dreams, evolution, value fulfillment: Session 903
The world as you
know it exists as it does because you are yourself a living portion of a vast
“conscious grid” of perception.
Every cell, in
those terms, is a sender and a receiver.
All of the larger divisions of life – the mammals, fish, birds and so
forth – are an integral part of that living gridwork. The picture of the world is not only the
result of those messages transmitted and received, however, but is also caused
by the relationships between those messages.
In your terms, then, all of life’s large classifications were
present “at the beginning of the world”.
Otherwise there would have been vast holes in that grid of perception
that makes possible the very sensations of physical life.
In a manner
of speaking, the physical universe is “transposed”
upon another reality that must be its source.
The world was and is created in dimensions outside of time, and outside
of space as you understand it.
Other realities
quite as legitimate as your own, quite as vital, quite as “real”, coexist with
your own, and in the terms of your understanding, “in the same space” – but of
course in terms of your experience those spaces and realities would appear to
be quite separate. No systems are
closed, however, so that basically the living grid of perception that
causes one world or reality is also “wired into” all other such systems. There is a give-and-take between them.
The grids of
perception that compose your world give you the world picture as you
experience it because your physical senses put you in a certain position within
the entire grid. Animals, for example,
while part of your experience, are also “tuned into” that grid at another
level. The large classifications of
mammals, fish, birds, men, reptiles, plants, and so forth, are [each] an
integral part of that larger perceptive pattern – and that pattern in
those terms had to be complete even in the beginning of your time.
In various
periods that “gridwork” might “carry more traffic” along certain circuits than
at other periods, so that there has been some creative leeway allowed,
particularly on the parts of the species that make up your larger classifications. There were always birds, for example, but in
the great interplay of “interior” and exterior communication among all portions
of this vast living system, there was a creative interplay that allowed for
endless variations within that classification, and each other one.
Your
technological communication system is a conscious construct – a magnificent one
– but one that is based upon your innate knowledge of the inner, cellular
communication between all species.
Saying that, I am not robbing the intellect of its right to congratulate
itself upon that technology.
The large
classifications of life give you the patterns into which consciousness forms
itself, and because those patterns seem relatively stable it is easy to miss
the fact that they are filled out, so to speak, in each moment with new
energy. Man does not in his physical
development pass through the stages supposedly followed by the hypothetical
creature who left the water for the land to become a mammal – but each species
does indeed have written within it the knowledge of “its past”. Part of this, again, is most difficult to
express, and I must try to fill out old words with new meanings. The reincarnational aspects of physical life,
however, serve a very important purpose, providing an inner subjective
background. Such a background is needed
by every species.
Reincarnation
exists, then, on the part of all species.
Once a consciousness, however, has chosen the larger classification of
its physical existences, it stays within that framework in its
“reincarnational” existences. Mammals
return as mammals, for example, but the species can change within that
classification. This provides great
genetic strength, and consciousnesses in those classifications have chosen them
because of their own propensities and purposes.
The animals, for example, seem to have a limited range of physical
activity in conscious terms, as you think of them. An animal cannot decide to read a
newspaper. Newspapers are outside of its
reality. Animals have a much wider
range, practically speaking, in certain other areas. They are much more intimately aware of their
environment, of themselves as separate from it, but also of themselves as
a part of it. In that regard, their
experience deals with relationships of another kind.
These grids of
perception “do not exist forever” in your dimension of time, for your dimension
of time cannot hold anything that is outside it. Once a world exists, however, it becomes
imprinted or stamped upon eternity, so that it exists in time and out of it “at
once”.
When you ask:
“When did the world begin?” or “What really happened?” or “Was there a Garden
of Eden?”, you are referring to the world as you understand it, but in those
terms there were earths in the same space before the earth you recognize
existed, and they began in the manner that I have given you in the early
chapters of this book. The patterns for
worlds – the patterns – continue in your time dimension, though in that
time dimension those worlds must disappear, again, to continue “their existence
outside of time”. The patterns are
filled out again.
In the case of
earth the grid of perception is simply used differently, certain areas becoming
prominent in some eras, and less prominent in others. Using your idea of time, I can only say that
when the entire gestalt of consciousnesses that formed a particular earth have
formed its reality to the best of their abilities, fulfilling their individual
and mass capacities as far as possible, then they lovingly turn over that grid
to others, and continue to take part in existences that are not physical in
your terms. And that has happened many
times.
Your tale about
the Garden of Eden, then, is a legend about earth’s last beginning. Each world is so cunningly constructed, again,
that each consciousness, regardless of its degree, plays a vital part. And each of your actions, however
inconsequential, becomes connected in one way or another – in one way or
another – to each other reality and each other world.
Now in a manner
of speaking – though I see that little time has passed in this living room
where I speak with Ruburt’s permission – we have transcended time to some
extent this evening, for in what I have said there are indeed hints and
illusions – cadences – that can, if you are ready, give you a feeling for
existence as it is outside of time’s context.
Even to try and verbally present such material necessitates alterations
involving perception, for while that gridwork appears quite stable to your
senses, giving you a reliable picture of reality, this is also because you have
trained yourselves to pick up certain signals only. Others at other levels are
available. You can tune into
cellular consciousness, for example.
Since this
material must be comprehensible, Ruburt and I together form our own pathway of
perceptions – he from his end and me from mine, so that we thread back and
forth as if through the wiring of some vast computer – but a computer
that is alive.
(“In the 837th session, about the death of
our cat, Billy – you said that there wasn’t any such thing as cat
consciousness, per se. Tonight’s session
reminds me of that one. I see how they
fit together.”)
They do
indeed. Billy can be as he chooses –
reincarnated into any species within his classification – as a mammal.
(That isn’t going to run into the idea of
transmigration, is it?” I was thinking
that man is also a mammal.)
That is
something else – that is, men being born as animals. I am including man as his own
classification. Remember, however, there
are also fragments, which [again] is something else.
(“Last Saturday morning I had what seemed to be two
dreams that were identical and side by side, or at the same time. But they weren’t within the other, as in a
double dream – “)
You know you can
have more than one dream at a time. You
can also experience versions of dreams of probable selves, but there will
always be some point of contact – that is, there will always be a reason why
you pick up such a dream. All of the
dreams people have form a mass dream framework.
Dreams exist at other levels, and physically of course they affect the
body state. In such ways, the world’s
actions are worked out in mass dream communications that are at the same time
public and private.
The country
works out national concerns in that fashion.
You think when you are asleep as well as when you are awake. But when you are asleep your thoughts have a
richer dimensional cast: They are fattened by symbols and images.
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