Wednesday, April 27, 2011
8:30 AM. All right, let’s get to the topic. I have been working with to rough schemes that contradict each other, and you said yesterday you would give me a new one more appropriate to where I am now. Is this going to be another of those revolutions that set me farther and farther on a road away from where I’ve been?
Maybe. It depends upon what you decide to do with it. Every road begins at wherever you are, and no road takes you anywhere unless you travel it.
Anybody who tries to figure out “how things are” must either reconcile it with his own assumptions of the nature of what he knows, or he must change those assumptions. If he thinks he is an indivisible unit (1), what he can be told will be different from what is possible if he has realized that every individual (so-called) is a mixture of masculine and feminine psychological elements, à la Carl Jung (2). If, having absorbed Jung, he is then led on to realize that he is not a unitary mind, at all, but more of a community (3), again the possibilities are different – and they change again when (if) he realizes that, in fact, “he” isn’t very much a “he” at all – a unit – but more a ringmaster holding together multiple strands (4), each independent, each with its own history, each with its own connection extending “back in time and outwards” in space to others.
If you will go back and number those positions, it will facilitate the discussion.
Done.
The religion, the science, possible to position four is hardly appropriate to any of the others. Surely this is obvious.
Now – this long preliminary accomplished – to our latest permutation.
Without going into the history of your particular conceptions of how things are, we’ll just suggest a current one, and you may object or question, and will try for ever-more clarity.
All right.
You are ringmaster. That’s the place to begin, because (theory aside) that is the one place where you – anyone who reads this – experience first-hand what we are saying, even if you don’t realize what you are experiencing.
So. You go through your day. You have stray thoughts, which may be suggested by a myriad of factors, many well understood. The other day, a breeze reminded you of England, and the awareness was just enough that you were able to make a conscious. Had it remained lower-threshold, you might’ve thought of England and had no idea why. Had it been higher-threshold it might have led you to a whole series of reminiscences, mental, emotional, physical. As it was, it was just high enough to serve.
Now – doesn’t that make you suspicious?
It wouldn’t have. It didn’t, till I overheard (so to speak) what you have in mind. But I see where you’re going.
Yes. What “mechanism” determines whether such perceptions rise, sink or float in your mind? Most would call it chance, we imagine. Some few might say it was all determined in advance, a sort of inevitable chain under no one’s control.
And you’re claiming, if I get you right, that this is one subtle way you have of influencing us.
Yes indeed, but we’re saying much more than that.
The people who believe that everything is predestined are correct in one aspect of things: Everything is intimately, intricately, connected. In a sense, there are no accidents (though there are many contingencies that don’t matter whichever way they go. Where a leaf falls on the sidewalk, for instance).
However, we are hereby introducing a form of connection that we think has not occurred to you before. Your non-physical connections are directly, intimately, intricately, inevitably connected to the balance between your thoughts, your habitual concepts, your scarcely-noticed perceptions, your emotions – your whole mental world.
In a sense this is nothing new. It might all be extrapolated from what we’ve said before. But spelling it out may bring it more to the surface, enriching your model.
You are a community of traits, of strands. You’ve gotten that concept. But now consider your everyday life as person-group, and consider how complex and interactive it is. All of that is available to the group-mind of which you are one strand. So, your subliminal perception of a breeze, that brings forth a previously unsuspected physical-memory connection to England, raises some image on your present-moment mind-screen. A memory, or, more, a concept of England as you experienced it, surfaces, and does so either from no apparent cause or from an understood connection with a physical stimulus, or for some other reason. All of this, being a part of your person-group, is also a part of whatever group-mind you participate in, and may influence it unexpectedly or even unsuspectedly.
This works both up and down the chain of being. A strand “within you” (for that is how it appears to you, within) may be influenced by you as its group-mind, and it may have no concept whatever for the source of that influence. It may attribute any intervention to God, or to angels, or demons, or – anything. At your present level of development and attention, explanations suitable for one, two, or three are not satisfying, nor appropriate therefore. At other levels, explanations suitable to level four are inappropriate, because similarly unsatisfying, unhelpful.
The point here is that everything is immensely interconnected, and interact continuously.
The second point is that we can thus tweak your awareness and influence you regardless of conversations such as these. We can assure that that subliminal perception of a cool breeze, reminding your body (so it may be said) of England, receives enough attention to be made conscious, so that we can then use the situation as an example. We didn’t cause the breeze. We didn’t cause the body-awareness, or the mental-emotional connection to England. But we can and do use what is available.
Now you’re more or less out of time and energy, so we’ll continue another time, but we trust that this is a helpful beginning, and starts some speculative rabbits running.
So it does. All right, see you whenever. Thanks as always.