Year: 2016

Saturday, February 27, 2016
F: 6:25 a.m. It’s early dawn out there. If it’s dawn, it must be time to talk to Rita. Shall we?
R: Remember, we are working toward building an accurate or at least understandable picture of non-3D life, and to do that, we are proceeding by a process of subtraction from what was familiar, followed by (or interspersed with, really) substitution compensating for what was lost, and additions beyond that. That’s how life works, when you think of it – subtracting, substituting, adding.
The ex-3D soul had its losses, and experienced them fully. For a while, it may have clung to the sliding board, saying “not yet!” the way some say “not yet!” to death. But sooner or later, more easily or less easily, it said its goodbyes to Earth and all it had known. From its point of view, it lost everything but its memories, and even these, though not lost, were changed. After that, everything was substitution and addition.
F: At some point regaining the ability to experience and interact with 3D, I take it.
Continue reading Rita — the soul’s redefinitions

Friday. February 26, 2016
F: 7:05 a.m. All right, Miss Rita, here we are in daylight. I feel like we’re behind the game. You ready?
R: No need to feel pressed. Slow and steady wins the race.
F: The Hare and the Tortoise
R: Lots of good things in Aesop, and when I was little we were taught them routinely.
F: So where we left off was the departed soul – or the arriving soul, depending on your point of view, I guess – realizing more what it really was and always had been.
R: It changes everything, you see. Not one thing that it was accustomed to remains to it, except – to the extent that it developed it while in 3D life – the ability and habit of communicating freely with the rest of itself. If it had no such habit, it now has nothing whatever as a resource from its end of the polarity.
F: I think I know what that means, but just to be sure –
Continue reading Rita – the ex-3D soul, reorienting

Thursday, February 25, 2016
F: 5:10 a.m. Strange feeling, to know the theme and have little idea of what it is going to mean. “Little,” not meaning “no.” So, let’s find out. Your move, Miss Rita. TGU?
R: Remember, as we proceed, what our goal is. Ultimately we want to convey a sense of “everyday” life in the non-3D, as part of the All-D, and in order to get a standpoint to do that, we are lightly describing the experiences of the soul as it leaves the 3D element in which it was created, successively stripping off illusions and distortions caused by life under 3D conditions. It is by this process of subtraction that we hope to move from the familiar to the less familiar without taking great leaps that may leave people gasping for breath, or disoriented by having lost their grounding.
The soul loses sensory access, and so turns its unbroken attention on to itself, perhaps for the first time, certainly for the first time in undistracted fashion. It goes through the stages of shame, remorse, vain regrets, etc., and comes to acceptance because after all, “what’s done is done,” and at some point it becomes “where do we go from here.” Not quite that obviously, not quite that directly, but still, that is the progression.
Continue reading Rita — the soul’s reorientation

Wednesday, February 24, 2016
F: 12:35 p.m. Well, Rita, let’s see if we can continue. I seem to be more or less back from my exertions of last night Where were we?
R: You – the nominal person who just died to the 3D world – have gone through a couple of difficult stages, of which judgment of your failings was probably the most painful. But as acceptance replaces condemnation, you are ready to move again.
F: You’ve stopped holding on to the sides of the sliding board.
R: That’s right. Among the fears, perhaps chief is not “I can’t take this” but “I’m worried about how much worse it can get.” At some point, in one way or another (and I do not intend to stay to even suggest the [possible] ways, let alone detail them), you release your hold on what you knew of what you are. You allow yourself to see more deeply.
Now, this “seeing more deeply”
Continue reading Rita — the stages after judgment

Tuesday, February 23, 2016
F: 5 a.m. So, we are dead to the world – in both senses of the expression – and we first turn our attention to who we are and were – as opposed to who we liked to think we were. We judge, and then judgment becomes acceptance. And then?

R: And then you are moving again, and what you are experiencing changes as it changes you. As long as you are stuck in judgment, additional perception cannot easily occur. Judgment is a form of shrinking from reality. You know?

F: I think you are saying that, because we fear that it will be even worse than it is, we try not to look any more closely.

R: That is it approximately, but far from exactly, so let’s leave that thought as only a suggestion, rather than a description. Let’s say, the harsher the judge, the scarcer the witnesses, and the less fluid the perception.
Continue reading Rita — like a newborn baby

Monday, February 22, 2016

F: 4:10 a.m. So, things are getting very interesting, Rita. Something of a desert, the hours between talking to you and being able to do it again. Pray continue.

R: Yes, and of course it is a pleasure to have an interested and appreciative audience. Communication is flow, and flow is life.

To proceed. You die to the 3D world and your world is now your own mental world, your subjectivity, in a way you did not experience previously, perhaps, except in dreams. Your previous communication with the parts of yourself you were not conscious of may have taken place entirely without your conscious knowledge; or you may have had anomalous experiences; or perhaps you casually or occasionally or routinely or systematically made it a practice to broaden that communication. You can see that in each of these cases, your reaction to the experiences that follow cessation of sensory contact with the 3D is going to be different. What is familiar will evoke different reactions than what is not.
Continue reading Rita — going through judgment

Sunday, February 21, 2016
F: 6:05 a.m. Still a month away from equinox, so it’s still total darkness outside.
All right, Rita, on we go, then. A little later than usual, but no harm done, I trust. I like it that I sort of know where we’re going, even though I don’t know what it’s going to look like. It’s easier.
R: Very well. Keep in mind always that we are moving toward explaining life “on the other side” – which means life when not constricted by the special circumstances of life in the constricted environment of 3D, and we are doing so by moving from what you know, and subtracting.
So, you lose your physical senses, which reorients you inward. And at first, what do you “see” there? You initially experience yourself as you have been experiencing yourself in 3D existence. That is, Frank on his deathbed, losing sight and even awareness of the 3D, is as if in a dream. He processes thoughts, emotions, memories, fantasies – and does so as he did in dreams. Scenarios seem to happen to him, just as in dreams. He has no particular sense of himself as actor or director, only as –
Continue reading Rita — immersed in your own world