Monday, October 24, 2022
6 a.m. I have not worked here for a few days. Where were we? I had to look back in my binder, till I got to Tuesday, October 18 – less than a week ago, but a long time mentally – where I find “The Future of the Individual (1).” So, can we continue?
Focus, and we shall see.
I am aware that you said it would be well for me to have a little time to process the material in the background. I wonder, now, if my incessant reading, and watching Netflix, is not specifically to allow that to happen. Very well, presence, receptivity, clarity. Over to you.
A brief summary of your understanding of that session’s salient points.
You said that we as individuals have a future, the world as such does not. Meaning, I took it, that whatever it is that we are grows, changes, moves on to other levels of complexity so that in some fundamental sense we are no longer what we were (that is, what we are now), but that the world continues to be the world.
That will serve. You see, the shared subjectivity is more of a function, a relationship, than a being. You, even as a community of communities, are a being, shaped and shaping, creation and creator. Functions do not evolve and grow and change natures and transform themselves (or be transformed, whichever way you choose to see it). They are a function; they perform a function.
I see it. Do we need an analogy for anyone who does not immediately see it?
A caterpillar becoming a butterfly is an individual transforming. But you can’t say that the process of transforming can evolve. You can’t say that the environmental requirements that allow the transformation to occur, themselves transform. That would be a meaningless playing with words. Similarly, you and the 3D world. You transform; the supporting environment does not.
The changes we see in the 3D world are more like the seasons than like transformation into something fundamentally new.
Even when the 3D world moves from one age to another, so that it no longer supports dinosaurs and now supports mammals, or no longer supports mammals and now supports something else, it is not evolving, it is continuing. Gas does not become imbued with higher consciousness. It may physically transform; it does not move into another sphere of existence.
This, despite the fact that everything is alive, is mind-stuff.
Yes. Your body is alive, but your kidney cells do not become something in another realm of being. It is true, in supporting you in 3D life they are assisting your process, but they do not accompany your consciousness to another realm.
This is more complicated than first appears too, isn’t it?
Most things are. But we don’t want to pursue that side-trail at the moment. It is true that your physical body and its components are inextricably part of your 3D soul’s consciousness, but that would only divert us from the understanding we would like to pursue now.
Our soul is tied to one timespan; our spirit is not.
Your spirit is tied to nothing whatsoever. It is what you make it by your decisions acting upon a soul’s conditions, but it per se is free of conditions.
The body cannot escape 3D limits.
The soul is the animation of the body in connection to every other soul – every other Strand, you see – by connections direct and indirect.
The spirit is the thing that is you beneath and prior to any 3D identities.
That is, spirit precedes soul.
Necessarily. You could not come into 3D existence, nor remain there, if spirit did not in-spire you. There is no life without spirit. There is no shaped life without soul. There is no continuity in any present moment without body.
Let us try to state this as simply as possible, ignoring for the moment necessary caveats and qualifiers:
- The “you” of you is spirit in one view, soul in another. Confusing the two leads to inability to understand.
- “You” as soul means, the everyday you that you are accustomed to identify with. It is your ancestry, your predilections, your skills, biases, complexes; it is your noblest and basest instincts; it is what you are by virtue of your connection along Strands. Everything that is 3D linked to non-3D is your experience of yourself, in relation to your 3D environment.
- “You” as spirit means, that in you that is deeper, prior, and not bound to any 3D lifetime. It is the “you” that precedes First Life (that is, it is alive before any specific 3D existence) and follows it, and transcends it. When in your 3D life you sometimes identify with your spirit rather than only your soul, you touch something literally inhuman, literally godlike. It is you and yet not-you, for it is beyond 3D constraints and possibilities.
I get that this is what Dion Fortune would say we connect to via magical rituals.
There are many ways to connect to it – or, more usually, for it to connect with you, in transformative miraculous moments.
So I get, soul does not move to another level of being, only spirit can do that.
That statement is true, mostly, but easily misunderstood. Re-focus and try again; if you bring it through, rather than we giving it to you, it will connect at a deeper level and will gradually make unexpected connections.
All right.
We as souls do our best here in constricted circumstances, deciding one moment at a time what we want to be, how we want to be. That somehow has its effect on Spirit, though I can’t see how.
Your decisions alter you, and alter everything you touch, and of course vice-versa. This makes every instant a thought-experiment. In effect, the world is re-created by every decision. More importantly, souls are re-created by each decision.
But I don’t get how transforming our soul affects spirit.
It isn’t spirit that transforms; it is the larger being comprising all its souls, of which any of you are one, but branching off. [That is, each of us connecting to others.]
Aha, and our decisions in 3D at some point allow the larger being to crystallize in some way, similar to how we crystallize as souls.
That’s pretty close. Pretty good, actually, as it will allow you to remember to apply the maxim, As above, so below.
Not quite an hour, but I’m losing focus and am inclined to close.
A good place to pause. Title this one “(2),” of course.
Our thanks as always. I do sense we’re getting somewhere.