So yesterday you said 3D is a way of seeing, and it led me to an insight that has now become cloudy again.
The central insight is of several parts:
- You are not victims, nor laboratory rats, nor even volunteers involved in some sort of experiment.
- Your condition is neither permanent nor deplorable nor even awkward.
- You are active, not passive; acting, not merely acted upon.
- There is a reason for the inconveniences of 3D conditions, a reason that makes 3D life worthwhile.
- The dichotomy between 3D and non-3D is really a connecting polarity. The two ends of the polarity are opposite extremes of one They are, you might say, the ends of a ranges bridged by a slide-switch: If there were no differences, there would be no range; if no connections, there would be not one thing, but more than one.
- Being, as you are, on both sides of the 3D/non-3D experience of reality, your awareness may flicker. To some degree, living in 3D has required that you pretend to know less, experience less, than in fact you do.
- And, naturally, perception follows conceptualization, just as conceptualization follows digestion of new perceptions. We realize this may sound cryptic or perhaps precious, but the reality is that perception and conceptualization are two parts of a reciprocating process.
That came out fluently enough, and none of it seems to be a stretch. I don’t think I could have itemized it like that, but it was easy to recognize as you were floating it.
So now you can see that the bottom line is merely the same thing, arrived at from a somewhat different route.
The world we live in changes according to our belief, and our beliefs are changed by our experiences combined with our thoughts and feelings, and it is a never-ending process.
Never-ending, but not necessarily proceeding without pause. Such moments of rest need not give you anxiety if you will merely have confidence that there is a difference between rest and stagnation.
But it is curious how our lives can seem to be such hard journeys. Our weather sometimes feels like it is always heavy weather. And of course it can feel so pointless, or tedious, or painful, or even insane.
When it feels that way, you can be sure that you are looking at your life from the 3D perspective only. When you view the “only somewhat real” as if it were absolutely real, it’s going to look that way. So let’s look at the martyrdom of saints, not in a pious way, nor in a debunking way, but as a fact attested to by history, not once, nor in only one time, but repeatedly, and in all times. Neither need it be confined to martyrs as religions may define them (and may seek to appropriate them). Life is full of known and unknown examples of people sacrificing themselves for others, and what is that but martyrdom, only without the element of malicious persecution.
I know where you are going with this, but that seems an excessively long approach.
We smile. It seems so because you do know. If you were not linked to us at the moment, it might not seem so painfully obvious.
Martyrdom is not explicable in 3D terms if considered only in 3D terms. Neither is religious enthusiasm, nor the transformation of fishermen into charismatic leaders of a new way of existing. But all this is easily understood, both in concept and in mechanism – how?
By the individual being somehow lifted from a 3D-only perspective to a 3D-seen-with-non-3D-understanding.
Yes, only “understanding” is too weak a word, too faint a concept. What happened is that these ordinary 3D people – ordinary, like all of you – learned to experience themselves as more than 3D-only. They came to believe, then realize, then live, not a sense-limited 3D life but a 3D life that was a truer life, in that it included parts of themselves that until then they had been unconscious to.
They didn’t cease to be what they had been. They didn’t suddenly become all-knowing, nor necessarily did they overcome all their bad habits. But what they had been was now part of a larger effective whole. They were much farther along the scale we defined a while ago. From having been simple 3D humans, perhaps asleep, they became closer to the superhuman beings that is the other end of the scale. How? By having awakened, but of course also by having been prepared to wake up, and willing to wake up.
I wonder how people will hear this. I suppose it depends upon how much they know of the history of religions in truth, as opposed to the history first glossed over by ignorant piety, then counter-glossed by ignorant prejudice.
You forget, everyone has an inner non-3D guide ready and willing to provide whatever is necessary, waiting only for the willingness of the 3D mind. But you might say a word about the history of religions from this standpoint.
Well, to me, the elephant in the living room is that every religion proceeds from a few changed people. Men, historically, but I think that is a bias introduced by the leadership opportunities afforded men in the past, and also by the selective rewriting of what actually happened, because I don’t think people actually change all the much over time, and in our day it is clear that the initial people who “get” a new way of seeing are mostly women. Think for example of the women around Carl Jung. I doubt it was very different for Gautama or Jesus or Muhammad except insofar as cultural norms would have made it difficult. But it is historically on record that Jesus treated women as equals, in a time and place where this was not the norm. and apparently in the early Christian church – that is, in the time when the initial followers were followers because they had been changed, not because they had been born of believers – this was so. We know that various women led congregations, in the days before the organized church adopted Roman forms.
But I didn’t mean to concentrate on gender equality, though it is an indicator of the level of consciousness of the believers, regardless of their cultural background. That is, if they couldn’t see that we are all part of one thing, are all “brothers and sisters,” they hadn’t been changed much!
The point I intended to make is that religions are spread initially by people who have been changed. They are almost literally different people. They live in a world with different rules and possibilities. It isn’t really a matter of belief; it is a matter of experience. It only becomes a matter of belief when it is not accompanied (preceded) by experience.
Therefore you all may wish to look at yourselves in a different light. Like Jesus, we say we have come that you may have life more abundantly. When? In some future life? In the between-3D-lives state? In the same tomorrow that promises “free pie tomorrow”? Or do we mean something real, something tangible, something attainable? Rhetorical question, this. You know the answer.
We do. By living our full being (or as much more of it as we are able to absorb) we can transform ourselves and in effect transform the world we live in.
Consider the conversations you have had centering on fear in people’s lives.
I do. You would think that a life without fear would be tremendously attractive, but I guess people think it is only a feel-good concept without practical application.
And that is why we mention martyrs. What does it take for a man or a woman – ordinary 3D mortals like yourselves – to go to torture and death willingly, uncomplainingly, sometimes even smilingly, like the man who joked with his executioners as he was being burned on a griddle. In purely 3D terms, it would be inexplicable. But they weren’t living only in 3D, and neither do you have to. They were closer to the superhuman end of the scale, and if that isn’t life more abundantly, we can’t think of a more striking example. You might say, “Not much of a life, given that they are in the process of being killed,” but that comment in itself would demonstrate that you are still looking at life from a 3D-only viewpoint.
This is something to think about. There’s your hour. Call this, perhaps, “Toward the superhuman.”
Okay. Our thanks as always.