Thursday, April 28, 2022
5:25 a.m. Shall we discuss energy beings, as half-promised yesterday? Focus, receptivity, clarity, presence.
Start with your remote viewing at Bruce Moen’s workshop that time, and we’ll see where it leads.
All right. Some years ago, when Bruce was doing workshops showing people how to connect with the non-3D [Afterlife Knowledge workshops, he called them], I invited him to do one in Charlottesville, and I was one of perhaps a dozen people attending. In one experience, I seemed to be in the middle of a desert, nothing and nobody in any direction, just hot rocks and sunlight. No movement, no sense of life. Can’t remember the intermediate steps of my realization (I ought to have those notes in a file drawer, but I’m not going to look just now, and I don’t even remember what year it was. Early in the first 2000s decade, I imagine.) but at some point, I realized I was experiencing an energy-being – invisible, intangible, without any agenda that I noticed – whose function was to be the thing that makes a sacred site sacred. That is, it is the energy that is experienced around a site.
Yes, and that is part of what we want to look at, you see. We said (you’ll remember if you page back to yesterday), some energy beings’ role is to be here-now, and some is to be here without reference to time.
I was remembering that differently. I see you said some are here-over-time (meaning perpetually, I gather) and some are now-without-here.
“Now-without-here” meaning, attached to the ongoing present moment and not attached to a specific geography.
So, three classes of non-3D functioning?
You need to remember that the world is always (necessarily) more complex than it appears. Nothing can ever be as simple a it seems.
I’m getting that there’s a reason for that, rooted in our perceptual limitations.
Of course. When do you ever see so deeply into a moment or an object or a relationship that there would be nothing more to learn by further attention? In practice, you live by making rough approximations of what you experience.
My father always used to say, “Don’t get too fancy, there.” I later took it to mean that he was feeling that he had a quart’s worth of things to do, and a pint’s worth of time and energy to do them.
Isn’t that usually your case in 3D? Don’t people find value in occasional retreat from their normal routine, so that they may recruit their energies? Isn’t meditation recommended (as a specific form of mindfulness) in order to bring you back to center? But this is a point (that we’re coming to) that isn’t always thought of in connection to your psychic life: “The world” that you experience is among other things endlessly, deeply, symbolic. It may be used for the purposes of reflection and deepening of your understanding of self and of “other” and of the relationship between self and other.
I get it. Everything we look at will look different if we can hold in mind the things we know in different contexts. That is, “all is one,” for instance, while we’re thinking about something else.
Of course. That’s why it is useful and growth-enhancing to live these things, to absorb these ways of seeing things into your being, so that you will do the associating as a matter of course, and will not have to do it as a matter of conscious effort.
This is also one reason why people make such different reports as to the nature of reality. Every time you peel another layer of onion-skin off the film covering reality, what you see differs.
The analogy is clumsy, but good enough to convey the idea, I guess. Everybody thinks they think straight, see straight. No, that isn’t right. That’s too sweeping a statement.
It is, because you yourself are an example of someone who is perpetually feeling that “there’s more here than meets the eye.” Why else would you always be wondering the “why?” of a situation, beyond the “how?” of it? Still, whatever approximation suffices for you at any given moment seems self-evidently true. “The world is this way; it’s obvious.”
Millions of people go on lecture tours, or host workshops, to tell people “the way things are.”
They write books, too, or publish blog posts recording their conversations with Hemingway or the guys upstairs. Nothing wrong with any of it, provided that you remember that any understanding of anything is, as we told you 25 years ago, only an interim report.
We seem to be making only slow progress today. Quarter after six – 40 minutes gone – and only five pages.
Which is actually right on schedule. Don’t worry about it.
I can still hear Rita responding with mild irritation when you would say that: “I’m not worried about it.” That was a hot-button for her, for some reason.
It was merely an involuntary reaction to the word.
So let’s look at here-and-now, and here-over-time, and now-without-time.
Bearing in mind, these are merely entryways into your paying more attention to the inner workings of things that may appear obvious. As Thoreau said, there is always more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. That’s what he meant. Another way to say it is, You can always have life more abundantly. But you must be willing to live there. Some receive it as a gift, some work hard to earn it, but rare is the one who lives it without intending to.
Bronson Alcott lived it, I think.
Let’s not hare off into examples, though we can do so at another time, if you wish. Your three cases:
- Here and now. The world is energy in form. Some non-3D presences are form no less than bodies are. What is your non-3D component, but non-3D energy bound to your 3D form? In that sense, it accompanies you and only you, every second of your life. Calling it your spirit or part of your soul doesn’t clarify matters; the fact is, nothing in 3D form can exist without its non-3D structure maintaining it.
Plato’s archetypes, that some people think fanciful.
What is a “Platonic ideal” but a non-3D blueprint and animating principle for a 3D manifestation?
- Here-over-time. Some places have an accompanying non-3D presence that can be felt. The sacred oak groves of various pre-literate societies. The energy that fueled the spot where oracles could prophesize. The undefinable aura that grows around a place used for a given purpose over a long enough time: a prison’s miasma, or a cathedral’s aura of other-worldliness.
- Now-without-here. Ghosts, for instance. Things which persist over time but are not necessarily limited to one place. The zeitgeist, the spirit of the times.
All very interesting, and it has been equally interesting to watch my own process throughout this, half-knowing where you would go, half-puzzled as to what would come next. Today’s theme something about the strangeness of the world, I suppose?
“Richer than suspected,” perhaps.
Something like that, I guess. Our thanks as always for this continuous richness of association. It’s like being Jason on the Argo, without having to get wet or cold or storm-tossed. Very convenient. Till next time.