Wednesday. June 5, 2024
8:55 a.m. It has taken me to now before I felt able to begin – if indeed we can begin even now. Guys?
You are right not to take the day off merely because you don’t feel up to it. Carpe diem, you won’t live forever. If you are only good for an hour or so, that is still enough for a conversation.
At other times, you have encouraged me to take time off.
Different circumstances, though seeming similar. When you are tempted to push, push, push, you may need to slacken the reins sometimes. But when you are tempted to shirk the task you really want to do, merely because it seems like too much effort, that is the time to find a way to keep going. Ultimately it works out better that way.
Say a little more on that?
Your health like everything else in life is reflection of your intent. Your intent is your base state plus “external” conditions and internal conditions. Like so:
- Base state. Who you are at a given moment. What you have made yourself to date, including mental habits, physical condition, emotional balance-point.
- External conditions. Everything not under your conscious control, including the cosmic weather, environmental circumstances, any source of friction.
- Internal conditions. Your immediate attitude, your “mood,” your emotional state as boundary between what you know of yourself and what you do not.
These three types of factors combine to form the background of your intent. The intent per se may be more or less than the total of these.
We can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
Or you can let yourselves down by choosing defeat.
To be clear, you aren’t saying, “Bad health is your own fault.”
Nothing is your own fault, in a sense. You – the “you” we are discussing at the moment, the “you” deciding what to do, how to be – always finds itself in a situation not of its own making. In a sense, it arrives at each moment as if it only just stepped into someone else’s shoes, inherited someone else’s messes and possibilities.
Not sure how to make sense of that.
You are free in every present moment. At the same time, every present moment consists of the situation left over from the previously present moment. Free will and predetermined starting-place, as we have said.
Thus you are and are not recipients of karma – or, as we call it, unfinished business. You are, because the combination of your character traits and what seem external circumstances is karma; that is how karma interacts with you. (And we phrase it that way deliberately.) You are not, because you do not choose your circumstances but you can and do and must choose your reaction.
Every obstacle is an opportunity, and we mean that literally. Just as one may learn more from failures than from successes, because failures compel you to second-guess what you did, while successes may merely reinforce bad habits that you happened to get away with, so rough sailing produces better sailors than does smooth sailing. And 3D life is practically the definition of rough sailing.
So, the larger and less tractable the obstacle, the greater the opportunity. But opportunities must be seized, if they are to be turned to advantage. Thus the most outsized “flaws” you find in someone may indicate that they are engaged in a great task.
Yesterday you said you might continue looking at how the 3D is a representation of the non-3D. Not sure I understood what you meant.
You would have had to pick it up as a spark transmitted – which, of course, does happen – as we haven’t begun on the subject. We have enough time left to cover it, probably.
Remember, we have defined the 3D as a slowed-down version of reality. Its primary characteristic is to represent an ever-changing, instantaneously changing, reality, in such a way as to demonstrate and facilitate the process of choice, and therefore creation. It is also a realm defined by separation rather than connection, also for the purpose of demonstrating by showing.
So, extrapolate. You are well aware of what life in 3D is; now go on to imagine your present life if it were taking place at warp speed, without separation in time or in space.
We asked you once what you do in non-3D, and you said, “We relate.”
If you can find a more meaningful description we are willing to adopt it. But what is it you do in 3D but relate? Only, you do so at a much slower pace!
We have wars. I can’t see how you can have wars in non-3D, or poverty, or isolation, or desperation.
Don’t be too sure. Think, now. If our life is like yours, only instantaneous and seamless, what might it look like?
I don’t know that I have anything useful to contribute.
Think.
If you are all connected and aware, and you change without delay, I suppose what we experience slowly and separately may have their analogies. You can’t have warfare in the absence of bodies, but I suppose you have conflict of wills and values. In fact, I’m pretty sure you said that, sometime. It may be that our passions are actually your passions as they manifest in 3D conditions.
Good so far. Your external actions, even murder, are secondary, remember. Primary is your intent.
As Jesus said? Lusting in the heart, anger held even if not manifested?
“Thoughts are things.” They are, in fact, realer than the actions that demonstrate them. Continue.
Poverty, isolation, neglect, I can’t see how they can exist without 3D conditions to manifest in.
Say they can’t. In what way can they manifest?
Oh!
Yes. Once again, you see.
I do. Even in 3D, we often harbor feelings and convictions that are not necessarily warranted by physical facts, but are real enough to those feeling them.
We keep telling you, your idea of 3D life inverts things. What is important is the psychic reality. What is not important, or anyway less important, is the 3D arena in which that reality manifests.
Thought experiment: A soldier is killed in battle. His 3D death is relatively instantaneous, even if he takes hours or days to die. How long does the non-3D echo of that death last?
Forever, I suppose.
Well, let’s put it that that death is a part of that strand’s unfinished business. Perhaps its effects are neutralized in the life that the strand enters into next. Or perhaps it goes on and on, in effect haunting individual after individual until it is finally dealt with. You can see that the non-3D effect of that death may have much greater impact, ultimately, than did the 3D death, which involved only the individual and those who knew him. Even though the effects of that death may continue in his family, say, still it is going to be a limited impact next to its non-3D impact.
So this tells you what we wanted you to realize: Your idea of your 3D life is inverted. Seeing it straight gives you a sense of the non-3D’s nature. Now, we advise you: The more you ponder this, the more avenues of thought it will open up to you – particularly if you absorb it so that it begins to automatically revalue everything you think.
And that will do, for the moment.
Our thanks. Next time?
TBA.