Saturday, February 18, 2023
7:25 a.m. I get that I sort of slurred over the concept you were trying to get across, yesterday. The rebalancing isn’t only within each Strand; it is also among the total. I can see that this might be difficult to get into words, though it is simple enough as an image. Care to try?
You will remember, we said there is no advantage to your replacing the idea of one individual (the way you customarily think of yourselves) with a concept of many little individuals (each Stand). You are correct, we mean something a little different. You are also correct in thinking that an image will convey it better than a sequential exposition. So, since you have the concept firmly in mind at the moment, let’s find an image.
Several beakers with various levels of fluid in them? No, that isn’t even clear in itself.
But start with numerous units interacting and interconnecting, yes. It would be even better if we could show those units to be not units at all, but, sort-of-units.
I get, “Water seeks its own level.”
Yes, that will help, only we need also the balancing of forces among many things, not only one.
This is a new way to do this, searching for the image before expressing the idea even vaguely.
New day, new techniques. It is merely an extension into the printed record of processes that usually proceed unseen.
If we could stack several iterations of “Water seeks its own level.” (And I am acutely aware, suddenly, of how none of this can make sense to anybody yet unless they tune in and get it directly.)
Which is what an image does, you realize. An image is a more direct connection than words, because quicker, more like essence to essence.
But I think we’ll get that image sooner by talking about it than by my dredging without words.
That’s a more complex process than you realize. Talking about something keeps it fresh in the minds of both parties and, in a sense, deepens and elongates the temporary joint mind. Thus sparks may fly between them, in effect allowing and noticing ideas that either, alone, might well have missed.
This, even if one of the two is primarily non-3D?
Remember not to put us on a pedestal. We have limited range too, even if the extent and nature of the limits are not the same as yours. Your flashlight, remember, works to bring dim perceptions into greater clarity and focus. In effect, your attention aids our attention. We give you greater scope, you give us greater intensity. None of this is new material, we told you long ago, and many times.
So the image we’re looking for.
- In a way it totals quality X across all relevant Strands.
Damn it, it’s so simple, there must be a way to express it.
There is, there always is. It is not necessarily immediately obvious.
[Tried to draw several beakers, with various strata.]
No, that doesn’t work. Let’s look at strata, except that’s too static.
Remember, often two or more images, each incomplete, will by their juxtaposition suggest more than can be said.
All right. Image 1. Rocks formed by sedimentary processes. Each has strata laid down one upon the other. Each is different even if the composition is the same or similar. The image is static, but each rock could represent an individual 3D life, and each stratum could represent a different Strand, or, alternatively, each stratum could represent a different quality. This is two uses of the one image, because of course no one Strand would equal one quality. Each Strand would be a mixture of qualities, as we all are.
Image 2. A series of pools of water, connected via an underground reservoir, say. Water seeks its own level. Other things being equal, the pools will all be at the same level even though connected only at the source. For the purposes of the exposition, the connecting underground reservoir may be considered to be the present moment, or, alternatively, the larger being. I suppose that in a way that’s saying the same thing twice.
We need a third image, to let the rock strata rebalance moment by moment, but if we could find that, we’d be getting there. Any ideas?
You’re doing all right. Continue.
Let’s see. The factors are
- The beginning balance within each person or Strand.
- The energy of the living present moment, enabling change.
- Individual will, choosing.
- The potential energy of the moment – the “unfinished business” – that tends to bring this or that to the forefront.
Look at it from your own 3D individual’s viewpoint, it’ll come clear.
Yes, I believe it will.
- I am an individual in 3D, comprising communities of communities (Strands).
- In effect I am a collection of containers, each of which is a balance of forces.
- The living present moment provides the energy to allow changes: In effect, it momentarily liquifies the rocks, allowing changes of proportions, as they too (from their perspective) are enabled to change.
- Then the proportions within the various rocks, as altered, become the new norm.
That isn’t very clear, but it’s clearer than when we began.
It at least conveys the sense that nothing remains fixed. There’s never the fixity to things that you all often assume. “Life is but a dream” in this case suggests that. Potentially, you can always change – even after you are “dead” from the point of wherever the living present is, provided that whatever you connect to is in the living present moment.
That is clear in my mind, but I doubt it will be clear to anyone merely reading it.
You can’t know that, and it doesn’t matter. Anything one person gets clearly in mind helps all who are connected.
Which is everybody, in theory, but undoubtedly there is some limit in practice. I’m not sure how important something may be at 60 levels of separation, say.
Think of complex you all are; think how each Strand is a web of connection to other webs of connections. The “all one thing” is more closely connected than you might think if you don’t keep that in mind.
And while writing that, I got reminded that my images are of solid tangible things, whereas I’m looking for something closer to electricity.
One step leads to the next. First you get one aspect illustrated, then you move on to the next. So you got across (we think) the idea of cross-fertilization among Strands, so now merely come up with a more vivid, volatile, labile image to replace that of rock or water.
“Radio waves” comes to mind. This is hampered by the fact that I know so little about it, but someone versed in electronics could doubtless show how complex transmissions composed of different combinations of frequencies interact. They’d need to show that the various broadcasts interact to change one another, and I don’t know if that actually happens, so maybe the analogy isn’t a good one.
It should be simple enough of a spark (if you will pardon the play on words) to get the idea across.
The thing to take away from this is that:
- You are part of “all that is.”
- Your individual existence is unique.
- Everything interacts.
- There is no “ultimately”; there is not “final result.” It all proceeds.
- Your decisions (on who and what you want to be) affect your Strands, creating possibilities for them moment by moment, because they are alive. They were initially shaped in 3D, but they continue to exist in non-3D and are affected by 3D decisions.
- But they also affect you. This too is as allowed by the present moment’s weather and by the weight of the world’s unfinished business.
In a sense, it’s never too late.
In every sense, it’s never too late. Despair is limited perspective. There is always more day to dawn, as Thoreau pointed out.
Well! Not sure how much we accomplished this morning, but something, anyway. Does this round it off, or do you want to add more?
Enough for the moment. Good work.
Our thanks as always.