Monday, April 25, 2022
4:25 a.m. I am hoping we will continue exploring the web of relationship. Setting switches: maximum focus, receptivity, clarity, presence. I get that you want me to copy the list from yesterday’s, even though we ought to be addressing only the final point [#6], how the unfinished business of the shared subjectivity affects our lives.
- Time, timing, sequence.
- The content of a mental world at any given present-moment.
- The context (what you have made yourself by that moment).
- Your intent, and your attention.
- Your non-3D preferences and inclinations – the story arc.
- As a part of timing, the unfinished business of the shared subjectivity: another limitation; also a well of opportunities. It is the top of a pop-up stack.
- Your entire nature as a 3D-human, not merely the parts of yourself that you are aware of – and certainly not merely the parts of yourself you approve of.
Remember to consider all these points in relation to each other. We are examining the interrelationship of elements in your lives. We must look at each in turn, perforce, but don’t forget to return to the question of how they affect one another. Your every moment is an inter-functioning of the moment on
- Your content (present tense, you might say), in the context of
- What you made yourself (past) and
- What you intend to make yourself (future). This, both
- Consciously (3D) and
- Unconsciously (non-3D).
This means you as driver and you as driven, both. That is, points 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7, respectively. So now – remembering that, if you can – let us look at point #6, how the greater world interacts with your personal part of it.
Your part of it, because of course although the sequential nature of language requires us to consider things as if they were separate because we give them different names, “you” and “the rest of reality” are not separate and never could be. So, bear that in mind as we go, too: Everything interconnects if you choose to look at reality as many separate elements, or everything is one, but has to be examined one bit at a time merely because of limitations of RAM in a 3D-influenced brain.
Yes, understood.
Understood and repeatedly forgotten in practice, but there’s little to be done about it but to periodically remember.
Point six comprises several aspects:
- It is part of the greater question of timing, for only certain kinds of things may be addressable in any given moment.
- It is a limitation, for that reason. Some things just can’t be done in certain moments, or at best can be done only with great difficulty.
- Conversely, it is an opportunity, for by the same token, other things are easiest then, or perhaps easier than they might be at other times.
- The pop-up stack analogy is meant to convey the relationship of immediacy, preparation, execution, and generation of further business.
You see? As we said earlier, carpe diem means “seize the day” not merely because one can act only in the now, not in the past or future; it also means, “seize the unique moment, because it has opportunities that may never recur, even if it necessarily also poses obstacles that one must overcome.”
This all seems clear. Do we need to go deeper into it?
We smile. We have only set out the background. We have not yet begun to explore the implications, and the effects you experience every moment.
You haven’t? Proceed, by all means.
This point is above all the point of connection between you as individual consciousness and the all-that-is as it manifests in 3D and is modified via the non-3D.
This is how the vast impersonal forces enter our lives?
That’s not a helpful way of thinking about it, as it implies separation where there is none. It is a natural way to see things, but we’re going to encourage you to fight your way free of certain habitual ways of thinking, so that you may acquire and retain a wider view.
Let’s look at it, not from the point of view of a 3D individual (remember of course that the individual is always also a non-3D individual), but from the assumed viewpoint of the whole. For the moment, we will pretend that we are all-that-is, examining its relations to a unit and to all units.
This should be interesting.
And it may not work, but let’s see.
The world as it exists in the moment (in whatever moment this is read) is the culmination of all that has come before. (This in itself require explanation, but the question of how an endless now can also be part of a sequence is more than we can examine here if we hope to accomplish anything else.) Because it is the culmination of a sequence, any given moment contains what we are calling “unfinished business.” But that doesn’t imply a progression toward a point where all debts will be paid, all ongoing enterprises liquidated, so to speak: It means, instead, that any given moment will be particularly propitious for the continuing development of certain energy-transformations.
“Energy-transformations?” That is enticing, but not by any means clear.
Well, we needed a way to refer to the events of your lives (and their immediate consequences) that avoided the word “karma” and avoided the implication of debt, and personal account-settling. Those concepts have been around a long time, and their usefulness has perhaps been overtaken by their unintended baggage. Life is not double-entry bookkeeping. Your moral character is not a police blotter. What you are doing here is not a matter for you alone. The concept of karma as popularly understood tends to reinforce each of those misunderstandings.
I’m getting the sense that karma as understood undervalues the importance of the quality of a given present moment as opportunity and limitation.
Yes. Your lives are not about atoning for past shortcomings, nor coasting on the benefits of past virtues. They are about you – what you are, what you have made yourself – choosing. That “choosing” may be redefined as “selecting from the elements available, and transforming them according to will and intent.”
As everyone does that, what do you see, looking at things from the view that all-that-is might have, if it had eyes to see and if it had a focus on just the present moment? You see everyone dipping into the pool of possibilities, and transforming some part of them by what they are and what they intend, and leaving the pool of possibilities changed, both by what they withdrew from it and by what they poured back into it.
That’s a vivid image. I like it.
From this universal point of view, do you suppose all-that-is cares if you zig instead of zag? Do you suppose that the fate of the world (let alone the fate of reality in general) depends upon anything you do? Life would be unimaginably fragile, if that were so, and it is not.
But our choices do matter, and I get that they do matter to the universe no less than to ourselves.
They do, but in a different way. If you were a boy playing baseball, your team’s record would matter intensely to you. It would matter to your parents and others too, perhaps, but you can hardly think it would be as important to anyone else in the same way. Their concern might be in your development as n athlete, or even as a healthy child, and baseball might be seen as contributing to that, but the box-scores would hardly be seen as important.
So there’s your hour, and perhaps that’s enough for the moment about how you live in a web of relationships.
I’d like more on the ecology of the present moment.
Nice phrase. Well, we’ll see, won’t we?
Our thanks for all this, as always.