Awestruck, and perhaps in connection
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
5:30 a.m. I am reluctant to ask a factual question, as always, being more comfortable with conceptual ones. But Jane Coleman and Jane Peranteau and I agreed to ask this question, so I will, and we’ll see if you-all can answer it.
Presence, receptivity, clarity. What was the purpose of the Egyptians placing reminders of 3D life in their burial places? What did they think it would accomplish? We’re taking for granted that it was not the act of superstitious ancients that our stupid civilization assumes it was. Gentlemen, can you shed some light on this for us?
We can – and loosen up. If you inadvertently misinform people, it isn’t the end of the world. Mistaken translations straighten out over time.
Okay.
You were getting intuitions even as you spoke of it. These were vivid representations of First Life, and they were not meant for other living eyes. Surely that is clear? Sealed from the outside world, hidden and even boobytrapped to prevent grave robbing, how could they have been intended to impress others?
Well, then, what? Were they really so simpleminded as to think that a picture of food would be able to be eaten? That a picture of a hunt would assure good hunting in the afterlife? That the presence of things they had used, the bodies of servants they had known, would be somehow available thereafter? The answer is yes, in a way, but not at all in the way that your contemporaries may imagine.
We draw your attention to something that may seem unrelated: the art of psychometry. Things are portals.
That’s very interesting.
You experienced it at Newspaper Rock.
I did. And I seem to have experienced it since. Crystals, especially, seem to be portals.
Ever hear of a crystal ball? The scryer isn’t actually looking at something, but is connecting to something. (We don’t say that the distinction is always obvious to the scryer.)
All right, well, — all those things in the Egyptian tombs. Do you see that a portal opens either way? A connection to the non-3D (seen from the 3D side) is of course a connection to the 3D side, as seen from the non-3D. Now why should the non-3D want to have portals back to 3D? Aren’t they finished with that life?
Not if the soul is continuing to live forever in its 3D time span, as you said.
Exactly so. Consider those portals to be connectors between spirit and soul. They are facilitators, you might say.
They are preventing the spirit from forgetting its soul connection?
You could put it just that way. The spirit’s weakest point is emotion and memory, the soul’s strongest point.
That’s why the non-3D needed to remember the 3D life, not for the sake of the memories per se, but for the sake of the connection.
Yes. As an analogy, it is the two halves of a brain, functioning together, as opposed to a split brain.
I keep going back to Peter Novak’s book that I published – two or three of them, but particularly The Division of Consciousness. I knew it was important.
It opened the way for you to consider things in a certain light.
Now, I have read somewhere that it is important to realize that the physical world is symbolic of the spiritual, quite as much as it is here for itself. That’s said clumsily. I mean, things are just what they appear to be, but they are also deeper, they extend into another dimension, so to speak. Our stupid civilization treats things as if they were merely rocks in space, rather than as all part of a symphony.
Well, there you are. The Egyptians knew better.
So if they – well, you spell it out for us.
Yes. We can, now, as we could not have, before, because of the work we have done together, building understandings in common.
The Egyptians described 3D life as First Life. They did not, by that, mean to imply that they would be reincarnated. You haven’t understood that until now. They meant, the 3D life was bounded in time, and now they moved to non-3D life which is not. But their non-3D life is based in what they had made themselves in First Life – that is, 3D life.
This is not to say that everyone in that civilization retained the understanding. Most people most of the time mostly follow their society’s mores. That’s what makes civilization even possible, mimesis. But if not everyone did, the ones who counted did, and that starts with the Pharaoh and the Pharaoh’s family, and the priesthoods male and female.
Realize this. If you have been king, you do not cease to be king when you die. Your non-3D self – provided it remembers! – continues to be linked to that kingly life and continues to feel and fulfill its responsibilities throughout the endless changes that occur as people’s decisions alter the dream.
If you are a miller in that life, or a forester, or a fisher, or soldier, or priest or teacher; if you are a mother or father or aunt or uncle, you do not cease to remember those feelings, skills, points of view – if you remember and do not forget.
Given this view of life, what could be a larger error than to not provide as much assistance as possible so that the newly freed spirit remembers – remains linked to – the soul that helped shape it?
So a Pharaoh’s tomb, or a high official’s, would feature painted scenes of all manner of people.
Helping keep it all in mind, you might say.
I imagine that at some point this degenerated into superstition.
Mimesis always does. You might consider it intellectual or spiritual entropy. Every good thing needs to be renewed – reborn – eventually.
Every bad thing, too?
That’s a different topic. The short answer is yes, as you might expect. Nothing is in the world without reason.
Now what about the elaborate and seemingly endless hieroglyphic inscriptions in the tombs – narratives, I took them to be. Surely the non-3D soul doesn’t need to reread the life.
As you intuited in your discussion, the hieroglyphics are themselves portals. But they are a different kind of portal, a portal to intangibles, you might say, or to abstractions.
So in a way they would be read?
Not in the way you read with your eyes. More like, the energetic signatures of the minds that carved or painted the symbols are there, and that’s what was to be read.
Was? Or is?
That is almost a meaningless distinction, dependent entirely upon where you are and how permeable or impermeable you experience time to be. Those souls then are as alive as ever, so, “is.” But you can’t reach them (usually), so, “was.”
A lot to absorb, here.
You could not have brought this across if you had not gone to Egypt. Again, psychometry.
Our thanks as always. I’ll call this one “Egyptian Tombs,” I guess.