Monday, April 29, 2024
1:25 a.m. I suppose we should begin at the beginning, since we are not trying to prove anything logically. Shall we start with 3D and non-3D?
It matters less where we begin than how we proceed. By explaining as best we can, relying on the reader to recognize what will ring true (rather than attempting to persuade), we gain one great advantage: Everything connecting to everything, as it does, we may begin anywhere and procced in any direction. Indeed, this is what we have always done.
It is well to begin by recognizing that many pictures of life and the world leave out much of reality. To try to describe life without remembering that half of life exists, and continues, outside the 3D is to severely distort the picture.
So we will proceed to do two things along silent parallel tracks.
- We will describe what can be experienced.
- We will sometimes say why this is so, and the reader can take this or leave it.
That is, “The world is composed of 3D elements that may be perceived by the senses, and non-3D elements that may be perceived by intuition.” This is a statement that anyone may verify by personal sensory and intuitive experience.
But then we may say as well, “The 3D world is a subset of the larger reality which – as it contains both the 3D and the non-3D elements – might be called the All-D.” This kind of statement cannot be verified, nor falsified, by personal experience. It will be assented to, or denied, according to the individual’s judgment, but it can not be experienced; it can at best seem true or untrue or doubtful.
By proceeding in this way, we can sketch an interpretation of reality that the reader may verify by experience as we go , and at the same time we can provide connecting logic that may or may not be accepted but perhaps will help connect the dots – again, as we go along.
We will not explicitly label these examples as verifiable or not; that is up to the reader, for if you do not do your part to stretch toward the meaning, little can be conveyed, and less will change within you. Life doesn’t provide something for nothing. Or, to put it positively, life rewards effort.
So let’s begin with the nature of the physical world you experience. It is 3D and non-3D, and although language makes it seem like we are discussing two things,, really it is one thing – the All-D – with two poles. It is important to remember this every so often so as not to slide into dualistic thinking: There is only one everything, and so there are no absolute fault-lines. The world is never this or that, it is always this and that, and they are always in creative tension. As a rule of thumb, whenever you come to what seems like an either/or, you can find the underlying connection between the two at a higher or deeper level. The world does not have fault-lines; it cannot be cracked into pieces.
The non-3D has its nature, the 3D a different nature. We as humans and non-humans and ex-humans respond to those differences, necessarily. As we have always said, the difference between those who are in 3D and those in non-3D is primarily the difference in the turf they live in.
The 3D, compared to the non-3D, is a compressed, slowed-down form of consciousness. In 3D, you experience one thing at a time. You are in one place, one time, and you cannot move yourself except by 3D rules. Your body can never more forward in time nor backward in time. It cannot traverse space except by going through whatever space lies between beginning and end points. That is the nature of 3D reality, constriction to one moment of space-time. There is no way around that.
Mentally, however, you may roam at will. You may imagine tomorrow or yesterday, may project your consciousness to ancient Atlantis or the surface of Mars or Abraham Lincoln’s Illinois. This is because the mind functions in non-3D, therefore by non-3D rules.
The various brains in the body function as transducers, or you may wish to think of them as radio sets, receiving non-3D signals and transmitting to 3D, or vice-versa.
So, to provide a rough-and-ready snapshot of the situation, we may say the body lives in 3D by 3D rules, the mind lives in non-3D by non-3D rules – and therefore you live in both 3D and non-3D alike, recognize it or not.
Right-brain/left-brain theory gets a glimpse of this by seeing that one half of the brain centers on obtaining (producing) holistic views (gestalts), and the other half centers on processing data in detail, sequentially. This is only an illustration, but if not carried too far it will clarify the point.
Thus you have the equipment necessary to experience 3D (through the senses) and non-3D (through intuition). Or really, we should say you have the equipment necessary to realize that you already experience 3D and non-3D, both, and always have. You may not have conceptualized your experience that way, but surely it is clear once pointed out.
Once you realize that you live, and always have lived, in non-3D as well as 3D, you see that every interpretation of the world that failed to recognize this fact is incomplete, often useless and occasionally harmful. This isn’t the “fault” of those who proposed those interpretations. People do the best they can, and nobody gets anything exactly right. But once you see that a given picture is incomplete, you are free from any impulse you may have had to consider it The Truth. It may have a part of the picture, but it will have defects. At best, a distorting mirror. At worst, a compilation of irrefutable logic built upon false premises.
From this point, other questions arise, such as, “What’s the point of life in such circumstances?” We will argue that 3D life is important in ways that may not be obvious; also, that in the nature of things, the life that ends when the body dies (hence no longer holding the animating spirit to 3D conditions) acquires, or let’s say resumes, a different nature when freed from the drag of 3D conditions.
But first we probably ought to explain life in non-3D in connection with freedom from 3D constrictions. The continued existence of each moment is an important concept. Next time.
About 55 minutes. I’d swear you were college professors. Our thanks.
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