Session 884

Dreams, Evolution, Value Fulfillment, Session 884

Let us return to our tale of origins.

We are sitting here on a specific autumn evening.  I am obviously dictating this book, speaking through Ruburt, while Joseph sits on the couch across from a very specific coffee table, taking down my words.

This is the year 1979, and the idea of time and dates seems to be indelibly mixed into [everyone’s] psychology.  You can remember last year, and to some extent recall the past years of your lives.  It appears to you that your present consciousness wanders backward into the past, until finally you can remember no longer – and on a conscious level, at least, you must take the very event of your birth under secondhanded evidence.  Few people have conscious memory of it.

For the purposes of our discussion, I must necessarily couch this book to some degree in the framework of time.  I must honor your specifics.  Otherwise you would not understand what I am trying to say.

Even though this book is being dictated within time’s tradition, therefore, I must remind you that basically that tradition is not mine – and more, basically, it is not yours either.

I used the term “before the beginning”, then, and I will speak of earth’s events in certain sequences.  In the deepest of terms, however, and in ways that quite scandalize the intellect when it tries to operate alone, the beginning is now.  That critical explosion of divine subjectivity into objectivity is always happening, and you are being given life “in each moment” because of the simultaneous nature of that divine subjectivity.

We will nevertheless call our next chapter “In the Beginning”, laying certain events out for you in serial form.  I hope that in other portions of this book certain mental exercises will allow you to leap over the tradition of time’s framework and sense with the united intellect and intuitions your own individual part in a spacious present that is large enough to contain all of time’s segments.

Chapter 2: In the Beginning

Once again, in terms of your equations, energy and consciousness and matter are one.  And in those terms (the qualifications are necessary) consciousness is the agent that directs the transformation of energy into form and of form into energy.  All possible visible or invisible particles that you discover or imagine – meaning hypothesized particles – possess consciousness.  They are energized consciousness.

There are certain characteristics inherent in energy itself, quite aside from any that you ascribe to it, since of course to date you do not consider energy conscious.

Energy is above all things infinitely creative, innovative, original.  Energy is imaginative.  (Any scientists who might be reading this book may as well stop here.)  I am not assigning human traits to energy.  Instead, your human traits are the result of energy’s characteristics – a rather important difference.  Space as you think of it is, in your terms, filled with invisible particles.  They are the unstated portion of physical reality, the unmanifest medium in which your world exists.  In that regard, however, atoms and molecules are stated, though you cannot see them with your [unaided] eye.  The smaller particles that make them up become “smaller and smaller”, finally disappearing from the examination of any kind of physical instrument, and these help bridge the gap between unmanifest and manifest reality.

For the terms of this discussion of the beginning of [your] world, I will deal with known qualities for now – the atoms and molecules.  In the beginning, they imagined the myriad of forms that were physically possible.  They imagined the numberless cells that could arise from their own cooperative creation.  Energy is boundless.  It is exuberant.  It knows no limits.  In those terms, the atoms dreamed the cells into physical being – and from that new threshold of physical activity cellular consciousness dreamed of the myriad organizations that could emerge from this indescribable venture.

Value fulfillment itself is most difficult to describe, for it combines the nature of a loving presence – a presence with the innate knowledge of its own divine complexity – with a creative ability of infinite proportions that seeks to bring to fulfillment even the slightest, most distant portion of its own inverted complexity.  Translated into simpler terms, each portion of energy is endowed with an inbuilt reach of creativity that seeks to fulfill its own potential in all possible ventures – and in such a way that such a development also furthers the creative potentials of each other portion of reality.

In those terms, then, there was in the beginning an almost unimaginable time in which energized consciousness, using its own creative abilities, its own imagination, experimented with triumphant rambunctiousness, trying out one form after another.  In the terms you are used to thinking of, nothing was stable.  Consciousness as you think of it turned into matter, and then into pure energy and back again.

Subjectivity still largely ruled.  Like an adolescent leaving home for the first time, individualized consciousness was also somewhat homesick, and returned often to the family homestead – but gradually gained confidence and left finally to form a [universe].

Now because All That Is contains within itself such omnipotent, fertile, divine creative characteristics, all portions of its subjective experience attained dimensions of actuality impossible to describe.  The thoughts, for example, of All That Is were not simply thoughts as you might have, but multidimensional mental events of superlative nature.  Those events soon found that a transformation must occur, if they were to journey into objectivity – for no objectivity of itself could contain the entire reality of subjective events that existed within divine subjectivity.  Only in that context could their relative perfection be maintained.  Yet they had yearned before the beginning for other experiences, and even for fulfillments of a different nature.  They sensed a kind of value fulfillment that required of them the utilization of their own creative abilities.  They yearned to create as they had been created and All That Is, in a kind of divine perplexity, nevertheless realized that this had always been its own intent.

All That Is realized that such a separation would also allow you to bring about a different kind of divine art, in which the creators themselves created, and their creations created, bringing into actuality existences that were possible precisely because there would seem to be a difference between the creator and the creations.  All That Is is, therefore, within each smallest portion of consciousness.

Yet each smallest portion of consciousness can uniquely create, bring into being eccentric versions of All That Is, that in certain terms All That Is, without that separation, could not otherwise create.  The loving support, the loving encouragement of the slightest probable consciousness and manifestation – that is the intent of All That Is.

All That Is knows that even this purpose is a portion of a larger purpose.  In terms of time, the realization of that purpose will emerge with another momentous explosion of subjective inspiration into objectivity, or into another form.  In deeper terms, however, that purpose is also known now, and to one extent or another the entire universe dreams of it, as once cellular consciousness dreamed of the organs that it might “form”.

I want to stress that I am speaking here not so much about a kind of spiritual evolution as I am about an expansion.

We will for now, however, confine ourselves to a discussion of consciousness in the beginning of the world, stressing that the first basis of physical life was largely subjective, and that the state of dreaming not only helped shape the consciousness of your species, but also in those terms served to provide a steady source of information to man about his physical environment, and served as an inner web of communication among all species.