Session 785

Personal Reality, Session 785

On a conscious level, again, you could not possibly handle all of the information that is available to you on other levels – information upon which your very physical survival depends.  To some extent then language operates as a screening device, enabling you to communicate certain data while effectively blocking out other kinds.

When you speak a sentence you do not stop to consider all of the rules of grammar.  You do not mentally diagram the sentence ahead of time.  You simply speak more or less automatically.  This involves the utmost precision, both mentally and physically.  When you experience an event, you do not usually stop either to examine the rules of perception or to wonder what these are.  You simply experience or perceive.

Those experienced events, however, are also the result of a screening process. The attain their focus, brilliance, and physical validity because they rise into prominence on the backs of other seeming unperceived events.  In the dream state you work intimately with the “inner grammar” of events.  In dreams you find the unspoken sentence and the physically unexperienced act.  The skeletons of the inner workings of events are more obvious.  Actions are not fully fleshed out.  The mechanics of your waking psychological behavior are brilliantly delineated.  That state can be explored and utilized far more fully than it is, and should be.  Yet there will always be a veil between the waking and sleeping consciousness, for while you are physical, the waking mind can only deal with so much information.  It would simply forget what it cannot hold.

Your dreams affect your cellular reality, even as that reality is also largely responsible for the fact that you dream, in your terms, at all.  Dreams are a natural “product” of cellularly tuned consciousness.  As fire gives off light, cellularly tuned consciousness gives off dreams.

Such a consciousness is at a state of being in which its reality generates more energy and power than it can physically express in its brilliant intersection with physical reality.  The “sparks” generated by each instant of its existence cause additional experiences, perceptions, that will not fit in the known moment of the present – for by then in your terms that present has already vanished into the past.

These events and responses continue to operate, however, particularly in the dream state where they do not intersect directly with full physical experience, as waking events do.  All of these parallel or alternate experiences are then used to construct the physical events that you recognize.  Again, you speak a sentence truly so that the end of it comes smoothly, though when you begin it you may not have known consciously what you were going to say.  Some part of you knew the sentence’s beginning and end at once, however.

In dreams you know the beginning and end of events in the same fashion.  Any one action in your life is taken in context with all of the other events from your birth to your death.  Now it seems to you that because you speak one sentence at any given time, rather than ten other possible versions of it, the sentence as spoken is the “correct” one.  Its probable variations in grammar or tense or inflection escape you entirely.  Yet unconsciously you may have tried out and discarded all of those, even though you have no memory of such experiences.  So even in forming sentences you deal with probabilities, and to some extent or another your body mimics, say, the various muscular responses that might be involved with each unspoken sentence.

Even as you speak your sentence with such fine conscious nonchalance, inner choices are still being made, as you unconsciously check your communications against events occurring outside you as you speak.

So, while each action of your life is taken in context with all other actions of your life until your death, this does not mean that your death is predestined to occur at any given time.  As you might change your sentence in the middle from one version to another without even being consciously aware of it, so as you live your life you also work with probabilities.  You are the self who speaks the sentence, and you are the self who lives the life.  You are larger than the sentence you speak, and larger than the life you live.

You cannot remember all of the sentences you spoke today.  You may have a general idea of what you said.  It certainly seems to you that you said one thing at any given time rather than something else.  It also seems that witnesses would back you up.  It certainly seems that waking events are more steady and dependable than dream events.

Waking events happen and vanish quickly.  They are experienced directly with the senses fully participating, but for the instant involvement you give up larger dimensions of the same actions that exist, but beneath the senses’ active participation.

In dreams the preparations for experienced events take place, not only in the most minute details but in the larger context of the world scene.  Events fit together, forming a cohesive whole that gives you a global scale of activities.  The “future” history of the world, for example, is worked out now, as in the dream state each individual works with the probable events of private life.  That private life exists, however, in a context – social, political, and economic – which is unconsciously apprehended.  When a person constructs various probable realities in the dream state, he or she does so also in this larger context, in which the probable status of the world is known.

Here, events are connected one to the other in a psychic webwork that is far more effective than your physical technological system of communication.  Here, reality codes are utilized.  Knowledge is received and transmitted in electromagnetic patters so that one pattern can carry far more units of information than anything you have, technologically speaking.  Each cell in the body does its part in picking up such signals and transmitting them.  Some decoding also takes place at that level, so that pertinent information is sent where it belongs, physically speaking.

Much information does not even reach the brain (the mind is aware of such data, however).  In man, the psychic-physical structure has at every moment a complete up-to-date picture of pertinent information about all events that will in any way affect the organism.  All actions are taken with this information available.  In the dream state such data becomes transformed, again, into pseudophysical pictures – reflections of events that might occur, previews of probable sequences.  These are flashed before a consciousness that momentarily focuses upon the inner rather than the outer arena of reality.

Now these previews are played out not only for the mind but for the body as well.  In sleep, again, each cell calculates the effect of various probable events upon its own reality.  Computations are made so that the body’s entire response can be ascertained ahead of time, and the advantages and disadvantages weighed.  The body participates in dreaming at the most minute levels.

The atoms and molecules themselves possess kinds of consciousness impossible for you to analyze, because the scales of your activities are so different.  They are information-gathering processes, however, containing codified electromagnetic properties that slip between all of your devices.  The atoms and molecules and all of the seemingly smaller “particles” within them are, again, information-carrying processes, and upon them depends your entire interpretation of the nature of events.

Again, cellularly-attuned consciousness generates dreams.  Consciousness, riding on a molecular back, generates a physical reality and events suited to it.

Thinking also rests firmly in the reality of cellularly attuned consciousness.

Thought takes time, and exists by virtue of cellular composition.  Consciousness not focused in cellular construction involves itself with a kind of direct cognition, involving comprehensions that come in a more circular fashion.

The creative act is your closest experience to direct cognition.  While your consciousness thinks of itself in physical terms, whether you are living or dead, then you will still largely utilize thinking patterns with which you are familiar.  Your consciousness is cellularly attuned in life, in that it perceives its own reality through cellular function that forms the bodily apparatus.  The psyche is larger than that physically attuned consciousness, however.  It is the larger context in which you exist.  It is intertwined with your own reality as you think of it.  On those occasions when you are able to alter your focus momentarily, then the psyche’s greater experiences come into play.  You are able to at least sense your existence apart from its cellular orientation.  The experience, however, is circular, and therefore very difficult to verbalize or to organize into your normal patterns of information.