Session 792

Nature of the Psyche Session 792

In waking reality, you obviously share a mass world experience as well as a physical world environment.

Again, the events that you perceive come packaged in time sequences, so that you are used to a certain kind of before-and-after order.  When you build physical structures you pile brick upon brick.  It may seem that psychological events have the same kind of structure, since after all you do perceive them in time.

When you ask: “How are events formed?” you more or less expect an answer couched in those terms.  The answer is not that simple.  The origin of events lies in that creative, subjective realm of being with which you are usually least concerned.  This state of dreaming provides an inner network of communication, that in its way far surpasses your technological communications.  The inner network deals with another kind of perceptual organization entirely.  A rose is a rose is a rose.  In the dream state, however, a rose can be an orange, a song, a grave, or a child as well, and be each equally.

In dreams you deal with symbols, of course.  Yet symbols are simply examples of other kinds of quite “objective” events.  They are events that are what they seem to be, and they are equally events that do not “immediately” show themselves.  One so-called event, therefore, may be a container of many others, while you only perceive its exterior face – and you call that face a symbol.

The other events within the symbol are as legitimate as the one event you perceive.

Basically, events are not built one upon the other.  They grow out of each other in a kind of spontaneous expansion, a profusion of creativity, while the conscious mind chooses which aspects to experience – and those aspects then become what you call an objective event.

Events obviously are not formed by your species alone, so that, as I mentioned in our last session, there is a level of the dream state in which all earth-tuned consciousness of all species and degrees come together.  From your standpoint this represents a deep state of unconscious creativity – at the cellular levels particularly – by which all cellular life communicates and forms a vital biological network that provides the very basis for any “higher” experience at all.

What you call dreaming is obviously dependent upon this cellular communication, which distributes the life force throughout the planet.  The formation of any psychological event therefore depends upon this interspecies relationship.

The psychological symbols with which you are familiar in natural terms rise up like smoke, inherent in cellular structure itself.  In deepest terms animals and plants also process symbols and react to them.

Symbols can be called psychic codes that are interpreted in infinite fashion according to the circumstances in which consciousness finds itself.  Dream events “come together” in the same way that the universe does.  Events, therefore, cannot be precisely defined.  You can explore your own experience of an event, and that exploration itself alters the nature of the seemingly separate event that you began to investigate.  You share, then, a mass dream experience as you share a mass waking world.  Your daily experience is private and uniquely yours, yet it happens within the context of a shared environment.  The same applies to the dream state.

Your dreams are also uniquely yours, yet they happen within a shared context, an environment in which the dreams of the world occur.  In that context your own existence is “forever” assured.  You are the physical event of yourself put into a given space and time, and because of the conditions of that framework, within it you automatically exclude other experience of your own selfhood.  The greater event of yourself exists in a context that is beyond your usual perception of events.  The greater portion of yourself, however, forms the self that you know.

In the dream state you step into a larger context to some extent.  For that reason, you also lose the special kind of precise orientation with which you are familiar.  Yet you begin to sense, sometimes, the larger shape of events and the timeless nature of your own existence.

Individually and en masse, in the dream state you change the orientation of your consciousness, and deal with the birth of events which are only later time-structured or physically experienced.

First of all, physical events are the end products of nonphysical properties.

The formation of events is initially an emotional, psychic, or psychological function.  Events are physical interpretations, conventionalized versions of inner perceptive experiences that are then “coalesced” in space and time.  Events are organized according to laws that involve love, belief, intent, and the intensities with which these are entertained.

Events are attracted or repelled by you according to your loves, beliefs, intents, and purposes.  Your world provides a theater in which certain events can or cannot occur.  Wars, violence, disasters -these are obviously shared by many, and are a part of your shared psychological and physical environment.

Some people encounter war directly, however, in terms of hand-to-hand combat, or bombing.  Others are only inconvenienced by it.  Here the mass shared environment is encountered as physical reality according to individual belief, love, and intent.  In the deepest meaning there is no such thing as a victim, either of war, poverty, or disease.  This does not mean that those negative qualities should not be combatted, for in the terms of conventional understanding it certainly appears that men and women are victims in many such cases.  Therefore, they behave like victims, and their beliefs reinforce such experience.

Certainly for more than the hundredth time I say: “Your beliefs form your reality”, and this means that your beliefs structure the events you know.

Such experience then convinces you more thoroughly of the reality you perceive until a vicious circle is formed, in which all events mirror beliefs so perfectly that no leeway seems to appear between the two.

If this was really the case, however, mankind’s history would never change in in any true regard.  Alternate paths of experience – new possibilities and intuitive solutions – constantly appear in the dream state, so that man’s learning is not simply dependent upon a feedback system that does not allow for the insertion of creative material.  Dreaming otherwise available, in which behavior and events can be judged against more developed and higher understanding than that present in conventional daily reality at any level.

There may be, for example, complications arising from a person’s intents, loves, and desires that cause the individual to seek certain events that his or her very beliefs make impossible.  Current experience will provide a dilemma in which a desired goal seems impossible.

In such instances a dream, or a series of them, will often then alter the person’s beliefs in a way that could not otherwise occur, by providing new information.  The same data might come in a state of inspiration, but it would in any case be the result of an acquisition of knowledge otherwise inaccessible.  Love, purpose, belief, and intent – these shape your physical body and work upon it and with it even as at other levels cellular consciousness forms it.

Love is a biological as well as a spiritual characteristic.  Basically, love and creativity are synonymous.  Love exists without an object.  It is the impetus by which all being becomes manifest.  Desire, love, intent, belief and purpose – these form the experience of your body and all the events it perceives.  You cannot change one belief but it alters your body experience.  The great give-and-take between biological and psychological integrity occurs constantly.  Your thoughts are as active as your cells, and as important in maintaining your physical being.

Your thoughts are also as natural as your cells.  Your thoughts propel you toward survival and growth also, and in the same way that your cells do.  If you find yourself in physical difficulties health-wise, you cannot say: “Why doesn’t my body stop me and assert its own wisdom?” because in the truest sense there is no division between your thoughts and your body.  You are given the ability to think, as you are given the ability to move.  Your thoughts multiply even as your cells do.  Your thinking is meant to ensure your survival in those terms, as much as your body mechanism.

The give-and-take between the two occurs largely in the dream state, where constant translations of data occur.  Your thoughts and your body cells are reflected one in the other.

I am going to suggest a series of exercises.  They should be regarded as creative exuberant games.  They will acquaint you with your psyche, or your own greater experience of yourself, by helping you shift your attention to aspects of your own experience that usually escape your notice.

The exercises will not work, however, in the way they are meant to if they are embarked upon with too serious an air or intent.  They should be considered as creative play, though of a mental nature, and they actually consist of mental endeavors tried quite spontaneously by children.  So they are not to be regarded as esoteric accomplishments.  They represent the intent to discover once again the true transparent delight that you once felt in the manipulation of your own consciousness, as you looped and unlooped it like a child’s jumping rope.

The dream state is the source of all physical events, in that it provides the great creative framework from which you choose your daily actuality.

Children quickly learn from their parents that experience must be structured in a certain conventional pattern.  In their own periods of imaginative play, however, children utilize dream events, or events perceived in dreams, while clearly realizing that these are not considered actual in the “real” world.

Physical play is pleasant, and accompanied by high imaginative activity.  Muscles and mind are both exercised.  The same kind of activity occurs in the child’s dream state as it learns to handle events before they are physically encountered.  Intense dream activity is involved.  Some dream events are more real to the child than some waking events are – not because the child does not understand the nature of experience, but because he or she is still so close to the emotional basis behind events.  Some of the exercises I will suggest will put you in touch with the way events are formed.

Children’s play, creativity, and dreams all involve you with the birth of events in the most direct fashions.  The games that you play or habitually observe will, of course, tell you much about the kind of organization that occurs in your own experience.  Overall, you organize events around certain emotions.  These can be combative, in which there will always be good teams and bad teams, salvation or destruction, winning or losing.

The events of your life will follow the love of performance, of body or imagination, for performance’s sake only; the expansion of mental or physical abilities.  The most satisfying of events involve those characteristics.  The exercises I will suggest have to do with games “that anybody can play”, then – with the natural joyful manipulation of the imagination that children employ.