Sunday, March 6, 2022
7 a.m. I’ll set my switches for maximum focus, receptivity, clarity, presence. On Friday, you had some every interesting things to say about the body. Care to continue?
We provided five ways to see the body’s function that may not have occurred to people in the context of self-development, of forging a soul. Trying to overcome the idea of body as obstacle, you see. It isn’t an obstacle, it is an embodiment of the obstacles that exist by virtue of the 3D situation, which itself exists, we remind you, in order to perform a function necessary to the continued and continual development of all-that-is.
I thought at first that your use of the word “embodiment” was a play on words, then I realized that this is, in fact, literal description.
It is. And to bring you to that realization is a part of the point. So summarize the five aspects of your physical structure that we cited.
Looking back, they were:
- Holding us in one time and place.
- Interacting with the shared subjectivity.
- Holding markers to, and interacting with, other threads (I take it).
- Having its own needs and preferences.
- Interpreting or rather, integrating, other aspects.
I see, summarizing this, that the latter three points are vague in my mind. What do they mean in practice?
That’s what we propose to discuss. On Friday, we discussed your initial reaction to the fifth point, but let us proceed from one to five systematically. As usual, we are attempting to help you use your own life as also an example of everyone’s life, illustrating for each person either by recognition of shared traits and experiences, or by examination of differences in traits and experiences.
Understood. And, by the way, it was somewhat humbling to see how badly written my account of the sailing trop was, 50 years ago, and I guess encouraging to see that in fact I have made progress since.
That’s most people’s experience, in most things, don’t you suppose?
So. Your body holds you in one time, one place. Bear in mind, that means it holds your non-3D component’s attention, in the same way. Although your non-3D aspects may range in time and space, the 3D component serves as locus. It is the center of gravity, so to speak.
I suppose that should have been obvious.
Consider it this way: Your non-3D components consist of portions of whatever they are connected to besides yourself. So, you see, point one connects to point three.
All right, I see that.
So your non-3D component (or components; it is a matter of how you wish to conceptualize it), reap the advantage of a 3D center of gravity, and of mutual interaction in non-3D. You thus blur the lines between singular and plural, and in the process you facilitate the creation of new combinations that can thereafter act as entities in themselves as well as continuing to function as part of the entities from which they were formed. Thus, a very important non-3D function performed in 3D, just as we said from the beginning.
What you should hold firmly in mind as we discuss this is that we are considering your 3D body (and of course your 3D soul) from the point of view of the non-3D reality it serves and stems from, not from the point of view that takes the 3D as existing in and of and for itself. If you lose sight of our orientation, you lose sight of our purpose, and there’s little you’ll get from this.
Sure. It will be restatements of the obvious, mixed with a few startling improbabilities.
We smile. Yes, more or less. But if you march with us in our state of mind, you may really learn something valuable. As usual, it is less the words than the pointers that instruct.
So, point two. Because you, as sojourner in time-space, experience yourself as confined and acted-upon,
Is that the best way to put it?
It is not, which is why we paused. To rephrase: The non-3D components acting in 3D experience 3D as exterior, as pre-existent, as “out there” rather than “in here.” Daily life is experienced as driving in traffic. That is, whatever your internal desires, predilections, priorities – which themselves are greatly affected by your mental, emotional, and physical environment – you live in an “external” environment that does not have you as its center. It entirely disregards you, in fact, or contradicts you, or resists you, or in some way or another makes your life difficult. Even pleasant moments may be lived in the shadow of past of future pain or disappointment or boredom, or whatever. Do you see what this really means, and why it is good rather than bad?
I do at the moment, anyway. You are saying, the external world that we have to live in is one more way in which the non-3D generalized intelligence has to focus and deal with one set of issues at a time, maybe once, maybe repeatedly, maybe continually.
That’s right, and since those issues are the result of an equation – you plus your unconsidered elements as manifested in the shared subjectivity – every day’s joys and problems are tailored for you personally.
“As if” tailored for us specifically?
Well, “as if” in that of course they have their own independent existence, but not “as if,” but flatly, in that you can only be affected by what you are bonded to by what you are.
Without the separation allowed and imposed by 3D conditions, how could you sort out the things you didn’t suspect were part of you?
All right, persuasive, at least to me.
This is why all is well always, because no one can experience anything that is not essential to themselves. Illness, cruelty, name your painful manifestation and we will show you people in whose world that particular problem does not exist (because they aren’t part of it), but you may be sure that they will have their own cross to bear. And there’s nothing wrong with it. This is 3D doing what 3D is supposed to do. It is only when you lose sight of purpose and goal that you are tempted to think life a madman’s dream, as Hamlet or Macbeth did. [Macbeth.] It is not “a tale told by an idiot.” If we were to take the classic definition of idiot as one incapable of communicating with the outside world, 3D life is closer to being “a tale told to an idiot.” The “separate” existence of the 3D world around you serves its purpose.
So, to look at point three – the body holding your interaction points with others on your threads.
That isn’t how you put it.
It is how we’re putting it now. You might think of the body as a 3D machine incorporating (literally) connections with larger aspects of yourself perhaps unsuspected by your 3D persona. If Frank is linked to Bertram, how does that manifest? On Bertram’s end, it is to a man yet uncreated, hence to a bundle not yet bound. That is, from his point of view, it is a link to something that is only potential, rather than existent or pre-existent. On Frank’s end, it is a link to a portrait finished and varnished and hung on the wall, not susceptible to alteration. Or so it would seem – must seem – by 3D logic.
You mean I think, by logic that presumes the reality of 3D separation by time and space.
Yes, and that brings up a point: The 3D separation is real, as well as being not real. Hence – as we said somewhat earlier – only somewhat real. Just as waves and particles could be said to be each only somewhat real, in that they could validly be seen to be something else, so with 3D conditions.
So we need an equivalent term to wavicle.
You need an equivalent mental attitude to the one that is capable of overcoming sensory appearances to come to a category of wavicles, yes. And of course what else have we been doing, this long time, but encouraging such an attitude?
Now, we need to continue with point three and go on to four and five, but your hour is up and your attention will flag.
Today’s theme?
Perhaps, “Embodiment.”
We’ll see. Okay, thanks for all this.