Emotions in non-3D

DeMarco, Frank. Rita's World: A View from the Non-Physical (Kindle Location 2681). Rainbow Ridge Books. Kindle Edition.

(Q)  Does Rita experience frustration, irritation, joy, happiness?

(A)  This first one isn't hard, is it?  Not if you read our dialogue about it.

(Q)  Maybe this whole project is going to turn out to be an ongoing plug for The Sphere and the Hologram.

(A)  Well, there's a tremendous lot of material there, as well as a sort of guided tour, or call it an escorted journey, from the more common ways of seeing the world to a much less common way.

(Q)  Plus it was a lot of work to transcribe, assemble, edit, and publish it!  It would be nice if it wasn't all in vain.

(A)  The process itself was not in vain.  It helped seal your understanding of much that had been brought forth.

(Q)  Okay.  At any rate, today's first question.  Emotions in the non-3D?

(A)  As the guys explained to us, the conditions of existence - or I should say of awareness within existence - are different because of differences in terrain.  So, in 3D you experience emotion, as you experience everything in your life, as a localized "hot" phenomenon.  here we experience it as a generalized, hence "cool", phenomenon.

(Q)  Yes, that's very clear to me.

(A)  You will find it is less so to those who don't remember what the guys said about it.

(Q)  Didn't they use the analogy of something hot touching our skin and us maybe getting a burn from it because our skin couldn't conduct the heat away (laterally) fast enough, whereas on the non-3D side, easy and extensive connection means instant and efficient conductance, thus a wider but less intense experience?

(A)  They said, "you would find it somewhat chilly emotionally", or words to that effect.

(Q)  However, I think Jenny is asking something more than that.

(A)  Yes, but it has to be understood in terms of how it is experienced, if what is experienced is to be understood with the minimum of distortion.  A yes or no answer - even a "yes but no" answer - would not clarify anything.

So, within that context, I can say that we here experience emotions secondhand as you experience them, say, and firsthand in a way, but really, in such a way that it would be better described as a tinge, a flavor, than as a mood or a change of state.

Experiencing what you experience should not require amplification.  As we experience anything else, we experience your emotions.  We are permanently along for the ride, whether or not we put our hands on the wheel for the moment.  But what we ourselves experience is a little harder to convey.

What we do not experience are the emotions proceeding from a sense of isolation or from a sense of being helpless captives of a process beyond our control or modification.  In other words, we do not experience lack of connection - how could we?  We do not feel ourselves to be hurtling toward death, or buffeted by "external" events - how could we?  So that is a massive difference right there.  If anger is the difference between what is and what is desired, doesn't that depend on a certain sense of time?

Any emotion stemming from the difference between what you want and what is, depends on a perception of your being subject to circumstances partially or wholly beyond your control.  It would be impossible for us here to feel that, relative to each other.  We may be opposed in values and even in perceptions, but that is not the same thing as being able to believe in blame.  We can't help knowing better, and not abstractly but practically, with all our being.

If anger stems from fear - what is fear going to stem from, here?

(Q)  Could you say - what just came into my mind, so maybe it's you saying it, for all I know - could you say that the negative emotions cannot exist outside of 3D, but the positive ones can?

(A)  Can and do, but again, subject to the conditions I just reminded you of.  Reduce everything to love or fear, and see these two polarities as the experience of oneness or separation, and you can see that while that duality is useful and, in fact, inevitable in a world of duality, it is only slightly applicable outside of 3D.  We know we are all one thing.  The most we experience of separation is a relative difference, in values, in experience, in what color on the spectrum we represent.  Can green hate red?  They can be seen as opposed to each other; they are certainly different points in the spectrum; they are certainly not interchangeable.  But how could they - knowing that they are part of one thing - hate or fear each other?  And without hate or fear, the negative emotions are not here to be expressed.  You could say that this is why it is said that all is love.  All is the awareness of unity, hence love, hence all the positive emotions.