Wednesday, May 8, 2019
You have seen us using words like soul and spirit that many people in your day shy away from.
Your time will transcend religious, and anti- and non-religious, thought. “Your time” does not mean the next ten minutes, nor ten years, but you are in process. As the inner lives of those in the 1000s in Europe are not the same quality as yours, so neither will that of your linear descendants be. But this does not mean that you will be going into entirely uncharted waters, nor that you will be moving in oscillation to the past. New, but familiar. Familiar, but not identical.
We will live in knowledge, rather than belief, that we are part of something greater than our 3D selves.
If you will begin to apply one insight, things will gradually begin to clarify for you, and that is this: Life, even specifically human life, does not center in 3D.
And, I take it, you propose to set out for us what that means in practice.
Obviously if it were clear upon our first stating it, it couldn’t be very new, nor so very important. So if human life does not center in 3D, where does it center? And, in what way can we say it does not center where you are, as it seems to?
And that is what religious thought centers on, isn’t it, when it is not setting out rules and splitting logical hairs.
It will be a prime mistake and an unproductive diversion, to give in to the temptation to criticize religion. Remove the beam from your own eyes first, as is said. However, you are not wrong to see that the central concern of churches (also of philosophies) is the question of where the center of human life is. It seems clearly bounded: birth, life in its stages, death. This is the life you seem to see all around you, this is the appearance you perceive, and it is tempting to conclude that if there’s one thing 3D life demonstrates, it is that physical life is limited.
I would have said, our lives show us that there is an inner life to match the outer. What that inner life amounts to is debated, but I don’t know of anybody who actually denies that we experience it.
The perceived limits to physical existence (your outer world) tempt people to conclude that the inner world is equally limited. Some think the inner is dependent on the outer, some don’t, but in any case people tend to work from the assumption that the 3D world is the center of life.
If the 3D life we lead is not primary – if the center is elsewhere – why are we so fixated on things of the flesh? Sex, for instance. As I write that I feel that it is prompted, so, explain please.
You experience inner life and outer. Some think they are unconnected, some think connected only somewhat, some think they are the same thing perceived one through essence (through direct feed), one through personality (through the senses). Say it’s so. Then what happens to the inner world when the outer world goes away? You think you have addressed this in Awakening from the 3D World, but you haven’t.
The 3D body dies. What further connection can you have to the 3D world? Yet, you do have such connections. What are ghosts, what are lost spirits who don’t realize they are dead, or spirits reluctant or unable to “move on” after the death of the 3D body, if not a person’s inner world maintaining a distorted connection with the outer world? Yet if it is possible for this to happen, clearly the inner world cannot depend upon the outer (else they would vanish) but neither is it self-directed in the way that seems obvious.
We established, years ago, that the inner world is created by elements from beyond the 3D. The larger being is clearly not centered in 3D, and we are each extensions of it.
Then act like it!
What do religions teach, if not that humans are created by, and part of, something antecedent to and greater than themselves? The fact that they then differ on different aspects of that larger reality does not change the fact that this is the nub of religious life. So let us take that seriously, and many things will change in the world that no longer recognizes religion as the proper way to go about maintaining the relationship.