Session 675

Personal Reality, Session 675

Affirmation then means the loving acceptance of your own unique individuality.  It may involve denial, where you refuse to accept the visions or dogmas of others in order to more clearly perceive and form your own.

Such affirmation will lead you to your own inner discoveries, and attract from the deepest portions of your being the particular kind of information, experience, or perception that you need.  The loving acceptance of yourself will allow you to ride through beliefs as you would through the changing characteristics of a countryside.  The more a belief encourages you to use your abilities and vitality, then the more affirmative it is.

Ruburt’s perception is highly altered this evening, and this is an example of certain kinds of both affirmation and denial.  He has always emphasized his own unique creative and intuitive processes.  In so doing, he denied many of the concepts believed in by others.  He accepted the belief that any consciousness could be in some kind of direct intimate contact with experiences and realities usually not perceived, but ignored.

He knew there were many different ways of experiencing even the physical world, and so he rejected all concepts that told him otherwise.  The very belief allowd him to use those abilities, and as muscles become more resilient with use, so do psychic and intuitive powers.

The legs run, and leap over areas of ground.  They cannot themselves interpret the reality beneath them.  The feet are not aware of the ants they crush.  They may feel the grass or sidewalk or the road, but the peculiar individual sensate life of the grass itself, or of the ant, escapes the feet, which are involved in their own reality and concerned with these other things only in their relationship to feethood.

The mind can interpret the experience that the legs and feet have, however, and by imaginatively using that sensual data can perceive the ant’s reality to some extent.  Now when the mind races and runs, it sometimes has great difficulty interpreting its activities to the brain, which is usually concerned with other realities only to the extent that they impinge upon it.

Ruburt’s mind is far more aware of other realities than his brain is, but he consciously believes in the greater reality of himself and his perceptions.  The brain also possesses this belief, and so it opens itself as much as possible to the mind’s activites.  Because it does, certain intuitive psychic and “intellectually spacious” experiences can be physically felt to some extent.  The knowledge is interpreted through alterations in body sensation, which give it an important corporeal validity.  In such cases high mental and psychic activity is reflected in the body’s experience, providing a beneficial unity.

Here I have used the term “spacious” for workings of the mind and intuitions that exist in what you might call an accelerated range of action.  The normal intellect, oriented so precisely by beliefs to the inevitability of a one-focused kind of perception, is limited.

A certain kind of affirmation of self allows the brain to tune into these more spacious methods of perception that are the natural characteristics of the mind.  There are very good reasons why this type of assertion must first occur.  The brain (and the entire physical system) is meant to insure your bodily survival and to follow your conscious beliefs about reality.  There is always a harmonious unifying connection between your beliefs and activities.  Some people feel utterly confident in certain areas and are timorous in others.  Some aspects of life may be ignored or even refuted for a time while others are focused upon.  The individual will very cleverly and shrewdly go ahead in those arreas in which he or she feels safe, often when in the process of altering beliefs.  You will not use your spacious mind until you affirm its reality within yourself, and until you are ready to handle the additional data which will then become consciously available to one extent or another.  But the spacious mind opeates through yur creaturehood; in your terms it represents latent abilities of consciousness that can be more or less normal functions.

There are built-in biological structures that are activated for the reception of such messages, and they have always been a part of your physical nature as a species.  They will not be triggered on a personal basis until your own beliefs allow you to perceive the multidimensional layers of yor own experience or at least to accept the possibilities.

As Ruburt’s episode tonight shows, even normal sense data then achieves a kind of multidimensionality, a richness impossible to describe.  This automatically provides a biological learning process in which the senses can be used in a freer, deeper fashion.  While such occurrences are not constant, they are frequent enough so that ordinary experience is changed.  The richness overlaps.

You do not have to know anything about so-called psychic matters necessarily.  Many individuals use the spacious mind and its perceptions, taking it for granted without realizing how different their own perception is from that of others.

Ruburt wondered about this next matter, which is related: Physiologically you carry within yourselves remnants of your evolution, in your terms – physical vestiges of organs and other attributes long discared.

In the same way you also carry within you structures not yet fully used; those organizations point – in your terms now – toward future evolution.  Use of the spacious mind involves these.  Individuals through all the ages have experienced this other kind of awareness, though never to its fullest form.

Experience with the spacious mind dissolves any seeming conflicts that occur between the intellect and the intuitions at other levels.  To whatever extent possible, the physical organism interprets that unity through a new mixture of sense data, so that materially the information makes sense.

An individual can tune into spacious-mind operation two or three times in a lifetime without realizing it, and have experiences that he finds difficult to interpret later.  The affirmation involved is one of transcendence, in which for a time a person affirms his reality in flesh and at the same time states his independence from it – and realizes that both of these conditions exist simultaneously.  A dual perception takes place in which the spacious mind is activated.  By “activated” I mean that the physical organism is suddenly aware of [the spacious mind’s] existence.

When utilized properly and fully in your terms of time, the spacious mind will vastly enrich the dimensions of the species, bringing the body into a greater harmony than now possible.

On a neurological basis there are unreleased, latent triggers that can be set off, and when they are, your practical experience with time as you know it will be altered.  From your viewpoint the species will then be so different that it will seem to be another one entirely.  As Ruburt once suggested, your [modern] system of communications has already expanded the data available to a private conscious mind in a given amount of time, and this on a purely physical level.

You have to handle and assimilate information now available as to happenings in other places that, in previous centuries, no ordinary individual would have been aware of.  Events in distant places then become present knowledge.  Time intervals between an episode and your knowledge of it are shortened, though the event may occur on the other side of the world.

Jet travel scrambles your idea and experience of time, and in so doing alters your concepts of it.  But within the mechanisms of the body there are unused and unrecognized triggers that will allow you, as a species, to consciously handle greater perceptions of time just as you now handle greater perceptions of space.

In a very limited and fumbling manner this is hinted at through the use of computers, where you try to assess “future probabilities” and act accordingly in your present.  The mind can do this far better than any computer.  If it believed this, then certain portions of the brain would be activated.  The brain would become aware of more of the mind’s knowledge, and the probabilities of future events would be made consciously available.

Now the brain would have to sort out this information so that the physically attuned mechanism was clearly able to maintain its temporal present.  When man first developed the pause of reflection, as mentioned earlier in this book (see sessions 635-636 in Chapter Nine), he did undergo initial disorientation before he learned to distinguish a vividly remembered event of the past from a presently experienced one.  The growing consciousness had to make such distinctions for practical behavior.  To utilize future probable events, the physical brain would be forced to enlarge its function while keeping the individual in clear relationship with the present moment of power, or corporeal effectiveness.  Affirmation always involves the acknowledgement of your power in the present.  In greater terms, denial is the surrendering of that power.  Affirmation then is the acquiescence to your ability, as a spirit within flesh, to form the physical reality of your creaturehood.

Now you can alter your present through altering your past, or you can change your present from the future.  (See sessions 653-654 in Chapter Fourteen.)  Even these manipulations must take place in your practical-experienced present, however.  Many people have at one time or another changed their present behavior in response to the advice of a “future” probable self, without ever knowing they have done so.

Suppose you have a particular goal in mind as a youngster, toward which you work.  Your intent, images, desires and determination form a psychic force that is projected out ahead of you, so to speak.  You send the reality of yourself from your present into what you think of as the future.

Say that at a certain stage you have some decisions to make and do not know which way to turn.  You may sense that you are in danger of swerving from your purpose, yet for other reasons feel strongly inclined to do so.  In a dream or in daydreaming, you may suddenly hear a voice, mentally, that tells you in no uncertain terms to go ahead with your initial intent.  Or in some other way you may receive the same information – through an urge, or a vision, or simply by suddenly knowing what to do.  This happens in your present.

In other terms, the self that you have projected into the future is sending you back encouragement from a probable reality that you still can create.  That focused self operates from its present, however, and some day in your own future you find yourself thinking nostalgically of a moment back in your own past, when you were indecisive and irresolute, but took the proper course.

You may think, “I am glad I did that”, or, “Knowing what I know now, how lucky I am that I made that decision”.  And in that moment you are the future self that “once” spoke encouragingly to the person of the past.  The probable future has caught up with the practical present.

The early affirmation of yourself projected into the future made such an incident possible.  In the same way your acceptance of yourself and your own integrity can, at any moment in your present, alter your past and future.