Session 732

Unknown Reality, Session 732

I have spoken about counterparts in Ruburt’s class.  Many of the students became deadly serious as they tried to understand the concept.

Some wanted me to identify their counterparts for them.  One student, a contractor, said little.  Instead, during the last week he let his own creative imagination go wherever it might while he held the general idea in his mind.  He played with the concept, then.  In a way his experiences were like those of a child – open, curious, filled with enthusiasm.  As a result, he himself discovered a few of his counterparts.

Most people, however, are so utterly serious that they suspect their own creativity.  They expect that its products will be unreal or not valid in the physical world.  Yet there is a great correlation between what you think of as creativity, altered states of consciousness, play, and “spiritual” development.

When you create a poem or a song or a painting you are in a state of play, of enjoyment, of freedom.  You intend to make something different, to produce a new version of reality.  You create out of love, for the sake of the experience.  At one time or another almost everyone has that kind of experience, but children have it often.  They compose songs and music and paintings in their heads.  They alter the focus of their consciousness frequently.  They do not stop to ask whether or not the play is real or pertinent.  Physically, play develops their body mechanisms.  It also flexes the great capabilities of their minds.

When you think: “Life is earnest”, and decide to put away childish things, then often you lose sight of your own creativity and become so deadly serious that you cannot play, even mentally.  Spiritual development becomes a goal that must be attained.  The goal is to be achieved through hard work, and as long as you believe this you do not understand what the spirit is.

I keep returning to natural analogies – but plants do not work at developing their potential.  They are not beautiful because they believe it is their responsibility to please your eye.  They are beautiful because they love themselves and beauty.  When you are so serious, you almost always distort the nature of your own spirit as far as your understanding of it is concerned.  You cannot let your guard down long enough to discover what it is.  You keep looking for new rules or regulations, or methods of discipline.

You keep searching for a new “ascended master”, or guru, to keep you in line and point THE WAY.

In their own ways children are quite aware of their counterparts, and of other portions of their individual realities.  They relate to their counterparts in dreams.  They sometimes see them as “invisible” companions.  You dream of your own counterparts frequently, but you are so afraid of maintaining what you think of as the rational adult self that you ignore such communications.

People have written here asking about soul mates.  In certain circles this is the latest vogue.  The idea is an old one; it is based upon the reality of counterparts, and presents another version of the theory.  But, again, it is treated with an almost pompous seriousness.  Many of those who use the term do it to hide rather than to release their own joyful abilities.  They spend time searching for their soul mates – but the search involves them in a pilgrimage for a kind of impossible communication with another, in which all division is lost, with the two then trying to join in a cementing oneness, suffocating all sense of play or creativity.  You are not one part, or one half, of another soul, searching through the annals of time for your partner, undone until you are completed by your soul mate.

When you become too intent to maintain your reality you lose it, for you deny the creativity upon which it rests.

I am not denying the importance of true reason.  Certainly I am not telling you to ignore the intellect.  But you do often ignore the playfulness of the intellect, and force it to become something less than it is.

Many of you have daydreams in which you actually see yourselves as your counterparts, and portions of their lives sometimes come through to you as you go about your chores.

You pay little heed, however.  You think that this is just your “imagination”.  The unknown reality is alive in your own psyche.  There are hints of it in all of your experience.  You would not be alive, in your terms, if first you did not imagine yourself as you are.  Play is, in fact, one of the most practical methods of survival, both individually and for the species.  Within its framework lie the secrets of creativity, and within the secrets of creativity lie the secrets of being.

The life that you consider real represents one narrow stratum of even your physical experience.  I am not speaking here of other realities that could add to that dimension.  Play brings you a needed rest from your distorted concepts of selfhood, and many of the world’s finest inventions have come when the inventor was not concentrating upon work, but indulging in pastimes or play.

You are involved with some of your counterparts more or less directly, while others live in different lands, and are sometimes separated also in terms of age differences or culture – qualities with which you would find it difficult to relate.  Intuitively, you know who the counterparts are in your daily experience.  This does not mean that if you become consciously aware of such affiliations you must then feel it your responsibility to form a kind of culture of counterparts, or to try and affect other people’s lives by reminding them of your relationship.  You are each individual.  Some of the people you dislike most heartily may be your counterparts.  Each of you may be exploring different aspects of the same overall challenge.

There is nothing esoteric about families.  They represent the kind of relationships that you take for granted.  The same applies to counterparts, except that you are not ordinarily familiar with the term or concept.

Certain members of a family often act out particular roles, however, for the family as a whole.  One might be the upstart, another the perfect achiever.  Psychologists now often try to deal with the family as a whole, by allowing the different members to see how they may be exaggerating certain tendencies at the expense of others.

The upstart, for instance, may be displaying all of the bold aspects inhibited by other family members.  Through this person the others may vicariously share the excitement or suspense of those experiences that are otherwise blocked.  On the other hand, the achiever may be completely hiding such impulses, while expressing faithfully the desires of other family members for “excellence” and discipline.  Now the same can apply to counterparts, and those in your experience can show to you, in exaggerated form, abilities of your own upon which you have not chosen to concentrate.  You can learn much from your counterparts, therefore, and they from you.  Those counterparts that you meet will be working, playing, and being more or less within your own culture.  This does not mean that you are bits and pieces of some hypothetical whole self.

Pretend that the psyche is a plant sending out seeds of itself in many directions, each seed growing into a new plant in different conditions.  Growing to planthood, those seeds send out further new variations.  A handful of seeds from any tree might fall in the same backyard.  Others might be blown for miles before they land.

You usually live with your physical family, though this does not always apply; sometimes your ancestors come from various countries, so there is a physical lineage that you understand.  There are often homecomings, where distant relatives return to the homestead.  Now psychically the same applies in terms of counterparts.  If you belong to any particular group, often your closest counterparts will also be there.  You will be a counterpart from their viewpoint, by the way.  Many political, civic, educational or religious groups are composed of counterparts.

Those counterparts form psychic families.  They are family representatives on another level.  First of all, such groups have a built-in focus – political, civic, religious, sexual, or whatever.  Certain members of the group express the repressed tendencies of others.  Yet each is supported through a common sense of belonging, so that the group sometimes seems to have its own overall identity, in which each member plays a part.  Any reader can easily discover this by examining the groups to which he or she belongs.

Now there are races, physically speaking.  There are also psychic counterparts of races – families of consciousness, so to speak – all related, yet having different overall characteristics of specialties.

Most of the people who come to Ruburt’s classes are Sumari, for example.  There are eight other such psychic families – nine in all.  Some of Ruburt’s students are counterparts of each other.  Many of the people who come here come home in thee ways that [members of a physical] family attend a reunion.

Peter Smith is a counterpart of Joseph’s.  Sue (Watkins) and Zelda are counterparts of Ruburt’s – or Ruburt is a counterpart of Sue and Zelda.

Alan Koch and Ruburt are counterparts.  Carl Jones and Bill Herriman and Bill Granger are counterparts.  Norma Pryor is a counterpart of Joseph’s, and vice versa.  The young man from Pennsylvania who comes every other week is a counterpart of Ruburt’s.  But [all of] this applies to any group.

The Sumari are naturally playful – inventors, and relatively unfettered.  They are impatient, however.  They will be found in the arts and in the less conventional sciences.

The unknown reality.  You have inner affiliations.  What are they?  I will outline the inner psychic species, and it is up to you to discover to which one you belong.

I am using this group of Ruburt’s class as an example, but the same applies, again, to any group.

The Sumari are rambunctious, in certain terms anti-authority, full of energy.  They are usually individualists, against systems of any kind.  They are not “born reformers”, however.  They do not insist that everyone believe in their ideas, but they are stubborn in that they insist upon the right to believe in their own ideas, and will avoid all coercion.

In class, Emma and Jack are counterparts.  (To me:) You and Jack are counterparts but you and Emma are not.

Earl and Sam are counterparts.  To my readers these names mean nothing.  Yet in each case the relationships noted indicate inner realizations and connections.  The same realities appear in each of your lives.  Will is a very intellectual man – proud of it, though he goes to great effort to show he is one of the boys.  On the other hand, Ben Fein trusts his intuitions fully, and relies upon them, yet to some extent fears his own great energy.  In many respects he is a child, and utterly spontaneous.

Will dreams of being spontaneous.  Yet even in this open [class] group, Ben’s spontaneity becomes embarrassing to adults free enough to play with the idea of spontaneity while not trusting it completely.  Ben is afraid of the intellect.  He is frightened that it will “pull him down”.

Now any group will show the same kind of interrelationships.  You can see them for yourselves.  There is great diversity within the family of consciousness called Sumari, as there is within any physical race, and there is also great variety within other psychic families.

You choose to be born in a particular physical family, however, with your brothers and sisters, or as an only child.  So, generally speaking, your counterparts are born in the same psychic family of your contemporaries.  These families can be called:

1.      Gramada

2.      Sumafi

3.      Tumold

4.      Vold

5.      Milument

6.      Zuli

7.      Borledim, closest to Sumari

8.      Ilda

9.      Sumari

Now these categories do not come first.  Your individuality comes first.  You have certain characteristics of your own.  These place you in a certain position.  As you are not a rock or a mineral, but a person, so your individuality places you in a particular family or species of consciousness.  This represents your overall viewpoint of reality.

You like to be an initiator or a follower or a nourisher.  You like to create variations on old systems, or you like to create new ones.  You like to deal primarily with healing, or with information, or with physical data.  You like to deal with sight, or sound, with dreams, or with translating inner data into the working psychic material of your society.  So you choose a certain focus, as you choose ahead of time of your physical family.