Monday, February 21, 2022
4:25 a.m. All right, guys, open for business. Setting switches: FRCP. What’s on your minds this morning?
We could go in any of several directions as usual. But let’s stay on the subject of the individual in his or her times. Another way to phrase that is, The personal subjectivity interacting with the shared subjectivity. You and the world. The internal and the external. The Subjective and the Objective experience of life. These should make sense to you as poles of a continuity, rather than as non-connected things.
They do for me, anyway, and I’m sure for anybody who has been working the material as you advise.
There is a somewhat more nuanced way of looking at things, a little less obvious, that may make the underlying situation clearer.
And I could feel it as a background thought, about to become present, and I lost it, which feels like you losing it. Refocusing.
Earlier in our relationship you would have been busy suspecting you were making us up.
Yes. Well –?
Life, the universe, and everything – it is very complicated, and yet generated by a few simple rules, in the way that a tree or an animal or anything you could name is a complex manifestation of the operation of a few relatively simple genetic instructions. We don’t intend to try to describe the rules that create life in a slowed-down sector of reality. (We couldn’t do it through you in any case; it is neither your nor {therefore} our focus.) But we can – and are, and have been – concentrating on useful laws of conduct. That is, useful to you as humans; and to be human is, by definition, to be divine material, something of a contradiction in terms, and certainly a delicate balance to maintain.
Why are you here? Why do you experience the satisfactions and difficulties, the joy and pain of internal and external life? We don’t exactly mean “What is your purpose?” We mean, more, “What is it you were created to do?”
Sounds like the same question, repeated.
It does, but it is not. As we said, a matter of nuance. The first question looks forward in one way, the second in a different way. Therefore, they each look backward (by implication) in somewhat a different way.
I feel like I’m muddling the translation a bit, but proceed, and I imagine it will sort out as usual.
Focus yet again. The difficulty here is less your lack of application than the inherently hair-splitting nature of what we want to get across.
You are here (any of you, all of you) because the universe needs you to help sort things out – not by thinking about life, but by living it. That’s what we were created to do.
But you are also here (any of you, all of you) with certain possibilities for yourself.
I’m getting the slipperiness of it. For oneself, which is also for the world by definition, because we are part of the world.
Yes. It’s mostly a matter of fucus. If you look at it one way, it looks like your life is all about you (which it is); looked at anther way, it is all about everyone else and everything else (as it is). So the simple trick of continually or at least occasionally changing focus is what will give you the best understanding of life, and of your life.
You said this as early as the end of Muddy Tracks.
As usual, the familiar, when looked at from a new point of view, reveals new facets to the prepared mind.
Let’s try to see this in a useful perspective:
- Sorting out the universe’s business.
- Creating yourself.
A note on process. It felt necessary to write down the second bullet heading before going with the first. But that is odd. It is as if I was helping you to not forget. How likely is that? We both know which end of the stick is doing the forgetting.
Only, you are not considering that it is through you that we express. Is it not easier on both sides if we don’t need to exert effort later to help you remember?
Got it. And as you say, a while ago, I might have wasted time and nervous energy wondering if I had been making you up. Okay, then: Two aspects of our lives in 3D?
- Sorting out the universe’s business. The energies of a given moment allow only certain combinations of traits to enter, you will remember us saying. One way of understand that is that the mill of the shared subjectivity’s
Sort of got lost there.
It was the wording of the analogy. But let’s try it again, rather than changing analogy. You may wish to consider the unfinished business of the world (and there is always unfinished business) as somewhat more structured than you might think. It isn’t just a heap of grain to be ground; it is more like a mountain of data to be examined, or like genetic raw material to be turned into specific creatures. In other words, it isn’t a brute force operation, but an analytical, precise, discernment. Not that there is only one way to process, but that any of the possible ways (and possible results) are limited by the nature of the gateway thorough which they pass.
So, by definition, you as you were created bear a specific creative relation to your times; hence to your times’ unfinished business. Even if you spend your life studying the crusades, you will be studying them from the vantage point provided by your life in your times. You can’t possibly approach anything from any other vantage point. By the same token, nothing you could ever do or think could be irrelevant, or how could it have gotten in through the filters that are your times and are your times as manifested in you?
- Creating yourself. At the same time, how could anything you wanted to do, or were compelled to think or feel, be irrelevant to you? The creation of you by your third-tier choices is your job, right? How could you make the wrong choices or, let’s say, how could you make irrelevant choices?
You are here to create yourselves; you are provided with the materials active in your times. That’s the nuance we wanted to convey.
As so often, when you finish expressing it, it is a simple concept, even an obvious one, but it didn’t seem to beforehand.
The mark of a competent teaching is that what was taught is seen as obvious. The thing that had been lacking is usually a considering this in connection with that. And it is a teacher’s function to say just that: “These things ought to be considered together.”
Well, I certainly don’t have any criticisms of my teachers, I feel like I’ve been very fortunate.
You have also made use of your opportunities, which is one secret of life. The fact that you don’t necessarily think that you’ve made much use of your opportunities isn’t usually a good indicator. We’ve said many times, you don’t have the data to make informed judgments on your lives in 3D.
Today’s theme?
“Life’s two purposes,” perhaps.
Perhaps. Okay, thinks for all this, as always. Till next time.