Intuitive Linked Communication (ILC)

Saturday, July 7, 2018

A moment to describe what just happened, then back to the council room, I hope.

I lay down with sleep mask on and assumed the eagle, flew up to the council room in a tree, shifted to a point of awareness, and when I got the Jessica Williams piano tune to stop playing in my mental background, I was back in the calm space I experienced at the Discovery program. I tried to talk to my council, and found it hard to stay there. The temptation to give in to sleep was strong. Judith Pennington had explained that this sleepiness was delta waves, overcoming the alpha bridge that allowed continuing consciousness of such states. Her advice was to bring in some sensual experience, to reinforce the alpha bridge. So by pressing my fingertips against the bed, envisioning myself as pressing them against the tabletop, I held on. But it was difficult rather than easy, and I realized that this process, writing sitting up with eyes open, gave me the sensualization I need – as long experience demonstrates.

So here I am at the desk again.

Now, gentlemen and ladies of the council, let me bring my awareness back among you. What is it that I realized, and realized I would lose if I continued to try to do it the ordinary shamanic way?

You would lose the whole proceedings, for one thing. You were thinking of yourself as the executive officer of the ship, or alternatively as the most junior officer, invited to speak first so that his opinion would not be inhibited by prior expressed opinions from his superiors.

Yes, so I was. I don’t even know what should be on the agenda.

No, but you’re excellent at listening, despite what you and others sometimes think.

I’m willing to listen, anyway.

If you begin to visualize our sessions differently, they will of course change correspondingly.

Is that in our best interest?

We like the “our.” Yes, it is, because you are at a new stage, a point reinforced when you listened to tapes of yourself from more than a dozen years ago.

All right. Should I give over to you?

You can’t really do it, and it wouldn’t be good if you could do it. But you can be guided.

Well, that’s the name of the game, isn’t it, guidance?

It is if that is what you accept, if that is what you want. It could be other things.

Such as?

Pure information to assist you on a pre-determined course, for one. It isn’t for us to choose for you, though we may set out the choices.

In setting them out you may make my choices all but pre-determined.

You might think so, but free will is more to us than a buzzword or a sham. The goal is for you to choose. What you choose is not nearly so central.

Then let’s go about it in a different way. What is the most valuable thing you can offer me today? How do we proceed?

You don’t yet quite realize it, but this change in procedure is itself a new departure.

Immediately, I think, “I’ve got to share this with Dirk and Jim.”

That is part of your function, networking awarenesses and understandings.

So, today’s agenda?

Your long-held desire is closer contact with other parts of yourself. “Past lives,” at first.

Yes, and the difficulty has been (1) knowing, rather than visualization, which makes verification impossible, and (2) no over-arching concept to help me get a sense of it.

No over-arching concept? What have we been doing, all these years?

Clearing ground in preparation, I would say.

Yes, true enough – but it is somewhat staggering to think that you really have no idea.

Why should that come as a surprise to you? You know my mind from the inside, presumably.

Well, yes and no. The effective points of contact aren’t the same as the sum total of theoretical points of contact.

You mean, it never came up. But even that surprises me. How could I be aware of it for nearly two weeks, and you not? Am I getting bad information here, or making bad interpretations or something?

Who you are is one thing. What you think is another, and what you feel is yet another.

Sort of like Bob Monroe envisioning the mental and emotional bodies separate from the physical and energy bodies.

It was a way to experience different aspects differently, yes. Well, your mental categories come to us in the context of where you are at any given moment.

It still doesn’t explain why you wouldn’t know where I was or am mentally.

Let’s drop the subject.

Really?

It can’t be productive. Let’s move instead to a useful structure for you to use as scaffolding, in place of previous scaffolding which, we see, has evaporated in the light of recent experience. You had flirted with this new awareness in Luigi and Thomas’ class, but it did not hit home until you sat down to work last month.

I have been thinking of 3D-me as part of All-D me, an emanation from an All-D Sam.

Good enough as far as it goes.

Yes, but when I came to consider past lives, etc., where do they and I fit together? I may be a ring comprising strands that are other lives, and I in toto may be a strand for other lives, but that now seems both too simple and too complicated.

The difficulty surfaced when you began to see yourself as a point of awareness.

Yes, so it did.

So who is this around the table?

Precisely.

All right. But you do realize? The difficulty you are experiencing is due to incongruities in an accepted framework, and will change if we change framework. You are still you, think of yourself how you will.

Still, a new scaffolding ought to be useful.

We’ll see.

Anything to make my new acquisition more permanent, and more useful?

We can do that. Consider first, who is it around this non-3D table?

Various members of my guys upstairs, I presume.

Suppose you couldn’t presume that. Then whom?

Past lives, I assume. Any part of my total self that I am not consciously aware of.

You see – or rather, feel – the problem?

I am beginning to. If I do the defining, I cannot transcend my own conceptual limitations. So why don’t you do it for me? That’s more or less what I’m asking.

But this requires thought, and a fresh mind.

I’m still suspicious of how you can not know what I know. Your preliminary statement strikes me as doubletalk.

We are aware of it. Perhaps we can fold that explanation into the new scaffolding, whatever it turns out to be. Remember, from the beginning we have turned out to be other than what you expected – which is the same as saying, than how you had conceptualized us.

Yeah, I hear your wisecrack: “Remarkable, given that we may not exist.”

Not entirely a wisecrack. Enough for now.

[Later]

Your move, guys. [Vague visuals and associations from the visuals. A round table, Camelot, the musical, reflections of the faces on the tabletop]

Mistake to think of them as individuals – more like representatives of qualities. So, Hemingway in his fifties, writing (the picture on my wall) is more certain aspects than him as a package. Not packages at the table, so much as personifications, qualities. By listening, we can absorb those qualities for the moment. The longer we listen, the longer we borrow the qualities. At some point they are also your own.

You are a point of awareness surrounded by influences and resonances. Not one individual and other individuals though that is how it seems. One focus of consciousness among all others. You personify what you are, and thus represent those qualities for others. They don’t exactly experience you as an individual but more, your qualities that resonate with them.

But – relatives and friends we connect with?

That’s different. Compound beings are both individual and yet representative of qualities.

We interact differently depending on if we seek out (for conversation) the individual or the qualities (for guidance).

That’s roughly correct.

So the mistake is in seeing ourselves and others as too individual.

As exclusively individual, and as too particularly individual. Frank and Margaret did not share lives in Spain, but they are connected to those who did. Drawing on the connection, they draw upon the lessons and wisdom of those lives; that doesn’t make them “past lives” in the way people think of past lives.

You’re going to have to make it clearer than that.

Give us a clearer conduit.

All right, delta was flooding up, only now I know to fight it. Forcing myself back awake may do it.

You have new tools and can learn to employ them. But it may take time.

Still., it is a new tool, that knowledge. I’ll have to tell Judith I’m grateful for it.

So now when you envision yourself as a point of awareness, think not of self as a point in a vast cave or bag or total, but as the entire container whose

Geode!

Good image. Your awareness extends to the whole thing, but you are one concentrated part of it. You can extend without changing.

Still fighting waves of sleep. There is much more to get if I can learn to fight it off, isn’t there?

You don’t need an answer to that.

No, I don’t. But I need a way to remain here without struggle.

This can be part of your next novel, once you master it.

That doesn’t help me now, though.

Still you got what you need. You may have to work it a bit – and realize that an understanding that suits you won’t necessarily suit everybody.

I’m fighting these waves of sleep, and I think just pausing may do it. But it is a struggle.

What comes up?

The council room,, the delegates – just an approximation, an image, a visualization of what really is.

Do you need a visualization?

It would help, I think.

Will the geode help?

Colin talked of waves of sleep in The Outsider, I think, or in Religion and the Rebel.

Yes, it isn’t effort, it is transcending energies inflowing, that brings the delta.

I don’t think geode will quite work.

It could, if you remember the split geode Dave Garland brought you long ago, filled not with space but with crystals.

Maybe.

Now flirt with sleep – with hand in the air, maybe, to wake you up – and see if there is more.

A bit from Colombo – the diver’s car.

[Then as I held myself on the edge, my hands were filled with energy. I turned them toward each other, and they were buzzing, so to speak. I thought, healing hands. I used the energy experimentally, and I’m sure it’s what I need. At this point I had a headache, as I have had at other times at the edge of sleep. I wrote: “Need to release the energies, I think,” and just as I wrote that, the CD from Discovery ended, and I stood up and walked around, awake, if a little spacy.]

 

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

What goes on when I’m ready to communicate and there’s nobody on the line? I sometimes tell people as a joke, I expect someday I’ll get “Your call is very important to us…” but I do wonder why sometimes instead of connections, we get blankness.

Timing. You don’t fully realize it yet, but sometimes the wheels have to mesh. You continue to think we are freer of context here than we are. For that matter, you continue to think it is a matter of “here” even though in another category of your mind you know that our “here” and yours are the same “here,” only with a different set of dimensions accented.

You are saying that the non-3D and 3D are both part of the All-D and therefore are different aspects of the same thing, and therefore are closer than tied together.

Slowing down will help both comprehension and expression.

Okay. [Pause.]

I get that astrology measures the timing of the forces affecting 3D life, and therefore non-3D life. The non-3D aspect of reality –. Oh sure. The non-3D is tied to us as far as we are concerned.

The aspects of the non-3D that you can experience (or contact; same thing here) are those that are in relation to you. So, you might as well look at it as if the non-3D were as affected by 3D reality as you are. That isn’t really a very complete way to look at it, but it will lead you toward something productive.

So, the 3D is affected by what we might call objective conditions: weather, the interaction of vast impersonal forces with our personal lives. And the part of the non-3D that we interact with is, by definition, in effect a time-bound part of non-3D.

That is twisted, mostly by linguistic difficulties, but yes, that’s the idea. That’s why “on the other side, there is no time” is so misleading as to be worse than erroneous. The other side as you can experience it is always going to be in relation to you yourselves, and you are always going to be enmeshed in a 3D moment. Hence, someone in the 1800s connecting to ancient Egypt, say, is going to experience them through a filter of the 1800s, as you will experience them through a filter of the 2000s. Ancient Egypt isn’t changed, but the equation is changed because your end of it changes as the clock ticks.

Well, say that’s so, does that explain why I can be ready to communicate, and you on your end not?

But that isn’t what happens. You in 3D are never a stable unmoving platform. You always move with the present-moment, and each present moment is slightly different, as astrology charts.

“Charts” being a verb, here.

Yes. The vast impersonal forces may appear to you like a hurricane, but they much more often are a mild persistent breeze, with little dust devils and cross-currents, etc. The weather, like the time, is always in motion, even if one moment is identical to the preceding moment.

That is, even if one is identical to the next, they are still each one different, distinct.

That’s right. So you, being creatures of time, cannot stand still. Do try to express what you just got.

Let’s say, each of us is a part of every moment we exist in; we are a vital piece of that moment. You couldn’t take us out of it without leaving a hole in the fabric. I was born in 1946. From 1946 until my last moment, I belong to that time; I am a piece of the jigsaw puzzle, and it wouldn’t be complete without me. And, obviously, this applies to each of the billions of people who are in 3D on earth at the same time.

You in 3D are part of the landscape of those moments. You are objective facts, say. Abraham Lincoln is a known fact, like Queen Victoria or Napoleon or anyone famous – but the same is true for all the unknown men and women who lived in that century. You are all integral to the fabric, and of course as 3D creatures you are also non-3D creatures tied (from your point of view) to that time. You are each part of the objective fabric of every present moment you exist in. If you in 3D are affected by the weather, then by extension you in non-3D are affected by the 3D-you which was affected by the weather.

And so in a sense we are transducers of the vast impersonal forces.

How else could it be?

And therefore we are affected by the non-3D as well as the 3D conditions, and in turn affect them.

Same statement.

So we are impacted by 3D conditions, and decide how we will react, what we wish to be, and our resultant being is what translates to the non-3D.

To the All-D, rather. Don’t go separating the 3D and non-3D to any great extent, it will only cause confusion.

 

Friday, June 1, 2018

We are interrelating private and public worlds, you see; personal and impersonal forces; free will and circumstance. You in 3D create your reality but not anybody else’s reality. We know that seems paradoxical, and, as always, paradox is a sign that something is being misunderstood somewhere.

Yesterday I had a thought that I figured applies, us acting out of character/

The insight was less an insight than a specific application of what we had been discussing. You realized, “That’s what is going on sometimes,” and yes, it is, sometimes.

You are a bundle of threads in a specific time-place. You are spending your life making decisions as to what you wish to be, or to become, or to continue to be, or to cease to be. This is how you create your character, your bedrock essence. By the end of your life, you have modified the elements you began with, and have molded them into a functioning unit, or haven’t. Either way, you don’t do it in a vacuum. You function amid weather. If we can come up with the proper analogy or metaphor or image, we can make this very clear. Otherwise we will have to hint at it with words.

The image we seek would show the interaction between the individual and the weather that results sometimes in the individual acting “out of character,” so that he or others say he “wasn’t himself.” We will use words and perhaps the image will emerge.

Your life in 3D seems to you internal and external; intuitive and sensory; self and other; subjective and objective. You do create your reality in what you accept and respond to; you don’t in what exists despite your wishes, or what resists your efforts. Surely this is clear by now. Well, then, what happens when inner world and outer world interact, as happens every moment?

I get an image of a whirlpool, but that is too smooth; a hurricane, but that is too ordered; tornado (closer) only too violent.

A swirling interaction, though, yes. Continuing, fluctuating, gusting. That’s close to the image we want.

Not destructiveness, so much as an overwhelming disparity of force, so that the individual must somehow adapt to the vast impersonal forces, for the forces are not going to adapt to it. Storm winds, maybe.

There are places in the world where the wind blows unceasingly from one direction for days, weeks, at a time. There are places where the weather fluctuates moment by moment. There are power spots and centers of calm, places of danger and places of safety. The same individual would experience itself differently in different conditions.

You are affected by the weather even strictly physically (whatever that means). Barometric pressure, heat, humidity, etc., have their effect on the physical organism which means, as well, on the mental / emotional life. Your minds and emotions are not independent of the body. How could they be, and what sense would it make to even have a body, if they were?

There is more we could say, if only our image served better. Weather isn’t bad, but it is too impersonal.

Aha, another flash. It doesn’t include the sense of good and evil forces.

Yes, that’s true. it doesn’t make sense to speak of good or evil in connection with weather. The hurricane winds that destroy an island, or the tornado that tears up a town, are not evil, merely destructive in effect. They do not call up the evil within a person, and that is what we have not yet been able to get across.

What about some environmental factor like a shrill noise, or an annoying static buzz, or something else that riles anyone in the vicinity?

That is closer to it, in a way. The stress here is on the cause-and-effect interaction between “objective, outer” forces and anyone’s “subjective, inner” response.

Music! Ambient music that is either raucous, or soothing, or exciting, or inspiring, or – any of the range of effects music can produce.

Yes. That is a good image, and we can begin with that, next time. Excellent.

You don’t wish to continue, even if our hour is up?

The intervening time will serve to clarify and suggest. It will be easier to continue.

 

Saturday, June 2, 2018

Sometimes the music can drive you mad. Sometimes its sheer volume and intensity and unremitting persistence will beat down resistance, and people do things they don’t even approve of, or don’t remember in other “moods” as they are called.

The world isn’t really divided between good guys and monsters. The difference between the best and the worst is very little, and has more to do with awareness (or lack of it) than with soundness or rottenness. But that is why it is so important to see the intricate and unbreakable connection between inner world and outer, between individual and environment, between one’s own sails and rigging and the weather. We wish we could make it clearer why evil exists and people who do evil, and even intend evil, approve of evil exist, but “evil people” per se do not exist.

A lot of tangled definitions to be remembered, if we are to get and hold your meaning.

Too many, we sometimes think, but that is why educating you is a process rather than an event. Until you come to live these understandings, so that you do not have to make a conscious effort to see in a certain way, you can’t hold it all. However, we can itemize, from time to time, and unpredictably some of you will get it at any given moment.

• That we speak of evil doesn’t mean we accept it as an absolute. We are defining within your perceptions.
• We distinguish between the doing of evil and the being
• You are, remember, communities practicing cohabitation in the process of becoming an entity larger than the comprising threads.
• We speak of background noise, or music, or weather, or vast impersonal forces, and implicit in citing them is the fact of their relationship to you as 3D / non-3D beings.

Now put it together, as best you can. Think your way into it; feel your way into it. You have to be in a certain frame of mind for this to be real and not merely words. If it is just words to you, you will have to wait until it comes alive, and there is little you can do to speed that day. Intend, perhaps. Persevere in intent. Live your ignorance without denying it. Travel hopefully, knowing that intent will be rewarded.

Is that what Jesus meant by “knock and it shall be opened to you”?

He didn’t promise that it would open in thirty seconds. What he was saying was, Righteous persistence wins reward.

My favorite line from the I Ching.

Gee, do you suppose that means something, that the line appealed and gave hope?

Very funny. It is interesting to me – looking over my own shoulder – how often I think in terms of Jesus’s words, even though I don’t sit and read them to keep them in mind.

You did the reading as you did the yearning and the intending. You know the saying you recently came across, “No seed ever sees the flower.” You are on the flowering end of your life, benefitting from the planting and tending of the seed so many decades ago.

Sometimes I feel like, “Well, can’t be long now,” and other times like, “If we wrap it up now, it’ll be something of a waste, it took me so long to get here.” Either way, a hopeful journey, in retrospect. I might have lived it smoother if I had had consistent faith that it would all work out.

That may be said by anybody. The point is to set your intent and live it, for what you intend will determine your possibilities.

If people will sit with what they have been given, here and in their lives, connections will occur and will seat in. If they will not do that, all this will be the equivalent of a novel or an instruction book in how to write a screenplay: words, true words, but not transformation. And transformation is the name of the game. Not, taking a thing and turning it into something else, but assisting the seed in its process of dying to itself so that it may become the flowering.

 

This is pretty long, but I think some people may benefit from overhearing another person’s extraordinary experience. A reader (whose privacy I protect by leaving off his name) recently emailed me asking  if I would be willing to ask questions on his behalf, and added:

“Also, you mentioned on your “Contact” page that thing you like hearing most is firsthand experiences. If you want, I can tell you the story of a certain jaw-dropping mystical experience I had which totally defied the “laws” of “reality” and cemented for me a growing inner knowledge of Unity and my own multidimensional nature.”

I answered that I’d be glad to ask, and would be very interested in his experience.

[From him]

My experience. Sorry, but you’re getting the long version. Don’t know how else to tell it. Here goes.

Well, to start, this is the only time something like this has ever happened to me. A peak experience. I’m tempted to call it “once-in-a-lifetime” but avoid it because to do so may make it true. The story sounds a little paranoid-schizophrenic at times, but all I can say is, no, that’s not it. Through my profession and degrees, I’m fairly qualified to say that, as qualified as anyone is to judge their own sanity. (Though I gather that such officialdom is of little consequence to you… I can’t remember if it was Jane or Seth who called academic degrees “badges of ritualized ignorance.”)

Anyway.

2 nights before: In meditation, I try to contact my connection to the divine, the “sacred inner heart.” I don’t or can’t feel anything, and I feel frustrated, hurt, and rejected.

1 night before: For the only time in my life, and after about a year of craning my neck up to look on a near-nightly basis, I see a UFO in the sky. (Well, could be our own government, but whatever. It was not plane, helicopter, or drone. 3 lights flying up extremely high in triangle formation, each pulsing its light in unison.)

The day of: I go to a stand-up comedy event with my friend. I talk to the girl stationed at the front to admit people and tell her I’ve already bought my ticket, I selected Will Call, I ask her where Will Call is. Even though this is her whole job, she’s never heard of Will Call. So our conversation is like: “WIll call.” “Will call?” “Yeah, will call. Where’s will call?” “Will call? You’re saying that you will call?” “No, to pick up the tickets: will call.” “Will call? Your name is Will Call?” On and on like that, a real Who’s On First scenario. So we end up saying back and forth to each other the words “Will call” at least 10 times.

Also, on the way back from the event, I forget to put my lights on. So gradually as it gets darker more and more other cars on the road notice and are flashing me. For some reason I run through every possible reason for this except the most obvious one. So we’re both driving home like dumbasses going “They’re definitely trying to communicate something! They’re trying to give us a message! What are they trying to communicate? Do we have a cat on the roof?”

(I only piece it together after the fact that the above 4 events all seem to be a big drum-roll/ countdown with the message: “You’re about to get a return call from the universe.”)

Now, at this point I’m home. 10pm ish. Walking around outside by myself, in the area around my neighborhood, listening to a Seth audiobook. (As I am wont to do.)

The inner side of the experience is this, and this is going on throughout the whole outer side to follow: In the Seth book, he gives directions to contact your higher self. Imagine yourself as a single cell in a larger being, imagine sending that larger being energy and receiving energy back from the being. I do this, and wow, I feel overwhelmed with this feeling of divine love. Never have felt such an upswell of unconditional love or positive emotion of any kind without an apparent objective stimulus. So, feeling this, I almost lose touch with my surroundings, so I’m laying on the grass shirtless (it was a hot night), just basking in this cosmic love. I would probably look quite foolish if a neighbor were to walk by, but I’m not in the mood to care.

I continue my walk, on this emotional high. And in the sky I think I see a UFO. Not sure, but it’s suspicious. I have the feeling I’m really about to meet some ETs, so now my elation is mixed with real fear, because at this moment it seems like an immanent possibility. And I quickly realize that the thought of actually meeting an ET now is quite scary and overwhelming. Well, no flying saucer materializes, so I continue my walk. But still I’m keyed up with this mix of divine love and mystical fear. And I have the sense that something is telepathically trying to communicate with me. Of course, every other second I’m thinking “No, that’s crazy” but I’m persistently getting that impression and I’m communicating back. With what exactly, I’m not sure, but mostly I think I had it framed as “ETs”, physical or non-.

This maybe-real telepathic communication continues, I still feel on the edge of something contacting me, I’m on the lookout, and I come to an area on the path where I have a view of a high treeline at the edge of some woods, about 70 feet away. I see a small, bright, yellowish light floating high in the trees! In a position where I can’t see any natural reason for a light to be. I’m extremely excited at this point, and I telepathically say something like “Are you really there?” And instantly when I say that, a second light appears next to the first, a gust of wind comes toward me from the direction of the two lights, and as it reaches me and whooshes by all the crickets beneath my feet start singing. I feel the presence of something. I telepathically agree with whoever this is, “Let’s meet back at my house and talk.” As I start walking back I think, “Holy shit, can this be real?” And then instantly after thinking that, two bats swoop down straight for me and circle my head twice, inches away from my face. On the short 5-minute walk back to my house, directly on the path I always take, animal after animal is stationed like a breadcrumb trail. A deer. A cat. A fox.

I get to my backyard and I’m thinking, Wow, Holy shit, the ship is coming. I’m expecting my telepathic guest, whoever or whatever it is. Feeling connected but also some fear because, holy shit what’s happening. The sky is mostly clear, except I notice a bit in the distance a medium-sized cloud, wide enough to cover the area taken up by around 4-6 houses. This “cloud” seems to make a beeline for me sitting there on the grass in my backyard looking up. It seems to come over to me fast, then pauses directly above me/my house for 15 minutes. As this is going on, there’s all this wind and what feels like “energy.” The cloud is stationed above me now, and I clearly see throughout the whole thing flashing lights. All throughout the cloud, as if it were filled with hundreds of fireflies. At this point, I literally think “I must be dreaming.” It’s the only time in my life I have believed it was more likely that I was dreaming than that what I was witnessing was reality. I check, and nope, I’m definitely awake, extremely awake.

After about 15 minutes, the cloud starts moving again and flies off fairly quickly, like it came. I then tried to channel whoever or whatever this was that I was communicating with, because why not. Normally I feel a lot of self-doubt with channeling and it feels like I’m making it up. This time, I got into a trance and felt I was just being fed one word at a time, not knowing what the next would be, not knowing at all if what I was saying was actually forming real sentences and coherent thoughts. Later, upon transcribing, indeed it made sense.

Of all the elements of this whole experience, the channeling part is what I put the least stock in, partly because the resulting material feels a bit too generic for my credulity, but I’ll just give one quote from it for completeness:

“Your selves are loved, protected, and fed by the grace of “us over here” all the time–meaning really only an army of what is essentially You. Yet we are alive and active in deeper parts of yourself: loving, healing, bringing the light. I can’t stress enough the importance of generating for God, or what you could call the Most Whole Overself. This being is at once rapidly evolving and eternally One, and you are reflections of that. Take the time to notice the ways in which your body generates physical manifestations such as touch, taste, hearing. And you will know what God feels in all the parts of His–Its–soul. We are essentially one and yet many. Your continuous self is continuous with All That Is. Never is there need to be frightened for you are whole and insoluble to the everlasting nth degree!”

Oh and I should mention. Ever since that night (about 8 months ago), starting the day after and continuing up to the present, I’ve had a new sense installed. Don’t know what else to call it.

Basically, every time my mind/heart is in a place of peace and stillness, I get a warm pleasant pressure/tingling sensation in my 6th chakra/ 3rd eye area. The more of an intensely peaceful state, the more intense this feeling gets. On the medium-to-high end, it is not subtle in the slightest. It’s unmistakable, like to the point of being the strongest, most noticeable sensation in the whole body/mind.

The way I interpret this “new sense” is something like a consciousness frequency level indicator. As if I said to the universe: “Could you please give me a concrete way to surmise moment by moment whether I’m in the right state of mind for my goal of awakening?” And that’s how I experience it, like a constant feedback system to let me know whether I’m on the beam. When it’s active, I’m instantly 50% more calm and focused, and any anxiety I had been feeling disappears. Sometimes I will intentionally “turn it on” (which I have taught myself how to do) during a therapy session with a client, and it seems to instantly make me more calm, present, and helpful.

For me, this “new sense” is the most evidentiary element of the whole experience. A parting gift from the universe. If it weren’t for me continuing to experience it on a daily basis, I probably would have written off the whole experience by now as overactive imagination.

[I responded as follows]:

This was worth waiting for! A couple of comments first on your remarkable experience. (May I share it with my lists, omitting your name?)

• I only piece it together after the fact

The fact that you only pieced it together after the fact ought to help reassure you that it happened to you, not by you.

• … Seth …. Imagine yourself as a single cell in a larger being, imagine sending that larger being energy and receiving energy back from the being.

I can think of no better way to destroy the obstructive assumption that you would somehow have to overcome distance, would have to “go somewhere” in order to contact your higher self. And that it worked, you can not be in doubt.

• … the thought of actually meeting an ET now is quite scary and overwhelming.

The difference between daydreaming, or thinking of something in the abstract, and confronting the possibility for real. Very graphic and concise description. MY anticipation of change in my upcoming Gateway program, in 1992, was accompanied by a bit of dread, as well, which a psychic friend of mine assured me was actually a good sign, that something within me was worried as to what might happen to it as a result of the change. That is, it was a sign that something inside knew full well that it wouldn’t be a case of “nothing happened.”

• This maybe-real telepathic communication

Yeo, that’s the way it works. You can’t be sure it is real, you can’t dismiss it out of hand. You have to go with maybe. Another indicator of a non-imaginary and non-normal experience.

• I’m expecting my telepathic guest, whoever or whatever it is.

You couldn’t know what to expect, but you – something within you that couldn’t be denied – did expect.

• … it feels like I’m making it up.

“Probably I’m just making it up” is a phrase heard so often in Monroe debriefs! It has become an in joke, really, it is heard so often. I have come to think that the phrase is a sure sign that something real happened, because the person saying it can’t deny that something happened, but had no handle on it, and knows only that s/he didn’t deliberately invent it, but is not ready to claim it as an actual, valid, occurrence.

• … channeling part is what I put the least stock in, partly because the resulting material feels a bit too generic for my credulity…

In 30 years of experience, I find that one never really knows at the time to what degree an experience is “mine” and to what degree “other.” Once I ceased trying to be sure of what one could never be sure about, it released a brake on my ability to communicate.  Given that you and whoever you communicate with are sharing a temporary joint mind, the results are going to come out in a flavor somewhat you (because after all it has to proceed through your linguistic centers, except for images) and somewhat other (in that the content will reveal itself to be other than you would have expected, though that recognition of otherness may not occur until after you are done communicating).

One thing for sure: Don’t judge the content by your expectations either before or after the communication. There is no reason for you to assume that a message will conform to your expectations, and plenty of reasons to be unsurprised when it doesn’t.

• … had a new sense installed.

That’s a very good way to think of it. Trust it and cherish it, and it would be as well to have a fiduciary attitude toward it, something between reverence and stewardship. It is, after all, what you wanted.

• … consciousness frequency level indicator

Not only a valuable sense, but a concise and helpful name for it, very non-woowoo.

• …continuing to experience it on a daily basis

“Use it or lose it.”

• I probably would have written off the whole experience by now as overactive imagination.

Good that you don’t. It will help move you to another world, with wider boundaries and greater possibilities, a la Thoreau’s statement in Waldon.

[From him]: After saying it was okay to share, he added this comment on my answers :

• Once I ceased trying to be sure of what one could never be sure about, it released a brake on my ability to communicate.

Recently, thanks to the Rita books, I have made a big step in this direction. Getting it that “this side” and “the other side” are One changed things for me. I had imagined channeling/contacting spirits being a major feat requiring superhuman psychic discipline. In light of your/Rita’s work I realized there’s no separation, everyone is right here, closer than my nose. No more difficult than picking up a phone and listening to the voice of whomever I call.

Also, reading between the lines it appeared to me that your reception style does not involve hearing words pop clearly into your head, and so once I applied this to my own attempts, I realized that the access was right there waiting, it just wasn’t in the form I had anticipated.

 

Friday, March 16, 2018

All we are doing in this small series is coordinating two ways of seeing the world, so that they may illumine each other.

The large-scale view is “What is the structure of life as we know it; what is The Big Picture?”

The small-scale view – not in any way less important – is, “What is my part in the grand scheme of things?”

One says, What is the overall picture. The other says, How do I make sense of what I experience locally.

The point is, we want this to be intellectually satisfying (and challenging) and no less emotionally engaging. We are for building the castle in the air and putting the foundation under it, a la Thoreau. It has much less to do with any of you at this time than on what is to come.

You are providing us with a way to see that will clear the way for new perceptions, hence new experiences. This developmental process will broaden with time beyond what we here and now experience. And a part of that rejiggering is to call our attention to the living elements of the old mythos.

Well – that is one way of looking at it. Let’s put it this way. Seth’s major impact upon society will be the casual and effective undermining of the contemporary position of meaninglessness. His work – which, notice, has yet to reach its full effectiveness, being barely 50 years on the scene – came at a time when the decay of the old mythos was clear to some (not yet to most) but no way forward was indicated. Seth’s intent and effect was to help clear the ground by creating an intellectual path forward. You see?

I think you are saying that Seth’s work was for the people whose intuition led them to recognize the truth, but that most people will take much longer to appreciate what the early adopters got intuitively.

Like Carl Jung’s work, or the work of any true pioneer, it is mostly unintelligible at first, because people necessarily come to it while functioning from their precedent assumptions, which makes it difficult to apprehend or incorporate anything sufficiently different. Only with the passage of time does some of that new influence move into the culture, hence giving new people a vantage point closer to that of the pioneer like Jung, or like Picasso in art, say. The slow diffusion of the innovator’s influence makes it easier for later-comers to see what is there to be seen.

Necessarily, therefore, the innovator’s initial influence will be limited, in two senses.

• in the number of people who can apprehend it,
• in the amount of his innovation they can apprehend.

Initially, only a few will be able to follow, and those few will be unlikely to see the accomplishment in its full extent. There is nothing wrong with this; it is how innovation diffuses without unnecessary upheaval. Note we said without unnecessary upheaval. That is not that same as saying, without any upheaval at all.

But when someone comes in and accomplishes something, you may be sure of two things. It will not have been finished, and it will not be continued in exactly the same form as it was begun. So Jung said, “Thank God I am Jung and not a Jungian,” and Seth would have said something similar.

Understand this well. Imitation is the opposite of innovation. To imitate one who has brought something new is not flattery and is not contribution. To continue the work, it is necessary to continue in the spirt of the original, which was fearless exploring of the path which presented itself. Jung’s path, Seth’s, anybody’s, will not be yours. Your path will arise out of your own humdrum boring unsatisfying puzzling life, just as everybody else’s did.

I think we have the idea.

But it is easy to lose sight of the fact, because admiration for the innovator, combined with self-deprecation and undervaluation of the familiar, may tempt you to unknowingly leave the pathless path of the explorer, and wind up instead following what seems to be the path of the admired predecessor.

So, to return to the primary point. The old mythos, call it the Age of Pisces, centered around a way of seeing the world that no longer leads forward because imitation is not pioneering. You see?

I do. The content of the Age of Pisces was an advance as long as it was a pioneering. As soon as it became an imitation of itself it began to die.

That’s a little too broad, but it will serve as orientation. The Age of Aquarius will explore a different world because it will bring new eyes to old scenes. What it will not do is bring a return to the Garden of Eden. It will not bring the events of the Apocalypse, the last battle against evil and all that. It will pose old problems and opportunities in new guise, and will pose new problems and opportunities, arising from new ways of seeing.

And – here is the nub of it; here is why we went over the sins and virtues glancingly along the way – new ways of seeing do not come about by ruthlessly discarding everything that has been seen and experienced prior to date. They come about by seeing those same things with new eyes. Note that: New eyes, but not new facts.

So, to throw away the spiritual heritage of humanity – the scriptures, the philosophies, and the unallocated wisdom, call it, that doesn’t fit into any of these structures but nonetheless has captured truth – would be not so much pioneering as imitation-by-rejection.

The Age of Aquarius is going to be much more head-centered than the Age of Pisces. Knowledge, not just belief. Does that mean it would be wise to discard what the human heart learned, these two thousand years?

At the same time, the past 500 years began a transition. What is the scientific and materialist revolution of the past 250 years but a seeking for truth outside of religious structures and strictures? What was the Protestant revolution that enabled and preceded the scientific revolution by 250 years but a seeking for truth in individual conscience rather than institutional consensus?

The dominant characteristic and the rebellious counter-characteristics are all to be accounted for, subsumed, in what is to be created, only they may be unrecognizable, in that they will be seen in a different light.

So, you see? You can’t throw out science, or materialism, or piety, or religion, or art, or poetry, or human passion or anything, if you wish to understand life and your part in life. You don’t need to be able to see ahead of time what the new mythos will  be – which is just as well, given that you wouldn’t be able to! – but you can live your truth, discovering it as you go, and this will serve you as 3D individual, and you as All-D individual, and you as collocation of strands from various epochs (who of course will change as you change) and you as part of a 3D first-tier civilization that will be the established “given” for future generations. That’s enough of a life-purpose, wouldn’t you say?

 

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

You are receiving feedback from unknown individuals, indicating that this material has been helpful to them over many years, unsuspected by you.

You mean the woman who wrote that she discovered my blog years ago.

Yes. For you and for everyone, the situation is the same: You never know the full effect of what you do; neither do you necessarily know what is your “real” work and what is “just filling the time.” The kindness you extend to a stranger – possibly only a passing smile – may be used on behalf of that person at a critical time, you can’t know. The slightest thing you do, for well or for ill, may have a great effect on another, and then who can estimate the effects of the changed other, or those changed by those who have been changed? Your opportunities to do good or evil are constant, extensive, and their effects usually veiled from your conscious 3D awareness.

Again, this is said for all to hear! There is no alibi in saying, “I am only an unimportant person who cannot change the world.” Of course you change the world! Your presence changes the world. Even if you sat in a corner all day, you would be changing the world by what you didn’t do but might have done. This fallacy of insignificance is a major crippler of potential, the “what’s-the-use” factor.

In  your day to day lives, do you want to spread disappointment or hope and confidence? Give them your case history.

Yes, I was just thinking about that, big surprise.

In late 2005, I left active participation in Hampton Roads Publishing Company and thought I was going to write a book (a book)  about healing and guidance. I got sidetracked, so I thought, into talking to Smallwood, then other specific entities, as opposed to “The Guys Upstairs” that I had gotten used to talking to over the previous dozen years or so. This was, I thought, entirely private, but I shared it with the Voyagers Mailing List, a Monroe-oriented list that I had indirectly helped create, which is a different example of the same point you’re making, come to think of it.

No reason not to mention that.

Okay. I was on a list in the early ’90s that centered on Castaneda, and got to talking about Bob Monroe. List owner Tony Sanders got interested in Monroe and created VML even before he himself came to do a Gateway.

Unintended consequences.

Very much unintended, though of course I was delighted. Your point, I take it, is that I touched Tony, Tony created VML and that list touched many, and of course Bob Monroe touched not only me and others who actually met him, but many thousands who did not.

However, stay with the obscurity theme.

So, in 2003 I had become friends with Melynn Allen, at a TMI program, and in March 2007 she emailed me that I should start a blog because that is what I was doing in effect on VML anyway. So I did, and now this morning I find that a woman I have never met has been receiving assistance from that blog which only existed because Dirk Dunning and I extended a kindness to Melynn in the 2003 program, and so on and so forth.

The theme should be clear enough. At no time did you see the importance of your day to day activity that you were not concentrating on, that you did as an overflowing of what you are. And neither did Dirk, and neither did Melynn, and neither did Tony, and neither did Bob.

And Bob was helped in crucial ways by, for example, Charles Tart. He was the only academic (so far as I know) to encourage him. He encouraged Bob Monroe when no one else in academia would have. So, anyone touched by Bob Monroe, no matter how indirectly, owes something to Charles Tart.

It is a good example. And Bob probably did not seem to Charley like the main reason for his own existence, nor the major thing he was there to accomplish. They touched, and enriched each other’s lives, and each went on to do his own life’s work, perhaps never really knowing the extent of his own effect on the other.

It is an endless chain, and any given link would have its own chains stretching in various directions. So you wrote your books and wrote your blog and even in doing what you are concentrating on, have little idea of the links connecting to links connecting to links. And this is disregarding the parts of your life you aren’t concentrating on. Friendship, family, casual meetings, remarks on Facebook, name it.

You all exist in a mostly invisible but indestructible web of relationships, and always will. As we say, the alibi of “I’m not important” does not wash. The true distinction, and it is not an important one from our view, is visible v. invisible. Each has its advantages.

To round off the theme, we should add that there is no final accounting, no end of the chains. While there is life, there are consequences, and consequences of consequences. Those who you have changed, even ever so slightly, by your good or evil actions remain changed as the starting place for their future beyond your interaction.

I get that you are saying, not that they are changed forever, but that the consequences that flow from any one such contact flow from a person who was – slightly or significantly – changed by it.

Yes. Actions have consequences, and, by the way, thoughts and intentions are as potent as overt actions, for remember these interactions take place in All-D, though you perceive them (usually) only within 3D limitations. So, even if you never meet the person again, still you did meet, and perhaps neither of you is unchanged. All the rest of your lives may be affected.

And presumably other lives to come, we being strands.

What is “past life influence” or “Karma” or ingrained tendency, if not that?

 

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

It should be clear from experience that no one’s life is lived as merely a dramatization of what s/he already is. Life is conflict of forces, and if the conflict were only exteriorization of what is there already from the past – well, how did it get there in the past?

This is just common sense, but common sense applied in an area often subject to absence of common sense, due to the prevalence of speculations, logical conclusions from inadequate premises and data, and unrecognized prejudices and preferences.

You have been on a very long guided tour of a way of seeing life that emphasized life as a working-out of existing problems, possibilities, tendencies, etc. We are now allowing the pendulum to swing to the other extreme, that of the world as you do not exemplify or animate it.

I can see the polarity, though I can’t say I gave it any thought.

We were busy rearranging your view of yourselves as being your own universe, so to speak. If we now move to discuss your position vis a vis the rest of reality, we beg you not to immediately forget every insight you have learned about yourselves. Instead, fold it all together.

I got an image there of island universes, vast swirling clouds of stars existing in relative isolation, yet seen – via a change in scale, as part of a vaster whole.

No, center.

Trying again. We have been described as individuals who are yet communities. We have been told that this is true at every level: “As above, so below.” Thus the collection of strands that is an individual is, in effect, a community learning to function as an individual. That individual, in turn, is part of a larger community. And now you intend to concentrate less on our internal constitution and more on our external interrelation.

Isn’t that a better description of the very clear visual you were given?

It is. Always a continual reminder, to make haste slowly.

So now you see the beginning of connecting our discussion of the vast impersonal forces in the universe, with our correction of various ideas about your lives in and out of the 3D world. With so many definitions – mostly not conscious, hence not easily corrected – how can anyone expect such understandings to be conveyed by means of a simple logical exposition?

In other words, that’s why understandings of the world are carried by myths rather than textbooks.

Correct. But for those to whom myth is evidence of ignorance and superstition, a lengthy explanation will be necessary, or nothing can be done. But after the explanation, you will find it easier and more productive to remember it in terms of myth.

I am beginning to see it. Myth is a dense collection of symbolic representations, each very dense in itself. Myth holds relations between qualities.

Only, don’t limit your idea of myths to those of the ancient Romans, or the Egyptians, or to the Christian religion. Human intelligence connects via myth; myth expresses and also shapes your reality, so don’t imagine that you are not living by, and amid, myth. Myth when still living is so all-encompassing that it appears to be straightforward description of reality. Obvious, evident, description. But myth, for all that.

What John Anthony West called the Church of Progress, for one.

Well, more what the Church of Progress took – takes – for reality.

I thought maybe we were going to list a few of the contemporary invisible myths, but we aren’t, are we.

No, and it is not myths plural, but myth singular. To make an economic and ideological analogy, capitalism and communism are not separate but part of one myth, each choosing different parts to emphasize and exemplify. Both believe in the primacy of economic and material facts and are blind to the larger reality beyond. But taken together, the myth they share is only part of a larger myth outside of which neither could exist, and inside of which both become apparent as alternate choices.

And once a myth loses its quality of appearing self-evident, it loses all power.

That is sort of reversing cause and effect, or seeing only one part of a reciprocating process, but yes.

I come back to what Carl Jung said: The gods never reinhabit the temples they have once abandoned.

Perhaps now you can see why this must be so. Once a myth has lost its ability to enchant, it cannot be re-adopted by an act of will.

“Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?”

That’s one context. Another, closer to home, would be your own experience of the Catholic church.

As a boy I experienced it almost in a medieval sense, alive, undoubted, somehow not contradicting the reality around me. Then came a sort of halfway position (the halfway position being rebelliousness, I suspect, as one only fights against that which has one still struggling in its toils). Now I am entirely outside the myth and could not “recover the gift of faith,” as the good sisters would say, even if I wanted to. What is dead to me is dead to me. Some it will serve into the future, nonetheless, as no doubt some families continued the Roman worship well into the Christian era. But when an individual emerges from within the myth, there is no going back.

No, and of course that is a good thing, but there is no need to forget or repudiate the truths told by the discarded myth merely because you are now living in the light of common day, so to speak. Only, you will then consciously or, more probably, unconsciously walk into a new myth to order your life, for no one can life without a myth, even – as it was for Sartre – a myth of meaninglessness.

So we proceed to create our own myth.

It cannot be consciously created. It can only be intuited, lived into existence. And nobody has more than a small part in something so large and significant. One planet – one moon! – does not a solar system make, much less a galaxy or an island universe. Still, it is not a matter of size or weight but of – color, let’s say, or taste. In other words, one’s contribution to the myth is more a matter of quality than any quantity.

I get that. Columba’s life on Iona helped shape not the central Christian myth, perhaps, but the part of the myth that refers to a human living in it.

That is a serviceable shorthand. We do not pursue it more carefully only because that would be a side-trail, though one of interest. Only, this is enough for now. As a last word, lest we leave a mistaken impression: We are not talking about deliberately creating a new myth for the world. No one could do that. But what is possible is to help others see as clearly as possible, and in the process the myth will emerge on its own, will capture us, and free us to be more ourselves.