Unknown Reality, Session 704
The unknown reality, probable man, dreams,
the spin of electrons, the blueprints for reality – all of these are
intimately related.
Your daily personal lives are touched, are
changed, are created from the interrelationships that exist among those
phenomena. So, of course, your mass
world is also affected. You do have free
will, and in a certain fashion it can be said to be dependent upon the nature
of probabilities and the multidimensional behavior of electrons.
Unpredictability does not mean chaos. All order rises out of the creative
elements of unpredictability. In fact,
the behavior of any object in your universe is “predictable” only because you
concentrate upon such a small portion of its reality. Unpredictability assures uniqueness, and is
the opposite of predetermined motion.
The great saga of recognized physical activity arises from a vast
unrecognized, unpredictable dimension in which probabilities are allowed full
freedom.
The full practical implication here should
be understood: No course is irrevocably set or beyond change. Within the limited framework of your usual
operations, however, so-called predictions may be made. They will be workable to some
degree. In deeper terms however no
action is set beyond alteration. The
unknown reality is the source for the known one. If you want to “discover” how thing work,
then your journey must eventually lead you into the dimensions that lie within
the world you know.
You must therefore explore the psyche, the
living consciousness. It will lead you
to the withinness. This is not an
impractical, but very practical, endeavor in all areas. Scientifically, such studies would vastly
enlarge your concepts so that a loving technology could follow the most
beautiful contours of the mind, rising on the natural mountains of human
abilities and then more easily into fulfillment.
Medicine would gently and expertly
encourage healing processes as it more fully understood the psyche’s great
emotional being and needs. Learning would
take advantage of the latent inner knowledge of the subjective self, and help
it interpret itself in terms of physical life.
The dream state would be seen as an inexhaustible fountain of
information. Efforts could then be made
to understand and interpret private symbolism, and individuals within a society
would be taught to take advantage of their own inner data to enrich their
personal lives and help the community.
I am aware that some of this sounds “retrogressive”,
for I am even suggesting a situation in which politicians or statesmen would
learn to “dream wisely” – and become aware of the psyche, the mass psyche, of
their people, and tune into the “private oracle”.
Now all of this certainly sounds
unscientific to many people, yet most of my readers have already picked up a
different version of the nature of science, or they would not be reading this
book to begin with. The private oracle:
What does that mean? And what does it
have to do with the unknown reality?
More, what does it have to do with the practical world? The private oracle is the voice of the inner
multidimensional self – the part of each person not fully contained in his or
her personhood, the part of the unknown self-structure out of which personhood,
with its physical alliance, springs.
Basically that portion of the psyche is outside of space and time, while
enabling you to operate in it. It deals
intimately with probabilities – the source of all predictable action.
Because of its position it has great powers
of communication, both as a receiver and as a sender. Unfortunately, science as it has developed in
your time has resulted in a mistrust of the individual, and saddled him or her
with a sense of powerlessness, subjectively, even while it has added a seeming
sense of objective power. I say that it
has seemingly added a sense of objective power. For instance, your sophisticated techniques
allow you to say that conditions are right for a tornado, and you will have a
tornado watch, or your instruments will pick up faint earthquake tremors, and
following fault lines you will then “predict” that an earthquake will appear in
another area. So it seems that you have
some power over your environment. The
individual person can then prepare for a potential disaster. It seems that you can seed the clouds with
chemicals and bring forth rain when it is needed, and therefore obtain a power
over the environment that is quite practical.
You believe that you need scientific paraphernalia to achieve such ends –
yet many animals are aware of such phenomena, and without such
instruments. And mankind itself is
innately equipped to “foresee” such potential disasters.
The physical organism itself is so
equipped. Blood pressure rises in whole
populations – stress signals in terms of hormones are activated, but you are
not taught to recognize these natural signals.
There is a give-and-take between all portions of nature. You are as natural as an animal, and as “tuned
in” to the deep rhythms of the earth – those that you consciously perceive and
those that are perceived by your body consciousness, but are screened out by
the “official mind”.
I am simply suggesting that you become more
natural. Because science has made an
effective barrier to that method of approach, the power seems to reside in the
gadgets rather than in man. Man no longer
identifies with a storm, for example, and has lost his sense of relationship
with it, and therefore his natural power over it. The same applies to storms of the
psyche. The dream-art scientist, the
true mental physicist, the complete physician – such designations represent
kinds of training that could allow you to understand the unknown, and therefore
the known reality, and so become aware of the blueprints that exist behind the
physical universe. The proof is in the
pudding, of course. Largely, it seems
that your techniques work a good deal of the time. Let us look at medicine, for instance.
Your physicians can point to lives saved by
sophisticated technology. You can point
to diseases stamped out because of inoculations or other preventive measures,
such as the intake of certain vitamins, or sanitary procedures. It seems the worst kind of idiocy to suggest
that the individual has any kind of effective protection against illness
or disease. Almost anyone can name a
family member or friend who died 30 or 40 years ago of a disease that is now
completely conquered. It seems that such
lives would have been saved with modern procedures. In your society a medical checkup is a must
every so often.
Again, many can thankfully praise a given
doctor for discovering a disease condition “in time”, so that effective
countering measures were taken and the disease was eliminated. You cannot know for sure, of course, what would
have happened otherwise. You cannot know
for sure what happened to those people who wanted to die. If they did not die of the disease, they may
have “fallen prey” to an accident, or died in a war, or in a natural disaster.
They may have been “cured” whether or not
they had treatment, and gone on to lead productive lives. You do not know. A man or woman who is ready to die, if saved
from one disease will promptly get another, or find a way of fulfilling that
desire. Your problem there rests with
the will to live, and with the mechanics of the psyche. The complete physician would try to
understand the inner mechanics of vitality and, as best he could, learn to encourage
these.
He would try to ascertain the patterns of
the psyche, and follow them. He would
encourage the patient to tune into the private oracle in order to ascertain his
or her own purposes in physical life, and to reinforce spiritual strength. The complete physician would be an individual
who was in superb health, and therefore understood himself the particular
dynamics that operate between spiritual vitality and physical well-being. That would be his specialty.
We are indeed speaking of a somewhat ideal
situation here, from your viewpoint. Yet
you will not learn the mechanics of health by putting yourself in a
hospital. You may be cured of a
particular disease, but unless you learn more about the dynamics of your being,
you will simply “fall prey” to another. The
same applies to all levels of activity.
You may discover how to be happy by association with a happy
person, but you definitely will not discover that answer by associating with
those who are miserable. They will only
teach you what unhappiness is like – if you do not know already.
Each individual is a universe in a small
package. As the physical planets move in
order while being individual, so there can be a social order that is based upon
the integrity of the individual. But
that order would recognize the inner validity that is within the self; and the
inner order, unseen, that forms the integrity of the physical body. The self, the individual, being its fulfilled
self, would automatically function for the good of itself and for the good of
society. The individual’s good,
therefore, is the society’s good, and represents spiritual and physical
fulfillment. This presupposes, however,
an understanding of the inner self and an exploration into the unknown reality
of the individual psyche.
To some extent, each individual who wants to
can become aware of the “unknown” reality – can become his or her own dream-art
scientist, mental physicist, or complete physician, and begin to explore those
lands of the psyche that are the real frontier.
Such a journey will illuminate not only the
private aspects of reality, but the experience of the species as well.
Appendix 4 for Session 685: Multidimensional Memory
Jane:
I’m getting something like this … that data comes through to us
multidimensionally, then is sifted through neural connections, where it’s
transformed into time-segmentation or strung-out experience. Next if flows into our probable (physical)
reality (which itself changes all the ‘time’).
We inherently possess separate pockets or pools of experience
(biologically valid among the cells’ characteristics), side pools where
information collects for processing before flowing into the ‘official pool of
consciousness’.
There are ways to bypass this process and
dip directly into these side pools.
Usual memory is as much a sifting process
as it is anything else, in which experience’s intensity varies – sometime ‘alive’
neurologically and sometimes not – just to focus our consciousness in one
probable action or series.
In these side pockets, memory, so-called,
is not so structured. Its ever-present
living elements are apparent; and its growth. It material is ever-fresh. Here the past still happens. Usually we experience it through neurological
connections; that’s when it seems vivid or alive, but actually it’s that way
all the time. Past motion and acts still
go on, not recurring – it’s hard to explain – but those past actions are still
exploring other probabilities, while our nervous structure focuses us in the
one (physical) probable reality we’ve chosen.
To us those other actions seem terminated … but that’s only because
usually we can’t follow them.
Writing, as a linear form, itself imposes
limitations here.
These ‘past’ probabilities are not fleshed
out in our terms, but they’re brilliantly focused in their own life. In the Saratoga experience I felt ghostly
because there I was a future probability … At certain levels of
consciousness, through bypassing direct neurological activity and impact, you
can then glimpse other portions of your own probable experience – both in the
future and the past.
Using these side pockets or pools where
data are still unprocessed, in our terms, you can pick up several other strands
of your own consciousness ‘at once’, though retention may be difficult. Explaining the experience to the normal
consciousness automatically helps expand it (the normal consciousness), so that
each time the process becomes easier.
Until, with practice, experience and data from several areas can be held
simultaneously. The difficulty then is a
translation in linear terms, hence Ruburt’s trouble with the Saratoga episode.
Now, physically, neurological action is a
code for other actions that usually can’t be experienced at once because of the
selectivity mentioned earlier.
The ghostly, off-center Saratoga adventure
bypassed and blurred usual neurological processes, allowing him to slip
through. The blurring is – was – also necessary
to aid in distinguishing another reality from the normally accepted one,
particularly in the beginning of such activity.
He was tuning into probable neurological materializations … that are
ghost images inherent in the normal nervous structure … latent connections
biologically part of the cells’ realities.
He was moving into other selectivities.
Actual complete impact is unlikely under most conditions, though various
degrees of interception and intermixing can occur.
Ruburt’s difficulty, anger, and impatience
last night resulted from initial problems translating multidimensional
experience into linear terms and thought patterns. Fresh material was being born anew in
the past, and he didn’t know how to fit it into his time scheme.
Appendix 6: Prehistoric Men and Species of Consciousness
Jane:
For a long time these varieties of ancient men shared our earth history,
in varying terms. Right now, though, in
our time, all of the different kinds of consciousness that we might expand into
are here with us … some of them appearing as pathological to us …
We consider anything that doesn’t seem like
usual consciousness to be pathological in one way or another. Many individuals show variations that
actually represent future developments of consciousness; we’re experimenting
with these probabilities … There are actually species of consciousness,
but we don’t recognize them as such. Yet
they shape our neurological history.
Some of the experiments with man-animals
didn’t work out along our historic lines, but the ghost memories of those
probabilities still linger in our biological structure, and in our terms can be
activated according to circumstances.
The growth of ego consciousness by itself
set up both challenges and limitations.
This automatically meant that emerging man, in that framework, must let
go of a certain kind of animal comprehension that was extremely valuable
overall, but could inhibit ego growth … For many centuries there was no
clear-cut differentiation between various species of man and animal ... There were
also, of course, parallel developments in the emergence of physical man. Again, for many centuries, there were
innumerable species of man-in-the-making, in your terms; various postures, and
even types of manipulation, as well as alterations in brain size and
activity. In some, different kinds of
senses predominated. At the same time a
great give-and-take was occurring at all levels – including vegetation, for
example – so that together the creatures and the earth worked out the kind of
stability best suited for the particular kind of developments that were to
emerge.
The known races are a dim reminder of that
larger difference and activity.
Appendix 8: Evolution and Simultaneous Time, Ocean Metaphor
(from Session 45): The value climate of psychological reality
can be likened to an ocean in which all consciousness has its being. There are multitudinous levels that can be
plunged into, with various life forms, diverse and alien, but nevertheless
interconnected and dependent one upon the other. I like the ocean analogy because you get the
idea of continuous flow and motion without apparent division.
As temperatures in various depths of ocean
change, and as even the color of the water and of the flora and fauna change,
so too in our value climate there are quality changes, and senses equipped to
project and perceive the changes. There
are distortions because of the limitations of the outer senses, but the inner
senses do not distort. The inner senses
inhabit directly the atmosphere of our value climate; they see through the
ever-varying camouflage (physical) patterns, and the flux and flow of apparent
change. To some small degree in our
sessions you plunge into this ocean of value climate, and to the extent
that you are able to divest yourselves of the clothes of camouflage, you can be
truly aware of this climate.
What is required is more than a shedding of
clothes, however. To plunge into this
ocean, you also leave the physical body at the shore. It will be there when you get back. Your
camouflage patterns can be likened to those cast by sun and shadow upon the
ever-moving waves. As long as you keep
the pattern in mind, you create it, and it is there. If you turn your head away for a moment and
then look quickly back, you can see only the wave. Your camouflage and your world are created by
conscious focusing and unconscious concentration. Only by turning your head aside momentarily
can you see what is beneath the seemingly solid pattern. By plunging into our ocean of value climate
you can dive beneath your camouflage system and look up to see it, relatively
foundationless, floating above you, moved, formed, and directed by the shifting
illusions caused by the wind of will, and the force of subconscious
concentration and demand.
Yet even these camouflage patterns must
follow the basic rules of the inner universe, and reflect them, even if in a
distortive manner. So does value
expansion become reincarnation and evolution and growth. So are all the other basic laws of the inner universe
followed on every plane, and reflected from the most minute to the most gigantic
spectrum.
Concentrating upon your own camouflage
universe, you are able to distinguish only the distortive pattern, and from
this pattern you deduce your ideas of cause and effect, past, present and
future, and the ideas of an expanding universe that floats …
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