Saturday, November 20, 2021
I had a thought for a session, overnight. What can you say to help people who may have gone through the threshold of a new way of being, but have done so (in so far as they realize it) only in intent, and have not yet realized any change? That is a clumsy way to put it, but perhaps it will get us started.
In the interest of a clearer statement, we will answer a slightly different question, for really the concern of one and all is less, “How will I know when I have entered in,” than, “How do I enter in?” The first question would merely want encouragement (no bad thing in itself); the second wants guidance and assistance.
We say, “This is the time, things are changing, and you are part of the change,” and some people’s hearts leap within them, for we are only telling them what they already know, even if it is something they haven’t quite dared believe. But when we say, “If you intend to live an entirely changed existence; if you maintain that intent year by year – if you live toward your ideal, in short – you will not be left in the wilderness,” this may be a breath of renewed hope, even an echo of a longing, but it is unlikely to stir that inner leap of conviction. It will feel like a hoping against hope; it will feel perhaps as if we are saying, “Don’t worry what it looks like, things really are well.”
Which is just what you have been saying for 20 years – All is always well.
Yes, but you see the difference in emotional effect. The one statement brings a leap of joy, perhaps tears of gratitude for the reassurance after so much vigilant care. The other brings perhaps a gnawing doubt, as in, “Too good to be true,” or even, “This is just more of the same, and is not helpful.”
So now, here is a problem. We in non-3D, just like many of you in 3D, intend to be helpful; we offer whatever gifts we have in our grab-bag. But willingness, even eagerness, to help, is not the same as ability to give each one what s/he needs, instantly and in full, or there would be no woe or unrequired longing in the world. It takes one to give, one to receive, and, though intangible, it takes a flow between the two to enable the transfer.
Sometimes we have to wait for the times to be right, as you said earlier?
That is true too, but in this case we refer not to impersonal timing, as marked by the orbs in the heavens, but the vicissitudes of the human soul. These changes are not random, not accidental, but they do not follow “external” direction either. They result from the interaction of a person’s smaller and larger sphere, and thus are somewhat under the direction of conscious intent. This is important, and of course will require some spelling-out.
I’ll say! This is going off in a direction I haven’t gotten even a glimpse of, till now. This is why our intent matters. This is why our free will affects who we are, what happens to us, what we become, over and above and almost despite the constraints usually called environment or heredity or even predestination.
Later when you look at this you may be impressed by the leap you just made – or perhaps it will still seem logical and natural. In any case, that’s where we are going. Now let’s see how to get there.
What a fortunate man I am, to be allowed to bring in these things!
You were born potentially able; your sustained intent brought potential into practicality. We say this not only for you, Frank, of course. It is true of everyone. Anyone who is interested in what we have to say has it in them to express (to embody, to live) greater things, or they would not be attracted by them. But it is a fine line – and a crucial one – between merely wishing and intending. Intending sometimes involves “acting as if.” It is a safe way, perhaps the only safe way, of bridging the gap from how you experience yourself to how you long to experience yourself. It is an act of faith, and will bring the results you wish, though quite likely in a way and a form you didn’t suspect. But you will not be disappointed. You will say to yourself, as you just did, Frank, “How lucky I am!” It is not luck, it is cosmic justice, assuring that no good thing comes without effort, but no effort is ever wasted.
On behalf of my friends, thank you for these words of encouragement, which so many need in these turbulent and hopeful times. You’ve been encouraging us right along; this is just acknowledgement and renewed thanks.
We receive our thanks as you change your lives, and come out of your hard protective shells, and cease to cower in fear. (We don’t mean to be harsh; it’s a fair description for how your life appears to you sometimes, if you really look at it.) Your “life more abundantly” is of course also ours, for we remind you, we’re all in this together. Can you wonder that we rejoice when we see you make headway against 3D turbulence and confusion? And this is why we love you, because not only is your struggle valiant and admirable (no matter how it may look to you), it is also our struggle. So, you always have our blessings and our love. Rely on it.
So now, let’s look at how your intent can influence flow without reference to external timing, which means not constrained by any “external” necessity. Which – in short – means, “It’s up to you.” You’ll never hear a more hopeful statement than that: “It’s up to you.” If it’s up to you, how could it be possible for you to lack anything you need? How could it be possible for you to have to wait “until the times are right”? This is why it is always possible now. Let’s see if we can lay out a few bread crumbs to lead you by logic where logic strictly per se could not take you.
- You come into 3D with innumerable links to non-3D which you may see as past lives, or as threads, or as characteristic traits; three ways to grasp the same connection. Those links define your possibilities and, in a way, your constraints.
- You begin life with certain innate tendencies, and vectors, known to you or, mostly, unknown. But these help shape “what happens to you” as you engage with the world.
- Always in the background as you live and grow and discover yourself in comparison with “other” – with “the world,” with “external reality” – the non-3D connections influence you. You may or may not realize it, and you may think of those influences in various ways, but they will You are never the orphan you sometimes feel yourself to be. Those influences, like the good angel on your shoulder, continually suggest that you’d be better off turning right than left, going this way than that – and then of course it is up to you whether you listen, but the promptings are always there. As we said, you never were an orphan, never were alone in the wilderness. You have been a little deaf sometimes, that’s all.
- Everything that you are and do not know that you are – every aspect of yourself of which you are unconscious – is part of that larger sphere in which your smaller sphere of consciousness exists. “The world” is you, objectified, dramatized, made available for you to discover by your interaction with it.
- Such interactions may be positive or negative, not only in themselves (that is, pleasant or unpleasant, safe or dangerous, life-enhancing or discouraging) but, more, in how you react to them. If you come to the events in your life assuming injustice, meaningless collision, likelihood of injury to you (or, at least, the need to extreme caution to avoid such injury), your interactions will have a very different flavor and result from the same interactions approached with the assumption that there is always something to be learned, something to be gained.
- This different in intent is under your control. And you can decide to change, can change, at any time, and no one and no event and no circumstance or lack of circumstance can stand in your way. At any time, you may change your life by your intent. This change of intent is not only a real change, it is the only real change there is or can be.
But that doesn’t mean it comes accompanied with bells and whistles.
You could almost say it is very likely not to be accompanied with bells and whistles. Coming into your own is not drama, so much as fruition. Do natural processes come with bells and whistles, usually? Does the corn that grows in the night require a brass band, or even a flute?
Today’s theme?
Surely something on the order of, “It requires nothing more than intent.” That isn’t it, but close enough to give you the idea when you come to transcribe.
Again, heartfelt thanks, from me and from all who read this. Till next time.