A choice of input

Friday, December 2, 2022

6:10 a.m. Gentlemen, I am reluctant to talk to you, reluctant to continue on the novel. Speed bump, or what?

You are asking us? Why not ask yourself? In a way, asking us is asking yourself, of course. You know that. But then, why feel reluctance to ask yourself?

Maybe I’m shrinking from the effort of doing an hour’s session.

Not that it need be that, nor that if it were, it need be transcribed.

Oh, I know all that. Still, if I gear up to do it, it seems a waste of effort not to do it right.

That could be every 3D person’s theme song.

Which part? Too much effort, or too bad to waste things?

Both, in different proportions according to temperament. The 3D conditions predispose you all to over-discriminate between yourself and others. That is, you aren’t nearly as different from each other as you think, it’s just that you’re seeing yourself from the inside and them from the outside.

Only – I hear – as usual, it isn’t that simple.

“Not that simple” really ought to be restated “only it could be analyzed more closely.” Turn the knob on the tele-micro-scope, and always a new relationship comes into focus

That has an interesting effect. As you say it, I realize that “not that simple” carries an aura of “you aren’t smart enough or careful enough to really see things straight,” and “could be analyzed more closely” does not.

You are all prone to underrate yourselves, your abilities, your central position in your personal universe. It’s good to remind you that any sense of insufficiency is an illusion.

I seem to remember my brother once telling me something similar. I think he said discouragement is the result of false expectations of oneself.

That is true enough, though of course not an absolute. False expectations are one source of discouragement.

In this case, I don’t think we’re dealing with discouragement – I feel pretty good, actually – but with disinclination to exert myself.

Though you have drifted right into a session.

Effortlessly; that’s the point. I’m not sure I could have geared up to do it, if it had been hard.

That is careless thinking. Actually, not “thinking” at all, but accepting random association of moods. At least, it could be looked at that way.

“Random association of moods.” I don’t remember your using that terms before. Meaning?

It isn’t a very precise term yet. We’ll work on it together – here – and see if clarity emerges. What we refer to is a certain passivity of mood – a little different from receptivity – that accepts as real what is presented by preprogrammed scripts, by what you sometimes call robots, by what seem self-evident truths that – looked at more energetically – reveal themselves to be shadows, or half-truths, or passing conditions.

I’m groping toward it. I have about a half-idea what you’re meaning.

Wing it, perhaps using bullet-points, and we’ll insert as we can and will observe as we cannot. That is, we will participate in nudging you whenever it’s possible.

Oh, I can hear my conspiratorially minded friends jumping on that. They’ll say, “Aha, they just admitted to being the puppet-masters,” etc.

You will not be able to explore new ground by obsession over what others may make of the trail you blaze.

All right, true enough.

• The penumbra of our consciousness probably is fill of automatisms, lacking the full energy that consciousness gives, but structured. (From past moments of consciousness, perhaps?)
• Such formed but inactive structures may wander into our conscious awareness, seeming real?
• Or maybe – taking your old definition of emotion as the boundary layer between consciousness and what we are unconscious of – a “mood” is a momentary appearance seeming real.

This isn’t gong very well.

Let us do it, then, and we’ll see if we progress:

• Your mental life contains many kinds of what you might call structures: ideas, thoughts, emotional patterns, biases, openness in some directions and relative closed-ness in others.
• You as center of your world are not replicable. Too many factors, 3D and non-3D, each individual, go into each person. There is no way that any two – even identical twins – could be the same.
• Your life is lived one 3D moment at a time and is lived in the permanent perpetual now. Which one you become aware of determines the flavor of your life, and of course awareness fluctuates, and is meant to.
• Each present 3D moment interacts with you. (That is as valid a way to put it as to say you interact with it.) It elicits response in your total being, most of which is invisible to you. Hence you are often surprised..
• Your life is structured by your past decisions. That is the “predetermined” part of life. And it proceeds according to your present decisions, the free-will aspect. The present moment is what presents you with (in effect) an outside agent offering you a certain range of freedom. It is a limited range, but a range. That energy flows through you via your structures. There is no other way for you to experience it. But it also permeates the areas beyond the structures, call it. Hence, sometimes, conflict.

That’s too vague for me.

Every present moment affects your 3D and non-3D. The 3D is affected directly, the non-3D second-hand, in a way; that is, because of, or through your 3D-created structures. Clearer?

Not there yet.

The vast impersonal forces – spirit – animates the 3D world. Spirit flows through what it finds. It doesn’t shape, it animates. The spirit plays the pan-pipes that are the 3D world. (Remember, the 3D is a subset of the All-D, which by definition includes 3D and non-3D alike.) But spirit can only play the pipes as they exist. This goes for any individual, quite as much as for the whole, and for anything between the extremes. You have helped spirit express, because your decisions, like everyone’s, have helped shape the pipes spirit plays.

And the connection with the final bullet you offered?

You experience life in two ways: As sensory beings, you experience the 3D world as if it were entirely (rather than relatively) real. As more-than-sensory beings, you experience life as if your mental and emotional reality were primary and everything else secondary. Life is the process of riding two horses.

What you experience directly – intuitively – you experience unfiltered (though immediately your filters begin to process what you get). What you experience indirectly – through the senses – must come through the filters that are your psychic life. You are not tabula rasa, not ever could be. You are the product of loads of experience, over this and associated lifetimes. There is no possibility of you experiencing reality directly, through any sensory-mediated route.

Tiring. Can we pull this together?

When you get discouraged – or manic, for that matter; the substance doesn’t matter – remember that you have a choice as to how to react. If you don’t like the picture of reality being presented by one set of filters, choose another, if you can. Or, better, meditate or use whatever technique works for you, and tap into the view from the penthouse. Tap into the way life looks when experienced directly – intuitively – rather than through the complex of baffles and lab-rat passages that your 3D life has created.

I get it. And I see you have inveigled me into a full session, merely by engaging my interest. I feel so used! 😊 Today’s?

“Discouragement and choice”?

That would be accurate enough but a little depressing, isn’t it? At first glance, I mean.

What about “A choice of filters,” or “A choice of input.”

One of those should work. Very well, our thanks as always.