session 822

Mass Events, Session 822

In the terms of our discussion Framework 2 is the medium in which your world exists.  It represents the vaster psychological reality in which your subjective life resides.

That framework has been glimpsed throughout history by many individuals, and given many names.  If you visit a foreign country, however, you have a tendency to describe the entire nation in terms of the small area you have visited, though other portions may be quite different in geography, culture, and climate.

The individuals who have to one extent or another perceived Framework 2 have, then, described it according to their own brief visits, taking it for granted “that the part was a representative sample of the whole”.  Plato conceived [of] it as the world of ideals, seeing within it the perfect model behind each imperfect physical phenomenon.

He thought of that realm as eternal and unchanging, a perfect but frozen composite that must indeed inspire men toward achievement on the one hand, and on the other reproach them for their failure, since their achievements must necessarily seem puny in contrast.  Plato then saw Framework 2 as a splendid, absolute model in which all the works of man had their initial source.  Man himself, according to this concept, could not affect that ideal world one whit.  He could, however, use it as a source of inspiration.

Some ancient religions put the existence of gods there, and saw the spirits of each living thing as existing primarily in that invisible medium of reality.  Therefore, Framework 2 has always been represented in one way or another as a source of your world.  Christianity saw it as heaven, inhabited by God the Father, His angels, the saints, and [the] deceased faithful.

Once scientists theorized the ether as the medium in which the physical universe existed.  Framework 2 is the psychological medium in which the consciousness of the world exists.  The word “ego” is much bandied about, and in many circles it has a poor reputation.  It is, however, as I use it, a term meant to express the ordinarily conscious directive portion of the self.  It is your conscious version of what you are – an excellent description, if I do say so myself.  It is directed outward into the physical world.  It is also aware, however, of some of your “unconscious” activities.  It is the “you” you identify with, so it is as aware of your dreams, for example, as you are, and it is quite conscious of the fact that its existence rests upon knowledge that it does not itself possess.

As you have an ego, fully conscious, directed toward the physical world, you also have what I call an inner ego, directed toward inner reality.  You have, in other words, a portion of yourself that is fully conscious in Framework 2.  The ego in your ordinary world, which again we will call Framework 1, is uniquely equipped to deal with that environment.  It manipulates with rules of cause and effect and consecutive moments.  It deals with an objectified reality.  It can stretch its capacities, becoming far more aware of inner events than it is normally allowed to do, but its main purpose is to deal with the world of effects, to encounter events.

The inner ego is fully conscious.  It is a portion of you, however, that deals with the formation of events, that glories in a rather rambunctious and creative activity that your specifications of time and place physically preclude.  The unconscious, so-called, is – and I have said this before – quite conscious, but in another realm of activity.  There must be a psychological chamber between these two portions of the self, however – these seemingly undifferentiated areas, in which back-and-forth translations can occur.  Dream periods provide that service, of course, so that in dreams the two egos can meet and merge to some extent, comparing notes like strangers who perhaps meet on a train at night, and are amazed to discover, after some conversation, that they are indeed close relatives, each embarked upon the same journey though seemingly they travelled alone.

In those terms the undifferentiated area is actually filled with motion as psychological transitions and translations are made, until in dreams the two egos often merge into each other – so that sometimes you waken briefly with a sense of elation, or a feeling that in dreams you have met an old and valued friend.

Your world is populated by individuals concentrating upon physical activities, dealing with events that are “finished products” – at least in usual terms.  Your inner egos populate Framework 2, and deal with the actual creation of those events that are then objectified.  Since “the rules” of Framework 2 are different, that reality is not all bound by your physical assumptions.  It contains, therefore, the inner ego of each individual who has lived or will ever live upon the earth.

I am speaking of that framework now only as it applies to your world – not in its relationship to other realities.  Earlier in his own experience Ruburt described that framework (in Psychic Politics) as the heroic dimension.  He saw quite correctly that there was a great give-and-take between the two frameworks – your regular working one, Framework 1, and this other more comprehensive reality.  He did not thoroughly understand, however, the creative ramifications involved, for it did not occur to him at the time that the prime work of your world was actually done by you in that other wider aspect of your existence.

Physically you have at your fingertips certain accumulations of knowledge, objectified through the passage of information verbally through the ages, in records or books, and through television.  [Now] you use computers to help you process information, and you have a more or less direct access to physical knowledge.  You acquired it through the use of your senses.  There is systematized knowledge, where men have accumulated facts in one particular field, processing it in one way or another.  Your own senses bring you information each moment, and that information is in a way already invisibly processed according to your own beliefs, desires, and intents.

You will ignore as information certain stimuli that another person, for example, will latch on to immediately.  Even in your own world, then, your interests and desires serve as organizational processes that screen out certain information.  The information available in Framework 2 is in your terms infinite.

It is the source of your world, so therefore it contains not only all knowledge physically available, but far more. I do not want to compare the inner ego with a computer in any way, for a computer is not creative, nor is it alive.  You think of course of the life that you know as LIFE.  It is, however, only the manifestation of what in those terms can only be called the greater life out of which your life springs.  This is not to compare the reality that you know in derogative terms to the other-source existence, either, for your own world contains, as each other world does, a uniqueness and an originality that in those terms exists nowhere else – for no world of existence is like any other.

The inner ego is a portion of the self, for example – is the portion of your self – that is aware of your reincarnational activities.  It is the part of you that exists outside of time, yet simultaneously lives in time.  You form your own reality.  The ego that you are aware of obviously could not form your body for you, however, or grow your bones.  It knows how to assess the conditions of the world.  It makes deductions.  Your reasoning is highly important, yet alone it cannot pump your blood or tell your eyes how to see.

The inner ego does the actual work that brings about the events you have decided upon.  In very simple terms, if you want to pick up a book, and then do so, you experience that event consciously, though you are quite unaware of all of the inner events that occurred to bring the motion about.  The inner ego directs those activities.

If you want to change your job, and hold that desire, a new job will come into your experience in precisely the same fashion, in that the inner events will be arranged by the inner ego.  A body event involves the working of numerous muscles and joints and so forth.  An event involving a job change concerns motion on the part of many people, and implies a network of communication on the part of all of the inner egos involved.  Obviously, then, a mass physical event implies an inner system of communications of proportions that would put your technological communications to shame.

You may then, again, unknowingly acquire an illness and recover, never aware of your malady, being healed because of a series of events that would seemingly have nothing to do with the illness itself – because in Framework 2 the inner ego, knowing the reason for the illness, and its cure, brought those precise situations and remedied the condition.  Such events happen automatically, when nothing hampers recovery at your end.

The communication between the inner and outer egos should obviously be as clear and open as possible.  As a general rule, the inner ego depends upon your assessment of physical events.  Your involvement in the private aspects of your living, and your participation in mass events, has much to do with your estimation of the physical situation, and with your beliefs and desires regarding it.  A very simple example: If you want to write a letter you do so.  There is no conflict between your desires, beliefs, and the execution of the act, so the action itself flows smoothly.  If for some reason or another, through a poor assessment of your reality, you believe that such an act is dangerous, then you will hamper the flow between the desire and the execution.  The flow of creativity begun by the inner ego will be impeded.