Presence, receptivity, clarity, consideration

Thursday, September 15, 2022

5 a.m. Very well, you said yesterday we would continue with more on the theme of endless revision. It is true, I don’t quite have your idea. It’s funny, I have the feel of it, but I could not explain it, even to myself, which is always a sign that I’m on the right wave-length but haven’t done the translation work necessary to bring it into left-brain terms.

Insight is a flash of lightning. Comprehension is an electric light, or at least a flame. The object to be seen may be the same, but the process is so radially different.

And translating it into 3D terms is the same as distorting it, I suppose.

In a way. Notice the process of brief meditation this morning: It is in a way the enabling of non-logical (not necessarily il-logical) connections.

Yes, I did notice. You had said spend a few moments meditating and yesterday I spent it meditating over pages in a book of full-page photos of Karnak. This morning I picked up a little white statue of Horus I bought in Egypt. An inexpensive thing, but I like it as much as anything I brought back. As I held it, all manner of associations came back. One could say, memories (very much this-life memories, nothing fancy) and what the memories led to. It isn’t the content but the connecting, I think.

It’s the getting out of the way of the connection, yes. Everybody knows everything, in potential. Certainly everybody knows everything needed in any practical sense. But having it, and having access to it, and knowing how to facilitate that access, are three different aspects of the same thing.

I get that this directly relates to what you want to discuss, but I don’t yet see how it does.

The process of continual revision might be thought of as the process of continual and continuing meditation over one’s life in all its aspects. Given that “all aspects” includes so many connections unsuspected during First Life (though, put an asterisk there), perhaps you can see that this ties in to what we told Rita long ago, “You will never be bored.” The process of revision, the process of meditation as a means of removing logical and habitual interference with connection, the extension of awareness into previously unexplored territory, would be enough in itself to provide continuing interest, even if one’s own, and others’, changes did not in themselves cause further revision.

So in the way you are using the word at the moment, “revision” means more reconsideration, or even afterthought, reflection, enhanced understanding, than correction of mistakes.

Given that you were in 3D to choose, how could a choice be a mistake? It could, strictly in the sense of one choosing a path that led to a destination one didn’t like, or even to a destination one didn’t prefer, but this is a matter of preference and experience and learning. Who cares if Daniel Boone turned north instead of south on any given day, or hunted in this area rather than that one?

So, the asterisk?

Merely, we do not want our statement to be misinterpreted to be, “First Life is relatively ignorant of extended connections.” Some are, some are not. The nature of the mixture of elements that goes into a given First Life varies all over the map, as you would expect. Some are born magicians; some are born denizens of an ordered, bounded, 3D existence, and of course most are somewhere between the two extremes.

Now, it is becoming obvious to you that your procedure needs to change, or let’s say, will profit by changing. Is profiting by changing.

Well, it’s interesting. Earlier I would have thought it was wool-gathering. It isn’t, quite, is it?

It can be, or it can be you participating in a dialogue in a calmer, deeper way.

To spell it out, I get that it is all right to pause while doing this, to allow my thought to range where it will on whatever was just said, and my mentioning the result will enhance the dialogue.

You may think of it as you being more thoughtful during the process. That is, being more of a mixture of receptivity and thought about what you receive. Until now you have emphasized receptivity and have thought very little about what we were telling you. Later you might think, but at the moment you concentrated on maintaining the link. This works, and nothing wrong with it, but now you can do a little more, if you choose to, and you will find the process and the result pleasant and rewarding. And, it will be an example of what we are trying to get across about endless revisions after 3D death.

The pitfall, I suppose, being a possible tendency to wander off into unrelated fields. Yes, I hear you: What would “unrelated” mean? But still, why isn’t that a potential pitfall now, when it was before?

Habit, practice, intent, experience, you name it. Do you think you could sit there at your desk, pen in hand, in the middle of a conversation, and forget what we were talking about because your inner magpie [I think they meant crow] found a bright, shiny object?

So I suppose it’s like learning to touch-type. Familiarity with the process tends to render the skill transparent to us, allowing enhanced flow from intent to result.

Of course. Effort always produces a result (not necessarily the result one expects, but result), and you might say results are always the effects of some prior effort, remembered or not, observed or not. It’s a very efficient universe.

I can see that, as we talk, connections arise in my mind that I do not follow, intending to not distract myself or you. Do we need to modify FRCP to take into account the desirability of allowing myself to pause and consider?

While you were up refilling your coffee, you got a sense of this. Express it.

If we continue to reconsider our lives – not in a fault-finding or breast-beating way, but just as we are doing here – that would amount to a localized consciousness participating in the generalized consciousness doing the same thing. That’s more what’s going on in the flashing-lights image you gave me as an analogy. It’s all of us rethinking our lives, or let’s say reexperiencing them, not in an endless treadmill kind of way, but on a continuing journey of discovery.

And perhaps a certain amount of satisfaction, don’t forget. You will see yourselves in a more favorable light, not less than also in a less favorable light. Your judgments will be continually more nuanced.

So should we add another letter to FRCP?

We’d hate to disrupt your mnemonic. Consideration, perhaps. Thought. Association.

Active contribution?

That would work. The sense of it is that in your receptivity and focus is also the background process of analysis and association.

Reasoning, in a way.

Let’s say thoughtfulness. Mulling.

So, focus, receptivity, analysis – though, “analysis” isn’t quite right.

No, you don’t want to be chopping logic, if only because it will get in the way of perception.

Daydreaming.

Yes, though not quite so undirected as that sounds.

Maybe focus, receptivity, mulling, clarity of expression, presence.

Only rearrange them, since you’re losing your acronym anyway. Presence comes first. If you are not present, nothing can follow. Presence, receptivity, transparency (that is, clear flow of ideas), clarity of expression, mulling. Make your acronym of this.

Let’s use C to mean both clarity of reception and clarity of expression, so PRCM. Instead of mulling, maybe consideration. PRCC doesn’t stand for anything I can think of, but it may do, if I can remember it. Puerto Rican Communications Commission, I suppose. 😊

Presence, receptivity, clarity, consideration. I can go with that. We’ll see if it works as we go along.

So today’s theme was what?

“Consideration and revision,” perhaps.

Perhaps. And next time?

Let us continue on this theme. There is much more to say.

Our thanks as always.