Session 886

dreams, evolution, value fulfillment: Session 886

In the beginning, there was not God the Father, Allah, Zoroaster, Zeus, or Buddha.

In the beginning, there was instead, once more, a divine psychological gestalt – and by that I mean a being whose reality escapes the definition of the word “being”, since it is the source from which all being emerges.  That being exists in a psychological dimension, a spacious present, in which everything that was or is or will be (in your terms) is kept in immediate attention, poised in a divine context that is characterized by such a brilliant concentration that the grandest and the lowliest, the largest and the smallest, are equally held in a multi-loving constant focus.

Your conceptions of beginnings and endings make an explanation of such a situation most difficult, for in your terms the beginning of the [universe] is meaningless – that is, in those terms there was no beginning.

The [universe] is, as I explained, always coming into existence, and each present moment brings its own built-in past along with it.  You agree on accepting as fact only a small portion of the large available data that compose any moment individually or globally.  You accept only those data that fit in with your ideas of motion in time.  As a result, for example, your archeological evidence usually presents a picture quite in keeping with your ideas of history, geological eras, and so forth.

The conscious mind sees with a spectacular but limited scope.  It lacks all peripheral vision.  I use the term “conscious mind” as you define it, for you allow it to accept as evidence only those physical data available for the five senses – while the five senses, of course, represent only a relatively flat view of reality, that deals with the most apparent surface.

The physical senses are the extensions of inner senses that are, in one way or another, a part of each physical species regardless of its degree.  The inner senses provide all species with an inner method of communication.  The cells, then, possess inner senses.

Atoms perceive their own positions, their velocities, motions, the nature of their surroundings, the material that they compose.  [Your] world did not just come together, mindless atoms forming here and there, elements coalescing from brainless gasses – nor was the world, again, created by some distant objectified God who created it part by part as in some cosmic assembly line.  With defects built in, mind you, and better models coming every geological season.

The universe formed out of what God is.

The universe is the natural extension of divine creativity and intent, lovingly formed from the inside out so there was consciousness before there was matter, and not the other way around.

In certain basic and vital ways, your own consciousness is a portion of that divine gestalt.  In the terms of your earthly experience, it is a metaphysical, a scientific, and a creative error to separate matter from consciousness, for consciousness materializes itself as matter in physical life.

Your consciousness will survive your body’s death, but it will also take on another kind of form – a form that is itself composed of “units of consciousness”.  You have a propensity for wanting to think in terms of hierarchies of consciousness, with humanity at the top of the list, in global terms.  The Bible, for example, says that man is put in dominion over the animals, and it seems as if upgrading the consciousnesses of animals must somehow degrade your own.  The divine gestalt, however, is expressed in such a way that its quality is undiluted.  It cannot be watered down, so that in basic terms one portion of existence is somehow up or down the scale from another.  It is all Grade A (with amusement).

You limit the capacity of your conscious mind by refusing to allow it to use a larger scope of attention, so that you have remained closed and ignorant about the different, varied, but rich experiences of other species: They do appear beneath you.  You have allowed a certain stubborn literal-mindedness to provide you with definitions that served to categorize rather than illuminate other realities beside your own.

In the beginning, then, there was a subjective world that became objective.  Matter was not yet permanent, in your terms, for consciousness was not yet as stable there.  In the beginning, then, there was a dream world, in which consciousness formed a dream of physical reality, and gradually became awake within that world.

Mountains rose and tumbled.  Oceans filled.  Tidal waves thundered.  Islands appeared.  The seasons themselves were not stable.  In your terms the magnetic fields themselves fluctuated – but all of the species were there at the beginning, though in the same fashion, for as the dream world broke through into physical reality there was all of the tumultuous excitement and confusion with which a mass creative event is achieved.  There was much greater plasticity, motion, variety, give-and-take, as consciousness experimented with its own forms.  The species and environment together formed themselves in concert, in glorious combination, so that each fulfilled the requirements of its own existence while adding to the fulfillment of all other portions of physical reality.

That kind of an event simply cannot fit into your concepts of “the beginning of the world”, with consciousness arising out of matter almost as a second thought, or with an exteriorized God initiating a divine but mechanistic natural world.

Nor can this concept fit into your versions of good and evil, as I will explain later in this book.  God, or All That Is, is in the deepest sense completed, and yet uncompleted.  Again, I am aware of the contradiction that seems to be presented to your minds.  In a sense, however, a creative product, say, helps complete an artist, while of course the artist can never be completed.  All That Is, or God, in a certain fashion, now – and this is qualified – learns as you learn, and makes adjustments according to your knowledge.  We must be very careful here, for delusions of divinity come sometimes too easily, but in a basic sense you all carry within yourselves the undeniable mark of All That Is – and an inbuilt capacity – capacity – to glimpse in your own terms undeniable evidence of your own greater existence.  You are as close to the beginning of [your] world as Adam and Eve were, or as the Romans, or as the Egyptians or Sumerians.  The beginning of the world is just a step outside the moment.

I have a purpose in this book – and that purpose is to change your ideas of yourselves, by showing you a truer picture of your history both in terms of your immortal consciousness and your physical heritage.