Friday, August 13, 2021
3 a.m. Fighting a sense of getting lost, here. So I set my switches for maximum focus, clarity, receptivity, and hope for the best. I presume you guys know where you want us to go. It has gotten fuzzy, to me.
The key to understanding anything is to keep in mind, things don’t come with extra, unnecessary parts. So the wider you cast your net, the more previously unconsidered factors you consider together, the more you learn. Even if you don’t add anything you didn’t already know, seeing them together may add to your understanding.
So, specifically, soul and spirit as they exist during 3D life, not merely after it. And for that matter (for we know it will appear to you to be a third condition), before 3D life, as well.
The soul is by definition the binding together of various elements in a particular time-space situation – how can soul have a “before 3D life” existence?
As we said, we knew it would look different to you. After all, you see through 3D understandings. [Transcribing this, I see this could be read as if they meant we “see through” them in the sense of seeing through illusion. But they meant we see via 3D understandings.]
Well, enlighten us (though I’m getting a vague sense of it).
The elements that will be chosen to be that soul exist to be chosen, do they not? They are the soul’s pre-3D life, if you choose to look at it that way, just as those same elements, crystallized or not, continue to exist after the 3D life is over – for, remember, “before” and “after” seem like absolutes to you, but from non-3D they look rather different. So to us it looks more like a division between “during” and “not-during” a given 3D life, with not-during not being split into pre- and post- as seems natural to you while in 3D.
So, spirit and soul – two aspects of one reality – exist in 3D during a life; at the same time, spirit does not cease to exist in non-3D, and of course soul exists in non-3D as well as in 3D (else how is your mind functioning by non-3D rules as well as by limits imposed by 3D conditions). Spirit and soul then continue to exist after 3D life, obviously, and this is the nub of what we set out to explore, is it not?
Yes. What is our experienced reality once the body packs it in.
Your future is a direct extension of your present, only what changes is that your awareness is released from its 3D constriction, so you can see how it always was.
I take that to mean, we remain what we are, but much of what we are is invisible to us in our present condition.
That’s it. You live to greater or lesser extent as if the materialists’ worse nightmares were true. That is, you experience mostly your 3D life, your closed-off individual subjective life, surrounded and shaped (not to say oppressed) by an “objective” external reality that may or may not have your best interests at heart but certainly doesn’t seem to center on you. You can’t remember where you came from, you can’t tell what your limits may be, you can’t decide what your future prospects may be, beyond a finite and mysterious 3D life.
Once you are released from 3D blinders, everything changes in your experience, though of course nothing changes in your situation.
You mean, I think: Nothing changes but our perception, which suddenly clears and reveals how things were all along, unknown to us.
That’s right. (Isn’t it what we said?) In 3D you have plenty of opinion. Once free of 3D, you have fact.
Now remember, you have died in 3D; you have dropped the links to the body that held you in one place-time. You are no longer in the living-present moment within 3D. But now you are in the living-present moment that does not move you along minute by minute, and – note this: “and,” not “or” – you remain in every 3D moment you experienced in 3D life. Both.
Hence the difficulty in describing an afterlife. People tend to describe one or another aspect of things but not together.
Yes, nor have we accomplished it, either. We have pointed to it, but that’s a good way from filling out a portrait.
So if I’m getting this – by osmosis as much as by anything we’re managing to put into words, even vague allusive (and elusive) ones – now whatever-we-are is both spirit as higher self and is soul as 3D experiencer and is a larger combination of souls. Cats in a sack, so to speak, the sack being the higher self, the larger being.
You are getting there, but let’s try bullet-points, see if we can clarify somewhat:
- The larger being (spirit) comprises souls but is not itself a soul. It has sent parts of itself, or the awareness-patterns, call them, repeatedly into 3D and has received them repeatedly after their 3D experiences.
- Each soul – each bit of spirit in its own particular conformation, set within its specific time-space framework – exists as part of the larger being and exists as its own self-referential being.
- Each soul has connection with every other soul of the higher being’s, as should be obvious. The connections may or may not be conscious during the 3D life (probably usually not) but are evident and inherently natural outside of 3D life.
- Souls live a particular hybrid existence. They are always an intrinsic enmeshed part of the time-place they occupied in 3D. Those time-places continue to exist, so you could rightly say that that specific part of the larger being that is any particular soul extends to that time-space and remains a part of it.
- Yet souls remain a part of the larger being’s awareness – that is, they share that awareness – even while enmeshed in 3D. Thus, one more inseparable connection between 3D and non-3D.
- It has always been this way, only 3D conditions mostly prevent you from realizing it. Of course as soon as you are released from those conditions and you look back (so to speak), your understanding of your life changes pretty immediately, pretty completely.
It would help if you would re-familiarize yourselves with the material Rita provided that was made into Awakening from the 3D World, realizing how it describes the change in awareness from the point of view of a given 3D individual, rather than a systems view such as we are providing. The contrast will be productive of new, deeper, understanding.
Now, you’re looking at the clock and saying, “It’s only 45 minutes, we can go longer,” but we prefer to pause here. It is a logical pause.
Fine. A title for the session?
Perhaps “Past and present spirit and soul”? Though, that doesn’t quite do it.
Maybe, “Life is continuation, spirit and soul.”
Maybe “Death as redefinition.”
I like it. Okay, thanks and till next time.
Feel free to skip a day, remember.
Okay.