Tuesday, September 21, 2021
3:10 a.m. Very well, my friends, what do we talk about today? Rest and activity, to what end? Setting slide-switches to maximum focus, receptivity, clarity.
We have now reached the point where things easily become ungrounded, and yet we wish to keep to one point, which is to provide practical tips on living life more abundantly. So, in looking at The Meaning of Life, for us it translates to The Meaning of Life Insofar As It Has Practical Application to Your Everyday Life.
Meaning, what are we here to do, so we don’t spin our wheels. But you have said many times, that we are here to choose, to continually shape who we are according to our best judgment. Does that need further refining?
You mean, can you make better judgments if you have a better idea what it’s all about on a higher level.
- Your 3D life doesn’t go away; it is always there in the background or foreground. Caesar and his constituent strands – who Caesar had been, who he became – do not vanish. All moments of time/space remain, within the dream that is life.
- What you are, though, is more than the roles you played. The soul that took shape playing Caesar continues to exist in what he was in 3D, but it itself does not spend the rest of eternity like an answering-machine tape, able to repeat what was said but not able to do anything new.
- The very fact that you are more than one combination gives you great flexibility. If you were Caesar and later were part of Napoleon, you are still an amazing soldier-statesman, but with very different character traits as well as similar ones. If you then go on to be part of famous authors or skilled if obscure mechanics or clerics or whatever, this is further refinement. Our point here is that 3D developments may call you forth in different roles.
That isn’t said clearly. I think you mean, the more roles we have played, the more chance there is of our being activated, so to speak, by someone else in some other present moment.
That is pretty much what we mean. It isn’t so much how many different roles you have played, though. More like how many facets you have; how many strands you are a part of. Some people hold the world together, they are so widely extended. Only of course we are talking about the strand and not the particular individual on the strand.
That doesn’t sound right. Did I garble it?
It’s a matter of being misled by the seeming definiteness of the words. Let’s move along and rely upon context to make it clearer as we go.
- You are not only the person who was a combination of strands, and who entered into other combinations. That is your 3D-human level, but you are more than that. And it is the “more than that” that is vaguer to you, harder to convey.
Yes, I feel the uncertainty like a pea-souper around us.
Everyone does. It is a bone-marrow cell trying to envision how it fits into the larger scheme of things not just as bone marrow but as part of a bone, part of a sophisticated mechanism that is a body, doing incomprehensible things for incomprehensible reasons. How would you explain these sessions to a bone-marrow cell?
I wouldn’t try to do it using words!
No, you wouldn’t. What you might do – the best you could do – is send feelings of empathy, gratitude, support. Your bone marrow doesn’t need to know (has no receptors to let it know) what you are reading, how you eat breakfast, even how you exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with the surrounding atmosphere. How could you even explain it? More to the point, what good would it do you or it to exchange such information if it were possible to do so?
If it were possible, presumably there would be a reason.
That’s a point, and a good one, because it does not implicitly assume that today’s blood cell is always going to be a blood cell. Obviously it is not.
Obviously?
We need to consider souls – minds – as process rather than as fixed events or permanent stages.
- Everything moves. Nothing remains the same. The very molecules of your body are only borrowed; here today, elsewhere tomorrow. “You” seem solid to yourselves moment by moment. But in fact you are an unendingly fluid form, a flow of molecules entering into the pattern, functioning there, leaving the pattern. Think of example of molecules of air: inhaled, part of you, circulating in your blood, being changed by the process of your living, being exhaled. And this happens to every cell of your body, of course. You, the pattern, remain. They, the components forming the pattern, flow in and out unceasingly.
- The same is true of your less physically substantial components: your ideas, your values, your aspirations, your loves. At any given moment you think they are stable, but what value do you put today on your political opinions of 50 years ago? That’s just an example. The longer you think on this, the clearer the pint should become. Your mental world is a continuity like your physical world, but it is no more an unchanging unit than is the body, appearances notwithstanding.
- Therefore – which you may never have thought of – it is a mistake to think that an oxygen cell or an idea is tomorrow what it is today, except in this one regard: They are tomorrow, as they are today, mind-stuff, not bits of external dead matter.
I think you mean to say, “external dead matter” only appears to be external or dead or matter.
That’s right. If you can remember that all of reality is only somewhat real, a lot of false distinctions fall away. You don’t get caught so much thinking things are real and solid and distinct and unchangeable. Instead you remember that there is the world of appearances and the world of underlying realities, and there is a difference.
I guess the fog inheres in the fact that you are working toward explaining our non-human future as well as our human future.
You can see it is a problem. It is hard enough to explain that – viewed one way – your future is to reincarnate as new combinations of strands, or as your present self in new circumstances, depending upon the level of consciousness you are able to transfer. But it is another order of magnitude more difficult to explain that you are also a part of another kind of consciousness that may have little or nothing to do with 3D except insofar as it takes advantage of what you have become by going through 3D.
Can you do it?
We are in the process of finding out. But even making you aware that there is more is worthwhile, even if we were never able to convey anything of the nature of the “more.”
How much do you know? Are you trying to convey guesses?
In a way you could almost say so. We at our level can describe our level, as best we understand it, and your level, which is a little more in perspective for us, given that we are not confined within it. But as to the next layer “up” – well, here to some extent we are in your predicament of having to apply analogy and a few grounding principles such as “As Above, So Below.”
This sounds like the blind leading the blind.
If it were not for direct feed, it would be, and in fact you and we wouldn’t have come even this far. But intuition works upward as well as downward, for us as for you.
Well, let’s hope your telephone connection is good. We’re past an hour. What shall we call this?
Maybe “More than human: Preliminary considerations.” Something like that.
Okay, and our thanks for your efforts, as always.