Revisiting some of the 1100+ questions that
have been asked at past Shouds.

Pain
Divine Human Series, Shoud 1, 2002

QUESTION: Tobias, could you explain the role of pain and suffering on this path, and how we might minimize it, in a sense, not get the headache from this headache energy?

TOBIAS: The role of pain and suffering is tied directly into duality. It is part of the balance of positive and negative you've given yourself. Pain can be a wonderful thing. It teaches you many lessons. It helps you guide yourself through life. If you did not have pain, and you did not have emotional suffering, you would not have a depth of experience.

Now, many humans try to eliminate pain and eliminate suffering. What they try to do is put a blanket over it. They try to stamp it out. Some try to do it with the drugs we have spoken of that we do not so much appreciate (psychotropic drugs). Indeed, you will greatly reduce the level of your pain, but you will also greatly reduce the level of your experience. Pain is only painful when it lands on a friction within you, a resistance within you.

When pain comes to you, whether it is physical or emotional, do not try to run from it, or stamp it out. Once again, ask that energy why it is visiting you. It will tell you something. It will give you an enlightenment and an understanding that is valuable.

Now, we have also said that pain, or what you call "the lows," are an important part of the natural cycle. These periods of emotional depression, or physical disease, or discomfort, provide a momentum and an energy that helps you move forward to the next new level of enlightenment.

When you reach a certain point on your path, the pain and the suffering will not affect you like it did before. There is less resistance within your being. As you told yourself today in the Shoud, you accept all aspects, light and dark. When you accept all aspects, there is no internal friction for the pain to fall upon. It's not that you will be without pain, but it will give you a new sensation. It will not be so painful! In a sense, it will be just a different form of energy coming to you that you can then utilize on your path.

Also, as you come into a greater understanding of things you will not be in so much pain. You will understand how to rebalance your physical body. You will understand how to rebalance your emotion. But know that pain and suffering are all part of the learning experience.

Pain served you well in the past. Understand that now where you're at on your path, you do not need this pain to the degree that you have needed it before. You do not need to choose pain and suffering, just as you do not need to choose poverty, and you did not need to choose the lack of love. So, don't try to hide it. Don't try to stamp it out. But understand that it is not anything that you need to the degree that you have had in the past.

Local Circles
Divine Human Series, Shoud 1, 2002

QUESTION: Tobias, my wife and I stepped off the ledge this week. We have no fear about that. My question is this. You touched on the Crimson Circle Local Circles around the world. We have lots of people signing up every week. We need to fill those homes up. Could you nudge some of Shaumbra so that they get the same benefits from the Local Circles that we have? That's why we feel so comfortable doing what we're doing now. Thank you.

TOBIAS: This, my dear friend, is your job to nudge them. That is why you have volunteered for this position. That is why you have developed the skill set around this, to know how to do this. But we ask you one thing. In your own dealings with this, think outside of the box. You have come to understand the box very well. You have practiced it in the past. You have helped define the box in the past. Now, go outside. You heard yourself say today in the Shoud that you understand the rules. You helped to write them. Now, go outside of them.

It is the same here. There is a need in the Local Circles for true expression. Everyone is trying to follow old rules, even about what times they get together, what subjects they cover, what they do. And, quite frankly, so many of them are bored. So many are looking for something new. So encourage them and encourage yourself to think outside of the box.

There is one example that we would give here. Have them do Shoud together. Have them put their collective selves together. At each meeting have them trade off of who does the Shoud for the group. There is an interesting dynamic that happens here. It is different when one channels an outside entity like myself. It is quite different. When you channel, when you Shoud with the ones who are in your group, you have to be in your truth. You have to stand in truth when Shaumbra is channeling Shaumbra.

There are some humans who have interesting interpretations when they channel outside entities. Their own heavy filters distort the picture sometimes. We have seen it happen so often. You could channel any of the archangels, and sometimes the humans in the audience would not even know if you are misinterpreting the information. They would not even know, for instance, if you intended to channel Michael and you ended up with some low-level Earthbound disincarnate entity. How would they know, other than if they were truly connected within?

But when Shoud takes place, you cannot fool anyone. You are speaking of them, for them, and with them. So encourage your groups to do this type of thing. Also, encourage your groups to have fun together.

We enjoy this idea for this "rest stop" that you all plan to take. Yes, you are all going on strike for two days, and a type of "spiritual walk-out." And, we applaud this! And then, dear friend, ask your groups for their ideas. Ask them. And when they say, "Well, we do not know what to do. We are not so sure what to do with our Local Circles," ask them to go within for the answer. It is truly there. You have chosen a somewhat difficult task, but we know your spirit is strong, and you are up for it.

Relationships
New Energy Series, Shoud 5, 2003

QUESTION: Hi Tobias, it’s been a long time. My question is about relationships. What are they going to be looking like in this New Energy of experience and joy? And, also specifically, what are the potentials for me in this area?

TOBIAS: Indeed, we could write books about this. YOU could write books about relationships. They will be changing drastically. Old relationships were based on two entities coming together for fulfillment of each other, two halves coming together to form something more complete. They were based on a male and female archetypical energy having to meld together.

So many of you have gone through relationship breakups because it was no longer appropriate for you to play in that sandbox. So you are in a time here for a bit of no relationship, truly waiting for a balanced partner to come in. Now, looking across the globe at all of humanity – how to say – there are not too many to choose from right now. There has been a small number that have chosen to walk into this New Energy.

However, you don't have to limit yourself to that either. There are many dear and wonderful souls out there who will understand energetically that they are not here to fulfill you and you not for them.

The New Energy relationships will be based on total and implicit trust. Can you imagine total and implicit honor and compassion? It will be based on mutual respect, and encouraging each other to soar, even if it means that from time to time you need to be apart.

New Energy relationships will not have the certificate of marriage that you have seen in the past that energetically and legally bind the people. They will be based on a day-to-day, on true love and true honoring.

New Energy relationships will be based on experiencing a whole new type of sex, one that is fulfilling and gratifying for both, one that is a sharing of energies rather than a robbing of energies. New Energy relationships will take place physically, but the two will be connected energetically in a whole New way.

In the New unions of two people – whether it is male and female, female-female, or male and male – this will bring in a whole different type of angel runner energy into their relationship. Because they are working so closely together, it allows more of us on our side to facilitate what their New Energy passion is.

For yourself… stop looking… no more journey here. Understand that it is about developing of a relationship with yourself first. That is the most holy and sacred thing – developing the compassion within you. And then stay open to the probabilities and the possibilities – how to say this – it might be someone quite a bit younger that comes into your life because they carry a different set of energy attributes that would be more compatible to where you are at. So, keep your eyes wide open here.