Saturday, June 8, 2024
7:10 a.m. Guys? Your move.
You have lost track of the argument, and you are worried that we have lost track too.
Well, yes. It puts me in mind of Rita reassuring me that I couldn’t be making it up as I went along, regardless of how it felt, because the material was consistent and was from a consistent point of view, though she didn’t phrase it that way.
Yes, and you feel the invisible pressure of imagined others disapproving of your uncertainty, though they don’t have the comparable experience.
It doesn’t help.
And, as you noted recently, to the degree that you have become used to feedback, you are less self-reliant than you were when you worked alone.
It feels like that’s the trade-off, yes.
And, finally, you are again oppressed by the sense of time passing fruitlessly.
I am.
And the indicated treatment for all these symptoms?
Ignore the nagging doubts and keep working.
We didn’t elicit this only for the purpose of making you fully aware of half-submerged feelings. It serves as an example of the power of decision.
Hmm. I get that. I’m in situation X and as usual it is up to me to choose what path I will take, if only by default.
Yes. This is hardly a problem particular to you. It is what everyone in 3D faces and was designed to face. It is the opportunity contained (shaped) by the problem.
This may be regarded as a subset of the larger motif of problems being opportunities. A situation (public or not) requires you to choose. Perhaps you usually choose by default, settling for whatever happens. Or perhaps you work rigorously to hack your path through the woods. Either way, it is a pattern of choice and is what really goes on while you are defining it otherwise.
“Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans”?
Yes. You concern yourselves with making the best of your opportunities or with creating opportunities for yourselves, or with managing overwhelming circumstances as best you can. Do you think you (or anybody) will care what positions you held, what possessions you accumulated, who and how you loved and hated, once your 3D life is over? You won’t care nearly as much as you will care what you have become as a result – seemingly, as a side-effect – of all that choosing.
That’s viewing your life from a personal, individual, viewpoint. But don’t neglect to consider it from other viewpoints. You are the child of many strands; you are the opposite end of many relationships of all kinds. You are even a part of the world-drama both 3D and non-3D. if you disregard these roles, your summing-up of your life will be wildly inaccurate, because incomplete. And, even more difficult to keep in mind, because it is so complex and overwhelming: all the other people are choosing all the time, just as you are.
I get that you are finally ready to talk to us about the flickering light-show.
We described reality that way in order to loosen certain assumptions you bring with you, out of your 3D sensory experience, and the unconscious metaphors it spawns. Let’s have a look at them:
- What’s done is done. The past is definite and unchangeable.
- Individuals may be compound beings, but what hey are compounded from is static, like the past they existed in.
- Life progresses from this to that, and progress implies replacement of one thing by another.
- The Akashic Record is fixed, not malleable.
- There is a permanent, stable, underpinning to the world – that is, to 3D life.
These assumptions are at best relatively true.
“Somewhat real.”
Yes, and only somewhat. In reality:
- The past changes continuously, as the things that make it up change.
- You as compound beings are ratios composed of ratios, or let’s say are subtotals that are the result of subtotals – and there is no fixed and final sum.
- Life is not progress but progression; that is, it is not a course with beginning and end points, but a journey that is its own purpose (We can talk about this.)
- Nothing in 3D is stable or permanent, except as seen from within a 3D moment.
Tell us about life’s journey, then.
Envision a database, packed with information and relationships. Now suppose you want to explore every possible relationship, and wish to see what the total picture looks like as each variable changes. Envision every time a different color according to its state, so that a change in state becomes a change in color. Write a search program to explore the whole thing, and sit back and watch the display.
There is and is not a beginning point. There is, because you have to start somewhere. There isn’t, because there was no particular point that had to be the first. So, first by circumstance, not first by nature. There is and is not an end point, for the same reason. But every single possibility will be displayed, sooner or later. And it will be later, for two reasons: complexity and change of characters.
- You don’t’ have numbers high enough to number the possible configurations resulting from everybody everywhen interacting and changing and interacting some more.
- Change of characters. Every time new combinations of strands are created, there is an initial effect consisting of adding a new player, which is included among the possibilities of the situation as the search pattern begins. There is also a sort of expansion of the database as all these new characters add to what is, not merely to what might be.
That’s a new wrinkle.
We can only add what the scaffolding will bear. All this exposition takes time, if you haven’t noticed.
Is this why I am still around?
It is one reason. It has taken a good deal of work to produce a mind that has been brought through so many changes of scaffolding and can record the changes as they process continues. Every time someone retires, there is a certain amount of possibility foresworn. Everybody goes through on-the-job-training, obvious or not.
But the view from a new window is valuable in itself, is it not?
It is, but we are not talking about irreplaceability, but of overlap. Redundancy. What you get, someone else will get somewhat differently. Comparing the two produces binocular rather than monocular vision, a net advantage.
And of course these conditions apply not only to you, and not only to those willing and able to do the work you do: They apply to everybody, no matter what they do or don’t do or do only unconsciously. We have to keep emphasizing, reality has no spare parts. Everybody contributes, and every contribution is unique and of value. Only, don’t go imagining that your contribution or anybody’s is unchanging. It changes as you change. You may be only a tiny part of the pattern, but you are a part, as is everybody else.
What was our theme here?
“Opportunities and changes” might do.
I guess we’ll see. I wish I had a firmer grip on where we’re going.
Just ride the moment. It has worked out so far, hasn’t it?
I suppose. Thanks for all this.