Monday, November 27, 2017
One reader asks a question I have often asked myself.
[Anastasia: “Since all paths and all consequences of our choices/decisions exist at all times, what determines which path/set of consequences our conscious awareness will experience? Why is our every day awareness rooted in one path/timeline and not another, since all of them exist equally, and what determines which path that is?”]
It is important to stop thinking that “the other side” is all-knowing and instantly all-knowing, at that. Yes, all information obviously exists. But your thinking is the equivalent of our saying, from the non-3D, that since the 3D includes all its geography, you should be able to be in Kansas or Siam or Alpha Centauri on command, and right away. Or, since you have the internet, all human knowledge ought to be available to you at one click, whereas, as you well know, there are practical limits to available knowledge that in a sense overrule theoretically wider limits.
You are saying, sometimes a particular bit of information is far enough from the individual or group we connect with to require a bucket-brigade to fetch it, which can take time, even though, as we all know, “on the other side there is no time.”
It is a practical limitation experienced by anybody who has ever communicated with guidance, or non-3D friends or acquaintances, or others in 3D even. It is a limitation that has caused you great anxiety.
Oh yes. At first, when I couldn’t get an answer instantly, I would worry that it was all my imagination, that there was nobody on the other end of the line, etc. But then I thought, if it is my imagination, that still wouldn’t explain why sometimes there would be a delay. Finally I came to accept it as a fact of life, and it made things easier.
But, you see, difficulty in obtaining information or conceptualizations or even ideas says nothing about whether the process is “you” or is “us.” That is why it is a meaningless distinction. As so often, you cannot quite rein in the assumptions of separation that 3D life inculcates.
I see that. By the way: “Siam”? You’ve never heard of Thailand?
Remember, we move in time as you do in space. You might look at our examples as present, past, future, as well.
Well, that’s interesting. So what is your answer to Anastasia’s, and my, question?
The answer to what seems a straight-forward question is difficult to formulate because several background conditions need to be clarified. Unconscious assumptions are perhaps the most tenacious obstacles to new understandings.
Let’s look at the subject from the other end of the microscope/telescope. How does a Sam experience its creatures’ lives? Because, remember, it isn’t really a matter of the Sam waiting for a life to terminate and return to report. It is convenient to talk about the process that way, but it is only a convenience. In truth, consciousness is as undivided by time as it is by space. You may think of yourselves as reporting home every second, just as you think of receiving guidance and feedback every second.
But undivided doesn’t mean instant.
One prime function of 3D life is specifically to slow things down. Perceived separation in time and space allows for analysis, choice and re-choice, alternations.
So, how does your Sam experience your life? Remember, a Sam experiences all its lives moment by moment, continually. It isn’t waiting for reports. It is living those lives, just as you are living them. We know that presents difficulty. “As above, so below” will offer an intuitive analogy. Your blood cells, etc., experience their own lives at their level of consciousness, at the same time that you experience the same life at your level of consciousness. Well, your Sam experiences your life in the way that you experience your constituent cells’ lives, in a combination of awareness and inattention, much as you do. And just as your attention is not limited to your blood cells, neither is a Sam’s attention limited to any one life.
I’m struck by that “combination of awareness and inattention,” as I’m sure you intended I would be.
It merely points out that any given level of consciousness concentrates on one kind of data and absorbs other kinds automatically. Nobody concentrates on everything all the time. That would amount to concentrating on nothing, ever.
So as you – and uncounted other lives Sam has created from its own essence – live your lives, it all flows through channels, you might say. The All-D world is organized. It isn’t just jello, as you were told long ago. The very nature of creation in 3D assures a chain of connection, rather than chaotic omni-connection directly to the Sam, so to speak.
That makes sense if you mean that life is like a tree diagram, with every extension leading backward to its source and forward to its own extension.
That’s the idea, yes. Not jello, not a bureaucracy. Things connect not by rule but by their nature.
But we’re only beginning the answer. This was only the first piece of information. As your hour is up, and there is much more to say, let’s resume this when you are fresh. Come back to the material before you drift out of reach of it, or we shall need to start all over again.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
The question under consideration is why, of all the possible paths in existence for each of us, are we on this one?
We said, remember, that Sam experiences all its creatures’ lives minute by minute, not in summary form afterwards. We made the analogy to your own awareness of your own subsystems with their different level and quality of consciousness. We described reality as being analogous to a decision-tree structure, wherein all relationships are automatic rather than forced; that is, things relate by the nature of what they are, rather than having to conform to some external pressure.
You now have to correct your views – painfully acquired at a different stage of inquiry – of choices, and alternate time-lines, and personal growth. This may have something of the flavor of hauling yourself up by your own bootstraps, as they say, because while believing one thing you need to entertain another thing that will at first seem to contradict it. As always in such situations, the key is to hold your beliefs loosely and see what happens. What you get at any one moment – including this one – need not be your touchstone forever.
When a world, a universe, a reality – call it what you will – is created, all the uncounted either/or decisions anybody could be faced with spring into existence as possibilities. All the possibilities of the situation are implicit at the moment of creation. That doesn’t mean anybody could foresee them all, or would even care to try to do so; it means only that they exist.
I know that you are trying to say something very simple and are concerned that it not be misunderstood. The possibilities that exist are inherent in the structure of the universe. That doesn’t mean they all manifest, merely that they are all potential paths. All possible paths exist in a computer game’s programming, but only one path is manifest at any one time, and it manifests as a direct result of the player’s on-going series of choices.
You have been told that at every decision-point, one version of you takes the “heads” path and another the “tails.” This is true and yet not true, and if we can clear this up, many things will become clearer. The difficulty concerns versions. You have been thinking that every choice is taken both ways at every time, hence resulting in a probability-cloud that balances out (since for every heads taken, there will have been a tails taken). That is true over time – and here is where the difficulty is. That is why we are looking at it from the Sam’s point of view, not the creature’s.
The Sam receives continual feed from all its creatures. This one aspect of its life (that is, the aspect that amounts to its parental role) is not the only aspect there is, but we will confine ourselves to the aspect in the hope of making a clear statement. Only – remember: Your Sam lives through you, yes; but you are not its whole life. It has more things to do than monitor the health of its blood cells, so to speak.
The information the Sam receives changes every moment. Remember that. Nothing is static. All its components – its “children” – potentially interact, which in effect means that nothing is ever settled. When one piece changes, it thereby potentially causes any or all other pieces to change, in direct or indirect reaction to it. And this is considering only pieces of the one Sam, interacting! It doesn’t begin to consider interaction among Sams, nor will we at this time.
Because A over here changes, a different version of B lights up, which may interact not only with A but with undetermined others. The version of Frank’s life that lights up depends partly – maybe largely – on what happens elsewhere.
So far, so good. But we need to go a little bit slowly. You say “version” but actually what lights up may be a decision-point, and that decision-point, considered broadly, may affect many, many versions.
And from our point of view, such a decision point may be a moment of particular consciousness for us?
May cause greater consciousness for that moment, yes. You will in essence “wake up” a bit. You will be more alert, less sleepwalking your way through the action.
I get, though I don’t get the logic of it, that those lit-up choice-points – choices already having been made, and maybe more than once – represent a testing and an opportunity.
It may be easier to grasp if you consider the effects on your present life of “past-life” experiences. By experiences, we don’t mean external events, we mean how that life changed in response to decisions precipitated by those events. Given that those other lives connect with yours, and that you influence each other in this eternal present moment, anything that happens and changes any of you has the potential to change others of you. This much is clear?
I had to realize that all lives share the living present moment. Once I did, my understanding of “past lives” transformed. So, this is clear to me, at least.
Well, can you see now that your previous understanding was a little too static, too fixed? The continuing interaction and continually recurring decisions mean you are, yourself, the probability-cloud that you understood to be the sum of all either/or decisions. That way of looking at it was correct in a limited sense, but it looks different when you concentrate on the interactive nature of things.
Seems to me our ideas on the probability-cloud and all were fed to us via these conversations.
In which your consciousness was an integral factor, and in which scaffolding was constructed that, you were told, was going to be removed at some point.
To make way for more scaffolding.
We don’t know of any other way it can be.
I’m not sure that explains why any of us are on this rather than other possible timelines.
The short answer is, because you are not autistic. Your life is shaped by outside forces as well as by your choice. Once you absorb that you are parts of a much greater whole, some of the limitations and possibilities of your existence will appear in a different light.