Part one
Saturday June 16, 2018
Let us look at the different ways humans – that is, citizens of the All-D experiencing a span of consciousness limited to 3D perceptions in 3D conditions – interact with what we are calling the weather.
You could look at it in three ways:
- External events are the weather,
- External events are affected by the weather,
- External events are produced by the weather (via our reactions to it).
- External events are the weather you live in. First, you must remember and grasp (not merely accept) that there is no “external” as such. External may mean “seemingly unconnected to one’s direct being,” but that is about as far as the meaning can be stretched. You are of the same substance as the rest of the universe; it’s all one thing. We are all one thing. There is no “disconnected” any more than there is an “elsewhere” or an “other.” All distinctions are approximations, not exact descriptions of relationship or – still less – lack of relationship.
Now, to say that “all is one” is not to say that all the parts are experienced as one. Your own experience every day tells you otherwise. How could any two things interact if there were no relative separation into units? Anything may be seen as individual or connected; sometimes it is useful to think one way, sometimes the other way. But, extremes are never true except as one end of a polarity. Ultraviolet light may be separated out of white, but it does not exist as an absolute, only as part of the spectrum.
We may be over-stressing the connectedness of everything, but we doubt it. The concept is easily agreed upon but only applied now and again, because sensory evidence argues otherwise.
So, external events seem exterior; seem to be disconnected from interior events: that is, your inner world. To that extent, exterior events may be said to be the weather you exist in. Your inner life is affected by events, and you cannot control them. If you don’t like the election results, or disapprove of a war, or wish you had clean air and water, or grieve over the continued existence of suffering in the world, or even want this or that external influence on your life to go away, well – too bad. External life exists and you must live your life within its confines.
- External events are affected by the weather. They have their own logic. If you have not already built the pyramid, you cannot look at it, nor write on the walls, nor tear it down. If you are in the middle of World War II, your next moment obviously will begin from – the middle of World War II. There are no magical discontinuities in events. You do not experience in external life (as you do in dreams, perhaps) a building suddenly appearing or suddenly disappearing. Things happen in the context of the stream of events that produced them.
- External events are produced by your reaction to previous external events. Certainly as a description of the 3D world as experienced commonly, this is a truism. That’s what you do! Events produce an effect upon you, and you react, and your reaction helps set up the next set of external circumstances. Billions of humans react to the events of the moment, and that’s how pyramids get built, or get torn down. That’s just common experience.
However, when you look a little more closely, you see that this applies on an inner as well as an outer level, and accounts for psychic influencing of external events. This third definition is the main point here, the primary interaction of inner and outer worlds, of subjective and objective reality.
When people first escape from the 3D trance, they face a lack of theoretical structure for what they nonetheless feel is true. This is the bird emerging from the egg. The 3D aspect is confused at the change in situation. The non-3D aspect knows full well what is required. Birds, unlike humans, do not suffer from an interruption of sure connection between 3D and non-3D, so you don’t see birds pausing while trying to get out of the shell, wondering, “What’s the point of all this? Why should I have to go through this? Why am I not somewhere else or something else or some-how else?” Birds don’t suffer 3D-only consciousness any more than they suffer envy that they are not jaguars or otters or humans.
But the human’s situation is different. As a baby, yes, as a young child, usually the connection is uninterrupted, and so the baby can rely on what are called instincts. It breathes; it sucks; it systematically and enthusiastically exercises the various functions of the body as it conducts its pre-flight tests. But as a slightly older child, or a teen, or an adult, the connection is broken, usually by those with whom the new individual interacts (who have themselves been shaped by their society) insisting that sure connection is illusion or even illness.
To those no longer in conscious touch with their non-3D components, the world is internal or external, inner or outer. When people first begin to realize that the 3D trance is only a strained attention on this rather than on this and that, they are tempted to go off the deep end. They are tempted – you should know! – to build theoretical structures to support their new experiences, and perceptions, and such structures cannot hope to be as sophisticated and elaborated as those that have been constructed previously over many thousands of years. Religions, philosophies, shamanic practices, all are available, all would serve somewhat to express the new experiences and perceptions. But, only somewhat. New wine requires new containers. We are talking now about magical interaction with the external world.
Sunday, June 17, 2018
You said, “We are talking now about magical interaction with the external world.”
Yes, in the context, remember, of two other aspects of external reality as you experience it. It is the fact that external events have these three aspects, rather than any one of them, that confuses the issue. Anyone seeing clearly only one aspect, or even any two aspects, will have a firm but incomplete idea of the nature of reality, and this will lead him or her to draw incorrect conclusions excluding certain aspects of what is real.
You mean, I think, they will become materialists, or spiritualists, or whatever, as a result of not seeing how the other aspects can be equally true.
That’s right. They will have lost beginner’s mind, in that respect, and so certain doors will be closed to them. They will be pushing on doors that open toward them. So, as we discuss magical interaction with the world, keep in mind that the other modes of interaction remain true. They don’t go away merely because this one is also true.
And that is analogous to the levels of control over our health that you once sketched out.
Yes. Don’t go into it in any detail, but give the general idea in a sentence or two.
Our level of control over our health depends upon the ground-rules of the world we live in – and that depends upon the level of integration of 3D resources. I put it into Imagine Yourself Well as a table of five levels of interaction, ranging from no effective access to the miraculous abilities of someone on Jesus’ level. That is a concrete example of what you’re talking about here.
Yes it is. And the central point is: Your interaction with the external world is not under your total control (obviously), but it is potentially qualitatively different depending upon your effective level of integration with your non-3D components. Some people live in a constricted, determined environment; others live in a world of magical potential. Same world. Some people’s every wish is frustrated; others get what they really want, as if by automatic pilot. Same reality. And, even more importantly, some people at a high level of integration nonetheless do not get things they very much want, and no one, even at the highest level, the most magical and miraculous level, gets everything they want.
The highest levels of integration produce miracles, not merely experience them, and even these levels do not get everything they want. This is just common sense, but it tends to get lost as one explores these rarified realms of speculation. In other words, it is an aspect of reality that gets lost when one discovers the truth of other aspects. We don’t want you to be among those who lose sight of it, or you won’t go any farther than established thought has gone long ago.
The world is larger than any of its parts. Dion Fortune’s group – and Hitler’s, for that matter – had certain ways it wanted the world to be, but for all their magical abilities, they had to fight for them; they could not merely will them into existence, nor did their going into battle assure their success.
Again, this is only what your experience of the world tells you every moment, only you must integrate what you know in one part of your mind with what you know in another. External reality is as real as internal reality, even though neither is quite as simple as they may appear. They may either one be ill-defined; they do not thereby go out of existence. They must be taken into account, or your mental construction (deduction) of the world will be seriously distorted.
Yes, you magically affect externals. No, externals are not under your sole control. Really, we can see that the first statement might not be obvious, but we should have thought the second would be. Only long experience says otherwise. But let us spend a moment on the question of how and how far and under what conditions your individual selves affect external reality magically.
How. Remember, it is an All-D individual affecting an All-D world, and cannot be otherwise. Although you may be entirely unaware of your non-3D component, still it is there. Although you may be entirely unaware of the world’s 3D component, still it is there. The difference in your level of integration determines the difference in your conscious control of the situation, not the nature of it. Your full being is only partly in 3D; to treat 3D affairs as if only the 3D mattered is to – well, find an analogy.
Someone thinking that the physical radio set produced the message rather than reproduced it.
Good enough. Not bad, in fact. The transmission over the airwaves is invisible to one who places his faith only in what he can see. The radio exists, the program is experienced, so obviously it would be superstition to assume that the radio program can have been produced elsewhere and transmitted without wires. A valuable analogy if not over-stretched.
But let us defer further consideration of how, so that we may dispose of how far, and under what conditions, if possible.
How far. The limitation is partly within the individual and partly inherent in the time the individual lives in. One’s level of integration clearly determines one’s ability to command one’s innate resources, but even here, individuals vary widely. Two people each in full communication with their non-3D components will not be identical. They will each be their full selves, but that full self will be different. Obvious, isn’t it, once pointed out? You came to 3D to express your difference, to see out of your own private window and make your unique contribution. And, at the same time, the canvas upon which one paints one’s life is not self-created, but in existence before one makes an entrance.
As to “under what conditions,” remember, again, that you are All-D creatures affecting an All-D world. External reality could be looked at, for this purpose, as the entirety of all the affected All-D creatures, taken together. Again, a common-sense understanding, though here somewhat unusually defined. External reality isn’t some animate or inanimate “thing”; it is the product of so many individual All-D reactions and interactions to what is presented.
We will resume with more on the “how” of individual integration with the external world, next time.