Tuesday, April 29, 2025
3:40 a.m. We were talking about consciousness, but that was a couple of mornings ago, and I have since completed that journal book and don’t have it right here. I suppose you can remember where we were. Jon? Dr. Jung?
The central concept is that consciousness of the 3D world of time-slices is not additive but subtractive. To live in the world, you must concentrate on one time, one place. Centering, though, may be looked at equally rightly as blocking out the periphery. Let’s see if we can come up with an image or analogy that will provide a gestalt recognition, rather than attempting only a sequential – logical – understanding.
- All reality is emanated from a higher-order reality of which we know little.
- Everything in this reality (non-3D as well as 3D) shares the properties of the higher-order reality of which it was made.
- Let’s use the concept of densification in an unusual context, see if that clarifies our view. In this scheme, our level of reality proceeds from the least concentrated to the most concentrated.
- Hence: Undifferentiated aether (the essence of everything at this level) -> separation into 3D and non-3D -> 3D continuing the process: -> gas -> liquid -> solid.
- But remember, every physical (3D) substance includes a non-physical (non-3D) component, and thus we see a progression by kingdom, as in the old scheme, only, in effect, reversed for our purposes. That is, the mineral kingdom’s concentration is less than the plant kingdom’s, which is less than the animal’s, which is less than the human.
- The human level begins the return from the densest, most concentrated, upward toward the whole again; hence, the next step up from human concentrated consciousness is the angelic kingdom, which, like the human, is a mixture of elements.
- By this densification scheme you can see that increased concentration is – like most things – a two-edged sword. One gains and loses.
- Looking more closely, this shows that states of consciousness differ by kingdoms, as we have always said. The mineral kingdom’s consciousness is not individual but is not non-existent either, and as you go up or down the chain of being, you see progressions.
- Even within human consciousness, you see the same thing. Everyone, even babies who are unaware that they are in any way separated from their surroundings, enjoys a basic flow of energy. As one grows, the awareness of being one with the world decreases; awareness of being individual increases.
- Special states (autism, for one) provide special experiences of life, some readily communicable, many not. Deliberately achieved states of meditation or awareness of oneness also provide special experience, this time voluntarily. But even states of bliss are not unmixed blessings except in that they are seen as such, because desired. Every increase in concentration – even if it is concentration on awareness – is a step farther from the original universal (relatively unconscious) awareness.
- That seems paradoxical, but again, movement in any one direction is necessarily movement away from other directions.
You don’t think of yogis as striving to attain the same view of the world as mountains have, say, or oceans or clouds.
Nor is it the same. There is every difference between simplicity that has never changed and simplicity that has been achieved by incorporating and overcoming complexity.
I can’t understand how it can have taken us 50 minutes to go only this far. It has flowed smoothly.
Doesn’t matter. This is a beginning. Call it “densification,” perhaps. It is necessary that people begin to understand that “consciousness” and “altered states of consciousness” are not what they tend to think they are.
I have an impression of having gone over this many years ago, though not so clearly.
Reiteration is a valid technique. Every time you step into the river, it is a different you, a different river, although equally it is the same you, the same river. Retracing your steps is not lost motion.
All right, well, our thanks as always.