Session 900

dreams, evolution, value fulfillment: Session 900

There is, as I have told you, an inner “psychological” universe, from which your own emerges, and that universe is also the source of Framework 2 as well.  It is responsible for all physical effects, and is behind all physical “laws”.

It is not just that such an inner universe is different from your own, but that any real or practical explanation of its reality would require the birth of an entirely new physics – and such a development would first of all necessitate the birth of an entirely new philosophy.  The physics cannot come first, you see.

It is not [so much] that such developments are beyond man’s capacity as it is that they involve manipulations impossible to make for all practical purposes, from his present standpoint.  He could theoretically move to a better vantage point in the twinkling of an eye, relatively speaking, but for now we must largely use analogies.  Those analogies may lead you or Ruburt, or others, to a more advantageous vantage point, so that certain leaps become possible – but those leaps, you see, are not just leaps of intellect but of will and intuition alike, fused and focused.

The light of your questions is, in its way, an apport from that other inner universe.  In your world light has certain properties and limits.  It is physically perceived by the eyes, and to a far lesser degree by the skin itself.  In your world light comes from the sun.  It has been an exterior source, and in your world light and dark certainly appear to be opposites.

Ruburt glimpsed some of the principles involved when you were at [your downtown apartments] on several occasions – once when he tried to write a poem about the comprehensions that simply would not be verbalized.  I do not know how to explain some of this, but in your terms, there is light within darkness.  Light has more manifestations than its physical version, so that even when it may or may not be physically manifested there is light everywhere, and that light is the source of your physical version and its physical laws.  In a manner of speaking, light itself forms darkness.  Each unit of consciousness, whatever its degree, is, again, composed of energy – and that energy manifests itself with a kind of light that is not physically perceived: a light that is basically, now, far more intense that any physical variety, and a light from which all colors emerge.

The colors of which you are aware represent a very small portion of light’s entire spectrum, just physically speaking, but the spectrum you recognize represents only one inconceivably small portion of other fuller spectrums – spectrums that exist outside of physical laws.

So-called empty spaces, either in your living room between objects or the seemingly empty spaces between stars, are physical representations – or misrepresentations – for all of space is filled with the units of consciousness, alive with a light from which the very fires of life are lit.

The physical senses have to screen out such perceptions.  That light, however, is literally everywhere at once, and it is a “knowing light”, as Ruburt’s [William] James perceived.

On certain occasions, sometimes near the point of death, but often simply in conscious states outside of the body, man is able to perceive that kind of light.  In some out-of-body experiences Ruburt, for example, saw colors more dazzling than any physical ones, and you saw the same kind of colors in your dream.  They are a part of your inner senses’ larger spectrum of perception, and in the dream state you were not relying upon your physical senses at all.

In that dream worries were initially reflected – worries that your friend Floyd has also encountered on his own about virility and age, so you saw the two of you in a five-and-ten-cent store, simply representing the world of commerce, where items are sold: Did you still have a value in that world?  Were you still virile?  You were each to take your test.  Others saw you but were unconcerned, showing that the concern was your own, but also expressing the feeling that the world might not really care.

Instead of the test, you are greeted with a vision of the shimmering glass with its glowing colors and prisms, rich and intricate, representing the true source of life and sexuality itself – the vast multidimensional mosaic of which sexuality is but one facet.  You were viewing your representation of the many-faceted light of your own being.

The lamplight episode.  Here you did as you supposed.  You viewed that inner light, but the lampshades had two purposes: one, as you surmised, to give you a comforting image, literally to shade your eyes.  Ruburt was correct, however, in seeing the connection between the lampshades and the Nazi experiments (in World War II) with human skin.  The movie (on television last night), about cloning and Nazi atrocities, had made you wonder about the nature of life once again, and man’s immortality.  The connection with cloning came out in the lampshades made of (human) skins, in the old news stories – though your lampshades merely stood for those, and were fabric.  The connection was beneath, however, and also represented your feeling that even those people tortured to death did live again.  They were not extinguished.  Their consciousnesses were indeed like bulbs, say, turned on in new lamps.  The lights connected life and death, then.  The lights also represented pure knowing.

When I speak of an inner psychological universe, it is very difficult to explain what I mean.  In that reality, however, psychological activity is not limited by any of the physical laws that you know.  Thought, for example, has properties that you do not perceive – properties that not only affect matter, but that form their own greater patterns outside of your reality.  These follow their own, say, laws of physics.  You add on to, or build up your own reality, in other dimensions throughout your physical life.

The paintings that you have envisioned, for example, exist there, and they are every bit as real as the paintings in your studio.  I am not speaking symbolically here.  There is indeed light that you do not see, sound that you do not hear, sensation that you do not feel.  All of these belong to the realm of the inner senses.  The inner senses represent your true powers of perception.  They represent, say, your native nonphysical perceptive “equipment”.  The physical senses are relatively easy to distinguish:  You know what you see from what you hear.  If you close your eyes, you do not see.

The inner senses, though I have in the past described them by separating their functions and characteristics, basically operate together in such a way that in your terms it would be highly difficult to separate one from the others.  They function with a perfect spontaneous order, aware of all synchronicities.  In that psychological universe, then, it is possible for entities “to be everywhere at once”, aware of everything at once.  Your world is composed by such “entities” – the units of consciousness that form your body.  The kinds of conscious minds that you have cannot hold that kind of information.

These units of consciousness, however, add themselves up to form psychological beings far greater in number than, say, the number of stars in [your] galaxy, and each of those psychological formations has its own identity – its own soul if you prefer – its own purpose in the entire fabric of being.

That is as far as we can carry that for this evening.  We need some new carriers for the concepts.  But the light itself represents that inner universe, and the source of all comprehension.

Note 3: William James

See the passages following Jane’s entry for March 31, 1977, in Chapter 10 of her The After-Death Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James.