A place to stand

[From my self-published book of transcripts, A Place to Stand]

In September, 2000, life brought me to do ten sessions in the black box at The Monroe Institute. I began that series in search of inspiration, and ended it with a new sense of life’s possibilities. What I received – and what I have tried to pass along in the years since – was not a blueprint or a timetable but an orientation. I didn’t exactly go looking for answers, and I didn’t exactly receive answers. What I got was better than answers. I got a a new starting-point, a place to stand.

A Place to Stand

The ten sessions, seen as a whole, outlined a world with very different rules than those commonly believed in. It goes more or less like this:

Everything is connected

Reality is not divided. Energy and matter are not disconnected, but are extensions of each other. Everything affects everything else, not only in space, but backward and forward in time.

All times exist

Past, present and future coexist and interact. An inner dynamic connects us to others in other times and places. We can learn to make that connection conscious.

Physical and more than physical

The other side is here, always, as strange and as normal as anything in the physical world, and as close. We are non-physical as well as physical. Our lives here in physical-matter reality may be seen either as “real” (which in practice usually means what-you-see-is-what-you-get) or as “only a play” (which quickly becomes “nothing really matters”). Both ways of seeing our lives are somewhat true, somewhat mistaken. The physical and non-physical apparently continuously interact, forming a feedback loop. We create possibilities, somehow, by how we live. That’s why life matters.

Our limits

Any given era is shaped by the possibilities and limitations of what its people can experience. Thus ideas invisibly govern the world. I got the sense that there are at least three ways to experience the physical and non-physical world as one connected entity: by direct connection, as in ancient Egypt; by faith, as in medieval Europe; or by reasoning, which is most natural to us in our time. If that is true, if our “modern” way to life depends upon our reasoning things out, so be it. This is not the Age of Direct Connection nor the Age of Faith. But if science is our way, it is going to have to learn how to manipulate energies in ways that we have forgotten, but can recover.

Learning to communicate

We are living in the first days of radio, extending our range of experience by learning to use our new crystal headsets. Better communication with our non-physical components helps us to establish stable relationships among ourselves, which allows us to create something that can endure. We are each communities of different frequencies, and similar frequencies can communicate. It occurred to me, in editing this record, that when we get a sudden inexplicable knowing, it may be because we are in touch with others. (How we define the connection doesn’t much matter. We may think of those others as “past lives,” or as other parts of a group soul, or as merely others with whom we share a close resonance. Regardless, the experience of the connection matters much more than its definition.The use of the magical ritual of building the crystal around ourselves would be worth someone’s exploration, to see if it is an image and a practice peculiar to me, or universally applicable.)

How we shape our lives

What we concentrate on, we activate. We can look on our lives from “upstairs” or from inside, or we can learn to alternate those viewpoints. We are much more than we usually think. We are packed with more than we dream of. We need to widen our sense of what we are. How do we learn to extend? Surely, by extending. There are two ways to improve communication with the other side. One involves the sort of internal travel described here. The other involves external travel to sacred places. Either kind of travel – or a combination or alternation of both – has its uses.

The future

We have the keys to the candy store. We have the tools with which to reshape ourselves. The sessions produced a vision describing the next two stages of human development. Whether that vision is accurate remains to be seen. We won’t live long enough, in our current lifetimes, to see firsthand. But, we don’t need to. It is enough to know where we are, and what our possibilities are.