Sunday, October 8, 2017
We recognize that it is difficult for individuals to hold on to a continuing theme while moving thorough the accidents and distractions of the ever-flowing present 3D moment, but remember, your anchor, your un-moving non-3D aspect allows you to remain oriented, if you orient to it rather than to your flowing mind.
I’m pretty sure you mean, the ever-flowing 3D timestream carries the 3D part of our consciousness along with it, like a raft on a river, but the part of us that resides in the rest of All-D, the non-flowing non-3D, does not get carried along, but rests firmly on solid ground, and the two aspects of us are connected but are not always conscious of each other unless we make the effort to make them so.
The point is, the “you” that you customarily, or let us say automatically, identify with, is not invariant. When it centers on 3D life and takes for granted 3D conditions, it is in effect limited in what it can do, what it can associate, what it can remember. When, instead, it connects with the non-3D and sees 3D life as a subset of All-D, it takes for granted an entirely more expanded view of 3D life, and it experiences limits that are significantly more expanded.
Just as Thoreau said in Walden, that I have quoted in the past.
That’s right. In the case of this kind of exploring, it isn’t traversing the terrain that is unique, it is in the reporting in modern language.
Yes, I got that. I don’t expect us to see what human eyes have never seen, only to maybe interpret what we see in language (and amid associations) that have never been used before, for the sake of translating to a new civilization.
Trust that the information will flow even when you yourself (consciously, in 3D terms) don’t know what it is to be or even where it is to begin.
What is it all for?
The underlying theme is your lives in 3D as conduits of vast impersonal forces. How can your lives be both personal and impersonal, both contingent (even accidental) and firmly rooted and determined? As we said, it is soul (pattern) flowing spirit (energy) through it. And the question beyond this is, why? What’s it all for? What is going on?
As always, “as above, so below.” Looking at your third-tier lives, see the continuities.
- First tier, the 3D experience in its own terms.
- Second tier, the internal reaction to the physical events.
- Third tier, the effect on the being of that second-tier reaction. In other words, how the transitory becomes the continuing part of the fabric of the soul. (Of course that doesn’t mean third-tier reactions cannot be counteracted or modified later. We are sketching a way to connect the somewhat-real 3D experience to the more real All-D situation.)
If you want to understand your lives, start with what is most familiar, the first-tier experience that happens to you firsthand and that is reported to you by everything around you: friends, news media, books, films, everything. In other words, begin with the world as it is reported to you. Not only wars and rumors of war, but passions and rumors of passions, predicaments and rumors of predicaments. Start with the dramas of everyday life at first-hand and at a remove. We want to explain life, not explain it away.
Surely it is obvious that life consists of negative and positive emotions and experiences. Those experiences and every way in which they can be sorted into categories are not incidental to life. They are life, they are the fabric of life, the essential background of life.
It is true that some people in their yearning for peace and for meaning would transcend all this if they could. And it is true that some religions and philosophies argue that such transcendence is the only worthwhile goal of a life, all else being Maya. In a way this is an accurate perception, for the 3D world as it presents itself is not nearly as real as the casual observer assumes. But there is a difference between seeing the only-relative-reality of the life you lead (on the one hand) and deciding that 3D life is a waste of time, so to speak, a fraud, a snare, a delusion. Just because you wake up for a moment and realize that the play “Hamlet” is not the reality you thought it, doesn’t mean it wasn’t affecting you. Similarly, life.
For some reason – certainly not a logical association of ideas, at least if it is I can’t see the logic – I think of flight simulators.
Flight simulators
A good analogy up to a point. A flight simulation machine gives you a somewhat-real experience that prepares you for the real thing. By simulating the first-tier experience (the physical sensations), it allows you to experience the second-tier experience (the intellectual, kinesthetic, emotional reaction to the first-tier data), so that in a sense you will form third-tier reaction-patterns based on what you have become by having gone through that experience. This is not an exact analogy, remember, but it is useful. Don’t parrot it, but do chew on it and see what further analogies suggest themselves.
I get, just because you realize that what you thought was flight is actually a simulator, don’t jump to the conclusion that flight itself is an unobtainable illusion.
Isn’t it more logical to assume that if this is a simulator, it is in aid of something? Preparing you for real flight, perhaps? The conclusion that the world is only relatively real may lead you to conclude that it is a meaningless charade, but it doesn’t have to. It is, shall we say, at least equally probable that life means something, is in aid of something, is preparation for something. Otherwise it’s a lot of money, time, and effort to create a simulator just to fool you.
Smiling. I figure you guys (we guys, I realize) work for Industrial Light and Magic.
Not so unflattering a comparison. They do produce remarkably effective second-tier experience, even though they think they’re in business to make money.
As we say, start with what you know. Next time we will begin at this point: Looking at 3D life as you experience it, what does it hint at regarding the underlying reality it suggests and mirrors?