Part two
Monday, June 18, 2018
We realize that it will become difficult to keep all of the argument in mind. At some point it may become useful to construct a skeleton, so that the essentials can be grasped visually all at the same time. Sequential exposition, instantaneous recapitulations. But for now, let’s look into the question of how it is that you can (and do) affect the world magically, not merely directly.
Certain distortions result from considering yourselves as if you were 3D-only, and to consider yourselves as “3D-only individuals interacting with 3D-only surroundings” compounds the distortion and produces a sense of helplessness in a hostile or indifferent world. Our present enterprise is about considering yourselves as All-D beings experiencing 3D limitations.
I have long been feeling for the “why” of existence, and the “how” of it.
“Ask, and you shall receive.” Any thirst deep enough will provide the means to slake it. We have suggested alternate ways of understanding tailored to your personality and essence. Your repeating these in turn provides enlightenment for those whose being is close enough to yours to respond to the same “flavor” of information. Those sufficiently different will not respond to this but will not be left unfed.
There are many ways to suggest people toward the truth, and each way must be suited to its audience. Not any truth applies to everyone. What may look like entirely contradictory descriptions may still represent steps toward truth for those at a certain position. After all, neither you nor they are going to find a “the” truth. At best you are going to find the truest truth you can relate to.
So, to continue. You as All-D beings, experiencing yourselves primarily as 3D beings, naturally experience an external world. That world, though, is external to you only insofar as you experience it as 3D-only. In reality you and it are not separate. You are all part of one another, and of us, and therefore of the “external” world. There is an external world only in the sense that reality may be experienced as it would be if 3D were all there is.
The fact is, All-D – all of reality, not merely the stripped-down version of it that may be experienced directly by 3D senses – is not divided. All-D reality has different rules. We could equally well say, All-D reality is different essentially from 3D reality. (There is only one reality, but it seems different, depending entirely upon the vantage point from which it is considered.)
In the All-D there is no “other,” no “external world.” You affect the world directly by what you are, at least as much as by what you do. What you do may be paraphrased, “What you actually intend.” But that in turn depends upon what you are, for what you are determines what you wish, and in turn is determined by what you were, which is determined by a combination of where you began at a previous instant and what you chose at that instant.
We are the result of past decisions, which our free will exercised upon pre-existing conditions.
And thus, what you are at any given moment is as important as what you specifically will. Another way to say it: Your unconscious will (what you have made yourself to be) is as important as your conscious will (any specific immediate intent). And this is how you affect external reality by adding your vote to any issue. You as All-D beings affect other All-D beings directly, which means you can affect All-D reality directly, for the 3D trance is a result of All-D beings, in concert and in discord. How you affect it depends primarily your level of being and your intensity of application at any given moment, and how well or ill your intent fits with that of others. But that is where you affect your 3D external reality, and not (as seems to 3D eyes) directly in an “external” world.
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Everything we have said to this point leads to this: The world is magic and is to be influenced by magic. You, as humans, are magic and are to be influenced by magic. Now it merely remains to show you magic when it is right in front of you.
I don’t get that you mean “magic” in any metaphorical way.
No, quite literally. Everything is alive, conscious, interconnected. Of course it is all magic; it is only the limitations of thought and feeling imposed by 3D conditions that prevent you from knowing something so obvious. But it isn’t magic in effect if the 3D trance is deep enough. The trance says “What you see is what you get,” and the philosophies hung from it argue that what can’t be measured cannot exist, and the religions argue that there are two worlds. But the world – reality – is magic. One more time: Alive, conscious, interconnected.
We often consider magic to be the interfering with the laws of nature by the application of directed will.
That is the wider world seen through a crack in the 3D trance. It is the materialist who allows for an afterlife, or ghosts, or effective witchcraft. It is the assumption of the primacy of 3D rules, only with bewildering exceptions. It is an allowing-in of contrary evidence, but only the least degree.
Now, look at what clears up, if what we are saying is true.
- Those things that fly directly in the face of common sense, that cannot be explained in terms of accepted physical laws but are fitted in, badly, to a materialist context.
- The many deep ends off which various religions drop: demons, hobgoblins of all kinds, invisible traps for the unwary, celestial wars over the fate of helpless individuals.
- Most of all, the endless contradictions in the evidence.
All these problems stem from attempting to understand All-D reality from an assumption, implicit or explicit, that 3D reality is the known quantity. The problem can’t be solved at the level it is posed. It resolves only when seen from a higher understanding. Reality is All-D rather than 3D-only; it is experienced by humans as 3D-only until they learn to experience with their whole being, rather than with only their 3D senses.
From the more unified point of view, you see that
- Of course the wellsprings of the 3D part of the world are not limited to 3D causes and manifestations.
- Of course events transpire in 3D only after they are precipitated from All-D conditions.
- Of course – in short – the world and all its workings is magical in nature.
- And of course that can only mean that you are magical in nature, unless you are somehow different from everything else in the All-D world!
It doesn’t feel like it, perhaps, or feels like it only now and then, or only as an exception to the rules. But “what it feels like” amounts to “as it is interpreted to me by my particular mixture of sensory and non-sensory apprehension.” Not a reliable guide! The result may be sensory disorientation and non-sensory nonsense.
When Jesus said that someone with even a miniscule amount of faith could tell a mountain to move and the mountain would move, he was expressing something that totally contradicted sensory experience. If he was not speaking metaphorically, and not speaking nonsense, what was he pointing to?
I get that “faith” isn’t quite the right word.
It could be, but so much depends upon what the reader understands by the word. It did not mean “faith in me,” nor even, quite, “faith in what I am saying.” More like, “attunement to reality, perception of what the laws of nature really are.” The “laws of nature” in this case means the laws of All-D nature, not merely the laws of a special case such as 3D-only.
If you really see how things are, you see, you will be able to perform incredible feats of magic. Not that the ability to do magic is the point. It isn’t. The point is that seeing clearly shows you the real nature of yourself and the world and the larger world beyond the 3D trance. Everything Jesus said and did aimed at providing a wake-up call for those ready to respond to it. “He who has ears, let him hear.”
Instead, they made him a god. Easier to deal with that way.
That isn’t quite fair. Those who were ready to wake up, did wake up. Those who somewhat woke up changed their attitudes and their behavior (“See how these Christians love one another”) but they continued to regard 3D as self-evident and separate from the “spiritual” or “celestial” or “afterlife” reality that would only be experienced after death. They interpreted the words of Jesus as if he had been giving laws rather than helpful instruction; lived in fear of punishment and hope of salvation – that is, they lived in expectation of an external judgment – rather than in joyful, even playful, freedom. They experienced a new birth of freedom, but only within a 3D context. What they did experience and to some degree transmit was enough to transform the world. But perhaps it was only a halfway-house understanding, after all.
But what about you? You are at the end of 2,000 years of that message being passed down, even if often enough in distorted form. Can you say that your mental and emotional world has been liberated by that message, or have you, too, not mostly missed it? Reality is magic, and magic may be defined as the ability to affect your surroundings to reshape them in conformity with your will. But that definition contains a whole host of terms themselves requiring definition.
We almost despair of making our point and having it heard. For, you will read what we say and maybe assent and maybe assent with reservations, but you will not apply your assent. You will not realize – make real – your greater freedom. And if you do not apply what we have given you, it is just an outpouring of words, nothing more.
I suppose some concrete practical down-to-earth suggestions would help.
That, they would not. This is not a theory to be explored, or an equation to be solved, or even a working hypothesis to be lived. It is an insight, or it is nothing. We have already made the only practical suggestion necessary, and we have made it many times. Concentrate on waking up. Jesus said unless you become like a little child, you can’t enter into heaven. He said the kingdom of heaven is right here, right now, not somewhere else or somewhen else. Those two statements give you all you need.
If we have ears to hear.
Well, can you deny it? It is the parable about sowing seed on fertile or rocky ground: The harvest depends not upon the seed, but upon the receptivity of the soil it falls on.