Extension

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

5:30 a.m. Reading in A Search in Secret Egypt, remembering my own time in the King’s Chamber, but [unlike Paul Brunton in the 1930s] surrounded by the others of Ruth Shilling’s party, I having done no preparatory fasting, but wanting some form of contact or knowing, and not receiving it.

Did I waste that opportunity?

You made the opportunity; seized it, used it, were quietly transformed by it – and at the same time were apparently unaffected.

Two levels of consciousness.

Certainly. One level clasped hands with – reunified – other levels of “long ago.” The normal level of everyday 3D consciousness linked this “normal” experience with your normal life.

I think you mean, my physical presence in the chamber served to link my consciousness to another part of myself in other times.

That is a carelessly put approximation. By that we mean, not that you are careless in your description, but that it is entirely insufficient, because in the absence of context it must be so.

Say more?

Your 3D consciousness may be described as a magnetic field in the midst of the forces of the moment (This is why consciousness fluctuates so.) Your non-3D consciousness is immune to the pressures of the 3D moment, being outside that crucible – except insofar as it is connected to your 3D consciousness. You see? It is the eternal (that is, the outside-of-time) linked to the temporal. An inherently unstable stability, a paradoxical yoking of the eternally-still to the eternally-moving.

This is why human consciousness has the potential to touch the non-sensory eternal. Which end of the polarity do you connect to – identify with – at any given moment? If the fluctuating end, you experience “everyday life” as if it were the reality. If the eternal end, you experience the infinite as if it were the reality. But for compound beings, the reality can only be both, not one or the other, regardless of how one sees or conceptualizes it.

So with a certain amount of effort we may become conduits.

Yes – but it isn‘t as simple even as that, for the effort may come from one end or the other. It may be effort in your present-day life but it may also be, or may be instead, effort from the opposite end of the polarity – from the “you” that you were in other lives. And in fact it is still less simple yet. The effort may be being made – and perhaps also resisted – by more than one other, for it is not so simple as one present-day-you and one previous-you. It is more like a community of present-day you and other communities of you in other times.

A community on the 3D end experiencing interaction with perhaps many communities on the non-3D end.

Yes. “All is one.” You are each communities of strands, each of which is a community of strands, so that individuality is always somewhat illusion. It is real, but never absolute.

It is the kind of thought that is hard to hold in mind. I feel like I ought to be gasping with effort, yet it feels perfectly understandable – and totally beyond my real grasp, at the same time. I wish I had an image to hold it. Words are slippery.

Produce images and we will comment. As usual, what you produce through effort will stay with you, while what you might receive as a gift might not.

Well, let’s see.

[Waiting.]

“Tug-of-war” is the first image that arises.

A good image, including the element of opposition – of unity through the tension of opposition. Try again.

[Waiting.]

Alliances, cooperating on either end. But this isn’t very helpful.

Perhaps more so than you realize. Alliances are fragile, require continual effort, are aimed at a purpose. Again?

[Waiting.]

I get the sense of smoke signals and connect with Thoreau’s poem “Smoke” that I put on my blog for today. The poet as communicator. Our attempts to communicate from this end. No, our attempts to listen at this end, but I get a sense now that we ought to be more aware that we are also speaking from this end.

Should it be any different for any moment of time just because that is where you are experiencing it? Those other lives were – are – speaking from their time, you are speaking from yours. The 3D-moment tempts you always to think your present different from all other present moments, and of course it is different in context but the same in nature. Tuesday, April 8, 2025, is not essentially  different from all the rest of time, and how could it be? Why should it be? And so with every other moment.

So, tug-of-war, alliances, smoke signals. Again?

[Waiting.]

Smiling. The Internet.

No bad analogy, and one you have used before. Only, you see, using it in connection with the three previous images produces a somewhat fuller understanding.

I do see. And your preferred method of multiple alternate images works well as usual.

So now return to the night in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid. That present-moment experience of the time is now more than six years in your past. It is as far from your present present-moment awareness as, say, Joe Indian, or the Egyptian Joseph. But no farther! There is always only the now. That “now” may be seen either from the 3D point of view, something always moving, or from the non-3D point of view, something forever existing.

As soon as the moment moves us along, the present-moment we just experienced becomes inaccessible to us sensorily and can be accessed only through memory or imagination.

Yes – and who just wrote that sentence?

It’s true. I had the feeling – am having it now – of watching my hand guide the pen, and, in a sense, watching my mind receive the words. It is a slight distance between the 3D moment and this not-quite-3D-only observer/participant. But – words! – while what I am saying is true, the very nature of words somewhat falsifies it by making it seem something other than what it is. Words put an aura around everything they try to describe, can’t be helped except to make note of it.

This was good work. Type it up and send it to the world – but don’t forget to read it and re-read it and hold it, don’t let this one sink out of your sight.

Profound thanks and appreciation. These days – as you know – communications at this level are rarer and their value is clearer than when they came every day I cared to make the effort.

Title this one, perhaps, “Extension.”

I wouldn’t have thought of that title. Good idea. Thanks.