Wednesday, May 13, 2015
F: 7:30 a.m. I’m not sure I know where we’re going. Nothing new there! If I had a more analytical mind and a more industrious nature, I would be searching the material for the right questions to ask, in order to illuminate the underlying issues. Who has ever had a better resource than our working relationship, Rita? But I don’t really do much more than transmit what I get.
R: Worthwhile in itself.
F: Sure, but not what I would like to be able to do.
R: Nothing anybody does is what they want to do; more like what they can do within a range of possibilities. Happy the people whose range of possibilities covers their desires.
F: I can imagine people objecting to this idea.
R: Name three things (as you always say) that couldn’t be objected to.
F: Touché.
R: In fact, people’s reaction to any given input could be considered to be an example of the difference between their range of possibilities and their preferences. If they like it, they adopt it. If they don’t, they change, or they reject it, or they search for a way to renegotiate reality, call it.
F: They try to square the circle.
R: Often successfully. It is in that attempt to renegotiate reality that change occurs. Adaptation. Progress, so called. Change, anyway. (There is no real such thing as “progress” if you mean gain without forfeit.)
F: Go on, then.
R: Not at this time. It is difficult to explain to you, but different times allow different concepts. You could look at it that “you have to be ready” for certain information, but that is only to treat a universal as if it hinged upon the individual. And, well, that is true as well, but here the emphasis is, simply, at this time for whatever reasons you like – your inability to add to context, or a wider disparity between context and content – I can’t get across to you certain concepts. But this is no big deal, as you would say, because the time that is wrong for some things is always right for other things.
F: Which is why the Seth material came to the culture in the 1970s and not the 1870s, say?
R: You can’t build the pyramids from the top down.
F: I understand that. Foundations must be in place before superstructures can be added.
R: Of course. The analogy is too limited, however, because what is a foundation-stone for one thing may be a capstone for another, and a gargoyle for a third. Simultaneously.
F: So what is appropriate for us to hear this morning?
R: Beware applying Psychic’s Disease to End Times.
F: Don’t think you know what’s coming.
R: That’s right, neither concept nor timing. The desire to know ahead of time is understandable – I well remember it! – but really, useless. It confuses the reason for prophecy with an advanced newscast.
F: Yes, I get that. The purpose of prophecy is not to say, “you’re all doomed!” but precisely the opposite, to say “If you don’t watch your feet, you’re going to run off the edge, so watch it, will you?”
R: Precisely. If the future were unavoidable there might be some reason to give you a preview of coming attractions, but – why? It is because you can choose among futures that freedom exists, and it is the function of prophecy to remind you of it.
So don’t go putting all your money on Armageddon, or utopia, or anything in between. You (in effect) create your future, by choosing who and what you wish to be. And as always remember that in any discussion the underlying question is “which you?” You in your present body – how long do you expect to function in 3D? Two hundred years further along, nobody will remember you and why should they? And why should you care if they do or don’t? Your immortality is not a matter of reputation; it is inherent in your having been created in the first place. You will survive and flourish; your body will not. Be glad.
F: Not news to me.
R: No, but this is aimed somewhat wider and deeper. That is, to more people at this time, and to more at future times.
F: So – “don’t think you know what’s coming.” Why is that particularly appropriate today?
R: It is not particularly appropriate in the sense that this Wednesday morning it can be said and not the day or week before or after; only in the sense that this is among the thoughts that belong to this wider time. To say it in 1950 would be to say it in a context that would probably envisage atomic warfare. To say it in 1975 would be the cold war situation of the day. And so forth. Today, 2015, the message is appropriate. That doesn’t mean it is the only time it is appropriate, and it certainly doesn’t mean it is the only message appropriate to the time, only that the two match up, as one example.
F: And yet – looking back at what we’re written today – people do get glimpse of the future.
R: They get glimpses of the future they later go to, and it’s accurate pre-vision. They get glimpses of a future they don’t go to, and it is incorrect prophecy. Same process, same accuracy, different-seeming result, because of different outcomes of their navigation, not of different efficacy in perception.
F: So, Edgar Cayce saw the widespread destruction from 1958 to 1998 that did not happen.
R: Did not happen where you are. Your very fascination with the picture – your draw to it – shows you that you are also in touch with –
No, let me back off from that and say something different.
F: Why?
R: Because what I will say can be comprehended and what I will refrain from saying could not, and the resulting misinterpretation is unnecessary.
You were fascinated with – almost desirous of – a catastrophic future. In the same way, you were convinced of, and desirous of, Antarctica coming out from under the ice. You do not fear or regret the earth changes, but look forward to them as facilitators of other things. Do you see a common denominator here?
F: A wish for the transformation of this society, I suppose.
R: A wish for the destruction of this society, and its replacement by a better. Does this still strike you as such a good idea?
F: I get your point. I used to believe in revolution.
R: Plus a change, plus a la meme chose. [French, or perhaps mangled French, for a famous French expression, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”]
F: I’m going to spell-check that, but yes. Revolutions are dead-ends, perhaps the least desirable way to change. Political, military, revolution, I mean. In my lifetime I have seen my society revolutionized repeatedly, until it scarcely resembles the one I was born into in any respect. I’m not sure – or rather, I am quite sure that not all the changes are in the right direction.
R: Yes, but just because you are sure is no guarantee you are right. How can you know which changes lead to what?
F: Again, point taken. I suppose, in a way, even having preferences among changes is a form of Psychic’s Disease.
R: Not quite. But preference can certainly distort perception.
F: Enough for today?
R: Enough. Next time.
F: Next time.
In the 80’s some were certain that Earth Changes would usher in a New Age of Enlightenment somewhere around 2012. I wondered where these people were going to get dinner after the apocalypse & thought it might be a better idea to go out with the first tsunami & come back after people had really figured out the logistics of that future. I am encouraged, as a discouraged idealist, that Rita used the word Change with a capital C as something tangible and sweeping. Can’t wait to hear more. Looking forward to what it might mean in my life and for the next phase of the human experiment.
Well, you don’t have to settle for second-hand information. Ask yourself, that is, your own guidance. The hardest part is persuading yourself there is something there to get. Next hardest, that it’s important. Third hardest, that you can actually understand what’s there. (And, indeed, at first we don’t. It’s like the directions on how to get to Carnegie Hall: Practice, practice.)
BTW I’m with you. If there were going to be a World War III, I rather hoped i’d go out right away rather than stay for the full performance.
I am reminded of a TV show years ago about the mother having a dream in which she was driving a car, heard a noise, and something bad happened. So she spent the next week avoiding driving and made other choices that resulted in her still having to drive and then she heard the noise like in her dream and stopped the car and then a little kid ran in front of her. So her dream prevented the accident. I remember thinking this was pretty progressive for network TV. (I was knee deep in the Seth Material at the time.)
Interesting and thought provoking post per usual. There is something to the energy and rhythm of these dialogues that ignites me – whether the words themselves convey new ideas or ideas more familiar. The sparks are there, at least for those whose tinder is ready!
So encouraging to hear that! Thanks.
About “Foresight” or “Predictions”. Certainly it is “warnings” if to listen.
Frank, once (you), to have mentioned what Carl Jung have told:”If MANY enough would begin working upon them-self”,then the Mind-Set of the humans can be strong enough to avoid more war(s)or whatever will be called as “bad happenings.”
Edgar Cayce have told the very same. And if not to recall it all wrong—it is told the very same within Theosophy. It is depending upon which end of The Scale(s)in how MANY of us will be “The Inner Peace-Makers.”
And as “The Force” is neutral(what about Star-Wars?)…it seems to be a question about the free will all over again? The Good Ones wants PEACE and The Bad Ones continuing the fights for more power, for whatever reason.
Either way,we are the species of competition or? The word “progressive”will be the most attractive attitude in the western world.
F.inst. In “The Sports”….An Norwegian reporter called the Sports-Athletics at the arenas for “The New Gladiators,” and exclaimed it is all the remnants from the Roman Empire. And thereafter declared:”It is the new religion.”
Nobody took him seriously of course.They laughed.
We have a nick-name for all those sports-fanatics(which seems to be all about fanaticism, and often very violently as well), either local or national…The”I am better than you” attitude, and the amount of money likewise. The millionaires running after a ball as madmen(the football-matches in Europe and soccer in U.S.), and the public behaving as “Bloody-Mary.”
What a weird dream(laughs).
LOL,Inger Lise.
P.S. The book by Dolores Cannon is mighty impressive and absolutely worth the reading.