Session 889

DREAMS, EVOLUTION, VALUE FULFILLMENT: Session 889

I call the building blocks of matter CU’s – units of consciousness.  They form physical matter as it exists in your understanding and experience.  Units of consciousness also form other kinds of matter that you do not perceive.

CU’s can also operate as “particles” or as “waves”.  Whichever way they operate, they are aware of their own existences.  When CU’s operate as particles, in your terms, they build up a continuity in time.  They take on the characteristics of particularity.  They identify themselves by the establishment of specific boundaries.

They take certain forms, then, when they operate as particles, and experience their reality from the “center of” those forms.  They concentrate upon, or focus upon, their unique specifications.  They become in your terms individual.

When CU’s operate as waves, however, they do not set up any boundaries about their own self-awareness – and when operating as waves CU’s can indeed be in more than one place at one time.

I understand that this is somewhat difficult material to comprehend.  However, in its purest form a unit of consciousness can be in all places at the same time.  It becomes beside the point, then, to say that when it operates as a wave a unit of consciousness is precognitive, or clairvoyant, since it has the capacity to be in all places and all times simultaneously.

Those units of consciousness are the building blocks for the physical material of your body, for the trees and rocks, the oceans, the continents, and the very manifestation of space itself as you understand it.

These CU’s can operate as separate entities, as identities, or they can flow together in a vast harmonious wave of activity, as a force.  Actually, units of consciousness operate in both ways all of the time.  No identity, once “formed” is ever annihilated, for its existence is indelibly a part of “the entire wave of consciousness to which it belongs.

Each “particleized” unit, however, rides the continual thrust set up by fields of consciousness, in which wave and particle both belong.  Each particleized unit of consciousness contains within it inherently the knowledge of all other such particles – for at other levels, again, the units are operating as waves.  Basically, the units move faster than light, slowing down, in your terms, to form matter.  These units can be considered, again, as entities or as forces, and they can operate as either.  Metaphysically, they can be thought of as the point at which All That Is acts to form [your] world – the immediate contact of the never-ending creative inspiration, coming into mental focus, the metamorphosis of certainly divine origin that brings the physical world into existence from the greater reality of divine fact.  Scientifically, again the units can be thought of as building blocks of matter.  Ethically, the CU’s represent the spectacular foundations of the world in value fulfillment, for each unit of consciousness is related to each other, a part of the other, each participating in the entire gestalt of mortal experience.  And we will see how this applies to your attitudes toward specieshood, and man’s relationship with other conscious entities and the planet he shares with them.

In the beginning CU’s, then, units of consciousness, existing within a divine psychological gestalt, endowed with the unimaginable creativity of that sublime identity, began themselves to create, to explore, and to fulfill those innate values by which they were characterized.  Operating both as waves and particles, directed in part by their own creative restlessness, and directed in part by the unquenchable creativity of All That Is, they embarked upon the project that brought time and space and your entire [universe] into being.  They were the first entities, then.

I want you to try and imagine a situation in which there exists a psychological force that includes within its capabilities the ability to act simultaneously on the most microscopic and most macroscopic levels; that can form within itself a million separate inviolate unique identities, and that can still operate as a part of those identities, and as a larger unit that is their source – in which case it is a wave from which the particles emerge.  That description fits our units of consciousness.

They built your world from the inside out.  As physical creatures, they focused upon what you think of as physical identities: separate, individual differences, endowing each physical consciousness with its own original variations and creative potentials, its own opportunity for completely original experience, and a viewpoint or platform from which to participate in reality – one that at that level could not be experienced in the same way by any other individual.  This is [the] privileged, always new, private and immediate, direct experience of any individual of any species, or of any degree, as it encounters the objective universe.

At other levels, while each individuality is maintained, it rides the wavelike formations of consciousness.  It is everywhere at once, and the units of consciousness that make up your cells know the positions of all other such units, both in time and in space.

In the beginning, then, these units operated both as identities or particles, and as waves.  The main concentration was not yet physical in your terms.  What you now think of as the dream state was the waking one, for it was still the recognized form of purposeful activity, creativity, and power.  The dream state continues to be a connective between the two realities, and as a species you literally learned to walk by first being sleepwalkers.  You walked in your sleep.  You dreamed your languages.  You spoke in your dreams and later wrote down the alphabets – and your knowledge and your intellect have always been fired, sharpened, propelled by the greater inner reality from which your minds emerged.

Physical matter by itself could never produce consciousness.

One mind alone could not come into being from chance alone; one thought could not leap from an infinite number of nerve ends, if matter itself was not initially alive with consciousness, packed with the intent to be.  A man who believes life has little meaning quickly leaves life – and a meaningless existence could never produce life.  Nor was the universe created for one species alone, by a God who is simply a supervision of the same species – as willful and destructive as man at his worst.

Instead, you have an inner dimension of activity, a vast field of multidimensional creativity, a Creator that becomes a portion of each of its creations, and yet a Creator that is greater than the sum of its parts: a Creator that can know itself as a mouse in a field, or as the field, or as the continent upon which the field rests, or as the planet that holds the continent, or as the universe that holds the world – a force that is whole yet divisible, that is one and the inconceivable many, a force that is eternal and mortal at once, a force that plunges headlong into its own creativity, forming the seasons and experiencing them as well, glorifying in individuation, and yet always aware of the great unity that is within and behind and through all experiences of individuality: a force from [which] each moment’s pasts and futures flow out in every conceivable direction.

In your terms of time, however, we will speak of a beginning, and in that beginning it was early man’s dreams that allowed him to cope with physical reality.  The dream world was his original learning ground.  In times of drought he would dream of the location of water.  In times of famine, he would dream of the location of food.  That is, his dreaming allowed him to clairvoyantly view the body of land.  He would not waste time in the trial-and-error procedures that you now take for granted.  In dreams his consciousness operated as a wave.

In those early times, all species shared their dreams in a way that is now quite unconscious for your kind, so that in dreams man inquired of the animals also – long before he learned to follow the animal tracks, for example.  Where is there food or water?  What is the lay of the land?  Man explored the planet because his dreams told him that the land was there.

People were not nearly as isolated as it now appears, for in their dreams early men communicated their various locations, the symbols of their cultures and understanding, the nature of their arts.  All of the inventions that you often think now happened quite by chance – the discovery of anything from the first tool to the importance of fire, or the coming of the Iron Age or whatever – all of that inventiveness was the result of the inspiration and communication of the dream world.  Man dreamed his world and then created it, and the units of consciousness first dreamed man and all of the other species that you know.

There is a point here that I want to emphasize before we go too far, and it is this: The dream world is not an aimless, nonlogical, unintellectual field of activity.  It is only that your own perspective closes out much of its vast reality, for the dreaming intellect can put your computers to shame.  I am not, therefore, putting the intellectual capacities in the background – but I am saying that they emerge as you know them because of the dreaming self’s uninterrupted use of the full power of the untied intellect and intuitions.

The intellectual abilities as you know them cannot compare to those greater capacities that are a part of your own inner reality.

Aside: Politics

It makes little difference whether you watch the news or not – but it makes all the difference in the world what you think of world events.

The perspective from which you watch world events is vital, and it is true that communication now brings to the conscious mind a far greater barrage than before.  But it is also a barrage that makes man see his own activities, and even with the growth of the new nationalism in the Third World, those nations begin from a new perspective, in which the eyes of the world are indeed upon them.

Your country faces the results of its own policies – its greed as well as its good intent, but it is out in the open in a new way.  The world will be seen as one, but there may be changes in the overall tax assessments along the way, as those who have not paid much, pay more.

The results of fanaticism are also out in the open.  Never before, in your terms, has the private person been able to see a picture of the mass world in such a way, or been forced to identify with the policies of his or her government.  That in itself is a creative achievement, and means that man is not closing his eyes to the inequities of his world.