Wednesday, May 8, 2024
6:50 a.m. “Our strands and how they change us, and vice versa, and why,” you said.
You tend to think of yourselves as individuals responsible for yourselves, and to some extent this is true. But it isn’t the whole truth. Once you grow into a wider awareness, you begin to recognize wider, deeper, responsibilities and opportunities. There is no useful generalization to be made as to how long this process may take, nor where it will begin, nor how it will manifest. Some are born knowing, you might say, and all their lives are a struggle for more clarity, wider application. Others may come in with little or no knowing, and have little or no interest or ability to draw connections. And, as usual, every intermediate position.
The differences among you don’t matter to your own “individual” task and opportunity. Wherever you begin, however you are constituted, however motivated you are to know more and be more, opportunities will be right there in your life, every day, and it is up to you whether you recognize them and choose to take advantage of them. This is one meaning of our saying that you are in 3D to choose.
(A word on choice: Choosing may be momentary or it may be continuous. If it is momentary, we call it a decision. If continuous, we call it intent. You all do both, of course, and one form does not obviate the others. Sometimes, it is true, they contradict each other, and this is not necessarily a disadvantage. There is such a thing as changing your mind, changing direction.)
But you do not choose in isolation, because there is no isolation.
Not mentally, no.
Well, not mentally, but what does that mean, when you look at it closely? What in you does the deciding? Is it not your mind, existing in non-3D and 3D both? Many factors in a decision relate to the 3D body, yes. But decisions are made and ratified and unmade by the indefinable you-ness of you, and that is not primarily physical, but mental.
Another way to say it would be that you are mostly mental, given that your body and its surroundings are also made of mind-stuff.
A third way to look at it would be to consider the physical component to be the slowest of the various elements comprising you. It is by nature more suited to function as drag than as pathfinder. It maintains the stability of whatever your life is at any moment; it does not, and is not designed to, pioneer.
Perhaps you have been reading between the lines, here, and have intuited where we are going with this. Your life-shaping is much more complex than it appears at first glance. It goes on with the continual participation of everything you are, to greater or less degree, and to greater or less degree of awareness and choice on your part.
- “With the continual participation of everything you are,” in practice, this means the most appropriate, the most available, the most promising, for in practice nobody could actively incorporate everything, given that “everything” would mean the entire world, if examined closely enough. But to limit our examination to the most appropriate, available and promising extensions of yourself is not a trivial extension!
Whatever you are, however long you have been at this business of growth, however far you have to go to reach whatever goals you have set for yourself, you will still find more possibilities, appropriate, available, and promising. Surely this is an encouraging fact of life.
- “To greater or less degree,.” Not every moment is right for spurts of growth. Some times are times of consolidations. Sometimes you may feel that “Nothing is happening, and maybe nothing will ever happen again.” In such moments, merely live in faith that all is well. You will see that your life does not leave you in the lurch. When the grower is ready (we might say, paraphrasing the saying), the growth opportunities will appear.
- “To greater or less degree of awareness and choice on your part.” Just as “the times” are not always right for growth – at least, for any growth you can recognize – so your life’s rhythms are not always in tune with the form of growth you recognize. But, more than that, your baseline degree of awareness and choice will vary: by lifetime, by moments within that lifetime, by reaction to choices made. This is nothing to worry about, for it might equally be phrased, “You can have as much awareness as you really want, provided that you are open to waiting for it as well as working for it.”
Now, that lifetime of shaping yourself does not go on in isolation, as we said. This means 3D, not less than non-3D, interaction. Your everyday life continually feeds you opportunities to react in ways that aid your growth toward what you want to be, but they don’t force growth on you, you have to choose it.
Now let’s look at non-3D influences, which is what we have been building up to.
Your various strands are making choices just as you are, which means you and they are never dealing with a static situation, nor with a stable background. If the influences that yesterday pulled your toward A have changed what they want (in effect, have changed what they are), perhaps today they pull you toward B. And you have the same potential effect on each of them.
Consider this carefully. Take a moment, for it may not be at all obvious what a world-shaking redefinition of your life this is.
At one time, people believed that the earth, considered geologically, was solid, set, relatively unchanging. Gradually they learned that what seemed like interruptions – earthquakes, say – were in fact only particular manifestations of continuing processes of movement that had gone unsuspected.
It is the same with you. Your lives are not mostly static continuity with occasional disruptive moments. They are continual movement, adjustment, amid the pulling and tugging of various forces usually beneath your level of awareness.
Every aspect of your world moves. Every aspect chooses, moment by moment. Each aspect may at any moment influence your life, or it may not, but you can never be sure beforetime.
This has so many implications! Parallel universes, alternative life-streams, etc. you tend to think of another universe as “somewhere there,” but you could equally correctly see it as “sometime when.”
This is clear to me, but I doubt it will be clear to anyone who needs to get it via words rather than direct feed.
They have their own direct feed, of course. It is merely a matter of allowing themselves to heed it. Let’s just leave it that everything is in perpetual flux; there is no final state.
We’ve used up an hour, but have you gotten said what you’d hoped?
What we have said so far is not trivial. The longer you consider it, the more connections it will open up to you. Enough for the moment.
All right. As an aid to me, our next topic?
We will probably continue with this question of influences among strands as it affects how you may wish to think of alternate lives.
Our thanks as always.