Rita, Dec. 9 Unfortunately i dont have the stamina i once had, so i get stuff in shorter sessions. Hardly get started when were leaving off. Tuesday, December 09, 2014 F: 5 a.m. I realized, suddenly – well, let’s put it this way— Lying in bed, sort of daydreaming about various things, I was remembering that I had intended to furnish a series of sketches for The Sphere and the Hologram, and I was wondering if I should make the effort to do it now, when I realized that perhaps the material Rita was facilitating would render that view of things obsolete, as indeed they had said would happen unless I was unable or unwilling to leave what had become familiar and continue exploring. All the concepts that have become so familiar these past years – The Guys Upstairs, the veil, the Other Side, etc. – if we really reconceptualize, it all goes, or remains as a sort of halfway house, a safe clearing in the forest that allow you to move deeper. So. Miss Rita, is that what is up? R: It is if you want it to be. F: I’m willing. R: Then let’s continue. Reread what you’ve gotten so far – just skim it – as preparation, to put it into active memory, so to speak. F: All right. So far 1. This side and the other side are in continuous communication 2. “All is one” means there is no separate “Spiritual” world or life. 3. Reality seems to change as we perceive differently. 4. Ways of perceiving and conceptualizing that contradict whatever we believe are experienced as nonsense or superstition. R: Close enough. Naturally this is not anything new in itself; it is a clearing of the path for something now. F: Understood. R: You were asked once – by me when I was in the body – what we do on this side. How we spend our time. F: I remember. The answer given was, “we relate,” which I took to mean, relate to one another, but did not find tremendously illuminative. R: No, but now perhaps I can help answer my question. but to do so is going to take a long time, I’m afraid, mostly because so much site-clearing and demolition of old structures must come before anything new can be constructed. So many silent assumptions to deal with. That there are different souls (or minds); that they relate to one another; that the nature of their “daily” existence is inherently different from daily existence in the body; conversely that there can be any similarity. So many religious beliefs – and anti-religious beliefs. Not least, so many incorrect beliefs about the nature of life in the physical world. Not so productive to try to tear down beliefs of systems of beliefs. Better to construct alternative ways of seeing that can gently replace them. But of course this will only help those willing to provisionally adopt them – that is, consider them fairly. F: The guys always said – and I can see I’m going to have some trouble even learning how to talk about all this again – I was always told that one strength I brought to this work was my ability to deal with ambiguity, my tolerance for not knowing, my willingness to discard past beliefs in light of new experience. R: It isn’t very easy to move while staying in one place. It’s easier to move if you don’t demand guarantees in advance that you will like or even remain in the new place. F: Perhaps – if I can steer this by way of suggestion – it would help if you give us another way of thinking about what I have called my relationship to the guys upstairs; what others (and I, in other moods) call guidance. R: Yes, that is on the agenda, but as I say, it isn’t necessarily going to be simple or quick to redefine any of it, because any set of understandings is really a web of mutually reinforcing concepts. I say mutually reinforcing – but some may reinforce, some may contradict; still, they co-exist, and changing any will to a larger or smaller degree change all. That is what I said earlier. So, perhaps begin here. If you have learned to experience guidance, however you conceptualize it, you recognize first-hand that it is a source of material, or of judgments, or of knowings, other than your more commonly available mental processes. That doesn’t make this source “other than” yourself. it doesn’t inherently make it anything. All you know about it is that it is not your ordinary mental process at work, or at least is not apparently your ordinary process. So what happens when your life accommodates this new source of information and judgments to the point that it becomes normal? What then? One conceptualization is – it was always part of yourself, you just integrated it more closely. Fine. What does that mean? When you look at it, what does it mean, to say “you” integrated “it” more closely? What defines you? What defines integrated? This is not playing with words. If it seems so, you may take this as a signpost marking concepts that may be resisting being re-examined. (I am aware that this phrasing will seem strange. This will make more sense after a while.) Another conceptualization is that it was “the guys” (or any transpersonal being or group of beings). But again, as your access increases to the point that it becomes as normal to you as what you had already considered normal – in other words as your range increases to incorporate what have been “altered” states as part of your normal state – what has happened? If you talk to past lives, and other individuals, and your own past or future selves, or – on another scale (seemingly) – as you talk to components of your body and/or mind as if they were separate individuals, what is happening? The rings and threads analogy that was provided in our sessions were given as a step toward loosening our idea that in the body we are individual and thus toward loosening the idea that out of body (post-body) we are individual. F: All of that was in Sphere and Hologram and sort of digested in Cosmic Internet. Even then – and more so as time went on and I explained it to groups and though about it – I saw that it couldn’t be the complete story. Is any of it going to be left by the time we get through with whatever you’re bringing? R: Yes, but it will be modified. You might provisionally look at it this way: previously you saw the rings and not the threads. The information we received in 2001-2002 revealed the existence of the threads, at the cost of somewhat exaggerating their importance relative to the rings. This will return emphasis more to the rings in a way without disregarding or defining out of existence the threads that are so important in the process of redefinition. However, remember that you never had a very clear idea of what those threads were or were like or how they functioned or came into existence or changed. You played with threads, strings, ropes, cables, and combinations of the concepts. You thought of them as traits, and said rings had millions of them, and then found yourself a little as a loss when you came to consider the world from the question of reincarnation, souls’ progress, etc. But it is almost 6 a.m., enough for this time. F: Thanks, and I’ll pass it along.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:50:33 +0000
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