Tuned Consciousness and changing Inner References to Reality

We tend to think of ourselves almost as static, unchanging.  At the molecular level we're more like a river than a rock ... Deepak Chopra pointed that out in his book "Quantum Healing".  Here, Seth describes the inner flow of consciousness within the patterns of the individual and collective psyche.

Years ago, when I used to get readings from the Transcendors, at one point they referred to me as "process Al".  That really hit home.  What I know as me (aka Al) is a continuously changing perception of the explosion of All That Is in the spacious present ... currently perceiving these time-space possibilities being shared right now with you within Gaia!

It is truly humbling to think how small, yet significant, "process Al" is in the grand scheme of things.  In quantum mechanics (the best metaphor for manifestation that I am aware of) each observation in time and space is popped from a superposition of an infinite possibilities.  Change one of those seemingly insignificant possibilities out of that infinite set and the whole thing changes. Similarly, every perception, every thought and feeling and action that we individually play out in our 3D reality changes the whole being of All That Is.

By the way, I'm using "humility" in the context of Lazaris's definition of humility: "letting each moment be brand new"!

“The inner references of reality involve a different kind of experience entirely, with organizational patterns that mix and merge at every conceivable point.  You tune your consciousness while you sleep as one might tune a piano, so that in waking reality, it clearly perceives the proper notes and values that build up into physical experience.  Those inner fields of reference in which you have your existence are completely changing themselves as your experience is added to them, and your own identity was couched in those references before birth as you understand it.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 938)

Where and when

Where and when?  These have been questions that have, and still do, bother me.

The concept of a place, a "where" for All That Is and the Cosmos ... seems like a natural question but it is fundamentally unanswerable.  So, after all these years, I'm no further ahead on pursuing this question than I was when I was born!

The concept of time "when" in a world where I only ever sense now ... a world where we suppose things march along like the ticking of a clock from beginning to end.  The "when" of the beginning of All That Is and the Cosmos ... a natural enough question to us but, again, just like the "where" of All That Is, the Cosmic "when" question is fundamentally unanswerable.  Seth says that everything happens in the "spacious present" ... the Cosmic "now".  That helps a bit, but the "when" seems to need a "where" so I'm back to square one again.

The concept of the "spacious present" at least resolves (for myself anyway) the continuous arising of the universe in the "now" and helps me to get on with life.

“The nature of time, questions concerning the beginning or ending of the universe – these cannot be approached with any certainty by studying life’s exterior conditions, for the physical references themselves are merely the manifestations of inner psychological activity. You are aware of the universe only insofar as it impinges upon your perception.  What lies outside of that perception remains unknown to you.  It seems to you, then, that the world began – or must have begun – at some point in the past, but that is like supposing that one piece of a cake is the whole cake, which was baked in one oven and consumed perhaps in an afternoon.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 938)

Inner references

According to Frank deMarco in his channelling of "Rita's World", Carl Jung used the term "unconscious mind" as a convenience but never meant it to be taken literally.  

What Seth shows us is that what we call consciousness is only the "edge" of consciousness of the entity that we are touching this physical reality ... projecting like a flashlight exploring the holographic multiverse that is this universe.  

Similarly, there are aspects of our greater Self projecting and exploring other realities, both dimensional and non-dimensional.  We get a glimpse of some of this in our dreams, where we try to remember the feelings and gestalts of awareness from other realities that we're exploring.  In fact, when we sleep and can't remember our dreams, often it is because we've tapped into realities that defied representation in terms of 3D symbols in a linear time sequence.

“The word “unconscious” is in a fashion meaningless. There are endless versions [of consciousness], of course, with their own worlds, forming organizations of meaning and purpose.  Some of these mingle with your own and vice versa.  The “inner structure” is one of consciousness, and the deeper questions can eventually only be approached by granting the existence of inner references.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 938)

An infinite number of realities

Today’s Seth basically says that all possibilities actually exist.  To us, they appear as quantum potentials and we “pop” into experience the one’s that make sense to us.  It’s a bit as if the universe was an infinite hologram and we intersect a ‘laser beam” from the shared reality with our own personal “laser beam” to light up a moment in 3D space and linear time that makes sense to us and everyone around us.

That sounds very simple, but here’s an interesting example that Lazaris gave.  Years ago after Los Angeles experienced a major earthquake during a World Series baseball game, someone asked Lazaris about the people that died.  Without hesitation he pointed out that those who held a strong belief that that “was the big one” are now experiencing a reality where the San Andreas fault broke apart.  For the rest of us, we didn’t hold that belief so here we are.

The implication of this is that we meet the version of people that share the same shared beliefs about physical reality in each moment of our lives.  Conversely, there’ a 3D version of us experiencing every other possibility which, to those versions, are just as real as this one.

It’s pretty amazing and incomprehensible with our 3D physical brain … but it’s a “no brainer” for our non-3D self and Higher Self!

“The entire picture of physical life as you understand it must be of course experienced from your own viewpoint, but its complexity, its order and magnificence of structure and design should be understood as composing but one example of the infinite number of realities, each constructed by the propensities and characteristics of its own nature and the nature of its own consciousness.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 938)

Altering our approach to life

“Within the patterns of human experience, then, lies evidence of man’s greater ability: He rubs shoulders with his own deeper understanding whenever he remembers, say, a precognitive dream, an out-of-body – whenever he feels the intrusion or infusion of knowledge into his mind from other than physical sources.  …

“If man paid more attention to his own subjective behavior, to those feelings of identification with nature that persistently arise, then half of the dictates of both evolutionists and the creationists would automatically fall away, for they would appear nonsensical.  It is not a matter of outlining a whole new series of methods that will allow you to increase your psychic abilities, or to remember your dreams, or to perform out-of-body gymnastics.  It is rather a question or a matter of completely altering your approach to life, so that you no longer block out such natural spontaneous activity.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 937)

Spontaneous order

Apparently, after we die and gather round the “spiritual bar” in the afterlife (as the Transcendors would say) it’s a really joyous affair.  We finally see the big picture, the missed and fumbled opportunities, the love we felt and we also dream future lives … all in the spirit of playful exuberance!  

I can just imagine how funny it must be to finally recognize the playful nudges and hints from our non3D and Higher Self … these components of our greater Self are  expressions of pure joyful creativity of All That Is.  

In looking back at my life, I’m pretty sure I’ve provided my greater self with lots of entertainment!

“It is instead, of course, quite possible that your predictable world exists not in spite of but because of those surprising, unpredictable, unofficial occurrences.  There is a kind of larger spontaneous order of which the seemingly unpredictable elements of your world provide their own clues.

“By taking notice of seemingly unpredictable events, by changing your focus, you can indeed begin to sense the larger patterns of such a reality. And that reality leaves many traces in your own experience.  It everywhere provides hints and clues as to its own actuality and your own participation in varying fields of expression that have not been given any official recognition.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 937)

Experiences

For those who have seen the film "What the BLEEP do we know?", it opens with the tale of how Columbus's ships were invisible to the natives until a Shaman (who had an expanded openness to observation and physical experience) finally saw them.  This was because these ships were so foreign to the knowledge and belief system of the tribe that they were invisible ... this makes one wonder what UFO activity we're not seeing!!!

The last sentence in this quote is particularly relevant to me.  In the early 70's, after completing a Masters Degree in relativistic quantum field theory I had the naive opinion that everything physical could eventually be explained mathematically ... this view, of course, is the height of human egotistical arrogance but it also led to a concern that:  if everything is causal and predictable, then we have no free will and volition!  It was that concern that launched me into studies of consciousness, metaphysics and spirituality about 40 years ago.

Modern physics and science in general never start with consciousness ... hence their explanations are never really explanations of anything.  They're just mathematical patterns of experimental data observed in their "predictable" realm ... hence when the non-predictable phenomena are observed their default is to deny the data.

This is really funny since, on the one hand, at the scale of human observation there are all kinds of observed phenomena throughout the centuries that defy our mathematical models; and yet, in the realm of the sub-atomic, we applaud the "discovery" of something like a Higgs boson - why: because we predicted it and our analysis of our data (designed of course to detect what we think a Higgs boson should do) appears to justify the assumption about something that is never directly observable at human levels of perception.

Lazaris in one of their sessions asked a rhetorical question about neutrinos: do they exist as a result of a prediction that they should exist or did they exist without the prediction?  Since we create our own reality, individually and collectively, the question is pretty much meaningless.  If humans want to see the effects of something like a neutrino (or a Higgs boson for that matter) they will, of course, see what they're looking for.  But that doesn't mean these mental constructs have to exist in all physical realities.  They only appear as predictable patterns in our data if we believe they should!

“The predictable and non-predictable serve, then, to form the boundaries of physical experience.

“The more open you are to such ideas the greater the flow of your experience can be.

“You should never accept as fact a theory that contradicts your own experience.  Man’s experience includes, for example, all kinds of behavior for which science has no answers.  That is well and good.  Science cannot be blamed for saying that its methods are not conducive to the study of this or that area of experience – but science should at least be rapped on the knuckles smartly if it automatically rejects such behavior as valid, legitimate or real, or when it attempts to place such events outside of the realm of actuality.  Science can justly be reprimanded when it tries to pretend that man’s experience is limited to those events that science can explain.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 937)

Events can be experienced in many ways

Today’s Seth talks about how “events” … individual or collective … are manifested/experienced at multiple levels in a playful but precise tapestry of being.  Modern science doesn’t understand that weather and the planet respond to consciousness … both the sentience of Gaia, including all three “kingdoms” (mineral, plant and animal) and, of course, human: collective, individual, local groups, nations (any “We” for that matter).  These manifestations of psychic energy find outlet in the most beneficial ways while balancing the infinity of desires, imaginings and expectations of all involved and also balancing short and long term needs.

Coincidentally, I was reading a piece entitled “The Meaning of Disasters” from Frank deMarco’s book “The Sphere and the Hologram”.  The discussion revolved around why there are events like the extinction of dinosaurs, 911, and other “catastrophes” and what role “The Guys Upstairs” played in orchestrating these events.

Here are a few quotes I found interesting:

“Now, the orchestrating of an event that can have long term, hopefully positive, effects on society - which, as we have said, only interests us (TGU - The Guys Upstairs) in that it helps to mold people closer to their potential - that’s worth an awful lot of transient human suffering, because the alternative is not a lack of suffering, the alternative is suffering of an entirely different kind.”

Bear in mind that because we have free will and choice, our TGU sees the big picture and presents us with opportunities (Plan A) for our individual and collective value fulfillment.  But, because we don’t always follow the plan (due to our free will and choice) … our TGU keeps coming up with Plan B, C, … and ad infinitum.

“We’re saying an event has initial consequences and then the secondary consequences and tertiary and quaternary. …

“Again, you all see things necessarily in time-slices.  Because you see time-slices, you can’t possibly see them the way we do.  What you call the tragedies of World War I and World War II, and everything in between, not to mention the Cold War afterwards, we would look at as the seismic interruption of a world culture that had kind of reached a dead end.  This resulted in the freeing of many countries that had been colonies - which in turn had good and bad effects.  The level of civilization dropped.  But it’s still better for people to work out their own destiny than to be held as children.  It’s not that simple, but we’re trying to give you a simple example."

“There are decisions in which each individual plays a part that are made in fields of activity that you usually do not even realize exist.

“The people of a nation can at any given moment decide to activate or experience a particular event almost entirely in the physical realm, or to separate its elements in such a way that half of it is experienced physically and the other half in dream reality.  Transformations of energy occur of course constantly, so that, say, a probable physical storm can instead appear as an economic one.

“[An event] can appear as an emotional storm on the part of large numbers of people.  It can instead appear as a series, say, of frightening dreams.  At each point of its existence such an event can weave in and out of such manifestations, largely dissipating itself.  An adverse physical situation, such as an illness, may turn into “a frightening dream”, yet in all such cases the necessary standards of self-integrity are maintained.

“The same alterations apply of course for fortunate events, which may be experienced through full physical expression, or through a series of manifestations that might also involve social or economic happenings, or the occurrence of splendid weather conditions – the insertion of excellent almost perfect summerlike days, or whatever.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 937)

Dreams can affect genetic alterations

“The same curious mixture of nonpredictable and predictable activity operates in genetic patterning also, in which the genetic systems are largely set up to achieve the retention of specific characteristics, and yet can also demonstrate behavior that seems to be genetically unfaithful, distorted, or to introduce alterations that might appear to be travesties upon genetic integrity.

“Those odd genetic happenings, however, as I have tried to explain, often provide a resiliency and a widening of probabilities that are most necessary for overall genetic balance.  Dream actions can indeed – and often do – affect genetic alterations, acting as triggers for altered cellular action.  There is a give-and-take between the seemingly separate mental and physical aspects of your lives at every level of experience, and at every level within nature’s seeming boundaries.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 937)

Couriers exploring new mental "lands"

“There are considerable changes that occur under such conditions in man’s subjective experience.  Man’s feelings about himself change too, but little by little his trust in unpredictability grows.  He is more willing to assign himself to it.  The species begins its own kind of psychic migration.  It begins to sense within itself further frontiers and the possibilities for action. It begins to yearn for the exploration of mental lands, and it sends portions of itself out as couriers.

Ruburt is that kind of courier.  There are many in all areas of life, and this involves not only an excitement on the part of your own species, but the same kind of curiosity and excitement on the part of other species as well.  Again, most difficult to explain – but those connections that exist between all species and the environment are themselves affected. The horizontal communications stretch and expand to allow for later developments in terms of probabilities, for consciousness always knows itself in more than one context, and it is possible for nature to experience itself in ways that would seem to be most improbable when the properties of conservation and learning are at their strongest spring.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 936)

The times, they are a changing

When your read today’s Seth it’s not hard to see this happening globally … where it all goes who knows (our non-3D sees the possibilities but where we end up depends upon us making choices and decisions along the way).  It was interesting to ask the Transcendors about future probabilities … they always answered in a percentage (down to one decimal point).  It appeared they took inventory of all the possibilities and looked at the probabilities of us making choices and decisions along the way.  The further in the future the more things washed out.  They likened reality to a cobweb where we’re sitting at a node (a moment in time and space) and there are a myriad of threads branching out with each pulse of our linear time (we create snapshots roughly 50 times per second and arrange them linearly).  It’s easy to see that it doesn’t take too many “clock ticks” before the number of possibilities are literally astronomical!

“As “the times change” you tire of the old ways. Even your dreams begin to reach out into new avenues.  The relationships between nature’s natural conservative behavior and nature’s need for innovation are stretched.  More and more remarkable events begin to occur, both in private and mass experience, in physical and mental behavior, in the events, say, of both stars and man.

“People want, then, to throw aside old structures of belief.  They yearn, often without recognizing it, for the remembered knowledge of early childhood, when it seems that they experienced for a time a dimension of experience in which the unexpected was taken for granted, when “magical events” occurred quite naturally.  They begin to look at the structure of their lives in a different fashion that attempts to evoke from nature, and from their own natures, some graceful effortlessness, some freedom nearly forgotten.  They begin to turn toward a more natural and a more magical approach to their own lives. At such times the conserving elements in nature and in society itself do not seem as strong as they did before. Surprising events that were earlier covered up or ignored seem to appear with greater frequency, and everywhere a new sense of quickness and acceleration gradually alters the expectations of people in regard to the events of their own lives, and to the behavior they expect from others.  You are in such times now.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 936)

The World is Full of Surprises

“Dreams often serve as the frameworks in which sudden remarkable insights appear that later enable a man or a woman to envision the world in a way that was not earlier predictable.  The world’s activities always include the insertion of surprising events.  This is true at all levels of nature, from microscopic to macroscopic.  As I have said before, all systems are open.  The theories of both evolutionists and creationists strongly suggest and reinforce beliefs in the consecutive nature of time, and in a universe that begins in such-and-such a fashion, continuing on to such-and-such an end – but there are horizontal events that appear in the true activity of nature, and there are horizontal entry points and exit points in all experience.  These allow for the insertion of unofficial new energy, the introduction of surprising events.

“… They can affect – and do affect – the rise and fall of civilizations.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 936)

Dreams provide a mixture of learning processes

“In a fashion dreams allow for a curious mixture of learning processes, while at the same time serving to introduce surprising developments.  That is, dreams promote the conservation of knowledge.  They are an aid in the development of skills.  They conserve available information by weaving it through the other structures of your experience.

“At the same time, dreams have their startling qualities, promoting the insertion of unexpected developments, in which case they appear to deal with the breaking down of conserving principles.  In this fashion, they also mirror your more exterior behavior, conserving what you know already, and yet introducing new patterns, new spontaneous orders that would sometimes seem to run against conservative issues.  They reinforce the past, for example, when you dream of past situations.  They also seem to undermine the integrity of the past by showing it to you in an unfamiliar light, mixing it with present and future tints.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 936)

Beauty and ecstasy of each life form

Living in a true state of grace:

“This all involves a lush multitudinous creativity. The pleasure principle can probably be likened most to the latent appreciation of beauty that is everywhere apparent if you lookfor it: the ecstasy of each form of life for the wonders of its own existence, in which love’s values go beyond themselves, and yet a condition in which each species or life form “realizes” that its own fulfillment adds immeasurably to the existence of all other forms.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 935)

No dream or thought is lost or wasted

This Seth quote is well worth creative meditation ... imagining how our thoughts and dreams manifest in this universe (and others).

For example, Seth had said that Quasars (impossibly bright quasi-stellar objects) are actually the glint of immense consciousnesses cavorting in other realities and creating mirages in ours ...

“In a fashion, your own dreams operate or appear as electrons in other realities.  That is, they change their form, their subjective force or direction, and become part of the working mechanics of the universe. The same applies to your own thoughts. They are not “wasted” after you have thought them, or simply discarded.  They do not become extinct either, but go on to serve other functions in the universe than those with which you are presently aware.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 935)

Genes and Value Fulfillment

“I have told you that in actuality, now, no genetic knowledge is gone from the earth.  It does not vanish.  It is retained in latent form within a kind of backup system, so that in terms of probabilities each species carries within its own genetic patterns the blueprints and specializations of each other’s genetic sequence.

“Those sequences follow the pursuits of value fulfillment so smoothly that they can be reactivated whenever the conditions are fortunate – for even the animals are not concerned with simple survival alone, nor the plants, but with what I can only call emotional qualities: qualities that seek a full appreciation and creative extension of those conditions of consciousness that stamp each species as itself and yet join it with all others.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 935)

Group Dreams

“You are bound to have, then, many larger dream formations that can only be called group dreams – subjective events in which your own dreams happen, and in which your own dreams take part.  You expect all of the elements of the physical world, however diverse, to fit together and form a certain kind of permanency and order. It should be no surprise, then, that this kind of “fitting together” includes subjective life also – or that, say, your private dreams are also fragments in a vaster dream reality. They are as important to the operation of that reality as electrons are to your physical one, providing inner pathways for the accumulation of wisdom and pleasure.

“There are certain kinds of dreams in which the various species then communicate, and in which the energies of the environment and its inhabitants merge. These include a kind of horizontal psychological extension, the translation of one kind of dream into another kind – the transference of information from one system to another, in which the symbols themselves come alive.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 935)

Computer metaphor

Today’s Seth (and the Lazaris metaphor I cite below) show us a bit of what it’s like when everything is constructed out of consciousness.  It is an oxymoron that organized religion states that “God” is omnipresent, etc. yet they draw the line at the obvious implication that the very physical constituents of our physical being are also consciousness.  


This reminds me of the book “The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment” which came out decades ago.  In it, the author likens our conscious mind and ego to being the mayor of a vast city … the body.  Seth takes this idea a lot further - right down to the elementary particles that constitute our being … and beyond.


Lazaris has also used a computer metaphor to describe the intended function of the conscious ego.  If we think of the psyche as a desktop computer hooked up to the internet, then the ego is the I/O part of the computer, namely: a 3D physical display and the system to input commands.  The subconscious is like the program running on the computer while the deeper "unconscious" is the internet connection with everything and everyone else.

Here, Seth takes the computer metaphor one step deeper.  The computer itself is aware of its very construction and function ... which of course would then mean that it's components themselves would be conscious and aware of their constituent consciousness and function ... which in turn would themselves themselves be conscious and aware ... and on and on it goes ad infinitum.

Hence the idea that we are gestalts of consciousness ... both in terms of manifesting physical form, but also in terms of our psyche - other lifetimes, other probable lifetimes, other realities etc.

“As I have mentioned many times, animals then dream, as do plants, insects, and all forms of life.  All molecular constructions exhibit that certain kind of introspective activity, as if the inner working of some giant computer was intimately in touch not only with its own programming and the probabilities connected with it, but with a deep psychological awareness of the activities of the electrons and various visible and invisible particles that form its own physical construction.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 935)

Dreams occur at many levels

This is today’s Seth quote.  It is fun to imagine what reality looks like to an electron, a chromosome, a cell, you name it … all of these projections of consciousness dream at multiple levels.  This makes for interesting meditations!

Even dreams that we are aware of, are targeted to specific levels in the vast extent of our consciousness.  Using the ocean as a metaphor, we are only aware of the surface waves and the winds of energy blowing around in our physical reality.  In fact, we’re more like an infinite tube of ocean water … with layers and unique lifeforms in each layer and different currents of energy moving in each layer.  The non-3D sees the whole, “vertical” extent of our consciousness and is sending dreams, thoughts, energy, etc. to targeted layers in order to maintain stability and value fulfillment for the whole column.  Some of these deeper currents generate surface waves which we become aware of …others are not even noticed or, at best, they are felt as an energy shift, a gestalt of awareness, or something like that.

“Dreams occur at so many levels of reality that it is quite impossible to describe their true scope.  For one thing, that scope includes levels that are consciously unknown to you.  Dreams serve as backup systems also, for example, in the important communications between various peoples or nations – and, particularly when physical communication is cut off between such groups, dreams provide the continuation of information’s flow from one part of the species to another.

“There are dreams of different import, some triggered genetically, that serve as sparks for particular kinds of behavior – dreams, in other words, that literally span the centuries in that regard, coiled latently in the very chromosomes; and no level of consciousness is without some kind of participation in dream states.  In that regard, even electrons, for example, dream. Dreaming touches upon both microscopic and macroscopic events, or realities, and is not simply a human characteristic, appropriately appearing within your own range or within your own species.  It is instead one area of subjective experience that is everywhere prevailing within the universe.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 935)

Magical Approach

“The entire idea of the magical approach is of itself sustaining.

“It should remind you of the true effortlessness that is in a fashion responsible for your very existence.  When you become overly concerned or worried in any area, remember that you are thinking those thoughts while the process of thinking is utterly effortless.  That realization alone can further remind you that the conscious mind does not have to have all the information required.  It only needs to have the faith that means are available – even if those means are beyond its own scope of activity.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 934)

The magical approach works and is effortless … things can work out without struggle if we hold the belief that they can and if they align with where our non-3D self is going.  

That is what living in a state of grace looks like … our cells live like that, the rest of the plant and animal kingdom live like that but because we self analyze with very limited information in a context of 3D snapshots popped into experience one after the other in a world that we think to be outside of us - consequently we generate all kinds of worry and struggle.  Of course these very worries and imaginings energize those undesirable possibilities attracting them into our reality if we aren’t careful.  

It reminds me of learning to drive a car and staying in the lane down a highway - the trick was to focus on where you want to go (well ahead down the centre of the lane) rather than look just in front of the hood and go nuts trying to avoid all the potential misdirections (e.g. like driving by a line of cones - if you look at the nearby cones you go unstable and ultimately knock a few over).

It is often said “Let go and let God”.  I agree with Lazaris that this hands off approach is not what the creative source in us came here for.  Instead, I like the idea of active detachment - the kind of detachment an outfielder needs to catch a ball by moving to where it’s going to be instead of standing still and watching it hit the ground beside him.  This makes me wonder how many beautiful possibilities (beautiful potential realities) have landed beside me throughout my lifetime because I didn’t see them coming and didn’t know that they were the one’s I was supposed to catch!

It all begins in the world of dreams

“As far as group dreaming is concerned, however, there are still some people who have always served as watchdogs in that regard, while others even in the dream state operate as healers or teachers or explorers or whatever.  There is no craft that was not first conceived of by an individual dreamer, who later transferred it to the social world of activity.

“In the dreaming state, then, the needs and desires of families, communities and countries are well known.  The dream state serves as a rich source of the world’s knowledge, and is also therefore responsible for the outgrowth of its technology.  This is a highly important point, for “the technological world out there” was at one time the world of dreams.  The discoveries and inventions that made the industrial world possible were always latent in man’s mind, and represented an inner glittering landscape of probability that he brought into actualization through the use of dreams – the intuitive and the conscious manipulation of material that was at one time latent.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 934)

Global dream network

“There is an entire global dream network, in other words, that goes quite unrecognized – one of spectacular organization in which exchanges of information occur that give you the basis for the formation of recognized physical events.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 934)

Dream exploration

“Man explored the physical world in the dreaming state long before he explored it physically.  Such dreams gave him the assurance that other lands existed outside of his own, and spurred him onward into those physical expeditions in which the species has always taken a particular delight.

“A man or woman might [be] while dreaming suddenly in strange territory, looking at the sky from a different viewpoint, with, say, a familiar river nowhere in sight, and with a mountain where ordinarily a plain might be.  This was in a way as startling an experience as it would be to you to find yourselves on some distant planet.  (You do, for that matter, explore space in the same fashion, and on at least some occasions your own “visitors from outer space” are dream travelers from other dimensions of reality.)

“In such a fashion, man learned the location of the oceans upon the earth – or at least was given the assurance that such large bodies of water existed, along with clues as to their locations, and the placement of the stars overhead.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 934)

We don't perceive the consciousness within a star

“All action is creative and ever-occurring – the only way I can get these ideas across to you.  All energy is personified.  When you look at atoms and stars you are looking at simultaneous action. You are looking into the past and into the future at the same time, as you think of it.  From the landscape of the brain you are trying to look at the landscape of the mind.

“You do not perceive the consciousness within the self.  You do not perceive the consciousness within a star, either – yet the star is the physical materialization in your reality of another kind of consciousness, and all you perceive of it.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, from Note 2, a session in 1974)

Violence

“Violence will always be used creatively.  You cannot be destructive even when you try. Beyond that, however, in the meantime the violence that you do, you do to yourself.  You are a part of All That Is – of all the nature that you know and experience, of the world that you know, and even a part of the world that you know that you do not like.  If you rip off the wing of a fly, you are yourself less.  If you purposefully, now, or with malice, step upon an ant, then to the extent of your malice you step upon yourself all unknowing.  Violence will always be used creatively, but if you do not understand this – and at your present rate of development you do not – then any violence is violence against yourself.  This applies to each of you, for when you think in terms of violence you think in terms of malice or aggression.  Despite all man does, he cannot really work any destruction – but while he believes in destruction, then to that extent he minimizes what he is, and must work harder to use creativity.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Note 2, Class Session 3 November 1970)

Divine Creativity

“All That Is creates its reality as it goes along. Each world has its own impetus, yet all are ultimately connected.  The true dimensions of a divine creativity would be unendurable for any one consciousness of whatever import, and so that splendor is infinitely dimensionalized, worlds spiraling outward with each ‘moment’ of a cosmic breath; with the separation of worlds a necessity; and with individual and mass comprehension always growing at such a rate that All That Is multiplies itself at microseconds, building both pasts and futures and other time scales you do not recognize.  Each is a reality in itself, with its own potentials, and with no individual consciousness, however minute, ever lost.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Note 1, Session 747)

One of the main purposes of dreaming

“One of the main purposes of dreaming, therefore, is to increase man’s pleasure, which means to increase the quality of living itself.  Dreams are mental work and play combined, psychic and emotional rich creative dramas.  They also involve you in the most productive of enterprises as you begin to play with versions of events that are being considered for physical actualization, as on a personal level you “view” the probable events which your family, tribe, organization, community and country will actualize.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 933)

Seeking pleasure

“Psychologists often speak of the needs of man.  Here I would like to speak instead of the pleasures of man, for one of the distinguishing characteristics of value fulfillment is its pleasurable effect.  It is not so much that man or nature seeks to satisfy needs, but to exuberantly, rambunctiously seek pleasure – and through following its pleasure each organism finds and satisfies its needs as well.  Far more is involved in the experience of life, however, than the satisfaction of bare needs, for life is everywhere possessed with a desire toward quality – a quality that acknowledges the affirming characteristics of pleasure itself.

“In your terms, there is a great pleasure to be found in both work and play, in excitement and calm, in exertion and rest, yet the word “pleasure” itself has often fallen into disrepute, and is frowned at by the virtuous.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 933)

Television News replaced dream exploration

“[Today] for news or for advice you watch your morning television news, which provides you with a kind of manufactured dream that to some extent technologically serves the same purpose.  Instead of sending cameramen and newspaper people to the farthest corners of the earth, early man sent out aspects of himself to gather the news and to form it into dream dramas.  Oftentimes much of the material did not need to become conscious: It was “unconsciously” acted upon, turned directly into action.  Now such dreams simply act as backup systems, rising to the fore whenever they are needed.  Their purpose was and is to increase the value fulfillment of the species and of the individual.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 933)