Session 885

Dreams, evolution, value fulfillment: Session 885

A few notes.  When Ruburt forgot to worry because “he wasn’t working”, his natural playful creativity bubbled to the surface, and today he wrote poetry.  Poetry, however, did not fit into his current ideas about work, and so that excellent creativity was hardly counted at all.

In a fashion – in a fashion – the [universe] began in the same way that Ruburt’s story this evening began: with the desire to create – out of joy, not from a sense of responsibility.

Many of the ideas in our current book will be accepted by scientists most dubiously, though some, of course, will grasp what I will be saying.  It is of course very difficult for you, because the deepest truths cannot be physically proven.  Science is used to asking quite specific questions, and as Ruburt wrote recently it usually comes up with very specific answers – even if those questions are wrong.

“Wrong” answers can fit together, however, to present a perfect picture, an excellent construct of its own – and why not?  For any answers that do not fit the construct are simply thrown away and never appear.  So, in a fashion we are dealing with what science has thrown away.  The picture we will end up presenting, then, will certainly not fit that of established science.

However, if objective proof of that nature is considered the priority for facts, then as you know science cannot prove its version of the [universe’s] origin either.  It only sets up an hypothesis, which collects about it all data that agree, and again ignores what does not fit.  Moreover, science’s thesis meets with no answering affirmation in the human heart – and in fact arouses the deepest antipathy, for in his heart man well knows his own worth, and realizes that his own consciousness is no accident.  The psyche, then, possesses within itself an inner affirmation, an affirmation that provides the impetus for physical emergence, an affirmation that keeps man from being completely blinded by his own mental edifices.

There is furthermore a deep, subjective, immaculately knowledgeable standard within man’s consciousness by which he ultimately judges all of the theories and the beliefs of his time, and even if his intellect is momentarily swamped by ignoble doctrines, still that point of integrity within him is never fooled.

There is a part of man that Knows.  That is the portion of him, of course, that is born and grows to maturity even while the lungs or digestive processes do not read learned treatises on the body’s “machinery”, so in our book we will hope to arouse within the reader, of whatever persuasion, a kind of subjective evidence, a resonance between ideas and being.  Many people write, saying that they feel as if somehow they have always been acquainted with our material – and of course they have, for it represents the inner knowing within each individual.  In a fashion, creative play is your human version of far greater characteristics from which your universe itself was formed.  There are all kinds of definite, even specific, subjective evidence for the nature of your own reality – evidence that is readily apparent once you really begin to look for it, particularly by comparing the world of your dreams with your daily life.

In other words, subjective play is the basis for all creativity, of course – but far more, it is responsible for the greater inner play of subjective and objective reality.

With all due respect, your friend [the psychologist] is, with the best of intentions, barking up the wrong psychological tree.  He is very enthusiastic about his value tests, and his enthusiasm is what is important.  The nature of the subjective mind, however, will never open itself to such tests, which represent, more than anything else, a kind of mechanical psychology, as if you could break down human values to a kind of logical alphabet of psychic atoms and molecules.  A good try, but representative of psychology’s best attempt to make sense of a poor hypothesis.

You may do what you wish yourselves [about taking the tests], of course, but our main purpose is to drive beyond psychology’s boundaries, and not play pussyfoot among the current psychological lilies of the field.

As for Ruburt, he became concerned about work because of the contracts and the foreign hassles.  It would be nice if you took it for granted that all of those issues were also being creatively worked out to your advantage.  He is still somewhat afraid of relaxing.  It makes him feel guilty.  His body is responding, however, so let him remember that creativity is playful, and that it always surfaces when he allows his mind to drop its worries.