This World

Sunday, May 5, 2024

7:40 a.m. Strands across time?

Consider several statements as they interact:

• The 3D conditions constrict experience to one time-space moment. This moment appears to be the only time that is real, the past being gone and the future not yet arrived.
• This situation recurs repeatedly, one moment at a time, relentlessly, each one now being the real and all other moments being nonexistent.
• Nonetheless, the mind can range not only into the past, but also the future, which ought not to be possible if future moments did not already exist.
• You in your present moment are alive, but “you” means not a unit but a community of strands, which may be thought of as past lives.
• You sometimes connect with living past moments and perhaps change them, perhaps are changed by them. This can only be done mentally, not physically, but it involves changes in the physical by way of the mental.
• Those other moments are not statues or pictures: They remain alive, as they were when experienced. (This is difficult to state clearly. Simply: No moment dies. Nothing is preserved like a fly in amber.)
• Ultimately, as we will show, everything is alive, no matter how it may appear. The world is made of life; there is nothing dead. Things appear dead when they cease to function at their highest level, but the materials of which they were made live, and whether you talk of radioactive waste or synthetic fibers or the granite that forms a mountain, at some level it is alive, because the world – the universe – reality – is not made up of some living and some dead things, but only of living.
• Death may be said to come to a level of organization. But even a corpse is made up of living bits; there is nothing else. There is no molecule, no atom, no “subatomic particle” that is not alive, and how can living things combine to produce dead ones?

Now, if everything is alive – and we wish language provided an easy way to assure that people understood “everything” to mean not just every thing but every process, every energy, every aspect of 3D – if everything is alive, and everything connects, you can intuit that the possibility of communication is inherent.

Everything connects. It’s all alive. It interacts. Therefore – where are the boundaries?

In our preconceptions, presumably.

Exactly. The only hard and fast rules for what is possible are those you construct yourselves, though in doing so, you usually think you are deducing them, rather than creating them yourselves or accepting the creations of others.

So, consider. The life you really live is much more wide-ranging then you realize. Say you are a compound of five strands (to pick a number at random). Each of those strands was – is – a life in 3D “somewhen.” Each lives in its own 3D time and also in every time connected to whichever beings (like yourselves) employ it as a strand. Try to get a sense of the dizzying complications.

I get a sense of the impossibility of spelling it out.

Fortunately, that isn’t necessary. We can only provide hints, to spark people’s intuitive recognition, but that is all that is required.

Let me take a crack at it, then. I can name some strands: A Welsh journalist and psychic explorer, a young girl from Eastern Europe, a Transcendentalist trader who fought in the War of the Rebellion, a medieval Norman priest, an Egyptian priest from times we don’t know of. There’s five right there. They are what their lives made them, and yet one of the things in their lives is their cohabitation within me, which I imagine gives them access to each others’ worlds as well.

That should be enough to convey the idea. If different continents, different centuries, different lifestyles were not enough to separate them, where is separation except relatively? And if they, being part of you, are part of the incarnation you join into as a strand [that is, my “next life”], there is no “end of story.” Life goes on, recombination does on, accretion of experience goes on.

All of it feeding back into the non-3D.

From every source, remember. Not merely from you because you are in the present. They too are in the present! So, an event, a thought, a fantasy, a problem, gets reported from the viewpoint of every element participating in it. If Frank goes for a walk by the river, it is experienced by each strand up and down the chain. And this is true of all, which is why it is usually below the level of your conscious awareness: The mass of information would make experiencing it chaotic. And, after all, you are in onetime-space for a reason. You were not designed to experience everything at once.

Now, we caution those who read this, don’t start building “can’t” and “shouldn’t” into this. We are describing the baseline situation. Ordinarily you don’t experience the lives of your strands. Ordinarily you may not even be aware of them, or talk to them, or hear them. That doesn’t mean you can’t or shouldn’t. Do what you want to do, go where you want to go, and don’t imagine us to be building fences around the permissible. As a matter of fact, every non-3D intervention such as ours is designed specifically to broaden your field of action, not constrict it.

That said, recognize how widely you already range! Do you think you will run out of new worlds to explore any time soon? And in the first-hand exploration of the newly found abilities is your future. We don’t say life is a school, but it does have one school-like aspect: You continually move to more complicated things as you master old ones. More complicated means more interesting, more difficult, usually both more painful and more life-enhancing. You never stay the same except when you wish to take a breather.

And this means, periodically you need to update your ideas of what is permissible for you. (You can’t generalize too much about others. Everyone else is moving too, and you get little more than glimpses of who, what, and where they are.) Old barriers dissolve, new difficulties arise. It is inherent in life.

What you may not have considered is the effect of your connection – via your component strands – across time and space, which is the same as saying across civilizations.

You affect them. They affect you. (How else could it be, given that you and they are the same organized being?) The interaction always occurs beneath your level of consciousness, as we said. But it is always possible to raise some specific part of it into consciousness. The chief requirement is your intent.

By the way, this is equally true on other ends of these chains of being. The medieval monk may bring your existence to mind; so may the injured soldier in his delirium. In those cases, as in yours, the major variable is how the contact is conceptualized. The Tower of Babel refers not only to the confusion of tongues at any given time. It also refers to the confusion of concepts that render men strangers to each other.

This will have to do for the moment.

It felt like a struggle a couple of times. Continuing with this next time?

Probably we will move on to how this stitches reality together, but, we’ll see what the moment brings.

Very well. Thanks as always.

 

Saturday, May 4, 2024

4:45 a.m. You said you might want to continue with our strands and their ongoing life.

At other times, we have gone into the way language gets between expression and meaning and understanding. The description of time provides a good example of the difficulty. How can there be only “the eternal now” and at the same time all these separate moments of space-time? How can every moment be alive even though it is not in your present? The ambiguities and false rigidities inherent in language make it difficulty, particularly when non-3D (non-sequential) realities must be described in 3D sequential logic. The only way we know to use with you is to describe around what cannot be clearly said, repeatedly, from different angles, until hopefully you have enough points of data for the overall shape to insinuate itself into your understanding. Other non-3D people, dealing with other 3D people, use different methods – paradox, poetic allusion, various tricks – to accomplish the same thing. In all cases, we are trying to get around the limitations inherent in sequential exposition. Naturally, direct mind-to-mind contact obviates much of this difficulty, which is why there really is no substitute for personal instruction, which blends unnoticed non-3D to non-3D communication with the words.

In the absence of personal instruction from one 3D individual to another, personal contact from one 3D individual to its non-3D component will convey direct understanding, but still there will be the problem of turning what is then known into a form that can be communicated to others.

If you were dependent upon 3D sequential exposition for your understanding of “the way things are,” how far do you suppose you would get? With the best intent and the clearest intellect and the widest learning, you would still be severely handicapped. Your conclusions would probably be very logical, very consistent – and would miss the mark widely. Fortunately, you are not restricted to 3D input only. However, if you do not recognize the extent to which you rely on non-3D input, your ability to employ such access is likely to be severely limited by your very logical but incorrect assumptions.

Thus, in examining your composition as it functions “between moments of time” (as it seems to you), it is necessary to clarify things that language distorts – using the same distorting language! Hence, your part in this, reader, is to deliberately intend to remain open to your own non-3D component to feed you understanding as we go along. This is a straightforward process and yet also one with inherent potential pitfalls. You have to do two things at once:

• Absorb the material while testing it, sort of, with your non-3D knowing.
• Watch that your preconceptions and preferences do not sneak in, disguised as intuitive knowing.

It can be done, but it doesn’t happen automatically. Every philosophical or religious teaching ever put forward has seen perversions of its meaning by people who thought they understood (if only because it “felt like” they understood it), but in fact were mingling these new understandings with their previous understanding.

Well, who could avoid doing that? Your gift is what you bring to the moment. But a certain vigilance on your part is prudent. It is so easy to receive a new orientation only in a way which leaves you comfortable in the place you started! That is putting new wine in old wineskins, and may not turn out well for you. However, as in all things, you do have your non-3D component to help you through difficulties. We mention the problem only so that you may have it in consciousness, where it is easier to deal with.

This may look to you like a long parenthesis, but in fact it bears directly on the question of the seemingly contradictory descriptions of time.

From a non-3D viewpoint, all times exist, and therefore all times are alive, because there is nothing dead anywhere. From your limited 3D viewpoint, the present moment (which is continually being exchanged, one for the next) is the only living moment, all others being “past” or “future” or perhaps theoretical, such as alternative time-lines.

You in 3D, being inherently also in non-3D mentally, can and often do experience time in either of the two ways. Therefore you conceptualize time in the two ways, which can lead to confusion. For our purposes, it is necessary that you conceptualize the non-3D’s vision as unhampered and the 3D’s as partial. To cling to 3D explanations is to forfeit the greater understanding that can come only from a different viewpoint added to your previous one.

From our viewpoint, life looks like this:

• A 3D human is a soul composed of various strands learning to live together as a new unit.
• Each of these strands may be seen as a past soul, with all its experiences, its willed changes, its values.
• Consciousness within the 3D life is not unitary any more than the strands are unitary. It is the product of cooperation and contention among the strands.
• Such ongoing relating among the strands may change the new soul. It may also change the older souls, the strands.
• The “present moment” is the only place that changes can take place. From any 3D perspective, there is only one (changing) present moment, hence only one time that offers promise, offers life.
• Yet in reality, every moment is a living present-moment, for all viewpoints are the result of perspective, and in the absence of limitations there can be no one-and-only perspective.
• Therefore, you see, every thing, every when, every “past” or “future” moment, is alive and changing. Everything affects and is affected by everything.
• And therefore, every moment is potentially a fulcrum from which to change everything past or present. If this sounds wildly unstable, remember that every other moment is also a fulcrum, and the result is a form of inertia. It takes a lot to revolutionize anything, let alone everything. But
• Everything is alive. Every moment, every “thing.” It may or may not seem that way to you, but if you meditate on it, it may come clearer. There is nothing dead. How could there be? There is only change (when viewed from a limited 3D-moment).

We know that is a lot to take in, and the more awake you are to the implications, the more is involved. But it is important that you take in as much at a time as possible. Real comprehension comes not as a slow product of logical analysis but as a sudden connection of what you are consciously centering on to what your non-3D can tell you. It is a combination of sequence and gestalt. The greater the number of things in mind, the greater the potential “Aha!”

That will be misinterpreted, I’m afraid. I know you don’t mean that a process of memorization is involved, but people may semi-consciously move that way.

When we say keeping a great number of things in mind, we mean, considering various bullet-points together, as opposed to considering any lesser number of them. However, each person will have  different amount of things that can be absorbed at once, and of course different non-3D input. Honest intent is the key. Given that, the rest will follow.

And there’s your hour. We have scarcely begun on the influence of strands across time, and have not yet begun on their part in stitching together 3D reality, but (within 3D sequential exposition!), one thing at a time.

Well, our thanks as always.

 

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

4:45 a.m. Rereading the four previous entries is both encouraging and daunting. OT1H, a sense that the material is flowing. OTOH, what a mass of material to hold in mind together! But I will assume that you will provide a logical exposition. I am trying not to press, trusting.

Trust is always good, subject to later verification. “Later” verification, note. You can’t verify as you go along, any more than you can analyze while perceiving. First absorb the material, then pick it apart if you feel the need.

Now, we sketched a vision of time as continuing to exist before you move through a given moment and after you have moved on to the next moment. We are tempted to discuss what is called the Akashic Record, a concept we see as widely misunderstood. The misunderstanding stems from a small and seemingly insignificant distortion, but although it is small, it may not be so easy to demonstrate.

We will attempt an analogy with ordinary 3D life as experienced, and see if it illustrates our point. Just as “The map is not the territory,” so “The memory is not the experience.” Or, let’s say, the individual memory is not the same thing as an objective record.

We are not thinking of lies, nor of incomplete or inaccurate recollection, nor even of the construction of narrative using inadequate tools. What is at issue is not any inadequacy of individual recall. Instead, we are discussing the difference between, say, any careful individual’s record of the day’s weather, on the one hand, and the graphs and charts produced by scientific instrumentation, on the other. The latter form of recording is one degree less subjective than the former.

Think of it this way: The Akashic Record is not decided upon, at whatever level of reality. It isn’t like the concept of a recording angel, taking notes. It is automatically produced, it is the image of each moment. It is that moment, in a sense, and ultimately is a compilation of all such moments.

You see the distinction? The record is the shadow of the event, you might say. Or, the record is the event when seen from any other moment of space-time. In that sense (only) the Akashic Record appears as such only when viewed from the 3D. From within the non-3D, there is no distinction between “now” and “then.” Therefore there is no distinction between “now” and the other times that in 3D you see as available on the Akashic Record. That record is a 3D construct, making sense of what otherwise would not make sense in a context that assumes that “past” moments no longer exist.

You see? Someone in 3D, viewing any other moment, may accurately be said to be reading the Akashic Record. But it would be more accurate to say that they were reading, not the record, but the reality, because all those moments continue be as alive in potential as your present moment. A mere static record could not contain the possibility of choice, but – as we will show – just that possibility does exist in every moment. The world doesn’t freeze just because your time moved on to another moment, any more than Detroit freezes when you move to Cleveland. Life continues, whether or not you in 3D are in a position to observe it.

And this provides a segue into other topics, for everything connects. You should remember as we go that many things said in one context will have to be clarified – in effect, revised – when considered in other contexts. This is not because of slipshod exposition, but because different facts reveal different facets depending upon the viewing point. Thus, we are going to discuss choice, but later we will discuss the community nature of what seem like individuals, and what we say now will be understood differently then. This is a drawback of language (sequential exposition) and cannot be avoided. However, it can be kept in mind, which will result in a helpful attitude of readiness for revision, as opposed to thinking in absolutes.

So, choice. Remember that to us, the 3D is a crucible, concentrating you in one moment, one space, one set of circumstances at a time. Now remember the image of your sun and planet pulling you smoothly through space, and envision each such moment as being also a particular bit of space. That is, planetary motion moves you from one moment to the next (as you see it) by moving you from one bit of “space” to the next.

Each bit of space, each moment, has its own particular set of qualities. It is emphatically not true that one moment of time is the same as any other (much less every other), and it is equally untrue that one bit of space has the same qualities, the same effect, as any other. Careful analysis of your experience will tell you this. And this is why such arts as astrology and geomancy work. Once understand the underlying principles, and the working-out in practice follows. (Of course, in the absence of the theoretical background, such arts will necessarily seem to be superstition or fantasy.)

Every moment of time having its own nature, it follows that some things will be easier at one time, harder at another. This is another reason why astrological correlations were studied and codified: They provided predictions for the cosmic weather one will sail through, and when.

Notice, too, that your lives are the interaction of cosmic weather (in effect, the external world) with your own psychic makeup (the internal weather). Rough water for some will be smooth sailing for others. The difference is not in the times, nor in the individual makeup, but in the interaction of the two.

Now whether you are in a smooth patch or a stormy one, you still have the ability to choose. That is, after all, the point of 3D, to provide the continuing ability to choose among possibilities that are available. Each past choice has brought you to your present moment; each choice from here will bring you to your next choice. (Bear in mind, one valid choice is to continue as is. Choice doesn’t have to mean change of direction. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t.)

But what exactly does it mean, to choose? The answer may seem obvious, but if you look carefully at the question, it will reveal aspects that may not be immediately obvious.

You are what you are. The possibilities of the moment are what they are. Where is the ability to choose? Haven’t your past actions determined your present, and therefore your future? Isn’t free will an illusion, when  stacked up against cause and effect? It may easily seem that way. And if what you know were the total of what is, you would have to conclude just that.

That isn’t clear.

No. let’s try again. Your present and past and future may be made to seem predetermined by feats of logic honestly intended and carefully constructed. But logic is only as strong as its weakest link, and there is more than one weak link in the chain. For one thing, you as individuals are vastly more like communities than you realize, and none of your constituent elements ever gets to fully express itself. By a change in emphasis among them, you may seem to change, and that change of emphasis depends not upon (external) circumstances, but upon an effort of will, of intent. Hence even if everything external led toward one predicted result, the actual event is likely to surprise you. In effect, you are many people, and you have many possible futures. It is not that simple, of course, but we are well past your usual hour, and it would be as well to pause here.

Interesting. I seemed to perceive your choosing which rocks to step on as you crossed the river this morning.

An unrecognized difficulty of this kind of communication is that we cannot give you anything without breaking it down for sequential exposition. But, enough gets through to justify the effort.

Well, thanks for making that effort. Next time.