Friday, June 1, 2018
We are interrelating private and public worlds, you see; personal and impersonal forces; free will and circumstance. You in 3D create your reality but not anybody else’s reality. We know that seems paradoxical, and, as always, paradox is a sign that something is being misunderstood somewhere.
Yesterday I had a thought that I figured applies, us acting out of character/
The insight was less an insight than a specific application of what we had been discussing. You realized, “That’s what is going on sometimes,” and yes, it is, sometimes.
You are a bundle of threads in a specific time-place. You are spending your life making decisions as to what you wish to be, or to become, or to continue to be, or to cease to be. This is how you create your character, your bedrock essence. By the end of your life, you have modified the elements you began with, and have molded them into a functioning unit, or haven’t. Either way, you don’t do it in a vacuum. You function amid weather. If we can come up with the proper analogy or metaphor or image, we can make this very clear. Otherwise we will have to hint at it with words.
The image we seek would show the interaction between the individual and the weather that results sometimes in the individual acting “out of character,” so that he or others say he “wasn’t himself.” We will use words and perhaps the image will emerge.
Your life in 3D seems to you internal and external; intuitive and sensory; self and other; subjective and objective. You do create your reality in what you accept and respond to; you don’t in what exists despite your wishes, or what resists your efforts. Surely this is clear by now. Well, then, what happens when inner world and outer world interact, as happens every moment?
I get an image of a whirlpool, but that is too smooth; a hurricane, but that is too ordered; tornado (closer) only too violent.
A swirling interaction, though, yes. Continuing, fluctuating, gusting. That’s close to the image we want.
Not destructiveness, so much as an overwhelming disparity of force, so that the individual must somehow adapt to the vast impersonal forces, for the forces are not going to adapt to it. Storm winds, maybe.
There are places in the world where the wind blows unceasingly from one direction for days, weeks, at a time. There are places where the weather fluctuates moment by moment. There are power spots and centers of calm, places of danger and places of safety. The same individual would experience itself differently in different conditions.
You are affected by the weather even strictly physically (whatever that means). Barometric pressure, heat, humidity, etc., have their effect on the physical organism which means, as well, on the mental / emotional life. Your minds and emotions are not independent of the body. How could they be, and what sense would it make to even have a body, if they were?
There is more we could say, if only our image served better. Weather isn’t bad, but it is too impersonal.
Aha, another flash. It doesn’t include the sense of good and evil forces.
Yes, that’s true. it doesn’t make sense to speak of good or evil in connection with weather. The hurricane winds that destroy an island, or the tornado that tears up a town, are not evil, merely destructive in effect. They do not call up the evil within a person, and that is what we have not yet been able to get across.
What about some environmental factor like a shrill noise, or an annoying static buzz, or something else that riles anyone in the vicinity?
That is closer to it, in a way. The stress here is on the cause-and-effect interaction between “objective, outer” forces and anyone’s “subjective, inner” response.
Music! Ambient music that is either raucous, or soothing, or exciting, or inspiring, or – any of the range of effects music can produce.
Yes. That is a good image, and we can begin with that, next time. Excellent.
You don’t wish to continue, even if our hour is up?
The intervening time will serve to clarify and suggest. It will be easier to continue.
Saturday, June 2, 2018
Sometimes the music can drive you mad. Sometimes its sheer volume and intensity and unremitting persistence will beat down resistance, and people do things they don’t even approve of, or don’t remember in other “moods” as they are called.
The world isn’t really divided between good guys and monsters. The difference between the best and the worst is very little, and has more to do with awareness (or lack of it) than with soundness or rottenness. But that is why it is so important to see the intricate and unbreakable connection between inner world and outer, between individual and environment, between one’s own sails and rigging and the weather. We wish we could make it clearer why evil exists and people who do evil, and even intend evil, approve of evil exist, but “evil people” per se do not exist.
A lot of tangled definitions to be remembered, if we are to get and hold your meaning.
Too many, we sometimes think, but that is why educating you is a process rather than an event. Until you come to live these understandings, so that you do not have to make a conscious effort to see in a certain way, you can’t hold it all. However, we can itemize, from time to time, and unpredictably some of you will get it at any given moment.
- That we speak of evil doesn’t mean we accept it as an absolute. We are defining within your perceptions.
- We distinguish between the doing of evil and the being
- You are, remember, communities practicing cohabitation in the process of becoming an entity larger than the comprising threads.
- We speak of background noise, or music, or weather, or vast impersonal forces, and implicit in citing them is the fact of their relationship to you as 3D / non-3D beings.
Now put it together, as best you can. Think your way into it; feel your way into it. You have to be in a certain frame of mind for this to be real and not merely words. If it is just words to you, you will have to wait until it comes alive, and there is little you can do to speed that day. Intend, perhaps. Persevere in intent. Live your ignorance without denying it. Travel hopefully, knowing that intent will be rewarded.
Is that what Jesus meant by “knock and it shall be opened to you”?
He didn’t promise that it would open in thirty seconds. What he was saying was, Righteous persistence wins reward.
My favorite line from the I Ching.
Gee, do you suppose that means something, that the line appealed and gave hope?
Very funny. It is interesting to me – looking over my own shoulder – how often I think in terms of Jesus’s words, even though I don’t sit and read them to keep them in mind.
You did the reading as you did the yearning and the intending. You know the saying you recently came across, “No seed ever sees the flower.” You are on the flowering end of your life, benefitting from the planting and tending of the seed so many decades ago.
Sometimes I feel like, “Well, can’t be long now,” and other times like, “If we wrap it up now, it’ll be something of a waste, it took me so long to get here.” Either way, a hopeful journey, in retrospect. I might have lived it smoother if I had had consistent faith that it would all work out.
That may be said by anybody. The point is to set your intent and live it, for what you intend will determine your possibilities.
If people will sit with what they have been given, here and in their lives, connections will occur and will seat in. If they will not do that, all this will be the equivalent of a novel or an instruction book in how to write a screenplay: words, true words, but not transformation. And transformation is the name of the game. Not, taking a thing and turning it into something else, but assisting the seed in its process of dying to itself so that it may become the flowering.