Friday, December 30, 2022
7 a.m. That dream. One of many, but the one I remember. How to describe it, look at it? I was sitting on the left side of JFK, in council of state, apparently. Robert McNamara was at the 3 o’clock position, if JFK and I were at 6 o’clock, and RM was attacking JFK’s position. For some reason, nobody around the table could see Kennedy’s way of gathering information, and I was trying to show them, I think. But let’s see if I can remember the technique I used one time. A little help, guys.
One image.
Yes. Me looking over at McNamara, struck by the disloyalty and disregard and inability to see.
But you could see, could understand what the president was doing and why he was doing it.
Yet for some reason he was unable to act or speak for himself, or if he did, I don’t remember it.
You already know the analogy.
I do. My speaking wisdom – and seeking wisdom – across a community of responsible adults. Speaking for you because you seem unable to speak except through me. So I guess I’ll get to it:
Dave Garland asked for more on my statement that group minds that clustered around opinions, occupations, concerns, etc. channel the vast impersonal forces into the 3D. When I wrote the email he was responding to, it was clear enough to me that I did not try to think it out. Now it is vague in my mind. So – a little help, please.
You might as well include what you just wrote. It isn’t like your dream I unconnected to the subject.
It’ll make for an awkward lead-in, but okay.
Remember always, if you can, life does not really come in disconnected segments. Your minds naturally process reality into logically connected segments, but in a way, that amounts to cutting salami and sorting the slices according to some criteria that may or may not be relevant. Some bits may be rounder, some different shades of color, some this or that, but it’s all salami. Similarly, life. Your mind cuts it into categories: dreams, stray thoughts, fantasies, interruptions, inconveniences, memories, whatever, sorting as the input continues to stream. Each of you sorts by your own criteria, and each of you experiences differently according to the ratio of sensory and intuitive input. To that extent, you each experience a different world, and you each create (by choice and arrangement) a different world. It’s a wonder you can even talk to each other, and if you did not extend into non-3D, how much could you even be aware of each other except as “things” – often, as obstacles, if not threats.
So, you have a dream. If something inside you suggests you examine it, maybe you should listen. It doesn’t suggest that about every dream, you know.
You have a thought, or an encounter, or anything in the course of your day or night: If something says pay attention, pay attention. It’s all part of helping you re-member your reality instead of seeing it piecemeal.
Now, to the immediate point. What you are, not primarily what you think or do, forms interest groups in non-3D. Actions, fantasies, thought chains, any manifestation in 3D is secondary; what is primary is what you have made yourself. And of course, “what you have made yourself” is apt to change with time. That’s the point of living.
I could feel you grasping for a vivid analogy, an image, and it felt like you had almost received it, but it slipped away.
Find it with us. This process is all about collaboration, remember.
I know something of what you wanted. It was an image of us as active processors, not as passive consumers.
The vast impersonal forces – spirit, we have called them in some contexts – pour through reality, animating you and everything around you. But, like light shining into prisms, how that unchanged and unchanging light expresses depends upon the prisms it shines through. Prisms, filters, semi-transparent lenses, opaque surfaces – the light is the same source, always, but the manifestations are infinitely varied.
So, in the non-3D, on an on-going basis as you live your lives – that is, as the living present moment rolls forward in its path – what you are at that given moment helps reflect or refract or transmit the light. None of you is solo, but neither is any of you omitted. You are all part of the whole. You all affect the result.
Do you see? Is more needed, do you think?
Well, it’s again clear to me. I suppose it will be clear to others as well. I guess we’ll see. Our thanks as always – unless you have something more to add?
We smile. Our sessions don’t have to extend to an hour just because that has been our long-time practice. Short and sweet works too.
Till next time, then.