Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Guys? Anything today, or do we take a day off?
You can always take a day off merely by not showing up, and sometimes that’s appropriate.
And you, on your end? What are the variables?
On our end nothing, because we are not constricted by time-slices. If we cannot work “now,” we can work “later,” and you won’t see the difference.
Except sometimes in mid-process you have asked for time to think.
Yes. Perplexing you extremely, if we recall!
Well, it did. I half-remember you saying the obstacle was actually on my end anyway.
Perhaps a more careful way to say it is that what is available to you depends upon where you are mentally. Some things that are a stretch in one “mood” or at one phase of your life are not a stretch at another. This is not a variable from this end, but of course it may look like it.
So in terms of your recent description of the mental field as an interaction between 3D and non-3D –
Surely you can see that a field that continually fluctuates, fluctuates in what it is in resonance with. Someone who habitually thinks high thoughts is going to resonate to different fields than those of one who habitually thinks low ones, or who alternates between the two.
This is the same thing you’ve been saying all along: We shape who we become through our choices.
That’s correct. And this is a way of explaining the process via a different analogy, and a vivid image.
Yes, true. And our choices affect others to some extent.
Isn’t this what religions have always said? Isn’t it common sense, once you see that everything (hence every one) is interconnected? But the electrical field analogy may make it intuitively more obvious.
I was going to ask, how do people deal with conflicting voices, and the answer is, Test the spirits.
It requires rashness to accept anything on faith alone. Sometimes that is appropriate, sometimes not. But why take the chance? If everyone told the truth, if everyone’s intentions were pure, if people could be accepted at face value, it would be merely a matter of openness. But life in 3D is not that simple. Why would you expect it to be in non-3D?
I have been accepting you and your information for a quarter of a century and more.
But – have you? Uncritically? Without doubt and questioning and demand for evidence, and without qualifying further questions? We would hardly say you accepted everything on faith – nor would we have wanted you to.
I have always regretted that my ability to talk to you was not accompanied by Rita’s gift of analysis and cross-examination. But you and I seem to be on the same page, on the question of the utility of doubt.
We have never been on different pages, except in appearance. You stressed your doubts and we counter-balanced the boat by giving you reason to have faith. When you have gone too far in the opposite direction, semi-deifying us or the message, we would counter-balance, reminding you that no communication may safely be assumed to be pure and undistorted. What we both want is a clearly flowing stream that is not accepted as gospel nor discarded as fantasy, but is considered, examined, held up to one’s inner truth-detector. And we’d say we’ve both done pretty well at that.
Only now it gets more complicated.
Well, it is complicated, in that we need people to see how to be accepting and critical at the same time. Some will know how to do it instinctively; some can learn how and some will never be able to balance, but will land on one side or the other.
And we are now bringing into consideration the vast impersonal forces.
Think of those forces as if they were gravitational fields, or electrical fields, or, better, magnetic fields. (These are not scientific analogies, because that is not your playground, but they provide images, which will help people to leap the gap.) Think of it as the mental weather, generated by the magnetic currents of the day interacting with the magnetic fields that exist regardless of a specific day.
You are small boats on a great ocean. You don’t cause the tides or the waves or the atmospheric conditions, all you can do is adapt to them. Or, you are airplanes in a vast sky whose barometric pressure, jet streams, humidity, thunderstorms, etc. you must cope with but cannot control. Or, a third analogy, you are a localized electro-magnetic field interacting not only with a larger field from which you have been thrown off, but with huge external fields independent of your control.
We mean to convey:
- You are small; the universe is not.
- You are isolated in effect, no matter how connected you are in fact.
- You are in unbreakable connection with the field that is the present moment, but “present moment” is not evanescent nor fragile nor perishable, and neither are you.
- You are part of a system, not an accident but, have been thrown up in the course of events. Is there such a thing as a meaningless event?
The bottom line here is that you are not isolated nor meaningless to the rest of reality. How could you be? But you may need to function as if you were. Well, if so, so what? There are millions of roles to be played, and the roles are always filled.