Sunday, May 5, 2024
7:40 a.m. Strands across time?
Consider several statements as they interact:
- The 3D conditions constrict experience to one time-space moment. This moment appears to be the only time that is real, the past being gone and the future not yet arrived.
- This situation recurs repeatedly, one moment at a time, relentlessly, each one now being the real and all other moments being nonexistent.
- Nonetheless, the mind can range not only into the past, but also the future, which ought not to be possible if future moments did not already exist.
- You in your present moment are alive, but “you” means not a unit but a community of strands, which may be thought of as past lives.
- You sometimes connect with living past moments and perhaps change them, perhaps are changed by them. This can only be done mentally, not physically, but it involves changes in the physical by way of the mental.
- Those other moments are not statues or pictures: They remain alive, as they were when experienced. (This is difficult to state clearly. Simply: No moment dies. Nothing is preserved like a fly in amber.)
- Ultimately, as we will show, everything is alive, no matter how it may appear. The world is made of life; there is nothing dead. Things appear dead when they cease to function at their highest level, but the materials of which they were made live, and whether you talk of radioactive waste or synthetic fibers or the granite that forms a mountain, at some level it is alive, because the world – the universe – reality – is not made up of some living and some dead things, but only of living.
- Death may be said to come to a level of organization. But even a corpse is made up of living bits; there is nothing else. There is no molecule, no atom, no “subatomic particle” that is not alive, and how can living things combine to produce dead ones?
Now, if everything is alive – and we wish language provided an easy way to assure that people understood “everything” to mean not just every thing but every process, every energy, every aspect of 3D – if everything is alive, and everything connects, you can intuit that the possibility of communication is inherent.
Everything connects. It’s all alive. It interacts. Therefore – where are the boundaries?
In our preconceptions, presumably.
Exactly. The only hard and fast rules for what is possible are those you construct yourselves, though in doing so, you usually think you are deducing them, rather than creating them yourselves or accepting the creations of others.
So, consider. The life you really live is much more wide-ranging then you realize. Say you are a compound of five strands (to pick a number at random). Each of those strands was – is – a life in 3D “somewhen.” Each lives in its own 3D time and also in every time connected to whichever beings (like yourselves) employ it as a strand. Try to get a sense of the dizzying complications.
I get a sense of the impossibility of spelling it out.
Fortunately, that isn’t necessary. We can only provide hints, to spark people’s intuitive recognition, but that is all that is required.
Let me take a crack at it, then. I can name some strands: A Welsh journalist and psychic explorer, a young girl from Eastern Europe, a Transcendentalist trader who fought in the War of the Rebellion, a medieval Norman priest, an Egyptian priest from times we don’t know of. There’s five right there. They are what their lives made them, and yet one of the things in their lives is their cohabitation within me, which I imagine gives them access to each others’ worlds as well.
That should be enough to convey the idea. If different continents, different centuries, different lifestyles were not enough to separate them, where is separation except relatively? And if they, being part of you, are part of the incarnation you join into as a strand [that is, my “next life”], there is no “end of story.” Life goes on, recombination does on, accretion of experience goes on.
All of it feeding back into the non-3D.
From every source, remember. Not merely from you because you are in the present. They too are in the present! So, an event, a thought, a fantasy, a problem, gets reported from the viewpoint of every element participating in it. If Frank goes for a walk by the river, it is experienced by each strand up and down the chain. And this is true of all, which is why it is usually below the level of your conscious awareness: The mass of information would make experiencing it chaotic. And, after all, you are in onetime-space for a reason. You were not designed to experience everything at once.
Now, we caution those who read this, don’t start building “can’t” and “shouldn’t” into this. We are describing the baseline situation. Ordinarily you don’t experience the lives of your strands. Ordinarily you may not even be aware of them, or talk to them, or hear them. That doesn’t mean you can’t or shouldn’t. Do what you want to do, go where you want to go, and don’t imagine us to be building fences around the permissible. As a matter of fact, every non-3D intervention such as ours is designed specifically to broaden your field of action, not constrict it.
That said, recognize how widely you already range! Do you think you will run out of new worlds to explore any time soon? And in the first-hand exploration of the newly found abilities is your future. We don’t say life is a school, but it does have one school-like aspect: You continually move to more complicated things as you master old ones. More complicated means more interesting, more difficult, usually both more painful and more life-enhancing. You never stay the same except when you wish to take a breather.
And this means, periodically you need to update your ideas of what is permissible for you. (You can’t generalize too much about others. Everyone else is moving too, and you get little more than glimpses of who, what, and where they are.) Old barriers dissolve, new difficulties arise. It is inherent in life.
What you may not have considered is the effect of your connection – via your component strands – across time and space, which is the same as saying across civilizations.
You affect them. They affect you. (How else could it be, given that you and they are the same organized being?) The interaction always occurs beneath your level of consciousness, as we said. But it is always possible to raise some specific part of it into consciousness. The chief requirement is your intent.
By the way, this is equally true on other ends of these chains of being. The medieval monk may bring your existence to mind; so may the injured soldier in his delirium. In those cases, as in yours, the major variable is how the contact is conceptualized. The Tower of Babel refers not only to the confusion of tongues at any given time. It also refers to the confusion of concepts that render men strangers to each other.
This will have to do for the moment.
It felt like a struggle a couple of times. Continuing with this next time?
Probably we will move on to how this stitches reality together, but, we’ll see what the moment brings.
Very well. Thanks as always.