Monday, October 3, 2022
4:30 a.m. Presence, receptivity, clarity. Gentlemen, I hope you have more to say on our higher minds. If that is a misnomer, we’re certainly open to correction.
It’s a little broader subject than you are expecting. We are somewhat at a loss as to where to begin. Bullets, then:
- Your higher, middle, and lower minds, if you wish to call them that, for the moment, are not individual in the way you assume. Just as your consciousness extends beyond the limit of one body to other bodies, well –
I sense already how convoluted this may become.
Not convoluted ultimately, but difficult to explain when so many concepts have to be considered, some simultaneously. It is a good deal of redefinition.
- You know by now that you as individuals are actually communities of communities. In one direction, this is Strands connecting to Strands, ultimately leading to everyone being all one thing.
- This is true on a strictly physical level as well, where it most seems unlikely. You all breathe the same air, pass the same molecules of matter through your flesh, and employ the same materials, sequentially, to build and maintain that flesh. Every atom of every body was once elsewhere and will be again. This ties you together quite as much as shared consciousness does. Indeed, it is a form of shared consciousness.
You are saying, I think, that matter is mind-stuff no less than anything else is, only we don’t notice the fact.
Animists notice. Magicians do. Mystics do. There is no matter without consciousness. There is no matter disconnected from everything. How could there be? Do you dream in disconnected parts, or does everything in a dream connect, regardless if they seem to relate to one another? As above, so below.
- Thus, you may say that your body, at a level different from (not exactly “below”) the level of your ordinary consciousness, is both separate (individual) and part of a community, just like your ordinary (middle) consciousness. Your body and someone else’s body may interrelate without you and they even knowing of each other’s existence. What some call “mass consciousness” is not a matter merely of mind as you ordinarily think of it. Your bodies have minds as well.
- But this simple situation is so easily misunderstood, and is so difficult to express clearly. Higher mind is part of all that is at that level. Middle mind (call it; ordinary consciousness) is part of all that is, at its level. Lower mind (the body’s mind?) is part of all that is, at its level.
- You see? Life is structured; life is fractally organized, in that it has no absolute separations; life’s structures repeat, or at least echo, at each different level of attention.
- In one sense, nothing is as simple as casual observation would make it seem. In another sense, the overall situation is quite as simple as you can conceive it being.
- Therefore – this may not seem, at first, like a “therefore,” but search out the connectors – every conception of life is correct in its way. Materialists are right that there is not spiritual world separate from the sensory world you live in. Mystics are right that all matter, all life, is holy.
- Of course, to say that every conception is right in its way, is to say that each is wrong in its way. Materialists undervalue the non-3D aspects of the world. These aspects are not separate, true, but they are not non-existent, either. Mystics sometimes undervalue the 3D in its particular manifestations, undervaluing the time and the place as specific manifestations of the divine.
You could say that materialists and mystics share the error of seeing the 3D world as separate from the rest of reality (the materialists thinking there is no “rest of reality,” but not in the way we would).
The deeper you go into understanding that the world is mind-stuff from a higher level of reality, the clearer you see (eventually!) that few people see things as they are.
Now, if your body’s intelligence connects not only vertically (to you), but also horizontally (to the world around it), what does this mean in practice?
Does it have something to do with epidemics? With people’s susceptibility to infections, or to non-inherited physical illnesses?
Why limit it to “non-inherited”? indeed it does. Just as crowds may be seized by momentary joint-mind panics or manias, so bodies may pass around susceptibilities to specific illnesses.
You aren’t talking about germs, here, or viral infections.
We are not speaking of them as causes, though obviously they may be agents. There is a reason why one child in a crowd would contract polio and another would not. You commonly think of the factor that makes the difference as hereditary: “He got good genes; she unfortunately inherited a predisposition to, or at least a susceptibility to, polio.” Not that simple.
I am assuming it is not their state of mind that is the cause, either, nor their “level of being,” whatever that really means. To say that would be a form of blaming the victim.
That’s correct. The agent no one seems too interested in investigating is the contagion through the body intelligence. It is not strictly genetic; it is not strictly mental or even spiritual, certainly it is not “luck” or “chance.” Yet one is chosen and another is spared. Why? Or rather, How?
I am getting a hazy sense of our interconnection resulting in a certain proportion of us needing to bear certain physical illnesses or handicaps. It isn’t at all clear, though.
You are groping toward a sense of distribution. Statistically, say, X percent of a population will acquire this or that condition. The percentage need not be invariant. In fact, it is unlikely to remain constant over time. But at any given time, X percent will contract polio, or will express breathing disorders or muscular disfunction or whatever, or will contract illness so severe as to cause invalidism and death.
Why?
I’m getting that this has something to do with the energies of the times, that just as the moving moment allows in this and not that form of mental energy, so with physical energy.
That is a distinction without a difference, at the level of mind-stuff, you understand. Proceed. You are on the right track.
What we think of as deformity or invalidism or as tragic consequences may be looked at as – what? Side-effects? Collateral damage? The inevitable tret of 3D existence?
Only if you insist on seeing them as negatives, rather than as neutral facts that may be (will be) experienced either as negative or as positive.
Yes, I remember. Nothing by chance, so everything may be turned to account
Should you expect otherwise? You may look at gravity as a bad thing that prevents you from flying about without machines, or you may look at it as a good thing, an automatic stabilizing force. Does your opinion alter its nature? So with the ailments that have to be shared out among bodies.
Accepting – as I do – that life is not really unjust, despite appearance – what is the origin and the usefulness of these ailments? I am asking, now, in terms of a shared bodily consciousness, rather than in terms of an individual’s own dynamics.
You are becoming more elliptical in your questions than you realize. In any case, your hour is up.
A hint, anyway?
Let’s segue into a wider look at the nature of the gates of specific times, what they allow and what they don’t. Not a short discussion! Only remember, or you will get it all confused: It’s all – we’re all – mind-stuff.
Today’s theme, then?
“Unexpected horizontal connections”?
Can we do better than that?
“Body-consciousness and illness”?
Maybe. Part I?
If you wish.
Our thanks as always.
6:30 a.m. I realize, typing this up, my particular form of interaction with the guys is necessary for someone who works alone. How could I do it as trance work? Cayce had Gladys Turner. Jane Roberts had Rob. Thus they could set their 3D conscious minds aside (so to speak) and allow information through. How could I do that?
And therefore, the nature of what I can bring through is different from a trance channeler’s. To bring it through me, the guys sometimes have to deal with argument, or incomprehension, or, particularly, with misunderstanding. They can’t just dictate to a stenographer.
Maybe one part of this is to serve as example for others who also have to work alone.