Sunday, September 11, 2022
4 a.m. Focus. Receptivity. Clarity. Presence. And I suspect I’m going to need them.
Repeat the sentence.
“The aspects of life that are realest are those that appear (to the 3D mindset) the least real.”
As we said, this is the key to what we have to say. The deeper you penetrate its significance, the greater insight you will obtain. It is because you are identifying with the 3D world that you find it difficult to feel the reality of the greater world of which 3D is only one part, one aspect.
Our sensory experience skews our perception, I take it.
It overbalances your judgment, let’s say. It leads you to give certain appearances the weight that they do not actually merit, and thus leads you to undervalue other aspects. But this is all general and thus not particularly helpful.
No. If you were to leave it at that, I would probably assent but it would not give me any way to change my perception of reality.
We will say again, the key here will be to recognize that in the ordinary way, you believe in the existence of the material world your senses report. You can hardly not believe in it. Your very body that sustains your locus in time/space tells you that you are a 3D creature, and that 3D very evidently is going on around you now, and was in the past, and will be in the future. None of that is false; none of it is true in the way it seems to be.
When you reverse the emphasis, what you experience does not somehow disappear, it merely looks entirely different.
Noce “merely.” But I know what you mean, by experience. The difficulty is less in coming to that realization than in living it.
Cayce and Steiner quotations.
Yes. Both the A.R.E. and a Steiner organization whose name I can’t recall offhand offer a daily quotation from the Cayce and Steiner material, respectively. I subscribed to both, and hence every day in my morning email I receive a quote, and on many more mornings than I ever mention, I am struck by how I now understand what they are saying. Not only understand what, but to some extent understand why. I could not do that – I could at best assent on faith, put it – until I had learned to see reality as emanating from a non-3D source. And all the things you have taught me, bless you, all these years, have sorted themselves gradually, until I see how they bear about one another.
At each point in your journey – in anyone’s journey – helpful examples of how a given insight plays out in practice.
Yes, I realize that is what you are doing. I get to a base camp, and that new base camp provides a settled understanding which then allows you to nudge it onward by showing that the understandings I have are not exactly right, but have been helpful compromises. And on we move. I don’t know if this way of proceeding would be everybody’s cup of tea, but it is mine, perfectly adjusted, I see, to my mentality and even my biases. I’m very grateful for the care you’ve taken.
Of course everyone has carefully tailored guidance available to them, and of course the flavor and style will be different for each, because tailored one for one.
So now consider that initial statement once again: For each of you, life will appear in different guise. You will find this rather than that to be self-evident. You will have to work to envision X as real rather than as fantasy, while someone else will accept X easily but will balk at Y which is self-evident to you. Therefore, to each person, the process of seeing beyond the surface of reality is a different specific task. Our generalization holds, but it will manifest in different specifics to different people.
This is just each of us representing a different point of view, as you said a while ago.
Yes. You are each different; you each live in a different world, and at the same time you are each a part of the one great thing that is reality. And this leads us to today’s point. Because you live in different worlds, it is the “external” events that hold you at all together. Because your individual subjectivities would dissever you from everyone else, it is the shared subjectivity that provides the common center around which you all orient yourselves. You will remember, we chose to begin this series by seizing upon the idea of “The Age of Elizabeth.” Superficially, what can a generalization mean to an individual soul working out its salvation, as the religions put it? Our answer: It means everything.
What we have been calling our unfinished business is quite a bit more than that.
It is, but it is that too. The individual and the collective are two aspects of one reality, as usually. So much depends upon how you look at a thing. One view shows one background and context. Turn around and you see a different background, a different context. Which is real?
Both.
Both, and many more, yes.
The everyday world is
It is illusion, but there is a reality behind the illusion. It is transient in a way, permanent in a way. It is very much material and 3D; it is equally the thing beyond material and 3D. But you can’t get the reality of this – the factual, non-metaphorical, practical trueness of this – if you allow yourself to half-believe that this material world is anything but a projection from a realer reality. Yes, you can kick the stone, like Dr. Johnson, but the kicker and kickee are projection, both. The fact that they have a stable relations one to the other does not affect the fact.
I understand. Assuming we at least suspend our disbelief in the concept (until a new orientation supplants the older one), this leaves us where?
The everyday world is timing, among other things. It is a common orientation point. Just as you all experience the pyramids as having been built and being “there” now, so you experience Queen Elizabeth as having reigned, lived a long life, and now died. You don’t live with one person experiencing Elizabeth alive and another experiencing her dead, and a third experiencing her never having ascended to the throne. Any given version of reality – any timeline, as you sometimes think of it – is consistent with itself. Anyone experiencing fluctuations experiences them within this common reality.
It is filter, as we said earlier. Every moment has certain qualities, and therefore every moment is hospitable to certain things and not to other things. The Age of Elizabeth – either Elizabeth – is not the Age of Victoria.
It is culmination. Everything that exists around you does so as the effect of innumerable causes, 3D and non-3D. This is only common sense, after all. And so is the fact that every moment is pre-condition, for every moment’s choices are opening a way into a particular future.
It will help me – and probably help us, in that it will replace any floundering around looking for a starting-place – if you can give me our key to the next session.
Well, you see, all this is preparatory to saying you all should take the world more seriously, but in a different way.
I don’t see, but that should do to get us started. Our thanks for this, as usual. Anything you care to add?
Try to remember as an on-going reality, not merely an idea, that everyone proceeds at his or her own pace, toward different destinations. So, what one gets from these discussions will be vary different from what another may get. Sparks, not bricks.
Got it. Till next time, then, and thanks again.