Sunday, April 29, 2018
10:15 a.m. Okay, looking at the dream as expressing internal relationships primarily focused on each other, rather than focused on either “me as internal individual of many elements” or on “me as external individual and the external world.” A third way to look at things beyond internal v. external.
Keep a light touch on the microscope knob. It is easy to jiggle the focus merely by an inattentive movement. Thus, moving back into familiar terms such as “internal v. external” may mislead you into trying to cram a new delicate perception into an accustomed way of seeing things.
So, a better way of phrasing it?
This may come out long-winded, because not previously organized for speech. After we articulate it, though, probably you or we will be able to express it surprisingly concisely. You will find that pattern frequently when feeling your way into new relationships of ideas and viewpoints.
I understand the problem. I should, having been trapped in it often enough!
You are at one and the same time:
- An individual in 3D, placed into a given time-space situation;
- A community of elements assembled to live together to form (by living) a new habit-pattern called a mind, or soul.
- One element of a higher-level being that is not perceptible in 3D but in which you live and move and have your being.
This is not a description of three different states, but of the one state looked at from three different viewpoints.
I understand. “As above, so below.” From a lower level of integration we look like a success story, I suppose, while from a higher level of integration we look like the new kid in town, still learning the ropes. And from our own 3D level, we look like somebody herding cats, or engaged in a shootout, or conducting a symphony, depending upon the cooperation of the various constituent elements.
Yes, that is one element of the situation, the fact that who and what you are can be seen in any of these three ways, or in more than one, or in all three ways, either alternately or in succession or fluctuating or tumultuously varying. That situation is one element.
Another element is that from any moment, the present is alive with potential, which means that all moments are alive with potential, always. So, the better your relations with various lives that are your strands, the greater your ability to affect positive change all up and down the line.
The defect of the quality is, we also have the potential to do equivalent amounts of damage.
Now put together just these two aspects of reality: what you are in sum, and the fact that you can change any of it.
That isn’t how we experience it, usually. Life around us seems very stable, very stubborn, and does not change merely because we want it to. Nor do we change merely by wanting to. Our own mental and physical habits are very hard to modify. Willpower alone doesn’t do it.
That is one prime advantage of 3D, after all, to resist, to not produce instant manifestation. We can produce instantly in non-3D, but it does not produce the lasting results we get by immersion in 3D. When you make patterns in water, it’s easy – and they disappear. Make patterns in solid substance – wood, steel, cement – and it is difficult, and they persist.
I grant that we can change, if only with difficulty and slowly (usually).
So then cast back to a few of the experiences you have come to take for granted, TMI-enabled experiences such as retrievals; self-generated experiences like healing “past” lives; communication between and even among many other lives in other times and places.
Yes, more magical than they sometimes appear, because it’s easy to take for granted the change of viewpoint that enabled them.
So, two elements:
- Who and what you are while in 3D, and
- time is alive everywhere.
- Add a third: Your possibilities alter according to the times you live in.
The times we live in. what you are calling the weather.
The weather. The really external conditions among which you lead your lives. There is
- internal (your intuitively contacted world), and
- the apparently external (your sensorially-contacted world, which is the same thing experienced differently), and
- this third element that may be difficult to explain, but will be obvious once we figure out how to express it.