Friday, June 7, 2024
5:20 a.m. Shall we continue?
If you begin to look at your 3D life as being exactly what it seems and nothing at all as it seems, new insights arise. But this is by no means an easy attitude for some to acquire. To some it may come naturally; to others it may not be possible.
And this is why I have always been drawn equally to history and to psychic stuff.
Others, to science and psychic stuff, or – anything. It is a matter of transcending what appear to be fixed and even exclusive categories.
We have detailed the attitude toward life’s phenomena that will prove most helpful to you in transcending the one-viewpoint-only frame of mind. No need to repeat it here. Only, don’t settle for remembering it, or understanding it. It helps to actually put it into practice!
One of the very first things you gave me was that we should learn to see things more than one way, either simultaneously or alternately. I have not forgotten.
Libra on the horizon made that easy for you. For some it will be a struggle.
So what do we mean, that life is and is not what it seems?
- Life is not a coded message understandable only by interpretation. No one ever lived or ever will live who did not experience its essence every day. You can’t be in 3D, and of it, without experiencing it.
- At the same time, nothing is ever one thing only. Everything extends, and depending upon how you follow those extensions, the picture you assemble changes.
All landscape is merely landscape. At the same time, all landscape is sacred mind-stuff. Both true.
I once had an experience, in an altered-state exercise that was meant to contact someone needing a retrieval, in which what I contacted was not a person or even a thing, but an energy. The energy, I gathered, was what made a power spot powerful, or a sacred spot sacred. It was an invisible factor that was powerful, unknown, aware, entirely not human, yet intricately connected to our experience of that spot.
And you proceeded to liberate it from a obsolete attachment, that is, to a spot that no longer had human significance, being now desert. What does that tell you?
Somehow the inhuman energy was connected to humans, could be affected by human intent (mine, in this case), and was somehow directed originally, by what I don’t know, to do something helpful to humans.
Not necessarily helpful, but yes, aimed at interaction of human life with what they may perceive as either inanimate nature or as immanent supernatural phenomena. The difference between the two is viewpoint.
I begin to see where you are going with this. All views of life are right, none is completely right.
No view can be completely right, because every view is a view in a certain direction, and automatically – and, you could say, systematically – disregards its opposite. If you see the material-ness of something, it’s harder to see the spiritual-ness of it. The mundane and the divine coexist, of course. Everything in life connects. Have we ever mentioned that?
Very funny. Once or twice.
Yet this essential fact is easily disregarded from moment to moment. The 3D conditions make it harder to remember connection than to remember separation. So, keep it in mind as best you can.
Now, if you begin from the thought that everything is mind-stuff, it is no stretch to see that everything is holy and nothing is holy.
I see that, but you may want to say another word or two of explanation.
It’s all in your point of view. Everybody can see the holiness or the mundane reality of the world. Fewer can see it both ways at the same time. But surely it is obvious if you remember that everything is of the same substance – and we don’t mean matter, we mean that “matter” and “spirit” are the same in essence, just as “object” and “energy” are both. Therefore, as we keep saying, All is One. There are no absolute divisions.
I’m getting that “Nothing is holy” means the same thing as “Everything is holy.” Either way, it erases the supposed difference between one thing being holy and another not.
And between one thing being mundane and another not, yes, same thing.
But we perceive certain spots as power spots or holy places.
You also perceive differences in the world when you are in the presence of your beloved, or of an enemy, or of dear friends or irritating colleagues. Same thing.
I think you are saying the background remains the same, maybe even we remain the same, but there is some energy superimposed on the situation that affects us.
That’s the idea, though probably you would find it hard to come up with a unifying theory.
Isn’t that your job?
Our job. We are thinking together, remember.
I suppose that energy being I encountered has something to do with this.
You are energy beings, are you not?
We are, but this one wasn’t tied to a body.
So therefore it was something separate? You see how hard it is to remember, when dealing with anything specific, what you easily remember as a generality?
It couldn’t have had no point of connection with me, by definition.
No, but it was not the same as you, either, any more than a tomato plant or a cat or the soil you walk on is the same, though they all connect.
It’s a way of drawing connections, isn’t it? If we look in one direction, we see connections along a certain line of sight. If we look in another direction, or at another angle, we see the connections revealed by the new line of sight. But the connections don’t go away when we change sight-lines, and they aren’t made any stronger by our attention to them.
That’s right. Your attention to the world is vital to you, not to the world except insofar as you are part of the world.
If we see the world as magic, that’s what reveals itself. If mundane, we get mundane.
And if both sacred and mundane, you get that richer, binocular, view.
This session seems diffuse, somehow. Feels like rambling.
That means, freely translated, “I don’t see the point you are making.”
It does.
Beyond the obvious, we are cautioning and promising that your attitude limits what you experience. Now, “limits” need not be seen as a bad thing. Limits define shapes, and shapes promote clarity of vision. Only, remember that you shape the world you see. You can’t just blame the universe for your troubles. (Well, you can; we just advise that you don’t.)
Thoreau said somewhere, “Don’t call your life hard names, it is better than you are.” I take that to mean, we don’t live up to our opportunities, one of which is our troubles.
Yes, that’s our point. Whatever you see life as, that is what it is. So if you want to change your life, don’t start by wishing that your life circumstances were different. (How could they be different, you being whatever you are?) Certainly don’t start by thinking yourself a victim. Start by living “as if” your most hopeful vision of the way life is were true. Envision the world as sacred opportunity and that’s what you get. That’s the only way you get it. Or you can look at it as a garbage pit if you choose. Garbage is mind-stuff too, and the world always has room for victims.
Getting a little acerbic, aren’t we?
Once in a while people need a boot in the tail. Those who need it will feel the truth in it.
And that is enough, this sacred and mundane morning.
Thanks, as always.