Sunday, April 24, 2022
4:20 a.m. Gentlemen, shall we proceed with “Exploring a web of relationship (2)”? I set my switches for maximum focus, receptivity, clarity, presence, and I know already to repeat the seven points you itemized yesterday. You’re on.
- Time, timing, sequence.
- The content of a mental world at any given present-moment.
- The context (what you have made yourself by that moment).
- Your intent, and your attention.
- Your non-3D preferences and inclinations – the story arc.
- As a part of timing, the unfinished business of the shared subjectivity.
- Your entire nature as a 3D-human, not merely the parts of yourself that you are aware of – and certainly not merely the parts of yourself you approve of.
We remind you as we begin that the same elements, approached in different order, may lead to different insights. And we remind you that the numbering is for convenience, and does not indicate relative importance. Let us resume by considering item #1. Time, timing, sequence, make a difference.
I take this to be related to the fact that each moment of time has different qualities, and allows or inhibits certain things, and allows or inhibits others.
Yes. It is vitally important to realize that time is not immutable in nature, but extremely – perpetually – variable. On the one hand, there is no real past or future in the way people think; on the other hand, the perpetual now in which you live – the eternal present moment – changes according to its nature, and 3D life seems to vary in tis possibilities accordingly.
And these laws of alternation have long been known to man, and were coded by someone or some civilization, long ago, descending to us as the “scientific art” (as some call it) of astrology.
Yes. That’s why Cayce’s sources told him it would be well for everyone to study astrology. That doesn’t mean follow your daily chart of lunar aspects to the sun which is the newspaper column; neither does it mean, study astrology so that you can figure out how to outwit the universe. It means, if you study the changes, you can come to an intuitive, a visceral, knowledge of the fact that the world and time are not as simple as they appear. You simply must come to see that time is as it is, rather than as it appears. That doesn’t imply that you need to study astrology or any of the mantic arts centering on changes – the I Ching and Tarot premier among them – but it does imply that, if you study them, your sense of reality may be enhanced. As always, the goal is that you be enabled to live life more fully, that you have life more abundantly.
So, item #2, content, which is closely related to #3, context.
We can’t do anything about the nature of the time we are born into, and live through, but these two items are more under our control; they result from our decisions.
Not entirely, but largely. Yes. What you think about, daydream over, practice physically, long for, dread, aspire to – they are your life, recognize it or not. You are born with certain proclivities, inclinations, (certain things resonate, so to speak) and this is your content at your starting-point. But what you do from that point is a matter of a lifetime’s decisions. Do you follow the internal urging to study the world, or the urging to actually do this or that? Do you work to acquire the virtues of prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude, or do you slide into the temptations of lust, envy, gluttony, covetousness, anger, pride, ennui, sloth? Or – as is the usual case – do you do some things at one time, other things at other times? All your decisions, those taken by default no less than those made deliberately, shape the content of your life. Those decisions will be affected by timing, but they need not be dictated by it; that’s up to you, if you use your will correctly.
Of course, at any given moment, you are what you have made yourself by that point. Past decisions, made in past circumstances, represent the fixed element in any given moment. That is the context in which your present decisions take place. Where you have been, what you have been, to some extent determines your range of possibilities.
Timing, content, context. That’s very clear, and their relationship to one another is clear.
Then let’s proceed to item #4, intent and intention.
At first the two words seem redundant. It is only when I look at them for a moment that I seem to discern a difference. Spell that out for us, if you will. No, I see I “heard” you wrong. Not intention but attention.
A useful slip nonetheless, for there is a difference between intent and intention. The former denotes more a willed pursuit of a goal; the latter, a more momentary direction. Still, we meant intent and attention as factors that define and limit possibilities.
I can see that, easily enough. If we’re intent on becoming an opera star, or a gymnast, or an expert on microbial biology, or whatever, only sustained intent will get us there. You can’t do it now and then. You can’t even write novels that way.
You are haring off in a direction we did not mean, and don’t quite endorse. We aren’t talking about perseverance, nor even success, in any sense of that term. Someone’s intent may be so diffuse, so little goal-oriented, as to be essentially invisible to others. Suppose someone is born into the world harboring an intent – which she continually reinforces by her thought and action – to be a mother. How much of that intent will show as intent if you look at intent as meaning the pursuit of some externally evident goal?
Ah, in the sense you gave Rita and me 20 years ago: Even the drunk who dies in the gutter may have created a flower.
Will have created. What you do with your lives is itself a product, regardless of external effects. (Don’t hare off, either, on the question of whether the created soul will or will not crystallize. That is peripheral to this discussion.)
Your manifested intent shapes the content of your life going forward. You could say your past intent, your past decisions, are part of the context you find yourself amid.
All right, I think that’s clear too.
What you strive toward, even if your striving is not visible to others (what difference does the opinion of others make?) obviously shapes what you find yourself among. You can’t spend all your life obsessing over cars and not have cars be a large part of your mental world, both in thought and in emotion. What you put your attention on, naturally increases in importance to you; it becomes more visible, it seems obviously more important than the things you pay no attention to.
Thus we come to #5, and you look a little farther behind the curtain. Those who are more or less unaware that they are non-3D as well as 3D creatures can have no control over the way non-3D factors manifest.
Sure, that’s Carl Jung’s quote that I annoy people with.
Annoy here, just to make the connection explicit.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life, and you will call it fate.”
As you see, Dr. Jung knew a thing or two, learned in a lifetime of active healing.
I never doubted it. C.G. Jung Speaking, one of Rita’s books, is among my most prized possessions. And, as you know, he seized my attention when I bought Modern Man in Search of a Soul in 1970.
And this leaves item #6 as our unfinished business today, fittingly enough.
This is all very helpful. You have our thanks as always. Till next time.