Our experience of the world

“So, your physical life is the result of a spectacular spontaneous order – the order of the body spontaneously formed by the units of consciousness.  Your experience of the world is largely determined by your imaginations and your reasoning abilities. These did not develop through time, as per usual evolutionary beliefs.  Both imagination and reason belonged to the species from the beginning, but the species has used these qualities in different ways throughout what you think of as historic time.  There is great leeway in that direction, so that the two can be combined in many many alternate fashions, each particular combination giving you its own unique picture of reality, and determining your experience in the world.

“Your many civilizations, historically speaking, each with its own fields of activity, its own sciences, religions, politics and art – these all represent various ways that man has used imagination and reason to form a framework through which a more or less cohesive reality is experienced.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 917)

Consciousness Units

“Remember that these units of consciousness of which I have been speaking are not neutral, mathematical, or mechanistic.

“They are the smallest imaginable “packages” of consciousness that you can imagine, and despite any ideas to the contrary, basically consciousness has nothing to do with size.  If that were the case, it would take more than a world-sized globe to contain the consciousness of simply one cell.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 917)

Rita on the theme of the work

Theme of the work

From DeMarco, Frank. Rita's World Vol 2: A View from the Non-Physical (Kindle Location 3942). Rainbow Ridge Books. Kindle Edition".

(Q) I've been talking with Charles about the book this material could become, and the central theme of the book is ...?  Bob Friedman posed the question and suggested I pose it to you.  I posed it to Charles and he quoted you [from past sessions], but how about it we take it from the top?  Grantedf it is about life after the change that is taking place, how would you describe the center that a book would coalesce around?  I mean, it would be possible to stop anywhere, if the transcripts came to a natural stopping point.

Boy, do I feel fuzzy.  I hope you feel sharper than I do.  I thought I was ready to go.  Maybe not?

(A) You could always just go back to sleep.

(Q) Boy, there's the title for a book about our lives!  You could always go back to sleep.  Except, probably we can't.

(A) Sleeping and waking, in the larger sense you mean, is an alternation like day and night, winter and summer.  It isn't an aberration or a mistake, let alone a tragedy.  There isn't a time schedule for these things.

(Q) Not even a don't-miss-the-bus time schedule?

(A) Not even a don't miss the bus - how can there be, if you can't miss the bus? There is always another schedule somewhen else, some other reality.  The nice thing about the real universe is that there's no pressure, no failure, no tragedy, no missed chances - unless that's what you want to experience for the moment.  There is always another timeline to jump to, whenever you get tired of the current programming.

So, to work.  The theme of the book is pretty simple: Life is more open, more simple, more filled with possibilities, than you commonly think.  Seth pointed that out for us, long ago.

Call it "Living the Change".

(Q) I kind of liked Charles and the Dogs: "Reality - What a Bitch".

(A) You can try that one, if you prefer.  It has the advantage of piquing the reader's curiosity.

(Q) No doubt.  Okay, "Living the Change".  And -?

(A) Well, it is a reciprocating process, you understand.  You broaden your understanding, and you experience the world differently.  Different experience leads you to live differently, to change.  Living differently leads to still greater difference in experience, and so forth and so on.

This Change that you and so many have been waiting for, hoping for, comes not as an external but as every person's internal experience.  Thus, for one person the change is yet to come, for another it is taking place, for a third it is yesterday's news.  They all live in the same world and in different worlds, depending on how you count and depending on who is doing the counting.

In a way, that is why you are experiencing some difficulty in seeing atheme.  It is really three different books, at three different levels of understanding simultaneously.  The same words mean different things at different times, in different contexts, to different people.

(Q) Living the change?

(A) It doesn't have to be that title; that's for your publisher and you to decide.  But that is the theme.  Can you see it now?

(Q) You want me to summarize my understanding I take it.

(A) I do.  It will be easier.

(Q) I suppose it is a bit like my life these past couple of months.  I was living in one place, and became dissatisfied with it for lack of space, I went looking for another place to live, and found it, and went through the massive dislocation involved in uprooting and re-rooting myself, and I began to settle in, and now I am again at home.

(A) A good analogy on many levels.

(Q) Don't think I don't know it was suggested.

(A) In a larger sense, that process of moving to a more satisfactory place - with all its attendant experience of dislocation and readjustment - describes your life, and not yours alone.

The manifest universe emerges from a subjective reality

“Remember, again, the manifest [universe] emerges from a subjective reality, one that is impliedin the very nature of your world itself.” … 

“All That Is has no one image, but is within all images (whether or not they are manifest).  Your thoughts are the invisible partners of your words, and the vast unstated subjectivityof All That Is is in the same way behind all stated or manifest phenomena.” 

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 916)

Session 916

When Joseph read the last session, he wondered whether or not the invisible particles I referred to were the same as the units of consciousness I have spoken of before.

He was supposed to ask the question, and so was each reader.  For one thing, while I realize the importance of specific terms, I do not want you as a reader to become so dependent upon terms that coming across one you have read before, you instantly categorize it.  For one thing, each time I reintroduce such information I do so from another direction, so to speak, so that you as a reader are meant to approach it from a different angle also.  In that way, you become familiar with certain knowledge from a variety of viewpoints.

As you read those passages the question itself – “Are these after all the units of consciousness referred to earlier?” – should have triggered your intellect and your intuition to work together, even if only slightly, in another way.  In other words, of course, I hope to inspire both your imagination and your intelligence in this chapter and in this section of the book, devoted to such subject matter.

Remember, again, the manifest [universe] emerges from a subjective reality, one that is implied in the very nature of your world itself.  I would like you, then to think of those units of consciousness from an entirely different scale of events.

Imagine, now, as far as you are able, the existence of All That Is, a consciousness so magnificently complex that what we may call its own psychological compartments are, literally, now, infinite.  All appearances of time, and all experience of it, must be psychological.  The “speed” of electrons, for example, would reflect their psychological motion.

All That Is, as the source of all realities and experience, is so psychologically complex, so multidimensionally creative, that it constantly surprises itself.  It is, itself, the invisible universe that is everywhere implied within your world, but that becomes manifest to your perception only through historic time.  All That Is disperses itself, therefore, so that it is on the one hand “a massive” subjective entity, a psychological structure – and on the other hand, it also disperses itself into the phenomenal world.  It is, in all meanings of the word, divine, yet it disperses even that divinity so that in your terms, each unit of consciousness contains within itself those properties of divinity.  All That Is has no one image, but is within all images (whether or not they are manifest).  Your thoughts are the invisible partners of your words, and the vast unstated subjectivity of All That Is is in the same way behind all stated or manifest phenomena.

In those terms, it is basically impossible for any given species to become extinct.  It can disappear for a time, become unmanifest for while in historic events.  The genetic patterns for any given species reside, of course, primarily in that species’ genetic bank – but that genetic bank does not exist in isolation, but [is] invisibly connected with the genetic makeup of each other species.

There are countless relationships between species that go unrecognized.  The generations of all species interact.  The genetic cues are not triggered on the proposition, obviously, that a species exists alone on the planet, but also in response to genetic sequences that operate in all of the species combined.  The genetic system, again, is not closed nearly as much as supposed.  That is, again, because the basic units of consciousness that build up matter – that form matter – are themselves endowed with a subjective acuteness.  This also accounts for my earlier statement, that in usually understood terms the environment and its creatures “evolve” together.  Your position on the scale of awareness inclines you to categorize consciousnesses so that only your own familiar brand seems to fit the definition – so again here I remind you that consciousness is everywhere in the deepest terms, because All That Is disperses itself throughout physical reality.  All portions of that reality have their own rights to existence, and purposes within it.  So, of course, do all peoples, and the races.

Your imaginations help you bring elements of that inner implied universe into actuality.  Your imaginations obviously are not limited by time.  You can imagine past and future events.  Your imaginations have always helped you form your civilization, your arts and your sciences, and when they are united with your reasoning processes they can bring you knowledge about the universe and your places in it that you can receive in no other fashion.

When you are determines where you are

Session 915

Whenyou are determines where you are.  Space is in many ways more “timely” than you think.  I am not speaking of the usual time concepts, of course, of consecutive moments, but of a certain dimension of activity in which your space happens.

As long as we are trying to explain the origin of your world in a new fashion, we will be bringing in many subjects that may not usually appear in such discussions.  The world as you know it emerges from an inner, more extensive sphere of dimensions into actuality.  It is supported then by a seemingly invisible framework.

Beyond certain levels it is almost meaningless to speak in terms of particles, but I will for now use the term “invisible particles” because you are familiar with it.  Invisible particles, then, form the foundation of your world.  The invisible particles that I am referring to, however, have the ability to transform themselves into mass, or to divest themselves of it.  And the invisible particles of which I speak not only possess consciousness – but each one is, if you will, a seedthat contains within itself the potential to embark upon an infinite number of probable variations of consciousness.  To that degree such psychological particles are at that stage unspecialized, while they contain within themselves the innate ability to specialize in whatever direction becomes suitable.

They can be, and they are, everywhereat once.  Sometimes they operate with mass and sometimes without it.  Now you are composed of such invisible particles, and so is everything else that you can physically perceive.  To that degree portionsof your own consciousness areeverywhere at once. They are not lost, or spread out in some generalized fashion, but acutely responsive, and as highly alert as your familiar consciousness is now.

The self that you are aware of represents only one “position” in which those invisible particles happen to intersect, gain mass, build up form. Scientists can only perceive an electron as it is to them.  They cannot really track it.  They cannot be certain of its position and its speed at the same time, and to some extent the same applies to your consciousness.  The speed of your own thoughts takes those thoughts away from you even as you think of them – and you can never really examine a thought, but only the thought of a thought.

Because you are, you are everywhere at once.  I am quite aware of the fact that you can scarcely follow that psychological motion.  As we will see later, your imaginations can lead you toward some recognition, even toward some emotional comprehension, of this concept.  While your reasoning abilities at first may falter, that is only because you have trained your intellect to respond in a limited fashion.

There are what I will call “intervals of perception”.  You are usually conscious of events that are significant neurologically, and that neurological timing is the end result of an [almost] infinite series of sequences.  Those sequences are areas in which activities happen.  Each consciousness within each area is tuned into its proper sequence.  Each area builds on the others.  The invisible particles are the framework upon which your body is formed, for example – they movefaster than the speed of light, yet you are not dizzy. You are aware of no such motion. You are tuned into a different sequence of action.

There are, then, different worlds operating with different frequencies at different intervals.  They are conscious in other times, though you are neurologically equipped to perceive your own interval structures.  When I speak of time, I do not merely refer to other centuries as you think of them. But between the moments that you know, and neurologically accept, there are other kindsof moments, if you prefer, other versions of time, and other kinds of accomplishments and fulfillments that are not dependent upon your usual ideas of, say, growth through time.

Some of this may seem quite difficult at first reading, but I know that you are all far more intelligent than you realize you are – far more intuitive. I know also that you are tired of simple tales told to you as if you were children, and that your minds and hearts yearn for worthwhile challenges.  You want to extend yourselves as far as possible, because each of you has been born with that urge toward value fulfillment.

It is only because, particularly in your times, you have trained yourselves to limit the nature of your own consciousness that such ideas seem strange. You have thus far believed that you must train your great imaginations and your intelligences to confine themselves and their activities to the physical world as you have been told it exists.  In childhood, before you so leashed your imaginations, however, you each had your own dreams – dreams that awakened you to other portions of your own identities. There are many experiences open to you now – ifyou can be free enough to allow them – that will give you glimpses of those other intervals in which you have a reality.

I will deal with some such exercises later on in the book.  All such methods, however, are useless if your beliefs hold you back, and so the main thrust of all of my books is to increase your own areas of thought and speculation.

Rita on prophecy

The misuse of prophecy

From DeMarco, Frank. Rita's World Vol 2: A View from the Non-Physical (Kindle Location 3882). Rainbow Ridge Books. Kindle Edition".

(Q) So, what is appropriate for us to hear this morning?

(A) Beware applying Psychic's Disease to End Times.

(Q) Don't think you know what's coming.

(A) That's right, neither concept nor timing.  The desire to know ahead of time is understandable - I well remember it! - but really, useless.  It confuses the reason for prophecy with an advanced newscast.

(Q) Yes, I get that.  The purpose of prophecy is not to say, "You're all doomed!" but precisely the opposite, to say, "If you don't watch your feet, you're going to run off the edge so watch it, will you?"

(A) Precisely.  If the future were unavoidable there might be some reason to give you a preview of coming attractions, but - why?  It is because you can choose among futures that freedom exists, and it is the function of prophecy to remind you of it.

So, don't go putting all your money on Armageddon, or utopia, or anything in between.  You(in effect) create your future, by choosing who and what you wish to be.  And as alwaysremember that in any discussion the underlying question is "which you?"  You in your present body - how long do you expect to function in 3D?  Two hundred years further along, nobody will remember you, and why should they?  And why should you care if they do or don't? Your immortality is not a matter of reputation; it is inherent in your having been created in the first place.  Youwill survive and flourish; your body will not.  Be glad.

(Q) Not news to me.

(A) No, but this is aimed somewhat wider and deeper.  That is, to more people at this time, and to more at future times.

(Q) So - "don't think you know what's coming".  Why is that particularly appropriate today?

(A) It is not particularlyappropriate in the sense that this Wednesday morning it can be said and not the day or week before or after; only in the sense that this is among the thoughts that belong to this wider time.  To say it in 1950 would be to say it in a context that would probably envisage atomic warfare.  To say it in 1975 would be the cold war situation of the day.  And so forth.  Today, 2015, the message is appropriate.  That doesn't mean it is the onlytime it is appropriate, and it certainly doesn't mean it is the only message appropriate to the time, only that the two match up, as one example.

(Q) And yet - looking back at what we've written today - people do get glimpses of the future.

(A) They get glimpses of the future they later go to, and it's accurate pre-vision. They get glimpses of a future they don't go to, and it is incorrect prophecy.  Same process, same accuracy, different-seeming result, because of different outcomes of their navigation, not of different efficacy in perception.

(Q) So, Edgar Cayce saw the widespread destruction from 1958 to 1998 that did not happen.

(A) Did not happen where you are.  Your very fascination with the picture - your draw to it - shows you that you are also in touch with -

No, let me back off from that and say something different.

(Q) Why?

(A) Because what I willsay can be comprehended and what I will refrain fromsaying could not, and the resulting misinterpretation is unnecessary.

Catastrophic futures

You are fascinated with - almost desirous of - a catastrophic future.  In the same way, you were convinced of, and desirous of, Antarctica coming out from under the ice.  You do not fear or regret the earth changes, but look forward to them as facilitators of other things.  Do you see a common denominator here?

(Q) A wish for the transformation of this society, I suppose.

(A) A wish for the destructionof this society, and its replacement by a better.  Does this still strike you as such a good idea?

(Q) I get your point.  I used to believe in revolution.

(A) "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose". [French: "The more things change, the more it is the same thing."]

(Q) Revolutions are dead-ends, perhaps the least desirable way to change. Political, military, revolution, I mean. In my lifetime, I have seen my society revolutionized repeatedly, until it scarcely resembles the one I was born into in any respect.  I'm not sure - or rather, I am quite sure that not all the changes are in the right direction.

(A) Yes, but just because you are sure is no guarantee you are right.  How can you know which changes lead to what?

(Q) Again, point taken.  I suppose, in a way, even having preferences among changes is a form of Psychic's Disease.

(A) Not quite.  But preference can certainly distort perception.

Imagination

“Mankind is a species that specializes in the use of the imagination, and without the imagination language would be unnecessary. Man from his particular vantage point imagines images and events that are not before his eyes.  The applied use of the imagination is one of the most distinguishing marks of your species, and the imagination is your connection between the inner worlds of reality and the exterior world of your experience.  It connects your emotions and your reason. All species are interconnected, so, as I said earlier, when you think you think for yourselves, you also specialize in thinking for the rest of nature, which physically sustains you.”

(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2, Session 914)