Tuesday, May 3, 2022
4:05 a.m. Open for business, but I don’t know where we are. Have we finished with the subject we were dealing with?
Set your switches.
Okay. Done.
Our long-term subject is your place in the world; your life’s purpose that gives you a sense of meaning, by showing how you contribute.
Why we’re important.
Exactly. If you are the center of your perceptions, and if your perceptions matter, and if you are the one who chooses how to wield the tiny portion of reality entrusted to you, and if those choices matter – well, that isn’t the same thing as being an accidental result of chance forces, is it? The old civilization tended to tell you that few people matter, or perhaps nobody mattered. It said everything was so great in extent, that anything you could conceivably do was dwarfed into insignificance. And it said that the [3D] world was important, was perhaps the only thing that was important, so if you were an unimportant part of something meaningless – well, why not just slit your throat and get things over with? Furthermore, it told you that anything was transient: Life is impermanence. Even if you could achieve something, what did it matter in the face of an implacable passage of time that would destroy it as thoroughly as if it had never been?
The only alternatives to this grim prospect [religions] being themselves unbelievable.
Well, not unbelievable to millions – hundreds of millions – but certainly unbelievable to one and all. Not the higher religions, not the religion of science or art, not the religion of materialism. Partial solutions that appealed to certain psychologies, but not universally experienced in the way you experience sunlight or gravity.
Is there ever unanimity of that kind? Isn’t a civilization defined by the way it sees things?
Yes, that’s our point. It is what we just said, in fact. Your day – that is, the past 500 years or so – is marked by the increasingly urgent clash of civilizations. Technology continues to bring you all into ever closer contact, but it doesn’t – can’t – make you all see things the same way.
We haven’t yet forged a truly global civilization.
No. you can’t. Humanity as it exists can’t. That’s why we’re talking to you.
Oh!
Yes. Spell it out a little.
- You – meaning all the sources providing insight
- We – meaning everybody receiving information and guidance from the non-3D
- Why – meaning what you’re really up to, helping us develop into a new form of being.
Yes. That’s what the transformation is, you see. That is what The Gathering that Monroe hinted at is watching. Not a mere change of politics or culture or religion or even modes of perception. A change into something fundamentally new, a being much more organic.
That isn’t the way to put it. You’re meaning, a being at a higher level of organization.
Yes, and it is going to be difficult to give you indications without triggering fears due to misperceptions.
I get that. When I got it just now, I could see how people might see this new level of being as a loss of individuality.
Yes, they may; many will. It isn’t that; it is a full flowering of what is usually felt as a frustrated potential, but you can’t expect a caterpillar to intuit the advantages and nature of becoming a butterfly. All he can do is submit to the process and experience what happens.
In context, our individual attempts to experience group mind look pretty insignificant.
They shouldn’t. You learn to walk by first crawling, and then by tentatively taking steps, making sure to keep supports nearby.
So let’s state this more explicitly.
We have been doing so, right along, but what you can see depends upon the eyes you bring to the task, and to the mind that interprets the input. Haven’t we said, continually, that the world may be seen either as many things cooperating or as one thing with subdivisions?
I suppose we mostly heard that as applying to the structure of non-3D.
If you did, it was not because we encouraged you to do so. We are continually saying, see it more than one way.
This holds true for 3D humans, no less than for non-3D. Humanity is one thing, subdivided, just as much as it is many things, cooperating. And of course it is more than that: The world as a whole is one thing and is many things. But let’s hold our attention to humans for the moment.
The next step – the step that is in process now, and has been for quite a while – is the development of a sense of oneness that will overshadow the present sense of separateness.
It’s what you told me in the black box, 20 years ago, when Skip Atwater asked what was the next step for people. You said we’d be walking around knowing (not merely believing) that we were all connected, and then that ultimately we would all be functioning as part of one thing.
You can’t say we didn’t warn you! But you had to have eyes to see.
Life more abundantly means one thing for an individual; it means something else when that individual breaks through the barriers that prevent it from realizing how much more it really is.
Yes, and no. Yes in what you just sensed, but no in the underlying unconscious assumption of individuality. You have never been as individual and fragmentary as you have experienced yourselves to be, and that fragmentary perspective, if persisted in, will have a hard time comprehending the fact that seeing the world through an individual lens is only an arbitrary decision, or, let’s say, is only a stepping-stone toward seeing things as they are.
I’m getting an inchoate sense that our very lives will be – are being? – transformed. What is it to be human will change, is changing.
We will not spend time describing or even alluding to cultural changes that are unconsciously reflecting and foreshadowing this, but we merely note that the signs are there for those who care to read them.
It is hard to really absorb the sense of a fundamental change.
Certainly. All your sensory experience, and most of your memories, thoughts, visions, argue that what is will remain, rather than fundamentally changing. It’s usually that way, prior to even minor cultural revolutions; why shouldn’t it be that way for something incomparably greater? Yet, by the same token, every revolution is always preceded by ample indications, clear in retrospect and only hidden from man’s eyes beforehand because in the context of an expectation that whatever is, will continue to be.
When you feel the foreshadowings of fundamental change, you adjust to them through faith or fear. How you react determines what you make of what you experience. Faith or fear or – most usually – an uneasy shifting alternative or mixture of the two. There really isn’t any alternative.
Not an hour, but this is a good place to pause.
Our thanks as always.
ac
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