Kosmos, Cosmos and cosmos

Blavatsky: Secret Doctrine Volume 1:

“From the beginning of man’s inheritance, from the first appearance of the architects of the globe he lives in, the unrevealed Deity was recognized and considered under its only philosophical aspect - universal motion, the thrill of the creative Breath in Nature.  Occultism sums up the “One Existence” thus:  “Deity is an arcane, living (or moving) FIRE, and the eternal witnesses to this unseen Presence are Light, Heat, Moisture” - this trinity including, and being the cause of, every phenomenon in Nature.  Intra-Cosmic motion is eternal and ceaseless;  cosmic motion (the visible, or that which is subject to perception) is finite and periodical.  As an eternal abstraction it is the EVER-PRESENT;  as a manifestation, it is finite both in the coming direction and the opposite, the two being the alpha and omega of successive reconstructions.  Kosmos - the NOUMENON - has nought to do with the causal relations of the phenomenal World.  It is only with reference to the intra-cosmic soul, the ideal Kosmos in the immutable Divine Thought, that we may say:  “It never had a beginning nor will it have an end.”  With regard to its body or Cosmic organization, though it cannot be said that it had a first, or will ever have a last construction, yet at each new Manvantara, its organization may be regarded as the first and the last of its kind, as it evolutes every time on a higher plane ...”

Two More Quotes From Jane Roberts Chanelled by Mary Merecek

On Abundance:

“Abundance does not mean you have to give up one thing to have another.  Abundance means you can have it all.  You and everybody else.  Your abundance does not mean scarcity for someone else.  Rid yourself of the idea of scarcity and you are halfway home to co-creating abundance.

“Abundance is wholeness and the material manifestation of it is just one part of your total wholeness.  With wholeness comes a feeling of safety, security and fulfillment.  Those are the spiritual manifestations of wholeness and they are abundance too.”

You Are Loved:

“You are loved.  Absorb the light and love being poured into you.  It matches the love that you have stored inside.  Together it is a formidable power source.  Live the light and live the love.  Stay focused on the light and on the love.

“The light you see with your inner eye, the love you see with your outer eyes.  Every situation is an event.  No matter how bad it is, there is within it somewhere an element of love.  Your job is to find it and focus on love.  This practice will eliminate the numerous negative aspects that you are inclined, through conditioning, to focus on.  It will eliminate judgment, mistaken assessment, negative thoughts that waste your time, pettiness and shallow thinking.  By focusing on the love that the event holds, you align yourself with the best possible probable of the event.”

From: Mary Merecek from Multidimensional Reality

A Variety of Quotes from Recent Readings

On Time:

Mary Merecek from Multidimensional Reality:

“...time is not what you think it is.  All events are happening at once:  past, present and future as well as all possible probables are in occurrence at once.  It is your focus that delineates them, separates them and puts them into a chronological order.”

On Probability:

Mary Merecek from Multidimensional Reality:

“Probability follows specific laws that are related to frequency, light, energy and believe it or not, personality.  That is the reason why we and you choose different personalities for lifetimes.  Haven’t you wondered why we don’t keep the same one and use it for several or even all of our incarnations?  We could.  We have that option, but no one ever does, and part of the reason is because personality is one of the factors that influence probability.

“It is the interchange, the give and take, the cooperation, the relationship that is so important.  What personality you happen to be “wearing” at the time is significant in terms of your reactions, beliefs and choices.  

“Probability (the universe) takes its cues from all of the above:  your reactions, your beliefs and your choices in deciding what to provide you with.  The universe (probability) follows your lead.  You give it messages and it gives you something back but what it gives to you is based more on you than on itself.  This is important for you to understand because it is the reason you are a co-creator and not a victim.

“Sometimes the universe works with your intent and not your verbalized wishes.  These are the times most often missed by you because you ask for a specific event and you receive something that is better and more in line with your intent.  If you are concentrated on a specific answer you may miss the bigger picture in terms of your prayers being answered.

“Let us say for instance that you are focused on abundance:  you the universe to provide you with abundance.  Your idea of abundance is to win the lottery.  The universe’s idea of abundance for you is for you to have friends, family, a pet and a safe place to live.  So in the course of six months all of these things come into your life:  a new friend, a family member makes contact, a stray cat wanders into your life and someone asks you to house-sit for them while they go on an extended vacation.

“You, thinking winning the lottery is the meaning of abundance, miss all of the events that would enrich your life.  So you refuse the friend, the family member, the pet and the house.  your choices are directly connected to your personality and what meaning you gave to the events that could have provided you with abundance.  In other words, your idea of what abundance is for you and what the universe’s idea of what abundance is for you may be different.”

On Hydrogen:

Edward R. Harrison (a Cosmologist)

“Hydrogen is a light, odourless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.”

Entanglement:

Andrew Thomas from Hidden in Plain Sight:  The Simple Link Between Relativity and Quantum Mechanics:

“The message from quantum mechanics is that we should treat the universe as one connected, entangled object.”

Dream Image Construction

From Session 189 of Volume 4 of Seth's Early Sessions

Dream Image Construction

"We will go more deeply into a discussion of the ways and means by which both dream images and other materializations are constructed.  For there are various balances, or rather various delicate imbalances, which must be maintained;  and there are differences also in the makeup of dream images, which are usually seen only by the dreamer, and some other more physical materializations which may be created by the semi-waking self, and under certain circumstances seen by others.

"Nerve patterns are indeed very important here, and mechanisms of metabolism.  An understanding of the methods used by the dreamer to construct dream images will, however, allow you to understand more clearly those other constructions.  The chemical percentages are important here;  that is, the chemical percentages vary from those found in the body during what you call normal states of consciousness.

"Dream images are composed in part as a result of chemical excesses that are built up normally by the organism in the waking state.  Physical materializations are built up by bringing about this condition of excessive chemical action.

"It is true that a state can be produced in which such materializations can occur, by artificially producing the chemical imbalance necessary.  However, success by this method may or may not occur.

"This material will be most helpful in our own sessions, since when we are finished with it you will understand to some degree those conditions which may be advantageous and those which are not.

"The electrical composition of the air is important, as you have read, and the periods of even temperature and fair weather are excellent for our purposes.

"The evening hours are best, and it was for this reason that I chose them.  By this hour there is apt to be a stability of electromagnetic properties, though of course this is not always the case.  Since all things have an electrical and chemical reality, the food that you eat is also important, and it is for this reason that I made certain suggestions concerning your diet.

"These suggestions, as you know, were far from extreme.  The exercises that I suggested Ruburt (Jane) take also aid him in utilizing negative ions.  Each individual has various ways in which he or she characteristically handles the protoplastic elements of which the physical being is composed.

"The protoplasm is not entirely physical, however, but in a basic manner is a meeting ground between physical matter and inner vitality.  Therefore the characteristic ways used by any given personality, in connection with his or her physical image, will also be used in the construction of dream images.

"The dream images are indeed extensions, not only of the psychic or inner self, but a definite extension of the electromagnetic and chemical properties that operate through the physical self.  It is indeed as if extensions of nerve endings reached out in self-expansion, making new connections, and this is indeed what occurs in the creation of dream images.

"I have a few side notes here.

"One.  Interruptions in themselves will not bother us once a session is under way.  You may follow whatever course you personally prefer, as circumstances warrant.

"As far as Ruburt (Jane) is concerned, uncertainty as to whether or not a session will be held, is disturbing.  There will be some circumstances when conditions are not of the best, however, when interruptions may bother.  But generally we are beyond such disturbances.

"You have noticed, I am sure, that at times visitors to a session are of definite value, for the psychic energy is pooled, and can be of value.  The emotional impetus, when it is present, is also of benefit.  Now in the same manner you can use and collect such energy when you are in a group, as in your Saturday evening excursions.

"There is actually a quite natural and most effective manner of psychic refreshment, and most particularly when the conscious mind is somewhat diverted, as by music and so forth.  The intuitions act well under such circumstances, and these intuitions are stored subconsciously, and will show themselves in your work.

"There is indeed a knack required here.  Primitive peoples us it all unknowing.  Unfortunately, in civilized conditions it sometimes needs relearning.  All methods of gaining and renewing energy are important, in ordinary living and in our sessions.

"Ruburt (Jane) picked up energy in this way this afternoon, quite spontaneously, and without conscious consideration.

"There will be more said concerning this matter, since the same sort of mechanism is involved in the construction of materializations, in sessions such as this one, and in the construction of dream images.

"A discrimination, preferably a spontaneous and subconscious discrimination, is necessary, but it may be consciously diverted if undue conscious direction is not allowed to rule with a heavy hand.  You may consciously give the suggestion to yourself, that you will constructively use such energy, for example, but then the matter should be forgotten and left alone.

"The suggestion itself, psychologically, also prevents you from simply being swept away, willy-nilly, by the collective energy.  You must understand that use of such energy does in no way suggest monopolizing it.  You do not deprive others.  Your own actions continue to produce additional energy.  This method of utilizing energy is also used in the creation of dream images.  The form of the images is not an illusion.  You simply have form without mass, to all practical purposes, and there is no contradiction in that statement.

"Mass and form may seem synonymous, but they are not.  Mass is not dependent upon weight.  We may say however that dream images have a density which is formed of electrical intensities, that are partially the result of chemical actions."

Dream Realtiy

From Session 188 of Volume 4 of Seth's Early Sessions:

"There are indeed connections between what is called ectoplasm and the composition of dream images.  They are not the same thing, but they are closely allied.  What is called the astral body is also composed of some of the same components.

"It goes without saying that dream images certainly have form to the dreamer, even as physical objects have form.  The astral body also has a form.  These forms do not take up space in the way that physical objects do.  There is less density, but there is still observable form.  The images that appear in dreams exist as forms in another dimension.  They are free of the necessity to follow physical rules of time and growth.  They are constructed more immediately and directly and spontaneously than are physical objects.

"There must be a connection however with the physical organism, and the connection, the physical connection, is both electrical and chemical.  The connection between what you might call materializations, and the physical organism, are also electrical and chemical.  The same applies to the connection between the astral body and the physical body.

"Dream images are indeed, in density, between the tangible nature of physical objects and intangible reality that is entirely independent of physical matter.  The dream reality cannot be entirely disconnected from the material universe because of its connections with human personality.  There is a dependence here.

"The dream images however are projections sent out, so to speak, by the personality, and many astral projections occur within the dream state of which the waking personality is unaware.  In this case the projection is simply of a kind that allows manipulation back and forth between two realities.  The dreamer who dreams he was in Paris may well have been there.

"Dream images, not astral projections, operate within certain electrical limits, limits that form the boundaries of the dream universe.  Dream images are nevertheless almost fibrous projections, almost a thinned-out composition, more plastic basically than physical matter, but composed of a number of the same properties.  For again there must be this connection between the nature of dreams and the matter of physical reality.

"We will use an analogy for its excellent implications.  It is as if the personality in sleep projected out of himself bits of himself, of his own physical matter, thinned out, stretched into an amazing plasticity;  plastic properties that can change instantly from one form to another.  He goes out with these portions of himself, but because of the nature of reality projections cannot be recalled.

"Dreams are a continuous process.

"You create them both waking and sleeping, although you are not aware of them in the waking state.  You constantly project and constantly emit energy in meaningful patterns on as many layers of activity as possible.

"These are quite legitimate realities that continue in their own fashion, even though you are no longer concerned with them.  They remain connected to you, that is to the personality, however, and are a part of the overall reality of the self.  You partake of their energy.

"Oftentimes you send out dream images within a dream framework from your own nerve centers.  These then work out problems for you, and the answer is given to you subconsciously."

Dream Reality and Suggestions

From Session 187 (Volume 4 of Seth's Early Sessions)

Dream Reality and Suggestions

"We will here consider the dream reality in an isolated manner, as if it were a thing disconnected from normal consciousness, although in reality it is not so disconnected.

"I spoke in a recent session concerning the connection between distance and emotions.  The true reality of distance as you know it is dependent upon the intensity of emotion, and has nothing to do with your idea of space.  The emotion which is intense is felt at its peak as present in time, and immediately here in terms of distance.

"Emotions take up a certain amount of what we call psychic space within the personality's awareness.  As the intensity of the emotion fades, so it seems to you that it recedes in time.  But this is an illusion caused by the limitations of your outer senses.  Now, in the dream state the outer senses are to a large degree restrained in their activity.  Therefore the dream state more clearly represents the actual nature of time.  Intense emotions within the dream state are experienced as present time, and the personality moves easily through these emotional intensities without experiencing the sense of passing time, although any given dream may contain within it its own time element.

"The dreamer is not aware of the actual passing of physical hours.  He is only aware of the interior time element as it appears within the framework of his dream.  The personality will be seen to operate in some manners that would be considered quite normal, if he were in the waking state.

"He acts, speaks, walks, talks, makes certain deductions.  He responds to interior stimuli.  The personality also operates within the dream state in ways that would not be considered normal in the waking state.  He travels through space in moments.  He speaks with those who do not exist within physical reality.  He sees parents who have died in physical ways, and in his dreams he knows, on many occasions, what other characters think within the dream context.

"You see, then, that while the personality can act in a more or less normal manner while in the dream state, he can also act in ways that are denied him in periods of so-called normal consciousness.  He has freedoms and abilities and talents in the dream state of which his waking self may be unfamiliar.

"It would seem to be that the waking personality could learn much from his sleeping counterpart, and this is indeed the case.  Theoretically speaking, and in theory only, anything that a personality can do or achieve in the sleeping state, he can do and achieve in the waking state.  The limitations are those adopted by the ego, in many cases for good reason.

"However the limitations can be diminished, and the waking personality can avail himself of many characteristics shown by the sleeping self.

"The sleeping personality is as close to the inner self as you will come in this existence, for here the personality is soon free of the camouflage concerns with which it must be involved in the waking condition.

"In the sleeping state we see the personality as it is in operation.  We see its abilities and its limitations.  [the reader] will do well to read our dream material, for dreams are a reflection of the needs of a personality and of the abilities.  The focus of attention and concentration are magnified a thousandfold in the dream state, and dreams form the basis for your physical environment.

"First, problems are worked out within the dream framework.  Answers and solutions are arrived at.  These answers and solutions are then transformed into physical reality.  No dream is meaningless.  No dream lacks purpose.  Each dream has meaning to all levels of the personality, and one dream object is a symbol which is translated by all layers of the self, in a mathematics which is more complicated than any dealt with by your physical computers.

"As we have suggested in the past, the dream state can indeed work for your benefit in a more efficient manner, if proper suggestions are given before sleep.  The dream fabric itself, the dream drama, is woven of many threads, and all aspects of the personality contribute some of the ingredients.

"One dream will enable the ego to solve pressing immediate problems.  The dream drama will enable the personality to act out various possibilities which are experienced as reality.  The most effective drama is then reacted to in physical reality.

"This same dream, however, will deal with many other actualities.  It will serve as a method of communication between the various portions of the self.  It will deliver information concerning past and future, and if proper suggestions are given it, then the self will use the dream drama particularly to better the overall condition of the personality.

"There are chemical and electrical connections that cannot be ignored here.  For a dream has a chemical reality and an electrical reality.  It is built up, on one level, of chemical components that have an electrical basis, and it is through these connections that transformation within the nerve structure of the physical organism is made.

"The pituitary gland is of great importance here, and the thyroid gland of secondary importance.  Negative electrical charges are responsible mainly for the durability of any given dream.  The mind, as you know, does not appear within physical reality, although the brain is indeed of physical origin.

"Our dreams therefore occupy the same space as is occupied by the mind - no space at all.  There still must be a connection with the physical organism, and here our chemical and electrical components enter in.  Each dream is actually built up through a chemical synthesis that follows strong electrical pathways.

"You recall that all experience has an electrical reality, deposited from birth within the physical cells of the body, so that at physical death we have an electrical counterpart of the physical being with all memory and experience intact.  Were such experience a part of the physical self, and dependent upon it, the personality could hardly survive physical death.  And were dreams so connected to the physical self, then whole areas of personality would dissolve with physical extinction.

"As it is these dreams, having an electrical reality, are deposited in coded form, with all other experience, within but independent of the physical cells.  Dream experience is as real to the personality as waking experience.  Only the ego makes any distinction.  Therefore the personality that has survived makes no distinction on its own.

"We have said this often.  However, suggestions should always be given before sleep, that the subconscious will maintain the organic integrity of the physical organism.  This is basic.

"Suggestions should also be given so that a harmonious relationship be maintained among all levels of the personality structure.  Suggestions should be given that constructive tendencies are given free reign.  Perhaps more important, suggestions should be given that only constructive suggestions will be reacted to.  These suggestions give you a leeway.

"These simple suggestions will serve to guard the personality from many unfortunate circumstances, and if they are given nightly they will serve as an adequate protection against organic disease, such as ulcers.

"Because suggestions do have an electrical and a chemical reality, they can therefore change the framework within which you operate.  Theoretically there are no limitations to what any of you can do.  Practically the limitations are your own, and practically it is within your province to change them or not to change them.

"Because suggestions are formed of the same stuff that forms your physical reality, suggestions can indeed change the framework within which you operate.  This is no Pollyanna hogwash.  Many of the ways and the means have been given.  My suggestions, if followed, will be fair enough proof of the validity of our material."

Emotion, Space and Distance

From Session 183 of Seth's Early Sessions

"Now, before we plunge into the nature and characteristics of dream reality, let us briefly consider the relationship between emotions, space and distance as they occur within the waking conditions.

"An emotion obviously does not take up physical space, yet it takes up varying amounts of psychic space according to its intensity.  It seems to recede in time and to shrink in psychic space as the intensity of it begins too diminish.  An intensive emotion will represent the present in time, a particular instant of now.

"Whenever circumstances tend to revitalize such a charged emotion, that particular now will be re-created.  The emotion will once again rush into the psychic space which is formed by elements in the personality's psychological environment.  The immediate emotion of any moment, therefore, forms the framework of your present time within the waking state.  As the emotion diminishes it takes up less of your psychic space, fills up less of your inner environment, and you seem to yourself to recede from it.

"As far as distance, physical distance, is concerned, this whole idea is subconsciously taken into consideration.  That which appears ahead of you in distance, and has not yet been experienced, under usual circumstances has not yet entered the psychic space of the inner environment.  When you reach this imaginary physical experience, and if you are emotionally involved in it, then it becomes the PRESENT...

"The moment is remembered because the emotions experienced at the time almost completely fill the psychic space, forcing all other experiences out.  The stronger the emotion the more vivid the moment becomes, the more totally it is recalled.  And even in future years such past instances can be experienced as vividly as any present experience.  In other words, to some large extent such a strong emotion unites experience and knocks down the artificial barrier of past, present and future."

... "As we have often stated, inner experience is the only true dimension of existence.

"Because of the physical structure, experiences within your system have a slow-motion distortion which creates the experience of time.  Time as you know it, waking time, is intimately connected with the emotions and with emotional intensities.  Now, there is also a connection here that can be explored most clearly by using color designations.

"Red is the most present or immediate of colors.  The cool colors are more contemplative, or more indicative of contemplation.  They do not however have the same type of intensity.  They leave room within psychic space for other emotional experiences also.

"There are electrical connotations here also that are important, electrical components that compose the emotional experience, and that tend to show themselves in certain auras of color.  Within the dreaming state however inner experience is not limited as it is in the waking condition, so that the time barrier can largely be dispensed with.  There is an additional psychic space to be filled.

"Experiences are more directly felt, although the same sort of differences occur here as far as intensities are involved.  In the dream state as in the waking state, experiences vary in intensity.  There is however a more mobile element and an easier movement through the experiences.  Transitions are more rare in the dream state, since physical time lapses are not necessary.

"Spontaneity is more the rule.  Images appear and disappear, for there is no necessity to construct them as continuous physical constructions.  There is therefore greater opportunity for new creations.  These dream experiences take up psychic space, as do waking experiences.  Their intensity is immediately felt however without any reliance upon physical time.

"They are felt according to their intensity only.  You might say, returning to our analogy, that there is more color-mixing within the dream state, and the materials are immediately at hand.  Distance is then seen in its true light, not in relation to physical space but in its basic relationship to emotional intensity.  As you seem in the waking condition to travel out of an experience, or as you seem to separate yourself from it, then physical time enters into your awareness.

"When you directly experience an emotional event, when you are at its heart, so to speak, then you do not seem to experience physical time.  Only as you move to the outskirts of the experience does such time realization enter in.  The dream experience however is always free of the realization of physical time, practically, for you experience dream events directly from the center of awareness.

"You move from the outskirts of one dream into the core of another without a change of intensity, and therefore without the sense of physical time passing.  It goes without saying that a sense of time may or may not be interwoven in any given dream sequence, but you as the dreamer are not conscious of the physical hours that pass as you sleep."

... "In the dream reality you have the opportunity to work out solutions to problems within a larger framework in a psychic environment, where there is no immediate necessity for physical construction.

"This function is extremely important, and represents one of the main ways in which problem-solving is dealt with by the personality.  This is also the reason why the plays of Shakespeare have endured the centuries.  The dramas are not true to life in physical terms, but are true to life in psychic terms.

"The creative abilities have full reign within the dream state, and it is here that the personality first tests its creative intensities and methods.  The personality's physical environment therefore is greatly colored and formed by his dream existence.  There is some leakage from waking-life experience to dream experience, but this leakage usually represents the material needed, or the problem to be solved.  Mental events and dream events are primary.  The individual first manipulates situations within the dream reality, and then transposes his characteristic method of handling them upon the physical reality.

"It is true, as Ruburt has discovered, that these dream elements are interwound.  Events are indeed clairvoyantly perceived in the dream state.  On the other hand in many instances the sleeping personality solves a problem, and therefore causes the physical event because it is the result of the dream involved.

"In many cases he perceives in a dream a future physical event, and then within the dream situation acts out various possible solutions, until he hits upon the most agreeable one.  In the dream state the personality actually has at its command a stupendous amount of subconscious information of which the ego is not aware.  It is actually more practical therefore to seek the solution in the dreaming state, or in periods of dissociation if you prefer.  The amount of data available to the subconscious is simply superior in quality and larger in quantity to that available to the ego, and this information can be used effectively through suggestion.

"The subconscious in sleep has great freedom, and has at its command information gained through past experience in this life and in other lives.  In the intense focus of awareness that occurs within the dream state, the inner self is able to direct all of its energies for the purpose of solving a given problem.

"It is able to use all of its vast information, gained through previous experience, and all of its knowledge, to solve the problem at hand.  Literally, the whole inner personality is able to focus upon any given problem, completely free of distractions, using the subconscious language of symbols.  This language is crisper in its fashion, and more concise and more inclusive than any written language.  For as we have explained, each symbol has various meanings to all layers of the self.

"(Among many others, see the 92nd, 93rd and 94th sessions in Volume 3.)

"Computerlike, the data is instantly made available exactly when and where it is needed.  The ego is indeed equipped to handle physical reality.  Its purpose is the manipulation of the personality within the physical universe.  Its most effective method of procedure however is to form the problem concisely, and then to feed it to the subconscious before the personality enters the dreaming state.

"This requires on the ego's part an excellent ability to perceive correctly the elements of the physical situation, to express it in terms that the subconscious can understand, and to deliver the message properly.  The subconscious will then break the physical data given to it down into its psychic components, translate it into symbols; and the inner self, at the request of the subconscious, will then focus all of the energies at its command to deliver the most acceptable solution, taking the entire needs of the whole self into consideration.

"The solution therefore may not necessarily be accepted completely as the best solution by the ego.  The ego is aware of the physical situation only in its relationship to itself.  It is not aware of the internal situation.  The solution however must be made in relation to the total conditions.   It is extremely important then that the ego correctly interprets the physical situation, for this is the information that it will give to the computer, so to speak."

... "...let us emphasize the importance here of a clear, honest, perceptive intellect, for it is largely upon the intellect that the ego depends.  The intellect collects from the physical environment those situations and conditions which affect, or will affect, the ego.

"The intellect chooses from the total physical situation those elements with which the personality will ultimately have to deal.  The intellect is discriminating and selective.  An ego that is overly rigid will inhibit the intellect from perceiving various portions of physical reality, and therefore distort the appearance of reality, limiting the intellect's abilities.

"Necessary and vital information is therefore not collected.  The problem is not seen in any total light, but in a distorted manner.  This distorted picture is then delivered to the subconscious, which is able to make some corrections.  It still cannot view the physical situation as clearly as can the ego under best conditions.

"When the ego is of such a rigid nature that it distorts physical reality out of all context, then however the personality had better rely upon the subconscious even in this respect, for the subconscious will at least perceive those elements of physical reality that immediately threaten the whole self."