Sunday, February 19, 2023
4:15 a.m. Very well, friends, let’s follow up on a couple of loose ends from your disquisition on rebalancing. I think the three images we developed give a pretty good sense of the situation, though no one or even two would do it:
- Sedentary rocks. Our 3D lives as we experience them, moment by moment.
- Water seeking its own level. Our lives as they look not moment by moment, but as a biographer might see them.
- Radio waves. A closer approximation to what is going on than any variant of “rocks in space.”
But you connected rebalancing with psychological complexes, and the results of traumas, and unshakeable habits, and we didn’t stop to pursue that thread, but went looking for adequate analogies. So let’s look at it now, and then maybe say some more about “It’s never too late,” and what that means for us.
This is a way of showing how what is “external” in your lives is really internal. There is not, cannot be, an “external” not connected to you.
We’d better say that more carefully. You mean, I’m pretty sure, we don’t notice anything in the world that does not connect with something within. Most of reality goes on around us, without triggering us, I would imagine.
That’s a common-sense interpretation, but literally wrong, though in practical terms a reasonable approximation.
You often say you confine yourselves to what we can apply in practice.
But we try not to do so by pretending that things are simpler than they are. Just because you can’t experience faint or distant connections, that doesn’t mean they do not exist. Perhaps they may be disregarded in practice; still, a theoretical statement should notice them.
All right.
So, in practice –. No, let’s sketch this for a second.
- You experience life as divided between internal and external.
- But what you experience as external is actually your particular resonance to part of the general “potential energy created by past actions and inactions” [formulated 11-23-2022] that we also call “unfinished business,” that is also common to others.
- Beyond what you experience as external is what you do not
- Only – recognize that these neat divisions do not exist with boundaries and shape; they flow into one another. To define them too closely would be to arbitrarily say X is conscious, Y is in the unconscious, and Z is on the borderline between them. How much use is such division, when a moment’s rebalancing may alter any or all elements being considered?
No need to pursue this, probably, but we thought it as well to put it on the record, since it arose now and is easy.
So it is with you as it is with us, that some things are easier grasped in one moment than in another?
This is true of us insofar as we are dealing with 3D, yes, of course. Your limitations are ours, in a way, just as our difficulty in confining ourselves to a part of a topic without following its connections may be yours.
Understood. So how is the concept of continual rebalancing connected to complexes?
This is the invisible connecting concept between external and internal, don’t you see? The state of your balance is not determined solely by your will, or your decisions. If it were, life would be easy. Rather, your will, your decisions, are thrown onto the scale, but may have a lot to overcome on the other side of the scale. You don’t deal with a clean slate, you deal with the existing situation, which is always the result of innumerable factors in all the Strands comprising you.
Certainly it is true that we have a hard time overcoming our complexes. It makes sense that they are partly beyond our control.
We can almost feel ourselves ready to connect that thought with astrology.
I can feel it. It’s still a fuzzy connection, though.
What constellates at birth are various combinations of forces that the moment allows in. You think of this as different Strands being able to enter, and this is true enough in practice, but what would be clearer is that certain combinations of traits are allowed in, and the Strands that embody these combinations enter. Thus Strands that may have little in common except some shared characteristics (some shared combinations) may wind up sharing a personality.
That is clearer to me in concept than you have yet expressed. I think you should add that the example is simplified, a view as if only one combination were important.
Let’s put it this way. Every Strand is complex. If you doubt it, just examine your own life and see how many contradictory or unrelated or mutually reinforcing traits you embody; see how many unresolved complexes you deal with; see how many physical, emotional, mental habits you live. Each Strand that is a part of you is itself complex, so it isn’t as simple as “The times allow in these units but not those.” It would be closer to say, “The times allow those patterns in, often in connection with other patterns that are not particularly fitted but are part of the Strand that contains the allowed patterns.” That isn’t exactly right, but close enough.
Now, the 3D personality may find itself in quite a pickle! A many-talented person like a Winston Churchill – statesman, writer, painter, orator, bricklayer, even! – may find it almost impossible to fit in. A person with multiple psychological or physical handicaps, same thing. The fact that a combination of traits finds it possible to embody is no guarantee that the result will be happy or even viable. It is potential: the energies of the times create it, so to speak. But not every pot that is thrown makes it through the kiln.
I can see that, but not so easily the tie to rebalancing.
Every Strand is the result of a lifetime of rebalancing. Everything that exists – it’s all mind-stuff, remember – is in a continual state of rebalancing. Every present-moment decision, every act of will, affects the balance, and such acts of will are occurring everywhere at every time. Is this not your experience of life?
Yes it is. It certainly is a way of explaining the complexity and stubbornness of our lives.
Simpler people experience life as more simple. More advanced souls experience its more subtle nuances. Life always appears according to your ability to perceive it. But this goes on always.
And do simpler people have simpler non-3D components?
That sounds like a question that should be easy to answer, but recognize that it depends upon a lot of silent and scarcely noticed definitions.
Then let’s defer the question, and look at your statement that “It’s never too late.”
People in the time of the decaying Roman Empire, or in Persia when under attack by the Huns, or any Eastern country during the time they were helpless to resist Western imperialism, may have felt that their world was coming to an end. Individually, a person at the end of life may feel it had been wasted, had been a series of bad choices, had run into the sand. If life were what it appears to be – a one-time progression from past to future, a “rocks in space” scenarios, whether thought of as theme park of, more commonly, as grim reality – this might be justified. But life is not rocks in space, but mind-stuff. Interactions are not set in stone except in relation to one time-line. Time does not flow, but is experienced as flow.
Since you can always change if you will to, and since you are often changed by some Strand’s unnoticed rebalancing, and since in effect there are innumerable timelines (as each rebalancing creates new possibilities, not merely future but past, because all in the living present moment) – how can there be any finality? It can look that way, but so what? As you see more clearly, you realize that the world (that is, reality) was never so constrictive as you thought it was.
Got it. Unless you have more, I’d say we’ve come to a natural place to pause.
Indeed we have.
Our thanks as always. Always good to be in touch, particularly after I’d reconciled myself to cessation.