Into a new world
I would be interested in your personal disquisition on experiencing 3D life as independent time-sharing terminals versus experiencing it as part of an inter-conscious network.
We smile. Those are your data-processing analogies, not quite ours. But you have the general idea. We don’t want to tie the discussion too closely to analogy, for analogy will mislead when you have pressed it beyond a certain point.
Now, remember that we have said that societies change, and each society has different limits and possibilities. The inhabitants of each different civilization experience the world differently. It isn’t just that they think or believe differently: The world they experience is different. Therefore, so are their possibilities.
You have begun to enter into the next civilization, and so your boundaries have shifted. What was once possible is possible to you no longer. What was not passible, now is possible, or becomes possible. And by the same token, what was fringe becomes central, what was pipe-dream becomes practical, and what was common sense becomes evidently absurd and impractical.
In effect, the rules of 3D life have changed, are changing, will continue to change. And this set of changes is not uniform, but is proceeding at a different pace, and in somewhat different directions, individual by individual, group by group. Is it any wonder that you experience yourselves living amid chaos, internal as well as external?
This is life on the cusp between civilizations. None of you now alive will live long enough to experience life in the successor civilization. Your life is to help manage (and experience the nature of) transition.
- The world you were born into assumed individual autonomy; you might say, an almost autistic self-absorption. We don’t mean inability to socialize; we mean an assumption and experience of absolute separation between any one mind and another, or, indeed, any or all others.
- The accepted and experienced rules of such a world made telepathy a very unlikely proposition. Similarly, any form of non-sensory connection or interaction.
- Bear in mind always, individuals might experience or report things at variance with society’s accepted limits, but as individuals, as outliers, as oddballs and presumed fakers or lunatics.
- Society as a whole knew what it believed, and felt (more than thought) that it had a strong vested interest in maintaining the boundaries it accepted. To go too near the curtain was to threaten to bring it down, potentially replacing “reason” with chaos.
- Hence the frequently hysterical and often intellectually dishonest reaction to anomalous reports. Your “Amazing Randi” is always going to feel that he is protecting rationality, particularly when he is acting most irrationally. Your Yuri Geller is always going to be most threatening (by what he is, more than what he does), particularly when he is most matter-of-fact.
- Individuals who are outliers may be so for one or more of many reasons: what is called mental illness; peculiarities of upbringing that allow for different opennesses; difficulties in socialization; extraordinary abilities, and – perhaps primarily – the task they came in to assist with, the midwifing of the successor civilization.
- As society changes, outliers become the norm; average Joes become displaced. What had been reliable becomes questionable. What had been theoretical becomes plain, even obvious.
- The rules change. Not merely society’s agreed-upon rules, which are more reactive than proactive. Rather, the very rules of nature seem to change. After all, if the boundary of your achievable limits changes, in effect your world’s boundaries change, and so your possibilities, your limits, your viewpoint, your view of what is not possible – all change.
- None of it is coordinated. None of it is simultaneous and complete. You all live in a mixmaster, and it’s always running.
- Therefore, and this is the meat of it, several civilizations are functioning at the same time. Your neighbors and you may be living several sets of ground rules of reality, contrasting, overlapping, complementary: in short, chaotic (also wonderfully creative and productive).
- So naturally, your life What you feel yourself to be changes. “External” changes open up paths for parts of you that previously could not express. Parts of you that previously played a dominant role perhaps recede.
New wine in new wineskins.
What Jesus was facilitating in his time was just the same thing. In revisioning possibilities, he ended one world and opened up another. Not that we would encourage any of you to inflate your own importance by the comparison, yet there is a comparison. You don’t need to be Jesus, to emulate Jesus. And when we say emulate him, we don’t mean imitate, we mean, be as open to non-3D promptings, as willing to be intelligent conduits of a new way of being, be as quietly revolutionary by what you are, as Jesus.
Only that?
Very funny, as you always say. Yes, that will do for openers.
Consider what is happening around you at the moment. It is mostly a speeding-up of what was happening anyway. Because of the virus, things are manifesting in a space of weeks that otherwise might have required years.
One specific: meetings in virtual space. Suddenly, millions of people are meeting virtually to accomplish what until then had seemed to require personal presence. Work, friendship, family, common interests, special and routine learning: Suddenly the spur of necessity revealed that it could all be done virtually, and just that quickly, things changed forever. A society with telegraph, then telephone, then radio, then television, then internet, then virtual teleconferencing, changes each time. The observed and observable limits change. The people living in that society change.
This is what Marshall McLuhan meant by the capsule slogan, “The medium is the message.”
Yes. Living within a given set of limits and potentials shapes you; it differentiates you from those living within different sets of limits. A man of Shakespeare’s England and one of 16th century sub-Saharan Africa and one of the mountain men of the early 1800s in the American West, and Abraham Lincoln, and any inhabitant of any pre-literate society and any inhabitant of a radio-dominated culture whether literate or not – they all live in worlds so different as to render the psychic space of each one alien to that of the others. It isn’t merely that they live among different conditions, it is that who they are and what they can feel and think and experience differs. Living even side by side, they would be living still in different worlds.
The world we live in is only partially shaped by the 3D; it is also shaped by the non-3D. And we are each different in what percentage of 3D v. non-3D we allow or experience as our personal reality.
Of course, though not quite so black and white. Bear in mind, you are beads on a string, in a sense. One direction leads toward the individual 3D experience; the opposite direction leads toward the common non-3D origin and continued experience. Each of you is at once connected to your larger non-3D self and is also experiencing the 3D as if separate and unconnected.
Changing 3D circumstances changes the degree to which we live toward or away from personal isolation.
Hold that thought. It is a very simple but very fundamental insight, whose importance grows as you connect it to other things.
Now, here is what is happening. These chaotic disruptive times are loosening the social crust and allowing rapid readjustment. This is well for society, as it may thereby avoid fracture. But it is more fundamentally important to the individuals living in it, considered as individuals. In allowing internal adjustment to “external” circumstances, it allows those who are ready, to change
To change! It allows them to change.
Exactly. If you allow hitherto suppressed portions of your total self to manifest, and if you therefore (automatically, in effect) downplay certain parts of yourself that were hitherto dominant, do you not experience a new birth as a different person? As you experience joint mind in a 3D surrounding, your perceptions and understanding of joint mind changes. New possibilities arise. It might be a Zoom meeting on quilting, or on economics, or on any subject from theoretical to practical, from mundane to extraordinary, and the subconscious realizations will be the same. But if you use this new form of meeting to center on the process itself, conscious realizations are added to the subconscious ones. What you concentrate on comes into better focus.
This is how the newer world is being born, one individual transformation at a time. (In this case “One at a time” means “Simultaneously if in an uncoordinated fashion.”)
You are saying that what I have felt is true wasn’t true in reality, but was true in potential.
You said, “Everybody can do this, and more.” Well, they could and they couldn’t. That yes-but-no still exists as an underlying condition, but the balance is shifting rapidly, much more toward “could” and less toward “couldn’t.”
You were, in effect, an early adapter, and like most early adapters you flocked gratefully to others who perceived your same world. Hence the importance of The Monroe Institute’s programs as gathering places, where some of you could meet others in a shared protected place. The 3D sensory link once established, many things could be accomplished among you unbeknown to your 3D selves. And of course TMI as an enabling link was only one such link. Others found other links, and many live their lives without any external support, however buttressed they may be invisibly.
So. You all wanted the enhanced perceptions and abilities that you (half shamefacedly) believed must exist? You wanted to live in a society acknowledging and fostering those parts of you that were “different”? Here you are. Enter ye in.