, you will understand. I do actually address this a little bit further in the beginning of the chapter with this.

But it is interesting that humanity has ritual. Ritual does not matter who, what or where. There is always ritual involved. There is ritual in the way that you dress. There is ritual in the way that you prepare your food. There's ritual in the way that you connect with people, even if you do not believe it. Watch yourselves. Observe yourselves.

But that which I am asking you to observe in this and release from yourself is: What do I do consistently that inhibits rather than encourages? And when you find what inhibits, you can release it. You can let it go from your energy and you can move forward.

Do you want to ask me the questions that they have? Perhaps we will go through that and then I will go through the rest of the inner shaman conversation around releasing and transcending.

Tobias

I'm asking you to transcend the idea of tribe and ritual and go deeper into the shaman. But remember that tribal ritual is that which you have created in your tribe, family, and ritual is that which you do repeatedly and no longer question. You've just attended to that.

What are characteristics within yourself would you like to strengthen and develop? There was a question around shamanism, which you may have already answered. Well, shaman, as you rightly say, everybody is shaman. Everybody has had an experience of being in a shaman in one lifetime or another. But where I am going in here, and I'm asking you to look within and see the shaman that was and is your inner power.

You see, many of you come from an understanding that you are connected to the divine. You may not call that divine God. You may not call the Divine Source. You may call it the goddess. You may call it Gaia. You may call it whatever. But there is divine connection that you are connected to. That connection to your inner shaman, your inner being that connects you to the magic of your life that connects you to the creativity of your life will reflect to you your strengths, your power, your connections, and all the patterns and the patterning that you do in your manifestation.

Tobias

Now, these are strengths. These are strengths because they have got you to where you are. But some of these strengths have been built on the backs of others. Some of these strengths are completed. You do not need them anymore. You do not need the strength of, shall we say, manipulation or the strength of talking down, of being superior of any of these other things that come up.

I'm not going to mention them all, because I want you to go in and I want you to distill. I want you to find for yourself. I want you to write on paper. I want you to take your emotions, your thoughts, and put them so that you can read it. There is a cathartic and necessary means for this because once you take it out of the imagination, once you take it out of the inner and you place it onto something that you are ascribing, you are removing it from you.

Yes, some people will say you're giving it life. No, you're putting it there at this particular time and you are then able to observe these points. You are then able to close the chapter. Once you have dealt with the area that we are working with, in this case, the root, the base foundation, because there are things within your power, within your personal power that you have used as strength.

Tobias

There are more, shall we say, manipulative patterns. How do I mean this? Now I am going to use a hypothetical statement here, because I know it is something that is said in joke between loved ones, but I want you to hear it in this new understanding.

If you love me, if only you knew how much I care about you, you wouldn't question it. Um. Oh, we've always done it this way. Why are you suddenly questioning my integrity? My choice, my this, my that. In many ways, dear ones, when we have come from a place of patterning, a place of habit, a place of continually doing something, we must stop, look and say, why am I doing this? Am I doing this to manipulate?

Well, the family has always done it that way. Yes, but are you your family or are you an individual energy living in your journey that happens to coexist with permission and a family that birthed you and gave you room to express yourself? So these are the things I want you to begin to look at.

Tobias

Because when we go into the base, when we go into that basket between the legs and the hip area, and we allow ourselves to drop in there and sit in the energy and breathe. And we hear from when we were children, when we were teenagers, when we were adults, when we were mature, and we hear the words that are being said, what is happening is they are coming up as this one has been experiencing. And this is where you find what you are made of. What is the strength that you are in?

Because when you begin to dig up. Let us just be a little bit graphic here. Let us be a little bit, shall we say, visual. You have a graveyard. And there are graves there. But you are in the business of clearing ground, and you are told you must go to the far region of the graveyard that have had bones or bodies buried from two to three hundred years ago. That's where you start.

And so you do, because legally, you are allowed to now clear this ground and you are able to turn and rotate the soil to ensure that it is nourished and ready to receive something else. Because over three hundred years it is thought that the bones, etc. have disintegrated. They have been absorbed back into the earth. Occasionally you will still find one or two skeletal remains.

Tobias

But now all of a sudden, as you are gaily going in and you're just going along, you're doing your job, you're digging up the earth and nothing's happening. Nothing's happening. All of a sudden you hit a pocket because somewhere along the line, somebody has come in and buried something there without telling the authorities, without doing it through the legitimate means.

Now, this somebody happens to be you, and you happen to be your own authority, and you happen to be the graveyard. And what happens when you dig up this pocket? All of a sudden the stench that comes up is overpowering. And so here you are in a place of power. You are in a place where you can actually say, seal it up again. Nobody see me, I'm going to seal it and I'm going to pretend nothing has happened.

Everything is fine. A little bit of perfume. Go and wash myself. Nobody can smell anything. I'm fine. But you still have the stench in your nose. So you are beginning the manipulation. You start with the manipulation of your own soul. You start with the manipulation of your own well-being because you are suppressing, covering up. You are denying what is actually there for you to address.

Tobias

Now, you may think it's a strength, too. Well that's okay. I don't need to deal with that now. I can put it away there. I'm being strong. I'm being sensible. I will address that later. Well, if you're in an area that is three hundred years old and you haven't addressed any of those issues, but you're just turning the soil and you're given something to address by universe, why are you not addressing it?

This is the base chakra. The base chakra is the symmetry of your chakras. You've never heard of it that way before. Trust Tobias or Topia to give you a different perspective. But remember what I've said to you before. You have a block in number seven. You push it aside, you filter it down, you suppress it. It hits number six.

Now, we're not going to deal with it. This is too emotional. It's getting in my way. I'm going to push it down to the throat to number five. And what happens there is like, okay, that's better. But I'm still going to not deal with it. I'm going to just push it down even more and it gets to the central. No, I'm not going to deal with that pain. I don't want to deal with it. It's just too sore. And so on and so on and so on until it gets to the base chakra and it can go no further.

Tobias

And so it sits and it decomposes. It forms gas. Sometimes that gas has to escape and it comes out as a bad mood. It comes out as anger. It comes out as sadness. It comes out as depression. It comes out as silence, as manipulation, as narcissism, as all of these things that you attribute around the colour red, anger, frustration, passion. All of these.

But when you start to go in and you begin to look at the patterns that have created that thing, that smell, that putrid event. Now, a lot of times, and I'm going to be very honest with you, a lot of times you will not remember. And believe me, you do not need to remember the exact details of who you murdered, why you murdered them, and when you murdered them, and how you buried them with nobody seeing. You don't need to know that. You just need to know there's a dead body there. I better take care of it.

And I'm doing it in this way so you can understand in your life you have these moments of crying in your energy. The crying is that you perpetrate against your own energy by not dealing with things. The crime is that you are the perpetrator. That brings other things to distract you, but they end up being suppressed.

Tobias

You are the investigator. You are the police officer on duty, and you are investigating the murder that has happened. This deed that is being done. You need to allow yourself to go in and begin to create the healing.

When you are in this place where you begin to give yourself permission. When you go in and you give yourself the release forms. To dig to. You've given yourself permission. You've given yourself intent. You've given yourself the keys, the space to now begin the autopsy. The autopsy is meditation where you go in and you do not need to know the details, because the details will float up and the details will be.

I'm in pain, I need release. I'm angry, I need release. I'm this, I need release, and that's all you need to know. And you focus on it.

Tobias

As we shared in the meditation, for those of you who have participated in that, when you are sitting in that space and you are turned off from everything else and you are focusing on that. You will begin to see, and sometimes you get the emotion and you do not know what to do with it.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what I did. For pushing you down, for shutting you up. I am sorry for not giving you voice. I am sorry that I thought I was more important than you, and I pushed you in a corner. Forgive me. Forgive me for what I did. Breathe. Breathe. Let that sink in. I love you, I love you, I love myself, I love this healing, I love you. Thank you. Thank you. Breathe. Let it sink in. Let it allow itself to come in.

You may have to say it once, twice, three times. That is fine. You will be directed as to what you need to do.

Tobias

The shaman within you is the intuitive connection to the cosmic mind, where you see things in a way that the human doesn't see it, where you are able to go into the circumstances and situations that the human part of you does not want to address. The shaman in you is not the shaman that you understand here on planet earth, which is the plant medicine, which is the witch doctor and the bone shaking. Now those all have their place, but the inner shaman is the part of you that connects you to all of the other parts of your body, your energy body, your physical body, your mental body, your, your. Everything.

It takes you from all of these perceptions and it gives you the overview and it allows you to see him and it allows you to do it without being attached to the emotion. Are you all being human? Feel so strongly and keenly the emotion that comes up. And there's nothing wrong with that. But the shaman in you can give you that added support, as long as you are strong enough to note the patterns that have become habitual, because it's the habitual patterns that manipulate you into doing something that instinctively you know you shouldn't do, but because you've always done it. It happens time and time again, and you go through the process time and time again.

Why did I do this? How did I get here? When is this going to stop? So I hope that long, short explanation helped you in that.

Participant

There was another thought about body type. Yes, yes. Immune system. Body type. Yeah.

Tobias

Your body type is nothing to do with your blood. Nothing to do with the diet that you eat. Your body type is your energy. When I say are you eating for your body type, I am asking you to look within. This is not just a physical attribute. We are looking at the physical, but we're looking at the energy within as well.

Give you an example. You all know how to body test yourself. Two fingers like this. Is this a yes? Is this a no? Ask yourself the question. Put your food down in front of you. Go to the fridge. Is the pineapple good for me? Is the pineapple good for me? Whatever your response is for yourself, Your body is going to tell you. Now, this is a very ancient way of looking at things. There is also the way that many people know of holding the food in their hand. The energy of that food and the energy of your body will tell you yes or no.

Now, here's why I say it's for your energy, not your body. Because in two months time you can go down the road, pick up that fruit and your body craves it, absolutely desires it. Yet two months ago it was saying, if you eat that, I'm going to throw up. Your body type is your energy body.

Tobias

Now I am not going to stream feed you. I'm not going to give you everything in this. When I write this down for you, I'm expecting you to go in with the meditative mind to go in with that higher consciousness and come in and realise that there are things here that you're being asked from a perspective of what I've taught to go into. We're talking of blocked energy. We're talking of energy that is sitting in your chakras, in your vortices that needs to be removed. It needs to have the flow coming through.

To give you an example, when you are in your energy, you are in the vortices. You are in the chakras. There is a circle that connects you in your breath, in and out. You have a downward breath and an upward breath coming up this way. And if you can think of it this way, it is breathing it enclosed this way. It is also you could breathe it just around it this way, although I find it much easier to come in and to sit in the breaths coming back up and joining this way. And you have this continually going up and down like so.

Tobias

Then you must also see that you are, as I showed you in the diaphragm, the diaphragm before each one of these has a flow that goes to the back and to the front. So when you breathe, you're not just breathing through and up. You're also dislodging the stuck energy in the middle that will unbong if you want or dislodge, or that which is creating the blockage that allows now the energy to go out and in.

Because what I'm making, what I'm drawing and what I'm saying is that making sense to you? When we deal with the issues, when we are in the base chakra, when we are in the sacral, when we're in the solar plexus, the diaphragm, the heart, the throat, the third eye, the crown. When we're in each one of these, what begins to happen is the vibration becomes manifest. We feel it. And how does this vibration come about? It comes about through emotion. It comes through and it just gives. It gives voice to itself through the emotion of what is happening.

Tobias

So you may feel like devastation. You may be doubting for perhaps for the first time in a long time. The validity of what you do. Is what you're doing real? Are you imagining it? All of these fears are coming up. Does she give voice to it? No. Because if she's scared that if she mentions anything, people will shut her down.

And this is when I say to you and I ask you, what are the family patterns? What are the family superstitions? What are the family rules and regulations that are in your life? Do they still have control over you? Yes, they do have control over her, even though she thought and has worked on them for many, many times.

My challenge to you: If you believe you have worked on an issue, ask somebody to trigger you in it. Get them to push your buttons and find somebody who knows you so they know how to get in there. Believe me, it is an education. Now not doing that so that you can feel that your foundation has nothing left anymore, that it is ripped to pieces. What I'm trying and attempting to do here is allow you to see that when you are in each of the seven points, you are going to experience something very different each time.

Tobias

Some of you will feel, I've done that. I've been in there. It's good. It's clear. I can feel the energy flowing in. I can feel it going out. I can feel it coming up. I can feel it coming down. I'm clear. When somebody pushes your button, nothing happens. And that's good.

But then you get to the pleasure centre. You get to the Carnival City, you get to the place of great entertainment, and you are stuck and everybody else is going, whoa, this is the ride of my life. I've got it. My partner, my lover, my self-appreciation. And you're sitting there going, oh. I can't feel anything. I'm stuck. I'm bunged up. And that's because you need the breath. You need the meditation. You need to allow what is happening. You need to go in and go deep and you need to dig. You need to get the graders in. You need to ask the universe to come in and say, I am ready, I am willing, and no matter what it takes. I'm willing to go as deep as it requires of me.

Tobias

When you are eating foods for your energy, do not delete anything while you're doing this. Protein is the best thing to eat while you are doing your chakra work at the base. It is the best foundational food. No, I don't care if you are animal protein, or vegetable protein. Protein is what your body needs to assist you in clearing this out. You meditate, you give thanks. You are grateful for the preparation of your food. That changes the energy that you are consuming. As you consume it, it goes down. It begins to give you energy and your body, the energy, the staying power, the battery power that is required by you to physically move and shift the energy that is stuck.

As you process things, as you go through, you will find that your energy body will begin to talk to you more and more. Your food is going to change. Your food tastes will change over the next period of time. You will be drawn to certain foods. You will reject certain foods, foods that you have not eaten for a long period of time. All of a sudden you'll be looking at it and going, I actually want to eat that again. There is no judgement. Eat what your body requires for the moment that you are in.

Tobias

Is there anything that I need to cover? The superstitions are all based in the different belief systems within the chakras. Is there anything else that you would like or wish to ask at this stage pertaining to these questions? No question is silly. There's no such thing as a silly question. Anything that's come up around this, please take the opportunity.

Participant

I'd like to go back to that issue that we did bring up before about, is it really necessary to sit with one's feet to the floor, or is it okay to prop oneself up in bed? Is there a real reason why one really needs the feet on the floor?

Tobias

Yes, to remain grounded. So you do not sleep. But if you're sitting up with your, you know, propped up straight legs ahead. I find that most of the time it is good because it grounds you there. Is that true connection of the physical touch beneath the feet? Is there a reason why you wish to do it in bed? Because it's cold in the mornings. That's where I like to be. So it is a comfort thing. Yes it is. I'm very comfortable doing that.

What I would suggest is get up. Find something to put your feet on that is perhaps warm or wrapped. Wrap some things around that will warm them. It is good to do it grounded in the earth in Gaia. If it is something that you truly want to do sitting on the bed, you can do it. But at least spend ten or fifteen minutes with this individual chakra through the day. For argument's sake, if you're doing the base, then do all of the breath, the meditation breath that you did, in bed. That's fine. But then take time out to go into the one chakra that you're dealing with on that week at a time where you are able to put your feet on the ground and allow the energy of Gaia to drain from you, the excess emotion allow Gaia to infuse into you the inner strength and connection that you will need while you are doing this.

But there is no legality why you should or should not. It is just what I find works the best in the preference of the meditation.

Tobias

Remember, you are the most important person in this hearing. It is a healing. It's not a modality healing. It's not an energy healing per se that you go out to get somebody to do. But it is a healing of your energy. It is a healing of your mind, your will, your emotions, your beliefs, your trust, your self-trust. It is all of these points and you will begin to see as we delve deeper and deeper, the different issues that will come up.

How many of you have had issues of self trust, issues of self belief, self love, self recognition, acceptance. Base chakra. I will leave it at that. Thank you everybody. It's been fantastic. Thank you for your wonderful participation as usual. Thank you.

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