By nature, you are a poor conductor of some energies and a good conductor of others. That is, your composition leaves you more susceptible to some forces and less so to others. This has nothing to do with what you do with these energies, it merely addresses the fact that your initial composition inclines you toward some things and away from others. This is what you have been told for years, only now with emphasis on other aspects of the situation.
None of this is new but the context. For millennia, people have talked about choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholic dispositions. Or, astrological or alchemical or any number of systems of categorizations. It all boils down to this: People are mixtures of traits that express elementary forces in different degrees, rather than uniformly, and they may be categorized for belter understanding. Humans are conduits of vast forces that flow through them in varying strengths according to the nature of the individual. It is the individual’s task (and opportunity, and fate, and problem) to choose moment by moment to express or resist or divert the various forces as they arise in everyday life.
You are not the forces that express through you. Your characteristics are a unique mixture, and your decisions during your lifetime help determine the flow of these forces. The fact that all versions, considered together, make all choices is not relevant here, because each version’s world may be considered as if it were the only “the” world, as in practice you usually do. As to what those forces are, what it all means – stay tuned.
It’s a huge subject. I’ll start and rely on you to head me off if I go off in non-productive directions.
The visual is sort of a horizontal torus comprising untold millions of individuals, a vast orderly flow of compound-being energies, always changing, but, as I say, orderly, sort of shaped loosely. I can’t think of a good extension of the visual analogy. Maybe the kind of visual image you see in close-ups of the sun’s swirling energies. Anyway, that is the horizontal image.
Welling up vertically are the vast impersonal energies I have been sensing, the forces that flow through our lives, vitalizing them, causing complication and interest and discord and beauty and every thing humans can feel. We personify these energies, we think either that they are part of our being or that they are the forces of the gods.
So, horizontally, a vast beautiful ever-changing torus-shaped image representing humanity. Vertically, an eternal upwelling of energies from far beyond human limits, mingling with, transforming, interfering with, vitalizing, all human activity as it is directed by uncounted numbers of decisions moment by moment by uncounted numbers of compound beings whose consciousness normally is restricted to 3D conditions and, so to speak, ex-humans.
Of course humans and ex-humans remain integrally connected, so we continue to affect and be affected, together. Not in lockstep, and I don’t know if always in harmony, but, together. More or less okay so far?
So far, so good. Now, why are we centering this picture at this time in your exposition?
All I can get is, we have reached the point where we can’t re-evaluate without changing focus.
More like, you can’t go deeper without bringing into focus what had been unnoticed background.
(Bear in mind, there can be no universally applicable statement. What is appropriate to a Western audience may not meet the condition of someone in another society. What meets the needs of 2017 may fall flat in 2050 as in 1950. The underlying reality is the same, but the illustrative examples aren’t and cannot be equally appropriate. We are speaking to you, now. Settle for that, and do not try to make one size fit all.)
For 500 years and more, religion and science in Western society have been unable to understand each other’s point of view. Clearly a society cannot continue such a splintering process forever. At some point the social glue cannot hold. Then comes the use of force and, ultimately, self-destruction. We are not primarily concerned with societies. Society shapes you. but it is not the only thing that shapes you, and its influence can be modified. Stick to what you know, your own experience in the world, most of it internal.
Religious thought is your most extensive investigation into the existence, function, and manifestation of these vast impersonal forces. We have said it before: If you do not know these forces, if you do not know how they shape your lives, you do not know what your lives are to accomplish, or why you are in 3D in the first place.
These forces are real. Every society you know of, and many more that you have never heard of, knew it, know it, will know it. You cannot understand reality if you begin by determining that reality will not consist of A, B, or C because you were taught a cruder version of them, or because you don’t like the looks of some who talk about A, B, or C as if they knew what they were talking about and – more – as if no contradictory version could contain truth. If you allow yourselves to block off aspects of reality because of external manifestations, that isn’t exploring, it is a different form of conformity, conforming to an imagined band of holders of the truth, instead of going ahead and seeing for yourself.
Understand, this is not to say, give up your present beliefs. What kind of exploring would that be, either? Yet, it may seem like that, because we do say, don’t let your present beliefs prevent you from giving fair consideration to things you may have rejected. Actually, it is more a matter of giving fair consideration to things that remind you of things you have rejected.