Session 664

Personal Reality, Session 664

There is a constant give and take between each individual and his or her society; the divisions and characteristics of any particular civilization will be a perfect exterior representation of the overall attributes of the people within it, as they relate to one another and as they see themselves.

The exterior dimensions are replicas of interior personal ones.  The accomplishments, wars, difficulties and institutions are all “after the event” – that is, they are outward actions of an inward existence.  Under certain conditions water turns into ice.  In the same way, interior events can appear in physical reality in a quite different form than the original.

As creatures you are a part of nature.  The change of thoughts, feelings and beliefs into physical, objectively perceived phenomena is as natural as water changing into ice, for example, or a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.  You not only form the structure of your civilizations and social institutions through transference of beliefs, thoughts and feelings; but in this natural exchange you also help on quite intimate levels in the “psychic manufacture” of the physical environment itself, with all of its great sweeping variety, and yet seasonal stability.

Medicine men may do a rain dance.  They understand the innate relationship that exists within all portions of nature.  You are taught to believe that faith can move mountains, yet many of you will find it extremely difficult to accept your own relationship with the environment.  Your beliefs (often as opposed to your desires) cause wars.  Your feelings represent the inner reality behind what you think of as purely natural phenomena, such as weather.

Catastrophes, such as earthquakes or floods, are not perpetuated by certain elements of nature against other portions of itself.  Your feelings have as much natural validity as the tides, and they have their own kind of attraction – mind does move matter.  A ring manipulated at a séance under controlled conditions is but the most simple demonstration of the great ability of mind to interact with matter.  You each participate in the creation of each thunderstorm, each new spring, each flood, earthquake, and summer rain.

A war is one kind of natural event brought about as feelings and beliefs interact on one level.  A natural catastrophe represents the same kind of phenomenon at a different level. Your part in these feelings and beliefs will place you in your own “natural” position within such events.

Chapter 18: Inner Storms and Outer Storms. Creative “Destruction”. The Length of the Day and the Natural Reach of a Biologically Based Consciousness.

Your reality exists independently of your physically oriented consciousness, but while you are a creature your awareness must be interpreted through your neurological structure and your corporeal aliveness.  There are indeed various kinds of memory, so that the right information can be at your fingertips when you need it.  Other data will seldom be required consciously, yet it must always be available to unconscious portions of the self.  Biologically the reach and capacity of your physically oriented consciousness is directly connected with the length of your days and nights, and of course with the seasons.  Physically speaking, there are chemical interactions when thought occurs, and memories ride on the chemicals’ smooth flow.  With the precise night and day schedule that it possesses, your planet would, in those terms, give birth to a creature consciousness uniquely suited to fit it.  In other terms, the night and day represent the innate rhythms of your consciousness physically materialized through natural phenomena, for you are not yet equipped to perceive longer-duration days.  The nervous system would find great difficulty in a rhythm in which a day was stretched out to be three or four times as long, for instance.

The rhythms of your body and of your consciousness follow the patterns of your planet.  The planet itself is composed of atoms and molecules, each with their own kind of consciousness, however; and in the gestalt and cumulative cooperative organization of their nature the physical structure is formed – out of consciousness.

As this formation took place there was constant give-and-take between interior and exterior realities, in your terms.  The growth of feelings, sensations, I am-ness, concepts and beliefs was paralleled by the resulting exterior manifestations of animal species, and mineral and vegetable emergences; with these came the growth of complementary neurological structures, and the precise physical formations, such as mountains, valleys, seas, and so forth needed to sustain them.

In greater terms all of these events occur simultaneously.  To make this easier to understand, however, I am talking in terms of your time.

Your feelings are as natural a part of the environment as trees are.  They have a great effect upon the weather.  There are even connections that can be made, for instance, between epilepsy and earthquakes, where great energy and instability come together, affecting the physical properties of the earth.

Beliefs are the formations of self-conscious minds, even as buildings ae at another level.

Beliefs direct, generate, focus, and harness feelings.  In this context then feelings are being compared to mountains, lakes, and rivers.  Ideas and beliefs bring about those obviously man-made structures that imply self-conscious minds and the ocean of interrelated social events.

Feelings are still dependent upon your neurological structure and its impact with physical reality.  An animal feels but it does not believe.  Your feelings with their chemical interactions have, beside their subjective reality to you, electromagnetic properties, as indeed your thoughts have.  But your bodies must rid themselves of chemical excesses in the same way that land must clear itself of excess water.  There are what I am going to call here “ghost” chemicals – aspects of normal chemicals that you have not perceived so far, where certain thresholds are approached in which chemicals are changed into purely electromagnetic properties, and energy released that directly affects the physical atmosphere.

As your body is in a state of constant flux and chemical interaction, so is the atmosphere, which reflects on another level all of the psychic, chemical, and electromagnetic properties that exist within the body.

There is little difference between the currents of blood that flow through your veins, and the wind current, except that the one seems to be within you and the other without.  Both are manifestations of the same interrelationship and motion, however.  Your planet has a body as much as you have.  Your blood follows certain prescribed patterns and so does the wind.  You are inside the body of the earth in those terms.  As cells within your body influence it, so does your body affect the larger body of the earth.  The weather faithfully reflects the feelings of the individuals in any given local territory.  Overall weather patterns follow deeper inner rhythms of emotion.

Those in earthquake regions are attracted to such spots because of their innate understanding of the astonishing relationship between exterior circumstances and their own quite private mental and emotional patterns.

Here you can find individuals of great energy; of unstable, “excessively” temperamental natures, and with intense capacities for creativity and innovation.  They need a strong stimulus or impact with reality against which to pit themselves, however.  There is often a great impatience with social situations, and unusual vitality.  Such individuals operate at a high pitch, and en masse emit inordinate excesses of what I have called ghost chemicals.

Such emotional nonphysical qualities are unstable, and affect the deep electromagnetic integrity of the earth’s structure.  Obviously there have been earthquakes where there are no people, but in all cases the origins are to be found in mental properties rather than exterior ones.  Earthquakes are very often associated with periods of great social change or unrest, and from such locations the fault lines originate and are projected outward.  They may then affect a generally unpopulated area on another continent, or an island, or cause a tidal wave on the other side of the world, even as a stroke might affect a portion of the body far from the original damage.

You do not need a self-conscious mind to feel, and in the “past”, earthquakes represented the feeling-patterns of species in the same way – unstable conditions of consciousness that in themselves initiated natural phenomena, further altering the state of consciousness and the conditions of species as well.

In your terms consciousness is wedded with matter, and any of its experiences are physically materialized through that interaction.  There are great correlations between thunderstorms and psychic storms, for example, and between unstable electromagnetic properties of both feeling and thought, the brain’s ability to handle these, and its need to rid itself of excesses.  You do not simply react to the weather.  You help form it, even as you breathe the air and then send it outward again.  The brain is a nest of electromagnetic relationships that you do not understand.  In certain terms it is a controlled storm.

From it spring ideas that are quite as natural as lightning.  When lightning strikes the earth, it changes it.  There are also changes that come about through the impact of your thoughts upon the atmosphere.  The great overall inner trust with which you were born forms the basis for the encompassing reliability of the physical earth.  Your body dwells in the earth as you dwell in your body.  You were born with a faith in your existence that automatically directed the proper functioning of your personal corporeal self.  This provided the necessary stabilizing properties upon which your consciousness could play, and through which it could effectively and creatively operate.  The smallest atom has its own kind of built-in integrity, upon which all of its organizations and alterations are based, so generally there is a gestalt kind of permanence within the body of the earth.

Yet with all of this there is always change, as with the experience of time in a linear fashion any event must “knock out” another one.  In terms of your focus a given occurrence “takes time”.  You know that many events occur that you do not consciously perceive, but take on the word of others.  In your terms, therefore, change is apparent.  The body is altered.

I told you that a dis-ease can have a creative basis (in the 620^th session in Chapter Four).  And so can an earthquake or a natural disaster.

On other than conscious levels, simply as creatures, you are well aware of impending storms, floods, tornados, earthquakes, and so forth.

There are many hints and signs picked up by the body itself – alterations in air pressure, magnetic orientation in terms of balance, minute electrical differentiations of which the skin itself is aware.  On that level the body is often prepared for natural calamities before they occur.  Defenses are set up.

Many additional issues operate, however, that have to do with any given personal reaction.  Here other psychological conditions enter in.  People live in regions threatened by earthquakes with clear conscious knowledge of them.  Regardless of what they might say, they need and enjoy the constant stimuli and excitement; the very unpredictable nature of the circumstances arouses them to action.  There are many different attitudes and characteristics that apply, so that it is difficult to make generalizations, but there are always reasons why any individual is involved in a disastrous natural catastrophe.

In many cases a near-conscious realization of the circumstances occurs beforehand.  In other cases the body’s foreknowledge is reflected in dreams, and so alters daily life that an escape takes place.  Some people change their plans and leave town a day before a disaster comes about.  Others stay.

None of this is accidental.  Unconscious material is admitted into consciousness according to those beliefs an individual holds about himself, his reality, and his place in it.  No one dies in a disaster who has not chosen to do so.  There is always some conscious recognition, however, though the individual may play tricks with himself and pretend it is not there.  Even animals sense their dying ahead of time, and on that level man is no different.

Those who want to use their unconscious precognition of such an event will take advantage of it – save themselves, and choose not to be involved.  If they do not believe in such advance warnings and deny themselves conscious knowledge, yet still believe in their overall security, they will unconsciously act without knowledge of their reasons.  There will be others who are a part of the calamity for their own reasons.

Psychically, mentally and physically, they will be as much a part of such an event as, say, the water that sweeps through a town in a flood.  They will utilize the physical catastrophe as an individual might use a symptom for the purposes of challenge, growth, or understanding – but they will choose their disaster just as they will choose their symptoms.  They will be aware of the framework, therefore.  It will not be thrust upon them.

They may not consciously accept such information, but if they knew how to examine themselves, they would discover that their beliefs added up to precisely the given kind of situation.  An illness of a severe nature may be used by an individual to put him or her into the most intimate contact with the powers of life and death, to initiate a crisis in order to mobilize buried survival instincts, to vividly portray great points of contrast and summon all of his or her strength.

So can a catastrophe be used consciously or unconsciously, according to the individual.