Factors in overcoming problems

Sunday, December 11, 2022

6 a.m. Louisa has a question I am not sure I understand.

[Find this {“Karma and free will”} right on target for some messages I have again received about becoming more in control of the unconscious forces pushing and pulling in my life. While meditation has been a great tool in this process I wonder if the guys have any other tools beside dreams they can suggest to gain the ability of self mastery especially in areas where in spite of our conscious efforts we meet a wall that is a block?]

Tools besides dreams to gain the ability of self-mastery, particularly when there are blocks. I will assume this means more to you than it does to me. Any advice? And, am I sufficiently focused for this?

You may be, if you become one-pointed. Otherwise, better to defer the question until a better time.

Meaning I am sort of out of tune?

Meaning you are sort of misaligned with the moment, and can either wait for the energies around you to change, or can adjust your tuning to better align with what it finds. And – oddly enough! – this is an answer to the question, as well.

And as you well knew, that was enough to actively engage my interest, so now I am fully here.

Fully here, now, yes.

Proceed, then.

Think of yourselves as machines functioning within an invisible but all-encompassing environment. Or, better, think of yourselves as organisms in an ecology. You are neither, really, in that you are partly non-3D beings functioning in what appears to be a 3D environment. As you begin to feel, this is a complicated answer, and may cause us more trouble to set out than you expected.

Yes, well, as you proceeded, I was getting a sense of a vast sea of interrelated ideas that would need to be brought together somehow.

As so often, the final thought will be simple, but explaining why the final thought follows will be anything but simple.

Bullets?

Perhaps. Do you realized (we sometimes wonder) how unique a form our interaction takes? It is very much a two-way working together, a long way from you taking dictation or we having to pretend to know everything. In helping us set out this model of cooperative exploration and exposition, that may be your achievement.

If anybody follows up on it. Very well, thanks for the acknowledgement or whatever. So, the elements of the simple answer to a simple question, obtained through a complicated process?

To put it in a nutshell, you can do very little if you think of yourselves as individuals divorced from others and from the world and from the times and from your non-3D source and ramifications. Trying to go it alone is often valiant, but rarely effective. The very things that defeat you are there (one might say) to remind you that you are not a unit, not self-sufficient, not isolated from the human race, not orphaned.

I’m getting an echo of Alcoholics Anonymous, with its directive to rely on a higher power.

Its directive is to realize that your addiction itself shows you that there is more to it than a matter of will, that you can’t do it by your own isolated strength and determination, and that this knowledge leads toward the way out of the dilemma. In other words, the fix you are in is the Exit sign, if you can but recognize it and use it.

We recognize that Louisa’s question is not about addiction, but we need to turn your heads to consider this in a different context. Addictions and psychological problems and external conditions and chronic illnesses and fixed patterns of any type have in common an implied division between “you” and “other.”

Again, we will set out the forces always in play:

1. “You.”
2. “The world.”
3. “The times.”
4. The non-3D as source.

1. Remember, you are a community, not a unit. There never was and never could be a community of unanimity. Your community may be relatively harmonious or otherwise, relatively cooperative or otherwise, but it is a community, which means different aspects have different priorities, values, abilities, freezing points, boiling points, etc. It is always a sort of slurring over differences, when you consider yourself as if you were one thing, even one thing with recalcitrant components. If you will remember that different parts of you have legitimate needs and perhaps grievances and potential, you will meet greater cooperation. We do not say this is a panacea. It isn’t. But it is an essential element of the attitude that will gain you control over intractable patterns.

2. Remember, “the world” as you experience it is always and only a seemingly external demonstration of your own unacknowledged or unrecognized or as-yet-unlived potential. How you experience the world can never be divorced from who and what you are beyond your conscious awareness. In effect, “the world” is the larger unknown part of you, calling for your attention, perhaps your willing integration.

3. “The times” refers to the nature of the invisible filters that allow certain energies and energy patterns and disallow others. Every moment has its own potential and no other. You need to recognize this as an inherent limitation to 3D life – and remember as well that only limitation produces form. Why waste time complaining about what makes your life possible? But if the limits are uncomfortable or undesirable, you need to learn how to change them; you will never eliminate limits, this side of death.

4. The non-3D as source is the most easily overlooked factor, in an age that has abandoned its old religions and has not yet fashioned its new and appropriate religion. Having outgrown past ideas, God on his throne, avenging angels, etc., it is tempting to think the old forms were symbolizing nothing, but of course that isn’t true, it was an earlier age’s best attempt to put pictures around an inchoate mute knowing.

Your non-3D component has a present-tense aspect (guidance) and a not-present-tense aspect (your origin and destiny). To attempt to contact guidance and to overlook your longer-term guidance, call it, is to cripple your ability to safely and sanely pilot your ship.

So now perhaps the simple answer is obvious.

It is perhaps me that is simple, but I got, merely, same as usual, be here now while addressing problems. Attempt to corral the entire community as best we can; attempt to do it in the present moment, without distraction or division (as we do in my talking to you here, for instance); attempt to treat the problem as a legitimate protest set forth by the outside world to get our attention; and attempt to live in patience if the times seem to prohibit immediate resolution.

Not so simple-minded. That’s a good precis. To restate it:

• Bring all of you to the problem.
• Deal with it in the present.
• See it not as “wrong” but as the result of a problem seen or unseen.
• Live the problem as best you can, with patience toward yourself.

This answer may seem to be no answer, because it is not a prescription for a specific doing, but a description of the proper attitude that will unlock the puzzle.

A word more. Just as in matters of health, do not confuse “perfect resolution” with whatever you happen to prefer. The goal is not to achieve an outcome you desire; it is to achieve an outcome suitable to the entire situation, much of which will be invisible to your 3D self but may come into view by way of your non-3D component if you allow it to.

A word to Louisa specifically: Thank you for this question which will of course open windows for others who may not have been able to ask it.

Our thanks as always.