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IDEA CONSTRUCTION II

The ability of the entity to transform energy into an idea and then to construct it physically determines the entity’s place on the physical evolutionary plane. simple organisms are capable of “picking up” fewer communications, their range is less, but the vitality and validity of their constructions is excellent. In simple organisms such as the paramecium and amoeba, the few sharp ideas received are constructed almost simultaneously, without reflection. The organism needs no other mechanism to translate ideas. What is has is sufficient.

More complicated organisms – mammals, for example – have need of further mechanisms to construct ideas because they are able to perceive more of them. Here memory is an element. Now the organism has a built-in ghost image of past constructions by which to perfect and test new ones. Reflection of some sort enters into the picture, and with it the organism is given more to do. Slowly, within its range of receptivity, it is given some choice in the actual construction of ideas into physical reality.

The reflection is brief, but for a moment the animal partakes of a new dimension. The shadow of time glimmers in his eyes as the still imperfected memory of past constructions lingers in his/her consciousness. As yet, memory storage is small, but now the instantaneous construction is no longer instantaneous, in our terms. There is a pause: the organism – dog or tiger – can choose to attack or not to attack. The amoeba must construct its small world without reflection and without time as we know it.

Entities with still broader range need more complicated structure. The scope of their receptivity is so large that the simple autonomic nervous system is not enough. The amoeba constructs each idea it receives, because it is able to receive so few. All must be constructed to ensure survival. With man/woman, the opposite becomes true. He/she has such a range of receptivity that it is impossible for him/her to construct all of his/her ideas physically. As his/her scope widened, a mechanism was necessary that would allow him/her to choose. Self-consciousness and reason were the answers.

Suddenly, time blossomed like a strange flower in his/her skull. Before this he/she was transfixed in the present. But memory produced another dimension in the animal and man/woman carried it further. No longer did memory flicker briefly and disappear, enclosing him/her in darkness again. Now it stretched brightly behind him and also stretched our ahead – a road on which he/she always saw his/her own changing image.

He/she learned continuity: And with his/her focused memory at his/her command, man’s/woman’s ego was born, which could follow its own identity through the maze of blazing impulses that beset him/her, could recognize itself through the pattern of continuing constructions and could separate itself from its action in the physical world. Here you have the birth of subject and object, the I AM who is the doer or constructer, and the construction itself.

This new dimension enabled the species to manipulate and recognize its own constructions and freed it to focus greater energy in projecting some ideas over others. In other words, conscious purpose became possible, physically, Somewhere along the lone, however, man/woman began to divorce himself/herself almost completely and artificially form his/her own constructions. Hence his/her groping, his/her sense of alienation from nature, his/ehr search for a Cause or Creator of a creation he/she no longer recognized as his own.

THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

  • ENERGY – is the basis of the universe.
  • IDEAS – are mental transformations of energy by an entity into physical reality.
  • IDEA CONSTRUCTIONS – are transformations of ideas into physical reality.
  • SPACE – is where our own idea constructions do not exist in the physical universe.
  • THE PHYSICAL BODY – is the material construction of the entity’s idea of itself under the properties of matter.
  • THE INDIVIDUAL – is the part of the entity or whole self of which we are conscious in daily life. It is that part of the whole self which we are able to express or make “real” through our idea constructions on a physical level.
  • THE SUBCONSCIOUS – is the threshold of an idea’s emergence into the individual conscious mind. It connects the entity and the individual.
  • PERSONALITY – is the individual’s overall responses to ideas received and constructed. It represents the emotional coloration of the individual’s ideas and constructions at any given “time.”
  • EMOTIONS – are the driving force that propel ideas into constructions.
  • INSTINCT – is the minimum ability for idea constructions necessary for physical survival.
  • LEARNING – is the potential for constructing new idea complexes from existing ideas.
  • IDEA COMPLEXES – are groups of ideas formed together like building blocks to form more complicated constructions in physical reality.
  • COMMUNICATION – is the interchange of ideas by entities on the nonphysical level.
  • ACTION – is idea in motion. The senses are channels of projection by which ideas are projected outward to create the world of appearances.
  • ENVIRONMENT – is the overall idea constructions with which an individual surrounds himself.
  • PHYSICAL TIME – is the apparent lapse between the emergence of an idea in the physical universe (as a construction) and its replacement by another.
  • THE PAST – is the memory of ideas that were but are no longer physical constructions.
  • THE PRESENT – is the apparent point of any idea’s emergence into physical reality.
  • THE FUTURE – is the apparent lapse between the disappearance of one idea construction and its replacement by another in physical reality.
  • PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME – is the apparent lapse between the conception of ideas.
  • AGING – is the effect upon an idea construction of the properties of matter of which the construction is composed.
  • GROWTH – is the formation of an idea construction toward its fullest possible materialization following the properties of matter.
  • SLEEP – is the entity’s relative rest from idea construction except the minimum necessary for physical survival.
  • THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE – is the sum of individual idea constructions.
  • MEMORY – is the ghost image of “past” idea constructions.

DESTRUCTION AND CREATION

Currently we have the former situation I have just described. The threat of nuclear annihilation hangs heavy in the air. This we call the “Worst-Case-Scenario,” as presented to us by the religious groups that desire an Armageddon, by the producers of motion pictures and other media, who hope to frighten us into buying their products, by the average citizens of the world who have become accustomed to focusing on the creation of negative realities.

The collusion of these negative influences – the thoughts, images and emotions generated in the minds of vast populations of humans – creates a potential for the manifestation of this collective vision. Witness the Earth Changes such as the earthquakes, storms, tsunamis, erupting volcanoes, and so on. There are all the products of this focus on the negative. You may include our collapsing institutions, the Gulf Oil Disasters, and every other negative outcome in this analysis, as the fruit, in a sense, of this world tree of negativity.

Now conversely, the assemblage on the etheric levels of the positive ideas, images, emotions and other creative ephemera, builds the potential for the manifestation of the positive collective vision. The former is powered by fear, anger, envy, mistrust, and so on. The latter is powered by the virtues of humanity: Love and Courage, compassion, and others.

THE UNIVERSE AS A PHYSICAL BODY

The matter of the universe can be conceived of as a physical body, an organism of individual cells (objects) held together by connective tissue (the chemicals and elements of air). This connective tissue is also alive and carries electrical impulses. Within it, as within the connective tissues of the human body, there is a certain elasticity, a certain amount of regeneration and a constant replacement of the atoms and molecules that compose it. While the whole retains its shape, the material itself is being constantly born and replaced.

LIGHT INTO SOUND and LIGHT INTO SOUND

The cat focuses upon one thing at a time even though it has no strong ego. It is not the ego which is concentrating. You get a subconscious focus different in many ways from conscious concentration. In this state the attention is focused inward rather than outward, and it is the inner rather than the outer senses that are being exercised. The cat is doing the same thing, in his/her way. Its inner senses were focused in one direction.

As far as light being a mental enzyme, this is true. Mental enzymes create senses on the physical plane in order that they may be recognized and appreciated by the physical being. The mental enzymes are the same, Basically, throughout the universe, but the properties inherent in the plane itself.

The quality called light on this plane could just as well appear as sound in another; and for that matter, even on this plane, light can be changed into sound, and sound into light. It is always interaction which is important. Even the mental enzymes themselves are interchangeable, as far as the principle behind them is concerned, though for practical purposes they maintain separate and distinct qualities in their materializations in one plane.

That is why it is possible for some human beings to experience sound as color or to see color as sound. Granted, this is not a characteristic experience, but if the mental enzymes were not interchangeable in principle, then the experience would not be possible. Light would never be heard, for example, and sound would never be seen.

In practical terms, these mental enzymes must – and do – give a predictable, more or less dependable, result. The thing to remember, though, is that thus interchangeability can occur, and is, therefore, a property of mental enzymes in general. On our plane, the action of these mental enzymes appear to be more or less inflexible, static, irreversible and permanent. Of course, this is not the case.

Because mental enzymes seem to give the same effects most of the time in our system, our scientists, blithely label these as laws of nature; that is, the apparent laws of cause and effect. If you’ll forgive my pun, because a certain cause will usually give a certain effect in our physical universe, we may be justified in saying that the apparent results are laws that operate within our system. But stay in your own backyard.

What I am trying to say, is that there are apparent rules of cause and effect, but the same causes do not always give the same effect. There is much more i want to say along these lines. Please consider again our wires and mazes. I have said, if you’ll forgive the brief reminder, that these are composed of solidified vitality.

They are the living stuff of the universe, even as they form its. boundaries and seem to divide it into labyrinthian ways, like the iside of a honeycomb. The planes within the tiny wires – that is, the planes formed by the connections and interconnections of our imainary wires – come into the sphere of each different plane and take on the form inherent in the plane itself.

Therefore, these wires, continuing our analogy, will grow thick or thin, or change color completely, like some chameleon-like animal constantly camouflaging its true appearance by taking on the outward manifestations of each neighboring forest territory. Then too, the inhabitants of any particular plane are themselves chameleon-like.

The inhabitants see only the camouflage. They then accept it as a definite rule of nature, never realizing that just beyond their eyesight and just beyond their outer senses, this familiar tamed animal of a law changes appearance completely. So complete, in fact, is this transformation as to be in some cases unrecognizable. However, by seeing beneath the camouflage in any one case, you can see beneath all camouflage.

What these wires are, then, that seem to divide our planes and appear so differently in one plane than they do in another, is solidified vitality, whose camouflaging action is determined by mental enzymes. Now, perhaps, you will understand why I said earlier that sound can be seen and color can be heard. There are many diverse examples along this line.

If you’ll forgive me I would like to repeat: Mental enzymes allow the solidified vitality to change form. Light is a mental enzyme. Needless to say, mental enzymes and solidified vitality are dependent upon eah other in many ways. The enzyme part of our little equation permits vitality to operate successfully under diverse mental and physical situations and forms the basis for each particular system of existence.

The inner senses are actually the channels through which the entire composition of any plane is appreciated and maintained. The mental enzymes act upon the vitality, which is, as I told you, the structure of the universe itself. The inner senses, then, are the means. The mental enzymes are the tools, and the vitality is the actual material that forms the universe as a whole, the apparent divisions within it, the apparent boundaries between the systems and the diverse materials within each division. These diverse materials, again, are only camouflage formed by inner senses upon the ‘material’ itself.

MIDPLANE

The Midplane is indeed an excellent description of the semi-plane. It is a waiting plane for personalities at certain stages of development.

The midplane contains a conglomeration of fragments….. who have not attained sufficient knowledge or manipulability to progress further at this point. They may be at various stages of development, but, usually, they have attained only a fair level of achievement. They have not excelled, neither have they ‘failed.’ They are working out problems of their own. They are not as yet committed to the next plane of their advancement.

They can be of benefit along certain lines. The validity of their information may be excellent. On the other hand, it may be less than trustworthy at times, simply because their achievement level is not high. If they err, they do so through ignorance.

The ego entire is the tool by which the hidden self manipulates in the physical universe. For example, it enables the artist to focus ability along lines necessary to make it effective on our plane. However, when the ego becomes involved with fears, it ceases to be an effective tool and becomes instead a hammer hitting us incessantly over the head.

When he/she becomes overly concerned, it becomes overly conditioned to negative responses. The creative energies build up their thickly-dimensional pseudo-realities of pain. For a certain amount of time, according to our condition, they automatically create the patterns of fear that belongs to the ego.

These fears do not belong to what we think of as the subconscious. Then these materializations of panic and pain play about the physical body, projected by the ego, and steal the powers of the subconscious mind from their natural constructive tasks. In other words, the ego becomes a tool to disrupt rather than to create.

Our own subconscious is the fountain of our individuality and personality; from it springs our talent. Where the ego becomes to concerned with daily matters, with worry, then it becomes less effective. The freely working subconscious – or the inner you – is completely capable of taking care of all practical considerations and will use the ego as a tool to do so.

Dissociation puts the power back where it belongs. Daily methods of dissociation are extremely practical….. You will notice within a few weeks’ time an added energy. So-called impulses on your part are often blocked because you do not consider them practical. But the subconscious knows its own meat and its own sauce and the best means for its nourishment.

THE BREATHER AND THE DREAMER

Some part of the individual is aware of the most minute portions of breath; some part knows immediately of the most minute particle of oxygen and other components that enter the lungs. The thinking brain does not know. Our all-important ‘I” does not know. In actuality, my dear Blog reader, the all-important ‘I’ does know. We do not know the all-important ‘I’, and that is our difficulty

It is fashionable in our time to consider man/woman as the product of the brain and an isolated bit of the subconscious, with a few other odds and ends thrown in for good measure. Therefore, with such an unnatural division, it seems to man/woman that he/she does not know itself.

He/she says, ‘I’ breathe, but who breathes, since consciously I cannot tell myself to breathe or not to breathe?’ He/she says, ‘I dream.’ He/she cuts himself/herself in half and then wonders why he/she is not whole. Man/woman have admitted only those things he/she could see, smell, touch or hear; and in so doing, he/she could only appreciate half of himself/herself. And when I say half, I exaggerate; he/she is aware of only a third of himself/herself.

If man/woman dot not know who breathes within him/her, and if man/woman does not know who dreams within him/her, it is not because there is one self who acts in the physical universe and another who dreams and breathes. It is because he/she has buried the part of himself/herself which breathes and dreams. If these functions seem so automatic as to be performed by someone completely divorced from himself/herself, it is because he/she has done the divorcing.

The part of us who dreams is the ‘I’ as much as the part of us who operates in any other manner. The part of us who dreams is the part of us who breathes. This part of us is certainly as legitimate and necessary to us as a whole unitis, as the part who plays cards or dominos. It would seem ludicrous to suppose that such a vital matter as breathing would be left to a subordinate, almost completely divorced, poor-relative sort of a esser personality.

As breathing is carried on in a manner that seems automatic to the conscious mind, so the important function of transforming the vitality of the universe into patter units seems to be carried on automatically. But this transformation is not as recognize, and so it seems as if this transformation is carried on by someone even more distant than our breathing and dreaming selves.

We form the world of appearances as effortlessly and unconsciously as we breathe.

Because we know that we breathe, without being consciously aware of the mechanics involved, we are forced to admit that we do our own breathing. When we cross a room, we are forced to admit that we have caused oneself to do so, though consciously we have no idea of willing the muscles to move, or of stimulating one tendon or another. Yet even though we admit these things, we do not really believe them.

In our quiet unguarded moments, we still say, ‘Who breathes? Who dreams? Who moves?’ How much easier it would be to admit freely and wholeheartedly the simple fact that we are not consciously aware of vital parts of oneself and that we are more than we think we are.

Man/woman, for example, trusts himself/herself much more when he/she says, ‘I will read,’ and then he/she reads, than he/she does when he/she says, ‘I will see,’ and then he/sees. He/she remembers having learned to read, but he/she does not remember having learned to see, and what he/she cannot consciously remember, he/she fears.

The fact is that although no one taught him/her to see, he/she sees. The part of himself/herself that did ‘teach’ him/her to see still guides his/her movements, still moves the muscles of his/her eyes, still becomes conscious despite him/her when he/she sleeps, still breathes for him/her without thanks or recognition and still carries on his/her task of transforming energy from an inner reality into an outer one. Man/woman becomes trapped by his/her own artificially divided self.

It is true that, as a rule, we are not aware of our whole entity. There is no reason, however, why we must be blind to the whole self of our present personality, which is part of the entity, and which can be glimpsed in terms of the breathing and dreaming ‘self’ of which I have spoken.

It is convenient not to be consciously aware of each breath we take, but it is sheer stupidity to ignore the inner self which does the breathing and is aware of the mechanics involved. I have said that the mind is a part of the inner world, but we have access to our own minds, which we ignore; and this access would lead us inevitably to truths about outer the outer world. Working inward, we could understand the outward more clearly.

PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME

Physical time is a camouflage. Psychological time belongs to the inner self, that is, to the mind. It is, however, a connective, a portion of the inner senses which we will call, for convenience, The Second Inner Sense. It is a natural pathway, meant to give easy access from the inner to the outer world and back again.

Time to our dreaming self is much like ‘time’ to our waking inner self. The time concept in dreams may seems far different than our conception of time in the waking state when we have our eyes on the clock and are concerned with getting to some destination by say, 12:15. But it is not so different from time in the waking state when we are sitting alone with our thoughts. Then, I am sure, we will see the similarity between this alone sort of inner psychological time, experienced often in waking hours, and the sense of time experienced often in a dream.

I cannot say this too often – we are far more than the conscious mind, and the self which we do not admit is the portion that not only insures our own physical survival in the physical universe which it has made, but which is also the connective between oneself and inner reality. It is only through the recognition of the inner self that the race of man/woman will ever use its potential.

The outer senses will not help man/woman achieve the inner purpose that drives him/her. Unless he/she uses the inner senses, he/she may lose whatever he/she have gained.

DREAMS AND THE CRUCIFIXION

I mentioned the Crucifixion once, saying that it was an actuality and a reality, although it did not take place in our time. it took place where time is not as we know it, in the same sort of time in which a dream takes place. Its reality was felt by generations and was reacted to. Not being a phyusical reality, it influenced the world of physical matter in a way that no purely physical reality ever could.

The crucifixion was one of the gigantic realities that transformed and enriched both the universe of dreams and the universe of matter, and it originated in the world of dreams. It was main contribution of that field to our own and could be compared physically to an emergence of a new planet within the physical universe.

The Ascension of the Christ is, also a contribution of the world of dreams to our own universe, representing knowledge within the dream system that man/woman was independent of physical matter.

Many concepts, advancements and practical inventions simpl wait in abeyance in the world of dreams until some man/woman accepts them as possibilities within his/her frame of reality. Imagination is waking man’s/woman’s connection with the world of dreams. Imagination often restates dream data and applies it to particular circumstances or problems within the physical system. Its effect may appear within matter, but it it itself not physical. Often the dream world possesses concepts which will one day completely transform the history of our field, but a denial of such concepts as actualities or possibilities within reality hold these back and put off breakthroughs that are sorely needed.

Such developments would mean the releasing of added energy into your field. Ideas and concepts are nonphysical actualities that attract unaligned energy, direct and concentrate it. The dream world exists more closely in that spacious present of which the inner self is so aware. It is not as involved with camouflage.

It might be said, then, that in many ways the dream universe depends upon us to give it expression, in the same manner that we also depend upon it to find expression.

The impact of any dream has physical, chemical, electromagnetic, psychological and psychic repercussions that are actual and continuing. The type of dream or the types of dream experienced by any given individual are determined by many different factors. I am speaking now of the dream experience as it occurs and not of the remnant of it that his/her ego allows him/her to recall.

As an individual creates his/her physical image and environment according to his/her abilities and effects, and in line with his/her expectations and inner needs, so does he/she create his/her dreams; and these interact with the outer environment.

However, with the ego at rest in sleep, the individual often allows communications and dream constructions through – past the ego barrier. For example, if his/her present expectations are faulty, when the ego rests, he/she may recieve a time when expectations were high. The resulting dream will partially break the circle of poor expectations with their shoddy physical constructions and start such an individual along a constructive path. In other words, a dream may begin to transform the physical environment through lifting inner expectation.

LIVING TIME

Great as these things are, there is a totality of experience and sensation that includes them all, a vortex that contains and transform these infinite parts. I know that of which I speak. Yet, each minute event immeasurably increases not only itself but all other events, bringing into birth by its own actualization an infinitude of novus actions and events, an unfolding or multi-dimensionalizing of itself, an initiation into dimensionalization. For all versions and possibilities of each event must be actualized in the limitless multiplication of creativity.

And warping outward from each act are a million openings, roads traveled and experienced by the soul, naturally and spontaneously following its attributes.

Any one moment in physical time then is a warp, opening into these other dimensions of actuality, and any one moment can be used as a passageway or bridge. The act of crossing will be reflected in a million other worlds, but these reflections will be themselves alive and the act of perceiving itself will create still another vortex of actualization.

Attention can be shifted from any physical moment to any probable moment by a sideways parallel imaginative thrust – a sideling off of…

Each probable event os changed by each other probable event. There is constant simultaneous interaction. These ‘separate’ probable systems do not operate isolated from each other, then, but are intimately connected. All systems are open. The physical moment is transparent, though we give it a time-solidity. We see it as opaque.

Attention can be shifted from any physical moment to any probable moment by a sideways parallel imaginative thrust, a aideling off of focus, if the mind can get over its fear of dying to itself.

In what other worlds, for example, do I sit writing these Blogs?

Slide imaginatively into a world where you do not perform the net small action you will perform in this world. Cough, smile, sneeze – in some other actuality your actions are non-actions and your non-acts are realized.

Greet the now-realization of all of your dreams, for they also participate in the probable system. As your dreams bleed into your normal conscious life, so do they bleed into other probabilities. A dream act is actualized by a waking you, as a waking you is actualized by a dreaming self.

The soul is too great to know itself, yet each individual portion of the soul seeks this knowledge and in the seeking creates new possibilities of development, new dimensions of actuality. The individual self at any given moment can connect with its soul. There is initially a sidereal movement of consciousness, a dropping away sensation.

We attempt to save the shadows of ourselves, and we create light in even the darkest recesses of our own hidden fragments. To the extent and in those terms, we are our own redeemers.

Communications do not just operate in a vertical, ascending or descending fashion, but horizontal, in those terms.

Because we are born physically into our system, we take it for granted without thinking of it that we are born in the same manner into other systems. This may or may not apply, but it is definitely not applicable to the system of probabilities as a whole.

Now, in life of each personality there are, of course, moments of deep crisis and decision, where a personality decides upon one if various possible choices. These moments are not necessarily conscious at all, and the choices are not necessarily conscious, though often they rise to consciousness. But by then, the inner work and decision has been done.

The next line of our development, however,. We clear away debris. We give ourselves psychic breathing space so that our creative abilities can rise.

It’s one thing to accept the idea of probable systems and probable selves as an exciting intellectual concept, and quite another to accept the practical considerations involved if you think of probabilities as plain facts of existence.

DREAM EVALUATION

I believe that normal dreams are the outside shell of deeper inside experience. The interior reality is clothed in dream images as, when we are awake, it is clothed in physical ones. Dream objects and physical objects alike are symbols by which we perceive – and direct – an inner reality that we do not seem able to experience directly. In certain states of consciousness, particularly in projections from the dream state, we achieve a peculiar poise of alertness. This lets us briefly examine the nature of our consciousness by allowing us to view its products – the events and experiences that it creates when released from usual physical focus.

Consciousness forms its own reality, physical and otherwise. I think there is a “mass” dream experience, however, as there is a collectively perceived physical life and definite interior conditions within which dream life happens. Only inner experimentation will let us discover this interior landscape. Perhaps one day we will move freely within it, alert, conscious and far wiser than we are now.

It is a dimension native to consciousness, I believe, at whatever stage of being, physical or nonphysical. We have our primary existence in it after death and spend a good deal or physical time wandering through it, unknowingly, in sleep. Clues as to our creativity and the nature of our existence can be found there and from it emerges the organizational qualities of normal consciousness as we know it.

I do not believe that there are any more dangers facing us in the interior universe than there are in the physical one. We should explore each world with common sense and courage. The interior universe is the source of the exterior one, however, and traveling through it we will encounter our own hopes, fears and beliefs in their ever-changing form.