Friday, May 10, 2024
5:50 a.m. Good morning, friends. It is an underappreciated aspect of this work, I think, the uncertainty as to how to proceed. I sit down to resume and I see a binder of previous sessions and I have almost a moment of panic sometimes. “Where is the argument going? How do we proceed? How can I continue when I don’t know where we’re going?” and this after all these years of practice and reassuringly solid results. It takes a certain resolution, sometimes, to live in faith that the next installment will appear and that it will all hold together.
And in earlier days you used to wonder if you were making it all up behind your own back. You will remember Rita reassuring you that it was not humanly possible to produce all that “out of your hat,” so to speak. You used to pretend she was saying, “You aren’t smart enough to do that,” knowing that she wasn’t meaning that at all. But this is worth keeping on the record here, even though we are now sticking closer to the material and less to the process, because after all one important aspect of the material is the redefinition of what is possible to the average person. It won’t hurt them to remember that doubt and even panic are part of the process. Doubt and even panic are not important obstacles – provided that you resolve to overcome them! – but it is well to be aware that they are liable to crop up, from time to time.
I suppose they help keep us honest. Okay, then, why do we bother to choose, given that nothing lasts?
Ah, but you see, that “given that nothing lasts” is how life seems to you, but it stands reality on its head. Haven’t you conceded that all moments of time-space exist forever, even if only one such moment at a time can be experienced as a 3D moment? So how can you say, “Nothing lasts”? Quite the contrary: Everything lasts.”
Everything lasts and yet one’s pathway through it changes continuously, millisecond by millisecond. Take a moment to absorb implications here.
It’s jaw-dropping. Boy, when you guys get to tying up loose ends, you don’t fool around. On the one hand, every moment lasts forever. On the other hand, by our decisions, we construct a path through all those moments, a path we can alter at any time. You’re going to have to spell this out some. I can feel my brain exploding.
Bullets, then.
- All paths exist. All paths are good. All is always well. You create your own reality. All is one.
- These things cannot be understood while people believe time disappears, people are separate, and 3D life is as it appears. At the same time, they cannot be said in any way that makes sense to people whose mental world is composed of the concepts built on 3D senses and their perceptions, and the logic that stitches it together.
- Note, we do not say these things cannot be said. We say they cannot be said and heard from a stunted view of reality.
- What is the purpose of life? We have told you, to construct yourself – to continually hone yourself – by what you choose within narrowly constrained (i.e. 3D) conditions.
- And what is the importance of that? To continually create and re-create the world. Not the 3D world alone, not even the non-3D world alone – for neither of them exists alone – but the All-D that is “heaven and earth.”
- And how is that possible? It is not only possible but inevitable, because “you” as you experience yourself as an isolated 3D individual do not exist. You exist only as a part of a larger being from which you were formed. You are part of larger beings, and they are part of still larger beings, just as you may be said to be a binding element for smaller beings, and they of still smaller.
- Reality is all one thing, as the galaxy is all one thing, or a nebula, etc. Any level of abstraction is a sort of layer which you consider a unit because it coheres.
That isn’t clear. You mean, I think, that reality as a whole contains everything (obviously, by definition) but everything within it has a different specific gravity, so that in effect it forms layers of common content which we experience as relative units.
Yes. So you perceive classes of things, and what hose classes are depends upon how you categorize them. In effect, you create the divisions by recognizing them. [It occurs to me, typing this, maybe that’s what it meant in the Bible where God has Adam give names to the animals: Adam was making and recognizing relative units. Maybe.] Change your system of definitions and behold, reality looks different. Animal, vegetable, mineral, etc., and nothing wrong with the classification. But then look at the same phenomena in a different way and they are atomic bundles; look again and they are mind-stuff, slowed down for convenience. In that sense, the world is as you perceive it. Change perceptions (and change con-ceptions) and you experience it differently. In effect, you think of it differently and it changes.
Or we have an anomalous experience and we experience it differently and then our conceptions change.
It isn’t an “or” in the sense of a different interpretation. Both motions occur – perception sometimes leads, sometimes follows. A reciprocating process, as in so many things.
Now, pause. We would suggest, re-read. As Bob Monroe used to say on his tapes, we will wait for you.
Okay, done, though I skipped the angst and the part after the bullets.
You got what we wanted fresh in your mind. You see the point, here? Every moment is precious and yet every moment is only one variant. Your work at creating yourselves is critical to the existence of the world, yet, again, is only one variant. Your lives as individuals – to the extent that you may be said to be individuals – are your own business, and yet concern everyone.
Christians seem to think this is all leading to an end. I’m fairly sure that’s why the church fathers included the Apocalypse at the end of the Bible. But it isn’t really about leading to something at all, is it?
It is, and it isn’t.
Ah yes, “Yes but no.”
Well, sometimes that’s the only way to evade what seem logical necessities but are actually misunderstandings.
- Life does “lead to something.” This is the nature of honing what you are. It is the purpose of striving, of bettering yourself, of helping others. If it didn’t lead to something, what difference could it make?
- Life is not about “leading to something.” Every moment is; every moment always is. A man asks God who he is and God says, “I am who am.” He doesn’t say, “I am who I always was,” nor “I am who I will always be.” He stays in the eternal present.
I assume you aren’t saying the Bible’s account is to be taken in its own terms.
The Bible, like all scripture, is a set of accounts of people encountering something transcendent and reacting to the encounter. It doesn’t matter if they (or we) call that transcendence God or Waldo. You as transcenders must get beyond your allergy to scripture (without becoming slave to it) if you are to obtain a more sophisticated understanding. Do you suppose that we in these sessions can provide you with what scriptures can provide? What’s the point of having several vast libraries centering on precisely the things that most interest you, and never consulting it?
Next time we can continue to look at how life does and does not “lead to something,” perhaps.
Our thanks as always.