Thursday, January 26, 2023
6 a.m. Gentlemen, yesterday at our ILC meeting it was decided that I should ask you for exercises our group could do in re retrievals. That is, taking into account all you have told us over the years about the true situation, how can you help us think about the process? This is to improve our efficiency, I gather.
You are not focused.
No. Hard to concentrate on it. Hard to see the point of it, really. What we do, works. It’s – oh, I suppose the analogy would be remote viewing or anything that has been redefined for our mindset. Shamanism a la Michael Harner, for instance.
It is a process of translation, so that people in the midst of transition may learn to think of a thing in a new way, hence take seriously what they could not take seriously in the old context.
Prayer. Talking to spirits, all that.
You have moved away from the past and you are in a halfway-place to the future, so there will be difficulties of understanding. But of course you are always in a halfway-place; life never stops. Your time, though, has the shared subjectivity in a halfway-place, not merely many individual subjectivities.
Hmm. I think I understand that. The renaissance was such a bridging, as Koestler well described in The Sleepwalkers.
You’ve known it a long time, consciously, and of course everybody in a body has known it since before they entered 3D. That unconscious knowing is one source of their discontinuity with the times they were born into. We’ve said all this.
Yes, and we’ve hard it, I think. But everything is different when considered in a new context, I’ve learned that much. Tell me, this thought that just flitted through as I was writing that last sentence. Is that your prompting? I got that it is time that Dirk, in particular, begin posting in my blog.
There is that “ownership of ideas” thing again. The question is less “Where did it come from,” than, “Is it a good idea.”
Is it?
That isn’t for us to decide (ever). It is for you to feel, and reason. We can and will and often do respond with our opinion of your opinion, but really, these things are for you to decide about. That’s why you are in 3D, did we ever happen to mention it, to choose?
The idea came as a corollary to a blip I got, that Dirk’s responses to drumming questions at ILC meetings have come to be quite articulate and smooth, as have Bill’s. The thought came that perhaps it is time for Dirk and perhaps Bill (and others so inclined) to begin posting at will, converting the blog relatively seamlessly from centering on me to centering on communication with you. We’re talked about it from time to time.
And you are wondering if it is time to give people another nudge.
I am. Dirk has talked about writing books: This would be a step toward it, and he already has administrator status, so could post without any middleman. Whether Dirk or Dave or Jane or others wish to move in that direction remains to be seen. But maybe Dirk posting on an occasional basis would segue into his posting on a regular basis, and he would show the way.
The variable being, time. To do this work, it cannot be last on one’s to-do list.
The more I ponder it, though, the better I like the idea. We aren’t asking Dave’s question, but let’s pursue this a bit.
People will face the author’s proverbial three obstacles:
- I don’t have anything to say.
- I don’t have the ability to say it.
- Nobody will care anyway.
All they need to do is face the obstacles, and they will see them as illusions.
- People don’t have the urge to write without it being a concomitant of having something to say.
- “Ask, and it shall be given.” If you have something to say and you work sincerely at saying it, the ability will develop, or rather, will be recognized as being there already.
- Just as no one has the urge to write without having something to say (known to the conscious mind or not), so no such urge manifests in the absence of a potential audience.
And we have created a pretty good venue for them to practice in:
- A protected defined space with a small number of interested readers.
- A venue open to a few sentences, or a few paragraphs, or a full-length essay or series of essays.
Yes, you’d think someone had been shaping the possibility behind your backs.
Oh, we’d never think that. Okay, very funny but very encouraging too. I think I’ll send this to just the list rather than posting it.
You should stop and think first. What do you hope to accomplish by doing it that way? That is, what is the advantage of not posting on the blog what amounts to a call for papers?
The idea keeps morphing. First I thought we were going to discuss reworking our understanding of the retrieval process.
Then as a stray thought came the realization that Dirk has been silently, casually, growing in his ability to articulate in mini-essay form what is shown to him.
Then the renewed thought that he might start posting, and the hope that others in our group might, as well, and the remembrance that at one time I had hoped to set up a forum for many people to share posts, then the sense that we have already done that, and now it needs to be consciously recognized and used.
And you are wondering, should this be kept within your present group of list recipients, or put out to one and all via the blog.
And now I get, what’s the advantage in shutting out those who are not already in what could be seen as a self-selected inner circle?
That is not a self-answering question. Any course will have plus and minus aspects. A self-selected inner circle has its place in the nurturing of new ways of seeing things, or they would not continually appear as patterns. What is the pool of Monroe graduates, if not a self-selected inner circle? The balancing act is to cooperate without closing ranks against those with similar by different backgrounds.
So maybe I should post this as “A call for papers.”
You haven’t done the thinking, so far. So far, you have reacted.
As usual. All right, well, here’s my thinking.
- The forum is in existence physically. Dirk and Dave have gotten it in hand. It exists, it is administered, it has a track record going back to March, 2007, nearly 16 years.
- Till now, it has been nearly entirely conducted by me, with technical assistance from Rich Spees, and Larry Giannou before him. But I have done nearly all the writing.
- Clearly I am going away, however long the process. When I am gone, it will be far better if the forum is already a forum and not a monologue.
- I have watched Dirk learn to bring his guys through, I having had almost nothing to do with it after the initial experience. I’m getting that it is time for him and others to develop the habit of transferring understandings to writing, and this is a good halfway house between ideas and books or even essays.
- There are several others I have in mind, and doubtless some I have not yet in mind, who are poised to be contributors, but seem to lack the final ounce of self-confidence, or perhaps of motivation.
- Those reluctant to seem egotistical may be persuaded if they think of it as perhaps helping people. Certainly that worked for me!
- I’m really getting the sense that it is time, now. We can move from individual effort as it has been understood, into a new model of individual cooperative effort, both between 3D beings and, within them, between 3D and non-3D components, actively, consciously
- This requires (repays) the desacralization, the mundane-ization, if you will, of the process of passing on information received non-physically. This may aid the process.
So your conclusion is?
This should go out on the blog, so that – among other things – people who do not yet consider themselves part of the inner circle may begin to reconsider their possibilities.
You will find that making the implicit explicit is the equivalent of Jung’s “making the unconscious conscious.” That is one function of writing, whether it is you or those of the inner (and outer!) circle.
Maybe we’ll get to Dave’s question next time. This was worth the effort. Thanks as ever.