The cosmic weather and us (from Oct. 16, 2020)
[After several difficult nights, the past couple nights had been much better, but Friday was in some ways worse than before. I was up at 3, at 4, at 4:40, and 5:35, unable to read, unable to work. Finally got some sleep, and when I woke up, decided to have it out with the guys.]
We’re going to have to come to some sort of agreement. I shouldn’t have to fight to get enough sleep when I’m perfectly willing to do the work. It is one thing when the work actually helped me get through the night; it is entirely different when I get the sense that it is in order to get me to do the work that I can’t first get the necessary rest and sleep. Or is that merely my misinterpreting what happened?
You are tending to think you are entitled to a night’s rest first, and that there is a link between what has flowed together and what that has facilitated. To be clear: We don’t approve of forcing anyone to do anything, and that is not what we have been doing.
Well, I didn’t think so – but then, what is the mechanism at work here?
You do realize, you are attempting the same bargain in reverse? “If you won’t let me be healthy, I won’t work,” amounts to, “I will work, but only if you let me have what I want.”
I don’t know .It didn’t feel like a tantrum. I was so tired, so unfocused, I couldn’t even read with clarity, let alone communicate. So why couldn’t I sleep or even rest?
Your thinking wasn’t – and isn’t – clear. Why would we want you to try to do the work when you couldn’t, when you do it so gladly and well when you can?
That’s what I was feeling: Why put me through all this?
Perhaps you should have considered: Maybe something else is going on. Maybe what you were assuming isn’t true. Do you want to know?
I do, if it’s something I can do something about. Or even if I can’t, for that matter.
Cosmic weather. The interaction of 3D-you – which includes your body’s composition, of course – and the “external” world at a given moment, with its particular characteristics.
And you have said that our bodies may be experienced as part of that other.
Well, don’t you? When you are ill and your body won’t do what you want or need, doesn’t it express to you as part of the “external” world? Well – it’s not just you. That’s true of anyone.
So, nothing to be done about it?
One thing to be done – it is sort of a developed knack – is to not take it personally and at the same time take it very personally.
I get that that means, Don’t take it as being aimed at you, but take it as being very specific to you.
Exactly. Well phrased. Now broaden the concept so that you see emotion as the intermediate layer between you and larger-you.
- Overall-you, expressing in 3D terms, comes to a given moment.
- That moment amounts to a coinciding of 3D-you’s situation and the “external” situation as it applies to 3D-you.
- 3D-you experiences that moment as conflict or confluence or both, and the next moment follows. It is the first-tier experience, that coming together of the 3D and its moment. The second-tier experience is how the 3D-you reacts to it.
Yes, I get it. That moment didn’t come along to “teach him a lesson,” so to speak. It came out of the nature of the moment, and one’s reaction to the qualities of that moment is what produced the first-tier experience, and thus (unpredictably, because this is the free-will aspect of it) the second-tier reaction.
So, take it personally, and not personally at all.
Now when you come to transcribe, explain at some length what preceded this, and that’s enough for now.
You want to say more about the junction of 3D and external.
We do. You opened up very productive ground there. If people would get the idea and think about it, they would find an answer to many questions that have puzzled philosophers. The answer is to be found in the particular, the specific, not in an abstraction.
The key being the 3D-you’s interaction with the “external” world in any given moment.
That, in association with the three-tier concept, yes. Many a seeming contradiction between free will and predestination, for instance, is resolved by recognizing that either position is merely a seeing from one viewpoint only, rather than from both. The first-tier experience may be said to be predestined; the second-tier is clearly free-will. Or is it “clearly”?
It is to me, but I suspect others may think that our decisions, too, are predestined from what has happened before.
So that when you change your mind, or have a life-altering realization, it is only because it was inevitable? As usual, we ask, “Does your life feel that way?” And we know that for you, at least, it does not. However, some may need to see things that way.
Now, if you will examine the basics of astrology, you will see that a horoscope amounts to a weather report, and a progression amounts to a forecast of coming conditions. Surely you can see that someone with a lifelong illness or mental or physical condition may be seen to be under the influence of the slower-moving outer planets, so that the correspondences last, perhaps, an entire lifetime, or decades, or perhaps “only” a term of years, though it may seem long enough.
If you will remember that everything is alive and has its own form of consciousness, the idea of planets and stars having an effect on “external” conditions may come to seem no more fanciful than, say, our statement that it is the geology of a place that provides it its stability.
The planets aren’t just “dead matter,” and their interaction with our lives isn’t just a fanciful or superstitious idea.
No. But look a little closer. The astrological influences are twofold in effect. They shape the “external” world’s weather conditions and they also shape the weather experienced by 3D-you as internal. That’s why the mantic arts can be useful at all, you see: They connect inner and outer.
As do we ourselves.
Yes, very good. Each 3D individual mind is, in effect, a tarot spread, or a casting of runes, or a reading of the stars.