Conceptualization precedes change of active circumstances; at least, it does sometimes. Once you have overcome prior conditioning, new possibilities arise.
Put plainly, you are saying that once we know enough to discard past limitations, they no longer bind us, and we are free to live differently.
Free to – and responsible to. Knowledge not lived is sin.
Edgar Cayce.
Cayce’s source had to use the vocabulary, syntax and grammar Cayce had developed in his life, but did not need to limit itself to his concepts and definitions. How could anything new have come from doing that? So not “sin” as Cayce’s fundamentalist church would have defined it, but “sin” as deliberately choosing not to do what you know you should do, or as choosing to do what you should not do, yes.
A lot of definitions packed into that sentence, especially around the word “should.”
Yes, but the point is, when you know something, you have a responsibility to live it. Whether you live up to that responsibility is another matter – but you do have it.
I take it that doesn’t mean a responsibility to live it in a certain way. Or – what does it mean?
That answer will depend upon each of you. Different circumstances amount to a different mission. One of the laws of life we keep reminding you of: One size does not fit all. Let each person consult its own conscience.
So what is it you are referring to at the moment?
What is the next step from functioning separately? Functioning jointly.
Since that doesn’t necessarily follow logically, I assume you mean to just state it flatly.
Take it or leave it, yes. Or would you prefer to waste time and temper defining smoke?
This seems very unlike your normal teaching mode.
We aren’t in the mood for playing around, you might say.
You have me wondering. I’d say, whatever mood you are in, it is a bad mood, impatient, dismissive. I don’t know that I like it and I certainly am not used to it. So it may be a quality of the moment, or it may be connected to my speculation about the wheels within wheels behind the chaos erupting on America’s streets, but for whatever reason, I get the feeling that I am tuned into a station I don’t much like. I think I’ll try again later, see if I can get a better station.
6:05 a.m. Interesting. Thought I’d go back to sleep, but not sleepy. I realized I had a slight headache, rare these days, and I also realized I hadn’t used any formula such as “at my own level or higher.” Now, I rarely do, but that doesn’t mean it can’t help or in fact may not be needed sometimes.
So, let’s try again. I wish to connect to whatever sources are available and willing to communicate information that will be for the highest good of myself and those who read it. Any sources resonating to my “lower strands,” call them, are not to interfere or try to communicate directly, but may communicate by way of strands that have my best interests at heart. That formulation may itself be logically suspect, but I think it will serve. And – circularly enough – I had the feeling that it was being as much dictated as discovered.
Well done, on several counts
- You always have the right to choose among sources.
- You always have the right to reject offerings, and are well advised to do so when they come as dictates rather than as suggestions.
- However you are also well-advised to listen to parts of yourself (as reflected in voices such as you just “heard”); therefore the question becomes how to listen safely and comfortably.
- Headaches may be as informative as anything else, and are better heeded than chemically dissolved. One insight may be worth as much as many aspirin, and may work quicker.
- Asserting control is preferable to living in fear, and of course far preferable to allowing yourself to be dictated to. That isn’t the sense in which we mean you to take dictation!
Well, it’s all pretty circular. Using guidance to protect myself from guidance. Developing a mantra (in effect) by relying on guidance to give me the concepts that will let me keep guidance within bounds.
Yes, but from our point of view, it isn’t any different from your listening and then saying, “I’m probably just making this up.”
So why did our dogmatic mutual friends surface around the question of how we are to use what we have learned?
It came more or less when the question of functioning jointly raised your anxiety levels. That brought in distrust of the information, which amounts to distrust of the process. Distrust is more or less self-division, and that concept should look different to you when seen in the context of an individual who is also a community, rather than the concept of individual as unit.
Hmm. And if self-division opens the door, that is another thing that the Energy Conversion Box, or a protective mantra, or meditation, may protect against.
You’re learning!
Very funny.
Well, we’ve been holding up that realization for a long time, but you couldn’t or wouldn’t see it because it conflicted with your strongly held belief in freedom from rules and rituals.
So let’s go back to “functioning jointly.” Kindly give me the source and nature of their objections to the topic. And as I write this, the headache returns, so I’ll follow Skip Atwater’s advice from 2000 and will ask what I may be learning from it.
Every time you have left a familiar state to become someone new, anxiety has accompanied the move. After all, the old was well-known, even if uncomfortable or unpleasant. The new is terra incognita.
Something within fears a form of death?
More or less. You might look at it as relegation to the sidelines, or being voted out of office, or being jilted. Everyone wants its place in the sun.
So, to return yet again: functioning jointly.
Can you see that this implies a really major redefinition? Not necessarily for everybody; Some may take it in stride. But for you at least.
From lone wolf to part of the herd?
Greater. More like from cat to dog, or from amphibian to bird. It is shape-shifting in its true meaning, not putting on and putting off bodies but natures. This is more than learning a new skill. It is dying and rebirthing.
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A couple of things strike me, from yesterday. One, you, in your different combinations of being, might be looked at as different “moods” of one being. I sort of said that here yesterday, not noticing. Similarly, we in our different moods may be expressing a temporary dominance of certain members of the community we are.
You will find this less new than you think at the moment. You have entertained your half of the visualization before: Yesterday merely extended it to us. A valid way to see things, we should say. And?
I hadn’t thought to think of the Energy Conversion Box as a way of focusing by detuning or temporarily muzzling certain parts of myself. I had thought that focusing meant, merely, removing a tendency to be distracted. I hadn’t thought to ask about the nature of the process of being distracted.
You might think of your minds as a pack of hunting dogs, or a pod of whales – not to say, a herd of cats! To think of your mind that way may make it more obvious that when some go off in one direction and others in other directions, a certain confusion will result. A closer analogy would be you as conductor of an orchestra, trying to assure that all the different instruments played in synchrony.
Or even played the same tune!
That too. Not so bad an analogy, in that each of the instruments is there for a purpose, and has a right, a need, a utility, to be heard. Only you don’t produce a symphony with only one instrument, nor with the same combinations playing all the time.
You’re right, that is a better analogy.
The families of animals isn’t bad either, in that, unlike the analogy of the symphony, it does not imply that there is a prescribed tune. Neither does it imply that you are aware of one and all, nor that you have an overall plan, nor that you and your constituent groups, considered together, are agents of a pre-decided pattern. Consider the different analogies together, remembering that analogy is never identity. There is always slippage in the transmission. And -?
“And” meaning what else struck me? The implication that we are moving toward active use of telepathy in our everyday life. That sounds pretty science-fiction-y, but so would Remote Viewing have done, once, or access to guidance, for that matter. I hesitate to say it, but it occurs to me that just as the military used and uses remote viewing, so maybe they learned to use active telepathy. Naturally if they did, they would lie about it, as they lie about remote viewing. But this is speculation on my part.
Now, we would say there is only one way to find out what is possible, and that is to try. A knowing isn’t proof, and can never be as useful or as ultimately convincing as the results of wrestling with facts.
And you intend us to open this particular door?
That is your choice, one way or the other. We wish, but it rests upon your also wishing, as usual.
I don’t know that I’ve ever heard you put it quite that way. That melds free will and your preferences.
Yes it does. We have preferences, but we make no attempt to enforce them. That would be self-defeating, usually.
In that we are here to choose, yes. But this implies that much of the struggle we sometimes go through is more between our various internal cats than between us in 3D and something in non-3D.
A proposed action or refraining from action may stir up the community that you are. Some want to go one way, others another way. The disagreement may be anything from mild to bitterly antagonistic. It may seem like “you” arguing with some external entity, but it is you arguing with you, with all players assuming that they are the real “you,” the true carriers of the flame, the others being betrayers, or being in error. Even the concept of your better self and lower self assumes a “true” you, or at least a “better” you, and inferior others. Can such a state of civil war ever be comfortable?
So when my community is in sync with our higher self, there is no strain and so we experience ourselves more as a unit. When I as a unit am not in sync with my good angels, or whatever, I may still experience myself as a unit, but perhaps as a rebellious one. And when various cats wish to go in various directions, any guidance from you will encourage some and discourage (enrage?) others, and I am very well aware of myself as a self-divided being, or as a community of disparate inclinations.
Yes, a good summary. Doesn’t that match your experience of life? Sometimes smooth, sometimes turbulent; sometimes seeming protected, sometimes vulnerable; sometimes all of one mind, sometimes conflicted?
It does, though I seem to see a progression in my life from chaos toward greater harmony.
After all, that is one purpose of your 3D lives, an on-going process of learning to bring a community to functioning smoothly and productively. As you learn to give each part of yourself its rights, you find that greater cooperation results, and greater tranquility.
That is one reason why life is sometimes hard, by the way! Adversity can forge singleness of intent, which may generate a greater sense of teamwork in the way basic training instills a group identification in what had been unconnected individuals.
This has been pretty good work today. Each of these themes was dealt with economically and each will repay further thought. We find that thorough examination of context ultimately proves an efficient way of proceeding. Bringing unnoticed aspects of things to the surface is one way of wrestling with the material. It doesn’t have to be an unpleasant or painful or even strenuous process, wrestling; it may be done via a tour d’horizon.