Monday, March 21, 2022
6:20 a.m. How easy it is to start a chain of associations! I was tempted (why?) to start this by saying, “Good Morning, Vietnam!” Which of course would lead to Robin Williams and then who knows where. Instead of following that sand pattern, I could look at the pattern formed around the question of why I should be prompted (tempted?) to use that tag line from an old movie. Or I could veer off – as I am doing now, but not for any longer – with the question of how originating impulses arise. All this could be seen as opportunity, and it goes on all the time, mostly unnoticed, I expect.
However, to work. Setting switches. I trust that my friends who read this set theirs when they are reminded by reading of me setting mine. Gentlemen? “Actions and consequences (3)”? The shared subjectivity as cause and effect?
You will bear in mind that in our examination of the subject we aim to connect fields of inquiry usually kept separate. So, people wanting to understand cruelty – your specific example – tend to examine nature or nurture; or they may examine the two together, nature v. nurture, and come up with a somewhat broader understanding. Well, the inquiry can be expanded farther, to greater profit. There is the 3D soul and there is “the world” it lives in. That is, there is the personal subjectivity that the individual shapes and experiences and identifies with, and there is the shared subjectivity, that the individual shapes only indirectly, and only to a small degree, and experiences as “out there” rather than identifying with it.
Obviously this is nothing you don’t know, because you live it. But knowing a thing in a certain context is different from knowing it in a different context, or in isolation. That’s why we mention it specifically now. The shared subjectivity has a life of its own, in that it is, you might say, everybody taken as a group, and particularly
Getting confused.
Bullets will help, probably. The shared subjectivity:
- Is everybody. It is shared. It is “humanity,” say. It is more than that, but we will stick to its human attributes for this discussion.
- It is everybody’s unfinished business; individually and as groups and as groups of groups.
That could be a disquisition in itself.
In due time, as things come together.
I take it to mean, you could see the shared subjectivity as containing individual karma from other 3D lives; and group karma as a sort of process of addition of various souls’ qualities; and various groups, perhaps overlapping, depending upon what is triggered.
That will do as an interim understanding.
The shared subjectivity is thus, in a way, a running tally.
We tend to think of it as debt to be paid.
That isn’t wrong, but it is far from complete.
- It precedes you; it follows you. Like the rocks that hold the world’s energy in form, or the plants that hold its energy in emotional form, or the animals that hold its energy in a more individual, mobile form, or the celestial beings that hold its energy in careful balance – and like the humans that hold the balance of how the world’s energies will express – the shared subjectivity is a sort of buffer, or shock absorber.
I get that that isn’t the right analogy. Closer to battery, isn’t it?
Battery is closer, yes, but that won’t do, either. You have the sense of is; reach for it.
Continuity. I can’t think of an image, but the function is continuity. The shared subjectivity maintains things on an even keel somehow.
Yes, that will do. That’s the idea.
- It is the reservoir from which you all draw, and into which you all contribute. this will take some spelling out.
Remember to keep your common sense operating as you grapple with this. What may be an unfamiliar way of thinking about a thing will be more productive if associated in your mind with life as you experience it.
- It is, indirectly, the result of and also the source of interactions between the 3D world in general and the vast impersonal forces that are like the sun’s rays, not particular to any one person, but a part of the common human condition. (And, like the sun, affecting everything, not only humans. We merely mention these truths to spark thoughts among some.)
- It is, you might say, the sieve through which the forces are strained, or is a prism through which they are diffused, or is the sorting-mechanism through which the vast becomes closer to human scale.
Step-down transformers, in effect.
Yes. Now look at the bullets we just gave you. List them, please.
The shared subjectivity:
- Is all of us.
- It is our unfinished business.
- It provides continuity.
- It is a reservoir of something.
- It is the interface with the vast impersonal forces
- It is the step-down transformer that brings them to a human scale.
You may or may not think about your relations to this all-encompassing field of activity, but nonetheless that is a part of your life. Perhaps you can see how your personal subjectivity differs from the shared subjectivity, and also how it depends on it.
So let us look at your own actions. There isn’t much point in examining the motivations of an assumed model – the steely-eyed killer, the monster of cruelty – without referring that model to you yourself. It isn’t hard to kick straw men, and people have been doing it forever. What good is that? But relate it to yourself, and suddenly you’re in a different place, much more real and perhaps tender, because nobody is as good as they’d like to think themselves. The up-side: Others aren’t as bad as you’d tend to think them.
I have been saying for years, our judgment is warped because we judge others by their actions, and ourselves by our motivations.
That is true insofar as one does; however, that is a bad habit that can be corrected.
Now, there is carelessness and its outcome; there is action performed without understanding why; there is the deliberate preference for one or another action as a way of satisfying a deeply felt urge (understood or not); and there is action performed consciously for reasons understood that relate to others and not only to one’s own motivations. You understand where we are going with all this?
I do, and maybe I should put them in bullets when I transcribe.
Very well, do.
- Carelessness and its outcome
- Action performed without understanding why
- Deliberate preference for an action as a way of satisfying a deeply felt urge
- Action performed consciously, for reasons understood that relate to others.
But where are we going?
I think this is the beginning of looking into how our actions result from factors that may or may not have much to do with our own intent.
Not quite. It would be closer to say, we will investigate how the actions of an individual tend to be the result of interaction between the personal and the shared subjectivity. The patterns within yourself are less individual and isolated than you may commonly think. That is a source of such confusion, and it bears directly on the question of why you live among monsters of cruelty. You also live among paragons of kindness and empathy, and we don’t hear you complaining about that!
More later.
Our thanks as always. A good thing we’re stopping: My handwriting is getting closer to runes than letters, and if I didn’t transcribe pretty soon I probably would be able to remember what I meant to write.