Personal Reality, Session 784
Information flows through the universe at such
a rate and in such quantities that you could not possibly process any but a
small portion of it.
Your physical senses, again, act almost
like a biological alphabet, allowing you to organize and perceive certain kinds
of information from which you form the events of your world and the contours of
your reality.
Your conscious knowledge rests upon an
invisible, unspoken, psychological and physical language that provides
the inner support for the communications and recognized happenings of conscious
life. These inner languages are built up
as cordellas, and cordellas are psychic organization units from which, then,
all alphabets are born. Alphabets imply
cordellas, but cannot contain them, any more than English can contain
Russian, French, Chinese, or any combination.
If you try to speak English, you cannot speak Chinese at the same
time. One precludes the other, even
while one implies the existence of the other, for to that degree all languages
have some common roots.
In a way events are like the spoken components
of language, yet voiced in a living form – and not for example only
sounded. These are based upon the
sensual alphabet, which itself emerges from nonsensual cordellas. A sentence is built up as words, parts of
speech, verbs, and adjectives, subjects and predicates, vowels and syllables,
and underneath there is the entire structure that allows you to speak or read
to begin with. To some extent, events
are built up in the same fashion. You
form and organize sentences, yet you speak on faith, without actually knowing
the methods involved in your speaking.
So you only recognize the surface of that activity.
In the same way you form events, often
without being aware that you do so. It
seems that events happen as it seems words are spoken. You were taught how to construct sentences in
school, and you learned how to speak from your elders. You were involved with event-making before
the time of your birth, however. The
psyche forms events in the same way that the ocean forms waves – except that
the ocean’s waves are confined to its surface or to its basin, while the psyche’s
events are instantly translated, and splash out into mass psychological
reality. In waking life, you meet the
completed event, so to speak. You
encounter events in the arena of waking consciousness. In the dream state, and at other levels of
consciousness, you deal more directly with the formation of events. You are usually as unaware of this process as
you are in normal practice of the ways in which you form your sentences, which
seem to flow from you so automatically.
The psyche, as it is turned toward physical
reality, is a creator of events, and through them it experiences its own
reality as through your own speech you hear your voice.
In dreams, then, you are involved in the
inner process by which physical events are formed. You deal with the psychological components of
actions which you will, awake, form into the consecutive corporal “language”
that results in the action of your days.
The events that you recognize as official have
a unitary nature in time that precludes those probable versions of them, from which
they arose – versions that appeared to one extent or another in the dream
state. Again, if you speak the English
sentence “I am here”, you cannot speak the Chinese version at the same
time. In that regard, in your framework
of action you choose to “speak” one event rather than another. Your formation of events, however, does not
simply reside in your unique psychological properties, of course, but is
possible because of the corporal alphabet of the flesh.
Now as it is possible for any one human
being to speak more than one language, it is also possible for you to put
physical data together in other ways than those usually used. The body is capable then of putting together
different languages of reality. In usual
terms, for example, your body can only be in one place at one time, and your
experience of events is determined in large measure by your body’s
position. Yet there are biological
mechanisms that allow you to send versions or patterns of your body outside of
its prime position, and to perceive from those locations. In sleep and dream states you do this often,
correlating the newly perceived data with usual sense information, and
organizing it all without a qualm. For
that matter, the preciseness of your ordinary sense perception results firmly
upon this greater inner flexibility, which gives you a broad base from which to
form your secure focus.
Events emerge like spoken words, then, into
your awareness. You speak, yet
who speaks, and in your briefest phrase, what happens? The atoms and molecules within your vocal
cords, and lungs and lips, do not understand one word of the language they
allow you to speak so liquidly. Without
their cooperation and awareness, however, not a word would be spoken.
Yet each of those nameless atoms and
molecules cooperates in a vast venture, incomprehensible to you, that makes
your speech possible, and your reality of events is built up from a cordella of
activity in which each spoken word has a history that stretches further back
into the annals of time than the most ancient of fossils could remember. I am speaking in your terms of experience,
for in each word spoken in your present, you evoke that past time, or
you stimulate it into existence so that its reality and yours are coexistent.
In dreams even the past is in the present
tense. Events are everywhere
forming. You make and remake the past as
well as the future. You choose from
those experiences certain ones as events in normal waking reality.
While you can only speak one sentence at a
time, and in but one language, and while that sentence must be sounded one
vowel or syllable at a time, still it is the result of a kind of circular
knowledge or experience in which the sentence’s beginning and end is known
simultaneously. If the end of it were
not known, the beginning could not be started so expertly.
In the same way the experienced event
occurring in time is dependent upon a circular happening, in which beginning
and end are entwined, but one occurring before the other, but coexistent.
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