Saturday, May 4, 2024
4:45 a.m. You said you might want to continue with our strands and their ongoing life.
At other times, we have gone into the way language gets between expression and meaning and understanding. The description of time provides a good example of the difficulty. How can there be only “the eternal now” and at the same time all these separate moments of space-time? How can every moment be alive even though it is not in your present? The ambiguities and false rigidities inherent in language make it difficulty, particularly when non-3D (non-sequential) realities must be described in 3D sequential logic. The only way we know to use with you is to describe around what cannot be clearly said, repeatedly, from different angles, until hopefully you have enough points of data for the overall shape to insinuate itself into your understanding. Other non-3D people, dealing with other 3D people, use different methods – paradox, poetic allusion, various tricks – to accomplish the same thing. In all cases, we are trying to get around the limitations inherent in sequential exposition. Naturally, direct mind-to-mind contact obviates much of this difficulty, which is why there really is no substitute for personal instruction, which blends unnoticed non-3D to non-3D communication with the words.
In the absence of personal instruction from one 3D individual to another, personal contact from one 3D individual to its non-3D component will convey direct understanding, but still there will be the problem of turning what is then known into a form that can be communicated to others.
If you were dependent upon 3D sequential exposition for your understanding of “the way things are,” how far do you suppose you would get? With the best intent and the clearest intellect and the widest learning, you would still be severely handicapped. Your conclusions would probably be very logical, very consistent – and would miss the mark widely. Fortunately, you are not restricted to 3D input only. However, if you do not recognize the extent to which you rely on non-3D input, your ability to employ such access is likely to be severely limited by your very logical but incorrect assumptions.
Thus, in examining your composition as it functions “between moments of time” (as it seems to you), it is necessary to clarify things that language distorts – using the same distorting language! Hence, your part in this, reader, is to deliberately intend to remain open to your own non-3D component to feed you understanding as we go along. This is a straightforward process and yet also one with inherent potential pitfalls. You have to do two things at once:
- Absorb the material while testing it, sort of, with your non-3D knowing.
- Watch that your preconceptions and preferences do not sneak in, disguised as intuitive knowing.
It can be done, but it doesn’t happen automatically. Every philosophical or religious teaching ever put forward has seen perversions of its meaning by people who thought they understood (if only because it “felt like” they understood it), but in fact were mingling these new understandings with their previous understanding.
Well, who could avoid doing that? Your gift is what you bring to the moment. But a certain vigilance on your part is prudent. It is so easy to receive a new orientation only in a way which leaves you comfortable in the place you started! That is putting new wine in old wineskins, and may not turn out well for you. However, as in all things, you do have your non-3D component to help you through difficulties. We mention the problem only so that you may have it in consciousness, where it is easier to deal with.
This may look to you like a long parenthesis, but in fact it bears directly on the question of the seemingly contradictory descriptions of time.
From a non-3D viewpoint, all times exist, and therefore all times are alive, because there is nothing dead anywhere. From your limited 3D viewpoint, the present moment (which is continually being exchanged, one for the next) is the only living moment, all others being “past” or “future” or perhaps theoretical, such as alternative time-lines.
You in 3D, being inherently also in non-3D mentally, can and often do experience time in either of the two ways. Therefore you conceptualize time in the two ways, which can lead to confusion. For our purposes, it is necessary that you conceptualize the non-3D’s vision as unhampered and the 3D’s as partial. To cling to 3D explanations is to forfeit the greater understanding that can come only from a different viewpoint added to your previous one.
From our viewpoint, life looks like this:
- A 3D human is a soul composed of various strands learning to live together as a new unit.
- Each of these strands may be seen as a past soul, with all its experiences, its willed changes, its values.
- Consciousness within the 3D life is not unitary any more than the strands are unitary. It is the product of cooperation and contention among the strands.
- Such ongoing relating among the strands may change the new soul. It may also change the older souls, the strands.
- The “present moment” is the only place that changes can take place. From any 3D perspective, there is only one (changing) present moment, hence only one time that offers promise, offers life.
- Yet in reality, every moment is a living present-moment, for all viewpoints are the result of perspective, and in the absence of limitations there can be no one-and-only perspective.
- Therefore, you see, every thing, every when, every “past” or “future” moment, is alive and changing. Everything affects and is affected by everything.
- And therefore, every moment is potentially a fulcrum from which to change everything past or present. If this sounds wildly unstable, remember that every other moment is also a fulcrum, and the result is a form of inertia. It takes a lot to revolutionize anything, let alone everything. But
- Everything is alive. Every moment, every “thing.” It may or may not seem that way to you, but if you meditate on it, it may come clearer. There is nothing dead. How could there be? There is only change (when viewed from a limited 3D-moment).
We know that is a lot to take in, and the more awake you are to the implications, the more is involved. But it is important that you take in as much at a time as possible. Real comprehension comes not as a slow product of logical analysis but as a sudden connection of what you are consciously centering on to what your non-3D can tell you. It is a combination of sequence and gestalt. The greater the number of things in mind, the greater the potential “Aha!”
That will be misinterpreted, I’m afraid. I know you don’t mean that a process of memorization is involved, but people may semi-consciously move that way.
When we say keeping a great number of things in mind, we mean, considering various bullet-points together, as opposed to considering any lesser number of them. However, each person will have different amount of things that can be absorbed at once, and of course different non-3D input. Honest intent is the key. Given that, the rest will follow.
And there’s your hour. We have scarcely begun on the influence of strands across time, and have not yet begun on their part in stitching together 3D reality, but (within 3D sequential exposition!), one thing at a time.
Well, our thanks as always.