Wednesday, February 3, 2021
What shall we talk about?
What are you reading?
Gary Lachman on Colin Wilson. Markus Wolf on his life as East Germany’s spymaster. Finished the journals of Wilhelm Reich 1940-1947.
Why?
Why? I don’t know. I go to my bookcases of biographies and pick something. Or do the same for my bookcases of novels. Or something sparks me and I go hunting for something like Reich’s work in a single volume. If there’s a logic to it, it’s subterranean.
Follow the thought.
Being put up to this, am I? Very well, writing “subterranean” instead of “subconscious,’ which I could easily have used, reminded me of Jack Kerouac’s novel The Subterraneans, which of course led to The Dharma Bums. I suppose your point is that I function that way, one association leading to another.
Let’s pursue this a little farther. Can you see that a similar subterranean process may guide your mental movements throughout the day? This is how you can be led without being hammered.
Led? Or seduced? Or, almost, brainwashed?
It can look like that, sure. But can someone seduce himself? Brainwash herself? The source of the confusion is the unspoken assumption that there is both a “we” and a “they” involved, rather than a 3D-I and a Non-3D-I.
- 3D-I. The “you” you are familiar with. Your focused consciousness, your daydreaming self, the consciousness that holds together your various elements. The “you” that dreams, that schemes, that enjoys and suffers 3D life, that sometimes longs to go, sometimes longs to stay forever. It is not as simple as physical you: It is you as you experience yourself as body/mind/spirit living in time and space for a limited experience.
- Non-3D-I. The larger you. the “you” that you may sometimes call your higher self, or your spiritual self, or your soul. “The guys upstairs,” other than resonances. Your guardian angels. The “you” that is intimately tied to 3D-you but is never bound by 3D perspective.
That’s very clear.
You think so because you share the inner logic, the essence-to-essence understanding. But it may or may not have been conveyed to others by words, because it has to penetrate layers of misunderstanding in some cases.
It seems clear to me, you are saying what you have said many times, that we are not only “more than our physical bodies,” but are two spheres, one inside the other. The smaller sphere is 3D-I, in your terms, and the larger sphere, Non-3D-I. It isn’t a matter of physical v. spiritual, nor even, exactly, of local v. remote. It is a matter of smaller and larger, and even that is not fixed but variable.
That’s right. Any 3D-ego can grow to absorb and incorporate more of the non-3D-self of which it is a part.
We can expand our consciousness.
You can have life more abundantly.
Now, when you fully actively realize that Non-3D-I is part of you, that in fact you are a part of Non-3D-I, the 3D-I question of manipulation, using, seduction, brainwashing, can be seen to be a misunderstanding.
So what you were mentioning earlier was an example of how Non-3D-I may feed possibilities into a 3D-I’s consciousness?
Something moves you to pick a certain book or movie at a certain time; it starts a chain of mental associations that go this way instead of that way. What something? Chance? Coincidence? Predestination?
No, I see it. And someone confining the field of vision to 3D-I-only (presumably not suspecting the existence of Non-3D-I) will call it the subconscious or even the unconscious, not really thinking too much about it.
Many things simplify if you look at them as the product of binocular rather than monocular vision. Your 3D-I tells you X and such, because that’s what it knows. But your Non-3D-I may tell you something overlapping or contradictory or seemingly unrelated, because of what it sees. It is in a way right brain v. left brain writ large, gestalt working in sync with detail.
And this makes nonsense of the question of “whose” idea something was.
It does. There is no ownership of ideas, only tenancy.
So, you see, “what are you reading?” An innocuous question, but it leads on, with minimal steering on our part and minimal conscious response on yours. A smooth cooperative interaction, because no emotional landmines involved. But suppose we were to ask, “How is your sex life?” The potential for landmines and hot buttons goes way up – which is why we suggested to your group that you take advantage of the fact. In the consequent explosions or awkwardnesses or perceived evasions, many things formerly hidden may come to light.
We suggest that you all not waste time looking over your shoulders trying to find evidence of manipulation, but keep your eye on the ball, widening your field of consciousness, removing unnecessary internal barriers, redefining yourselves (and, consequently, your lives) with the goal of achieving life more abundantly. In so doing – it occurs to us we may never have said explicitly – you assist Non-3D no less than 3D. It should be obvious, all being one, but in case it wasn’t.