Session 701

Unknown Reality, Session 701

The outsideness of the physical world is connected, then, with a multidimensional “insideness”.  That exterior world is thrust outward, however, and projected into reality in line with your conscious desires, beliefs, and intent.  It is important that you remember this position of the conscious mind as you think of it.  Each physical experience is unique, and while the energy for it and the creation of it come from within, the pristine, private, and yet shared quality of the experience could not exist in the same way were it not so exteriorized.

The exteriorization has great purpose and meaning, then, and brings forth a different kind of expression.  Though I may emphasize the importance of inner reality in this book, therefore, I am in no way denying the great validity and purpose of earthly experience.  Any exercises in the book should help you enrich that experience, and understand its framework and nature.  None of the exercises should be used to try to “escape” the connotations of your own earthly reality.

Nevertheless, the blueprints lie within.  We will have more to say very shortly about our dream-art-scientist; yet there are also other important ways that could be used to study the nature of reality.  One in particular does not involve the dream state per se.  It does include the manipulation of consciousness however.  To some extent it includes identification with, rather than separation from, that which is being studies.

While connected with your own civilization, the man Einstein came closest perhaps in this regard, for he was able to quite naturally identify himself with various “functions” of the universe.  He was able to listen to the inner voice of matter.  He was intuitively and emotionally led to his discoveries.  He leaned against time, and felt it give and wobble.

The true [mental] physicist will be a bolder explorer – not picking at the universe with small tools, but allowing his consciousness to flow into the many open doors that can be found with no instrument, but with the mind.

Your own consciousness as you think of it, as you are familiar with it, can indeed help lead you into some much greater understanding of the simultaneous nature of time if you allow it to.  You often use tools, instruments, and paraphernalia instead – but they do not feel time, in those terms.  You do.  Studying your own conscious experience with time will teach you far more.

Practice Element 8

Using your conscious mind as a threshold, however, you can discover still more.  Figuratively speaking, stand where you are.  Think of that moment of conscious awareness as a path.  Imagine many such paths, all converging; again, imaginatively take one of them in your mind and follow it.  Accept what you experience uncritically.  To some small extent you are “altering” your consciousness.  Of course, you are not “altering” it at all.  You are simply using it in a different fashion, and focusing it – however briefly – in another direction.  This is the simplest of exercises.

Suppose that you stood in one spot all of your physical life, and that you had to do this because you had been told that you must.  In such a case you would only see what was directly before you.  Your peripheral vision might give you hints of what was to each side, or you might hear sounds that came from behind.  Objects – birds, for example – might flash by you, and you might wonder at their motion, significance, and origin.  If you suddenly turned an inch to the right or the left you would not be altering your body, but simply changing its position, increasing your overall picture, turning very cautiously from your initial position.  So the little exercise above is like that.

You are presently little aware of the dimensions of consciousness – your own or those seemingly “beneath” your own.  The true physicist is one who would dare turn around inside his own consciousness.

There are inner structures within matter.  These are swirls of energy.  They have more purposes than one.  The structures are formed by organizations of consciousness, or CUs.  You have the most intimate knowledge of the nature of a cell, for example, or of an atom.  They compose your flesh.  There is, in certain terms, a continuum of consciousness there of which your present physical life is a part.  You are in certain kinds of communication and communion with your own cells, and at certain levels of consciousness you know this.  A true physicist would learn to reach that level of consciousness at will.  There were pictures drawn of cellular structures long before any technological methods of seeing them were available, in your terms.

There are shapes and formations that appear when your eyes are closed that are perfect replicas of atoms, molecules, and cells, but you do not recognize them as such.  There are also paintings – so-called abstracts – unconsciously produced, many by amateurs, that are excellent representations of such inner organizations.

Ruburt has at times been able to throw his consciousness into small physical instruments and to perceive their inner activity at the level of, say, electrons.  Given time, in your terms, a knowledge of the structure of so-called particles could be quite as clearly understood by using such techniques.  Now, however, your terms would not match.  Yet your terms are precisely what imprison you, and lead you to the “wrong’ kind of questions.

The wrong kinds of questions are the right ones for you, however, in your civilization and with your beliefs, because you want to stay within that structure to that extent.  Only now are you beginning to question your methods, and even your questions.  The true physicist would be able to ask his questions from his usual state of consciousness, and then turn that consciousness in other directions where he himself would be led into adventures-with-reality, in which the questions would themselves be changed.  And then the answers would be felt.

But most physicists do not trust felt answers.  Feeling is thought to be far less valid than a diagram.  It seems you could not operate your world on feelings – but you are not doing very well trying to operate with diagrams, either!

In many cases your scientists seem to have the strange idea that you can understand a reality by destroying it; that you can perceive the life mechanism of an animal by killing it; or that you can examine a phenomenon best by separating yourself from it.  So, often, you attempt to examine the nature of the brain in man by destroying the brains of animals, by separating portions of the animal brain from its components, isolating them, and tampering with the overall integrity of both the animal in question and of your own spiritual processes.  By this I mean that each such attempt puts you more out of context, so to speak, with yourself and your environment, and other species.  While you may “learn” certain so-called facts, you are driven still further away from any great knowledge, because the so-called facts stand in your way.  You do not as yet understand the uniqueness of consciousness.

It is absurd to believe that you can learning something about consciousness by destroying it.  It is absurd to believe that you can learn one iota about the inner reality of life when your search leads you to destroy it.  Destruction, you see, in your terms, presupposes a misunderstanding of life to begin with.

There are ways of identifying with animals, with atoms and molecules.  There are ways of learning from the animals.  There are methods that can be used to discover how different species migrate, for example, and then to duplicate such feats technologically if you want to.  These methods do not include dissection, for what you learn that way you will not be able to use.

In a way you are simply over exuberant, like children playing a new game.  You will discover that at best you are using children’s blocks.  Some of you have already come to that conclusion.  As this book continues, I will indeed outline some beginning proposals as to ways in which you can use your consciousness to understand the nature of reality, and to make some of those inner blueprints clear.

Even in your terms of history and serial time, as a race you have tried various methods of dealing with the physical world.  In this latest venture you are discovering that exterior manipulation is not enough, that technology alone is not “the answer”.  Please understand me: There is nothing wrong with a loving technology.

If Einstein had been a better mathematician, he would not have made the breakthroughs that he did.  He would have been too cowed.  Yet even then his mathematics did hold him back, and put a kink in his intuitions.  Often you take it for granted that intuitive knowledge is not practical, will not work, or will not give you diagrams.  Those same diagrams of which science is so proud, however, can also be barriers, giving you a dead instead of a living knowledge.  Therefore, they can be quite impractical.

I admit that I am being sneaky here; but if you did not feel the need to kill animals to gain knowledge, then you would not have wars, either.  You would understand the balances of nature far better.

If you did not feel any need to destroy reality (in your terms) in order to understand it, then you would not need to dissect animals, hoping to discover the reasons for human diseases.  You would have attained a living knowledge long ago, in which diseases as such did not occur.  You would have understood long ago the connections between mind and body, feelings, health, and illness.

I am not saying that you would have necessarily had a perfect world, but that you would have been dealing more directly with the blueprints for reality.