23. Interaction

Sunday, May 19, 2024

4:30 a.m. Ready if you are.

Recent conversations – lectures, if you like – have concentrated on the idea that reality is much more interconnected, interactive, than you may sometimes see it. Things relate in time, in space, in psychology, between forms, between differences in size, duration, nature. One of the effects of 3D restrictions is that it can be difficult to hold more than a few things in mind simultaneously, while ideally you would want to be able to hold everything in mind.

This is not to say that that would be possible. It wouldn’t. it is merely to show how far effective communication varies from what would be ideal. Because your RAM, as you call it [borrowing a computer term for available memory], is restricted, you necessarily use work-arounds, such as symbols to associate various elements concisely; such as logic to examine and retain one bit of relationships at a time; such as written or oral memory, to construct and recall sequentially what cannot be held simultaneously.

I’m getting that to some degree this applies in non-3D conditions as well.

That’s what we want to look at, and as usual we will try to keep things practical, sketching outlines only insofar as they will help illumine the nature of 3D life.

In non-3D as in 3D, restrictions apply, it is just that they are a bit different by nature. Still, the restrictions exist, or we should be formless, and nothing that is short of everything can be formless, or – we might equally say – beyond form.

• We range freely among times and spaces, associating as we please (or rather, according to the nature of the material). This is just like your mental process. In fact, it is your mental process, only with vastly greater RAM.
• Our range is huge next to yours, because of not having to overcome the drag of continuously changing time constraint – that is, what you call the passing of time. We cannot be “in a hurry” or “pressed for time.” For us, time does not “run out.”
• Our attention is not subject to distraction from unacknowledged pars of ourselves experienced as “exterior” or “accidental” or even “incidental.” We have only one source of interruption, oddly enough: you. Our connection to 3D tethers us, in a way.
• By that, we mean not that any of us is tethered specifically to any of you, but that we may respond to resonances. You in 3D don’t exactly “wake the dead,” as people say of disruptive loud behavior, but you do get our attention. Bear in mind, you and we are not strangers nor even neighbors nor family; we are part of the same thing.

You can see a few consequences. List them and we will add to them or dispute with you, as appropriate.

I wish you had continued. Things were coming to the back of my mind but I was concentrating.

Trust the process. This will help you categorize, sort, and retain.

Okay, if you say so. The resonance thing got my attention, of course. In fact, the turning of tables got it. We don’t tend to think of us affecting your processes. But after all, what is prayer but an attempt to connect with the non-3D for one reason or another.

Yes, but list applications.

• Prayer, then.
• Memory? Asking our “reference librarian” to access some bit of forgotten information?
• Aptitudes, in a way? Summoning someone who knows how to do something that we may learn it? One of my TMI roommates told me he set out to throw a pot, which can be a difficult skill to learn, and asked “himself” how it would feel if he had done it a thousand times – and threw it successfully, first time. And my brother, throwing a pot, did so keeping in mind stone-age artists like the men who had painted the caves in France, and experienced a sort of union with him, as if the other man were being allowed to flow through his hands as he worked the clay.
• Healing? Could our summoning healing spirits not be said to be the 3D employing non-3D organized energies – minds – to assist us?
• Communication, certainly. This process. One-way in trance-channeling (though perhaps less than we think, I get), and very much two-way in ILC, where active and receptive may alternate between 3D and non-3D many times, not only in which side initiates but also in which side is relatively more active. If I contact you with a question, that’s relatively active; if I begin receptive, the initiative is yours. But either way, we are going to go back and forth as need be, just as in any mind-to-mind communication.
• Flashes of insight. We think of them coming “out of the blue,” but from the non-3D I suppose it looks like “You’ve been asking and asking; here’s your answer.” Wilbur Wright, twisting a cardboard box absent-mindedly while talking to a customer in his bicycle shop, and suddenly he gets a flash answer to the question of how to control an airborne mechanism.
• Flashes of recognition. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain suddenly experiencing himself as part of a great unit called the Army. I can’t remember the details, and I don’t think it had to do with a battle, yet I don’t think it was parade either. For whatever reason, suddenly he identified as a part of this huge army, not only as himself as one unit. This may not be a good example, though.

Oh, but it is. All these everyday experiences are precisely what we want to show you from another angle. Naturally when you pray or dream or get an insight or extend beyond accustomed limits in any way, you will see it from the 3D slant. We merely invite you to see it also as it seems from the non-3D.

And further examples come to mind. Inspiration for plays, novels, scholarship, any of the arts and sciences. It is connection to something beyond ourselves! Obviously.

Don’t forget meditation, Zen, any form of mental alertness devoid of content. This is an extending beyond the (invisible but very real) boundaries of sequence. No words, no sequential processing; at least, potentially so.

How does that call your attention?

We are always ready to help. An attempt to transcend 3D limits always attracts us, always serves to get our attention and potentially our assistance. Don’t forget, we have skin in the game.

Bob Friedman used to say that. What’s your stake in our awakening? And of course the answer is obvious. We  are also you.

Correct.

We are helping you grow, or are hindering you, depending on how you want to look at it.

Correct.

It leaves me speechless, not in the sense of stupefaction, but by not having anything come to mind. So I take it that this ends our session, a little early. Our thanks to all of you, for all of this.

And ours to all of you, for listening. We haven’t said it in a while, but perhaps now our thanks will resonate differently.

They do. Till next time, then.