Monday, August 2, 2021
2:50 a.m. Even glancing over some of the entries of the past ten days is illuminating. A lot of solid insight brought through – and how precariously! That is, how easily forgotten when another aspect of things is considered. Last Sunday’s concentration on the importance of the living-present moment, for instance. It’s spelled out right there as part of the first bullet-point: “Matter is not the independent thing it appears to be.” Fail to get that meaning, or be unable to grasp its central importance, or be unable to agree that it is a plain statement of fact, and so much that follows becomes merely words, not sparks.
But it is so hard to hold together even the summaries of summaries, let alone detail. Do I need to look more for today’s topic, or can we proceed?
Strictly speaking, it is never necessary for you or anyone to go looking for pump-priming material. Yes, it can speed up the process, but really it amounts to your glancing through past efforts looking for sparks. Maximum receptivity will serve the same purpose.
It doesn’t always seem so.
One moment’s maximum receptivity is not necessarily the same as another’s.
So, today?
Continue to feel your way around the idea that the living-present moment owes its special quality to the presence of the spirit animating the soul.
You say “continue,” but I don’t believe you have said anything like that, till now.
Not in so many words, perhaps. but we say it now. Spirit flows through soul. In practice, this means it flows through the world. But not so easy to describe the quality of how it flows through as activator, as opposed to how it abides as sustainer of the world. Or, another way to look at it, spirit is the consciousness of all-that-is, but that consciousness has focal points, and tides, and penumbras, just like yours. [That is, just like our consciousness.]
Sometimes you do something like that and I am overwhelmed with weariness at the thought of so many connections that will have to be made and explained.
You are overwhelmed by the disproportion between the task and the resources you bring to it.
That’s what I said, or anyway what I meant.
The equalizer is time. Effort divided over time equals result. If there is more to be done, we merely take whatever time is required. If you keep showing up, the job gets done.
Encouraging thought. All right, then –
The source of the overwhelm is that several sets of relationships need to be addressed, and the result is complex. But, breaking it down, even at the cost of over-simplification, will sketch the outline. Spirit and soul. Spirit and the mind. Spirit and the physical world. Spirit and two appearances of time.
- Spirit and soul.
- Spirit is the undivided force that is never bound into form.
- Soul is a given bit of consciousness as it is bound into time-space.
- Spirit animates soul; is essential to it. Soul could be regarded as spirit assuming a burden of specific definition. Definition by time-space is the essence of a soul’s existence.
- Thus, it is important to realize – or to believe, while awaiting further evidence – that spirit and soul are two aspects of one undivided reality.
- Spirit and the mind.
- It is the animating force of spirit that prevents mind from being a fossil, or – so to speak – a statue or some other kind of not-living artifact.
- Mind in the absence of the active animation of spirit would be like a computer without electricity: ready in potential, but not active, and certainly not able to make itself active.
- Thus, your life depends not only upon the structures that exist – your heredity, background, disposition, prejudices, learning – but upon the motivating force that sets the motors running, and keeps them running.
- Again, soul and spirit are two aspects of one reality. To think of soul without spirit is more or less meaningless. Spirit without soul is less meaningless, but within 3D context, of course it cannot be experienced, for who would be there to do the experiencing (or the conceptualizing of the experiencing), in the absence of souls?
- Spirit and the physical world.
- We repeat (and repeat, and repeat, for it is not always obvious to 3D minds operating among 3D conditions), the physical world is not “things in space,” but is thought. It is the crystallized totality of all the human mind from the beginning of time. It is a representation of potential yet unlived, and of experience yet to be digested.
- We know that can be hard to accept as reality (rather than as merely a pretty thought, or a metaphor), but there it is. The world as you experience it is only somewhat real in 3D terms. Mind, matter; interior, exterior; past, present, future: It all exists in a way and is all illusion in a way. Not that what you experience is not there, but that it is not what it seems. It is somewhat real, but only Fundamentally, it is something different, as we have been saying.
- Because the physical world is a mental construct (though not a construct of any one mind, obviously), it follows mental It is of mental nature.
- Mental rules and physical rules are going to look the same, mostly, usually. After all, it is the same phenomenon experienced in two different mental frameworks. But it is when the two frameworks produce diverging rules that new insight is to be obtained. It is when the physical world suddenly or momentarily or perhaps gradually reveals itself as being less “objects in space” than “mind in patterns” that you begin to see.
- Spirit and two appearances of time.
- You experience time as either the living-present moment, or as the sea of past or future. Even though you are accustomed to thinking of them as one becoming the other, you can see the difference when your attention is called to it.
- The central importance of “being here, now” is that it is only in this present living moment that you are fully alive. It is only in the present that you can choose, that you can move. You may live 75 years, but you experience them as one continuous moment that somehow flows over external time.
- What is the difference between the 75 years and the one long moment?
Well, I’ll bite. What is it?
Next time. We covered a good deal of ground here, but this is a theme in itself, for which the ground we covered is merely clarification.
Impressively organized, I will say. I don’t remember you doing something similar before this.
Well, it is a lot of variables to consider at the same time. Some organization was required.
I look forward to next time. Our thanks as always.