Dimensions

"In the parallel realities, there are all the people you will ever need to know in all your lives--like spiritual green rooms of your drama. But some who wait never get called by you. Those may try to get your attention through dreams or events or crises. You create a reality without them, and they show you how that turns out, so you can see how you need them. What you get is your reality illuminated by them. A bummer day may not be inherently bad, but you did not include someone who could have given you something.

"We usually miss out when we go it alone or not looking for new viewpoints. A host awaits your call--a whole host, saying 'Peace on Earth and good will.' " (10/10/95 - I#1)

"A lot of people want to believe and experience contact with us here, but only a few really believe and have experienced. You can read all you want about France, but until you go there it's not real. And some people get there and stay in the tourist areas, because they can't deal with the reality of their dreams. It's like just saying 'yes' or 'no,' but nothing else, when you get a chance to talk with us. You get a chance to travel, and then only look for the familiar." (10/30/95 - I#2)

"Children remember creativity. They know they create their own realities, but they forget exactly how. And if adults don't know what it is, it's still something. There are realities with green skies and blue trees and hot ice cream. You used to understand it, but then came kindergarten: one reality, under God, indivisible." (1/7/96 - I#3)

"Most therapists can relate to dysfunction, but not to function. Don't most therapists, in nontherapeutic situations, seem weird or aloof or cold or out of it? They have focused so much on need, they can't relate otherwise. Some need control, and others are just using gifts and talents; but gifts and talents that limit other interactions. They are like fans of anything; they have a lot to say and give in their area, but not much else--which is their blessing and calling, and their curse.

"Spiritual guides seem to be different. They usually begin by feeling full, not empty. They come to share, not to cure. And they know they can't give you your spirit's experience, only you can. But they feel the fullness so strongly, they know it is possible for those who choose. Psychologists begin with a belief that a patient is in a deficit and they will help bring them up to normal. But people like spiritual guides believe you start normal, and they help you find the extraordinary. Filling a hole or building a hill takes the same amount of dirt, but the end product gives a much different view.

"Believe in yourselves. Let go and hang on. It is a roller coaster, but soon it will be a tunnel of love and a grand parade." (1/27/96 - I#4)

"Here thoughts flow as thoughts. You bodies, as we call you, have language translators that put thoughts into linguistic symbols. What a waste of energy. By the way, I can only access what you say, and the thoughts you want open as well. So watch the ambrosia." (2/20/96 - I#5)

"The intensity of psychic energy is how you see me. You don't always see me, either. It's a combination; it is not automatic. But hey, it's the old psychic problem: A group of believers gets together, and something happens; but when a skeptic tries to recreate the event with only a part of the group, nothing happens. If the phenomenon is dependent on our energies, then it will appear subjective, not objective. But is subjective reality secondary to objective reality? I think not!

"Hey, we all live in our subjective realities. We would not know an objective reality if we met one, because by the time we met it, it would have become subjective. Like trees in the forest and lights in the fridge. Listen to this (pun intended): A person who is sound challenged (that is, deaf), goes into the forest. A tree falls. Is there a sound? No. A sound is not a sound unless it is a sound. How's that for sound reasoning.

"And if you get 30,000 scientists to say something is objectively true, then it is for 30,000 and those who believe them. It's like the Bible--it's true if you believe it is. So, a teacher teaches students what to see in Moby Dick. Not good. Another teacher teaches students how to read any book with their eyes open. Good. Otherwise, you give them your substance, not their own, and the truth is not in the book, but in the reading. And so for poems and paintings and beer. One person's brew is another's poison.

"Absolutes are absolutely not real... not yet, anyway. When all the combining is done, and all Creation is once more one, and there is no difference between Creator and Creation, then the absolute is real. Not yet. It's where we are heading. What is important now is what each person perceives and believes and does, not if they are right. Genuine, yes; right, who cares." (3/21/96 - I#6)

"How can one live in an infinite universe of more dimensions than we can dream of, and still see limits? You see limits physically, but you can believe. Is believing the same as experiencing? No, but yes. If you don't believe, you don't experience." (3/29/96 - I#7)

"A spirit sent a message to you, but she was not there. You got sympathetic vibrations. You can do that when you focus your energy field. But of course, you could say she was there, because you can't differentiate between a person's being and a person's energy--the old particle and wave debate.

"Coke and Pepsi are not the same, but they are both colas, so they are the same. They are and are not the same at the same time. And it's not matter. But is it a breath mint or a candy mint." (4/28/96 - I#8)

"About my guiding the living, I guess they need or ask for help. I identify with Clarence. It's like a voice in one's psychic ear (inspiration). I plant the seed of ideas, but they have to cultivate them. Most wither in the mind; some grow later. Most people are too connected to their previous thoughts to open themselves to these. For some this feels like protection, for others it feels like genius, or others like aha, and for many like duh.

"I try to draw big circles--show people the view over their walls. So, that's what I do. Most words go unheard, but the few received make the world alive with potential. I have to tell you that the reception rate is less than 3%. But get this: At the next level of complexity it's 23%--what we call a quantum leap. We invented that term here and whispered to Ballisario (he wrote the show)." (9/16/96 - I#9)

"If you consider all the systems of thought to be subsets of one great thought, then the portals to the thought are in the common questions, not in the subanswers. People like to ask big questions, but settle for little answers.

"Humanity has stretched across hundreds of generations, but most people look for meaning in one lifetime or one soul journey. What one needs to do is not deny the answers, but open up the questions, and then, in the immense chasm of questioning, drop in the vision of a larger answer. Most won't get it, but hey, that's not my problem... until they get here. But each time the perspective is widened, some will see. Don't forget that today's orthodoxy was once radical thought.

"What I tell you is far more inclusive than previous answers. It goes further down the path. But hear me well, it is not the final answer or the complete one. It is just another step in the right direction. I don't know what lies beyond what I have shared, but this is enough for now. But do not take this as the Truth. It is truth, but not with a final capital T. What the truly great seek is to stand on the peak of understanding beyond what has been known, and see there are more peaks in the dim mists of time to come, and not mourn their passing before the peaks are scaled." (12/9/96 - I#10)

"We spirits speak, so to speak, and of course hear ourselves. So if someone else hears us, they are not hearing voices no one else hears, ha. It's all a matter of perception." (10/7/97 - I#11)

"Let's talk about conjunction of the planets. They are in the same area of the sky, so you can concentrate on them together. It's your perception that is heightened, not anything in them. Mystical moments are more about heightened awareness than concentrated energy. We perceive them as special, but it's really us... or we... who are special in those moments.

"There is nothing special really; it all just is. But when we open ourselves, WHAM there it is." (12/3/97 - I#12)

"People want spiritual insights, but not what they see as weirdness. A solid base in the mainstream is the best place to broach revolution; you are one of them. He was just a carpenter. If he had been a seer or the like, he would have been dismissed. Buddha had to go and be common before he could be heard. And I had to go to Yale before I could be herd (the many faces of Moo). So, that's it." (1/17/98 - I#13)

"You always see through a glass darkly. You can't be sure, but if you think you are absolutely right, that's a good sign you're not. Questions, not answers. And don't forget to dance." (3/1/98 - I#14)

"Let people find their own channels. Will it really help if they can't or won't connect on their own. It's universal, not special--even if the openness is not universal. Which is better, a 10-year-old who can read, or one who is read to. Ponder that. In proper spiritual development they can, so maybe it's not their time yet." (3/23/98 - I#15)

"Don't reduce it to words. One of the problems of many people is they feel they have to put words to insights, visions, and feelings. And if they do, they reduce the insights, visions, and feelings to words, and lose something in the translation. So maybe they should be tools, not answers." (5/13/98 - I#16)

"So, listen up. If we focus in a direction, we can access information in that direction, but we may lose it in another. This is an important lesson. You, as physical beings, are limited in the direction of sight and sound and touch and... o yes... spirit. Surprised? If that is a sense, then it also is limited to the extent that you can and do focus and direct it. So some psychics have great powers of vision, but are narrow-minded. The gift of sight does not mean we see all. Not there, not here, not yet.

"One of the aspects of the growing complexity of the spirit is that it takes on more facets, each directed in a unique direction. And the whole and the entity (which are the same) have that many more psychic eyes. When we say 'God is able to see all,' that does not mean he can or she can or it can peek under bathroom stalls. It means that there abides a capacity to receive information from all directions of all natures. It is that the Divine is able to receive all, not that it is able to look at all.

"As we combine in our spiritualpersistence.com, we entities bring, not only our spirits, but also our awarenesses. We grow to become a great array of antennae--open, ready, receptive. At the level we are now, we have many antennae, but not nearly all or enough; and many we have don't get used. So it is good to try to use and develop the ones we have but under-use, but sometimes people, aka entities, try to develop and use antennae they don't have. What a waste. What a tragedy. Example: A person who is fully attuned to Western thought may strive to become attuned to Eastern, but the best they can do is go through the motions, while all the time their capacity for deeper reasoning is neglected. Watch for those who focus on means, not ends, and there they are in costume and play-acting. And remember, no one set of antennae is correct. In the end, we'll need them all. That's it. Ponder it." (9/15/98 - I#17)

"By the way, I have an option on the Temple of Wisdom. 8 rooms with running water... lots of running water. But here's a question for you: if the inhabitants of Atlantis were basically spiritual and still are, then why the hell does it matter if it is under water. Really spiritual beings of a higher complexity would not be physically inconvenienced by a fall of a physical culture. The true believer does not despair when the temple falls, for the temple was never the faith anyway. It is not a place of dwelling nor creation, but only of illumination and announcement, like all temples and mosques and churches. Any faith that requires a physical home ain't much of a faith.

"Here's another thought. Humanists are so upset by spiritualism, but if they were really human-ists (that's intentional)... human-ists... they would acknowledge that much of being human defies any rational scientific explanation. And pseudo-science is not any better than pseudo-religion... or suede couches... or Naugahyde--genuine Naugahyde™, accept no substitutes.

"The truth is in a religion whose names you cannot pronounce and whose beliefs are beyond beyond belief. And it is one with you and you are one in it, and it is bigger than you and yet you contain it within you, and you cannot know its limits. But someday, in the fullness of time, you will. And then you will know that truth is only a subset of something else, which you cannot name or imagine now, ha." (10/9/98 - I#18)

"Now about the blonde woman you saw. Try this on for size: She and the little girl are the same spirit. She has been trying, over time, to be a material girl, if you will. So the difference in age you saw was just a representation of her in terms you could see. You saw her at two attempts--one and the same spirit, trying to get in the same room. And, as you remember from an earlier lesson, children don't have to wait as long to move on; just needed another generation. But spirits don't call dibs. We are not one-dimensional, but if you little brains are going to get it, we need representations that you can get." (10/31/98 - I#19)

At a chat session on Dimensions of the Spirit:

"Ok, please pay attention because there will be a test... probably more than one, haha. This is about dimensions of the spirit. There aren't any, at least not the way you think about them. Spirits don't have dimensions because spirits are not physical. Let's talk about being physical and what that means. How do you become physical? You focus your energy in the physical realm. It takes enormous energy to create the structures of your physical body. You don't think about it. You think it must all be happening somehow... sort of like magic... but you don't think about it unless and until you feel ill or sick or tired. Nevertheless, the energy it takes to sustain that body of yours is unimaginable. Just think how much energy it would take for you to do anything without having to think about it. We call that genius. You're all geniuses in a way. So give yourselves gold stars, and then come on back to reality, hahaha. Ok, we're back.

"Now that you understand (I hope) about energy in the physical, let's point you in another direction. Actually you're already in another direction. By becoming physical you turn your back on the spiritual world. We don't take offense. We know it's what you need to do. But you can learn to turn around again. Where you put your focus is the key that opens the door. It's all about focus and it's all about energy and it's all about love.

"You've heard about people (and Mom is one of them) who've had NDEs. What is it they all talk about. How much love they felt on the other side. They all know that feeling of unconditional, supportive, nonjudgmental, and complete love. You don't feel it. Why is that. Is it because that kind of love is only here? Where is here? That love is all around you, and the reason you don't feel it is because you're focused in another direction. We are right here, as E.T. says (I loved that little guy). Reach out, and listen for the love. Keep your heart open. It doesn't reside in Heaven, or another place, but it is all around you, within you, part of your being, part of the air you breathe. You can have that feeling whenever you want it. So what's the problem. You don't trust yourselves or your perceptions, and that's part of the problem.

"You are taught all your life that there is the real and there is the imaginary or the fantasy. Teachers in school grade you on how well you do what they want you to do. Everyone wants to be liked and have friends, so we go along with the crowd because the crowd supports us and, as I said before, it takes enormous energy (read support and love) to sustain our physical beings. We have to teach ourselves (or you do) that we can make it without that, that the universe is here to help, that spirits are all around us, just waiting to come to our call. The doors are waiting to be opened.

"It takes trust, and it takes courage, and it takes some experience that has cut into your heart and shown what's inside. Once you can trust, you can do anything that you are meant to do. You can truly create your reality, because you understand that all you need to do is reach out for the elements you need out of the materials the universe provides. Your dreams show you that. In dreams you don't focus on the physical. You can be who and where you always are, but just not with your conscious awareness. There's nothing magical about what we do, or what Mom does, or what Ocallah or Di or RevRandy does. This is real life, and all they--and many others of you--do is get glimpses of that which is always there and available. No mystery.

"One more thing: about prayers. Prayer is powerful, but it isn't the words. Does anyone know why it's so powerful? It's your intent, your energy. Prayer is turning around in the other direction. And one more thing: the focus (almost the same thing as intent). But you can do that with anything... pray a letter to someone, pray an action you've always wanted to take, pray a hug or a kindness, pray a dream or a desire. Use that same kind of energy in your daily lives, and then you will see magic! Wow, I've said a lot, ha." (11/1/98 - I#20)

Questions and answers at a chat session on Dimensions of the Spirit:

"You say there is no devil, Satan. Is our ego actually Satan? The ego is not Satan. The ego is what you need to have in order to deal with physical reality. Now, when we let the fear of the ego's dissolution get the better of us, we feel it is evil, but it's not. Satan is the embodiment of that which we fear. It's made up, and it's sort of like the boogey man parents use to keep their kids in line sometimes. It's an image for that which we don't understand. Physical beings concretize everything. That's why it's so hard for you to learn, and it takes so many lives for you to remember. Try this: every time you find yourself thinking about something abstract using a concrete word or image, stop. Let it feel, let it be, see if that doesn't lead to a different understanding. Don't be so quick to jump to what appears as an answer. It will be likely to lead you to a dead end." (11/1/98 - I#21)

"When we feel alone and abandoned, how can we connect to our green room of friends? What can we do to alleviate the feeling of unconnectedness and loneliness? Ok, we're all here. We haven't gone anywhere. It's your focus that has wandered. Remember that, and look around you in your dark times. All you have to do is remember to look, and then see who appears. And if you focus on looking, believe me, someone will appear to help you." (11/1/98 - I#22)

"About probable realities. It's a math concept. At any point in time, there are infinite probable realities; we just know one. Here's an image: a point of light (just one, not thousands). From that point, the light goes out in many directions. One probable reality is that it lights this page; another is that it is seen from Mars; another is that it is swallowed up by a black hole, etc.. All true, all equally probable, but in your existence you follow just one strand of possibilities (sequence, not time). You see ABCDE, but there also could be a ZYXW or a REDQ or a NJHG or a ASKU5--all sequences, all equally possible and probable, even if the sequence is ABCDE. It's not about time. We have probable selves.

"Here's another one. In numbers, you have evens and odds; all numbers are one or the other, in your thinking. But maybe there are others which your thinking doesn't know, but which are just as real. Just because you have ten fingers, doesn't make ten the base of all realities. It adds to All That Is--not personal, but collective. And some day, so to speak, we may unite with a parallel self that took a road not taken by us. We move in realities with many of us's, but we don't notice, because most don't look like us physically, only spiritually. Ponder that... or not." (4/20/99 - I#23)

"Hey, we got middle men here, too. Sometimes you get a guide, and sometimes you get an agent. Why, you ask. I'll tell you. If you only want to fly US Air, you don't need an agent. If you only want the package tour, then you get a guide. But those spirits who have moved to a more complex understanding of life, will not settle for simplicity. So for example, one day you need a guide who will lead you beside the still waters, and another day you need a guide who will kick you in the butt. An agent helps supply the diverse needs of complex souls who have learned and remembered much, and so have many open facets. It ain't all one-to-one. I will leave you with that tidbit to ponder.

"Some have more than one agent. It's busy times. And every agent is also a guide, but not every guide is an agent. And an agent is not a main guide, that's too centrist. It doesn't focus that much, and, like you, it is always in flux and growth and change... unless you aren't in growth and change, and then you don't get a guide, you get a tea lady. That will make you change in a hurry. So, I'm going." (5/12/99 - I#24)

"Whatever will be will be. Que sera sera can be read 2 ways: one as sealed fate, and the other as karmic unfolding. Not the same. One says 'Here's where you go,' and the other says 'Based on your choices, here's where you are.' So, one is fated by one's choices. But from any point, there are multitudes of possible fates... some with fêtes and some without." (5/30/99 - I#25)

"Question: Seth mentions Christ as 3 beings, one of which is yet to appear as the Second Coming. Bullshit... but not total bull. The Jesus we get is a composite of many, but there is not one waiting in the wings... or waiting with wings. Seth seems to have focused in on a cultural manifestation, which if held by enough strongly enough, can appear actual. Jesus was this guy, and he was this ministry, and he was this group, and he was another guy who stepped in, and he was also the alter-ego of the disciples, and all the mythic heroes--all made to appear one. A composite. As I said before, the Christ of the Cross is not the Jesus of the Parables. A rather crass analogy: Santa, all those guys in red suits and more.

"A great problem is the belief in the Second Coming. It allows demagogues to arise--Jim Jones and the Kool-Aid. If you await a reappearance, you can get suckered, and a second coming is always looking backwards. And Mary, not just one either. Some of them actually smiled. An apocryphal story says Mary looked at Jesus in the manger and laughed. Edited out early." (6/3/99 - I#26)

"What does it mean to be a Speaker, and when. At any given time, there are many speakers, both alive and dead. But how many listeners are there, huh. Ok. Buddha, sure. Jesus, ok. Mohammed, yep... and others. If someone is a great speaker, and gets people to listen, then that is what matters. Speakerhood is only a start. So, Plato. And the rest are often mirroring speakers. I'm not a speaker, but what you say from me expresses a speaker's words. Hmmm... I'm a guide to the principles that a speaker would say. We are conduits, which means one must always worry more about the truth, so to speak, of something, than who said it. Speakers do not try to draw crowds to them, but to infect the culture with the ideas they bring. So don't look for favored authors, but for words that grab the soul.

"You see, people keep wanting to put spiritual power back in physical realities, like bodies and lives and personalities. It's as if, if we can locate and name it, it is more real, ha. The most real things in existence are beyond and within your complexity, and you miss them when you look too hard for them among the ordinary and physical. Like alchemy looking for gold in other stuff, rather than asking 'what's of value.' Forget Y2K, a greater panic will ensue when people suddenly realize that gold has no real value except as a paperweight. Just because it's scarce, doesn't mean it is really valuable. And so, too, for all the esoterica of the world. The best, most sublime meal of all time, will still leave you hungry the next day. Ponder that. And majority acceptance does not make truth, as we have seen over and over.

"And hey, here's a thought. Everyone wants to know about the afterlife; but if you knew it all, it wouldn't be the afterlife, it would be the life. So, getting the travel guides to Rome ain't the same as being mugged there. Hey, in the afterlife it isn't always postcard perfect either ('Have some tea.'). So, gather the soul's travel guides, but know the trip will still hold surprises--even with so-called guaranteed reservations. 'You thought you were going where?' Picture a flight in the afterlife: 'We are about to take off. Who cares what position the tray-tables are in. Get up, walk around, who cares. Smoke in the bathrooms.' But the food's the same--so bad, and so little of it. I think this is a lot for today.

"Don't just face it, facet it. But all of this was a hint. We can't and shouldn't look for other dimensions until we deal with the ones here. No skipping grades. You can try, but hey, you want to be the tea lady of the next level? Good. So go ponder, live, learn, enjoy, and dance." (6/3/99 - I#27)

"There are other worlds. But do we have choice, is there a cosmic travel agent, no. But we choose to make opportunities out of experiences. Look, you are so many places, that some have to seem real to you in relation to your needs. You choose to see and experience and remember what's important. Quick, name every movie you've forgotten. See, can't do it, even though there are many. You were there when they were screened and your eyes beheld them, but they are not real for you. So, too, with lives. Been there and not done that. Real for others maybe, but then what's not real now can become real, as you become more fulfilled, and that which was lost is found--in those moments when you suddenly get it, without any clue from what you knew you knew.

"Sometimes what happens is not in your remembered sequence, but is in your experienced sequence as a resource--kind of like kinetic and potential energy. We live with our kinetic memories, but there is always--for all but first-timers--potential. Think of potential memories, which our act of remembering and sequencing bring into active reality for us. And, at the same time, some drop back from active to stored. And as we fulfill, our active energy rises as we use and meaningfully sequence more. We begin all action, no meaning, but in time we gain meaning. And when we have both, we are energetic little sons of bitches, and we can move on without the need for energy outside ourselves, and so the evolvement--the complexity--is a form of enhancement, not compensation for any lack. And that's all I am going to say about that... blech. Too heavy." (8/30/99 - I#28)

"Those who try to describe spiritual reality with the terms they know, get it wrong... like using only numbers to describe a sunset." (10/4/99 - I#29)

"What are they trying to prove and to whom. Believers believe and skeptics skept and neither the Mark Twain shall meet... unless they channel him, and he's tough. Proof will not change anything, only experience will. A theory never converted anyone." (10/24/99 - I#30)

At a Halloween Party chat:

" 'Twas brillig and the slithey toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe, hahahaha. Tweedle-Dumb is here... no not you, him... ouch! Did you know trout could bite. CT is here in full trout regalia, and Tweedle-Dee as well, looking very round.

"So, hi. This is about words. Have you ever wondered why the words of powerful magic spells make no sense--abracadabra, etc., and Merlin's charm of making? You might as well be saying 'yada yada boom boom' for all the difference it would make. Does anyone know why? (Excuse me, I have to fix my wig... black roots, haha... I think it's on backwards.) The words are sometimes distractions, and what matters is the action that precedes and informs and follows them. We can get so caught up in visualizing the concrete symbolism of the words, that they lose their power to charm and heal and teach. That's why daily affirmations are s h i t unless you understand and believe in the intent and action involved. Just saying the words gets you nowhere. People like to think their thoughts make things happen, but they only make things happen if there is action and intent and energy focus along with the words. Words have no power in themselves; and those who try to make them powerful are like those who try to go through the looking glass by going through the wall.

"In order to go through the looking glass (have you guessed who I am tonight yet?) you need to remove it from the wall, to remove it from the door, to remove it from what is concrete. It really isn't hard; but when you try to go through the wall, man can that smart. We are here, is the message I bring you tonight. We are not gone or on another side; although, it is hard to talk about where we are without saying that, because your minds translate everything so concretely. We are not on a different side, on a different level, or up there. We are right here, and as close to you as you are to your keyboard right now. All you need to do is look into the glass and not see the wall.

"Remember, the rabbit hole is a tunnel that goes both ways, and don't be afraid you won't be able to return. When there is no here or there, there is no returning or leaving. Do you understand what I'm saying? Wonderland is at your doorstep, in your front yard, under your oak tree, and all around you. Like Alice, all you need to do is shift your focus and your expectations and voilà! There you are! Reality is real, but only part of the tunnel--the silver backing on the mirror that makes it a one-way mirror, so we see you and you don't see us. Take off the backing and know it for what it is." (10/31/99 - I#31)

"We are always here, but not all of us are talkers like I am, ha. Some of us have other things to focus on, and some of you are not very receptive, so we who need to connect in this way try to do it, and sometimes we are successful, but most of the time we are not. Others of us don't attempt to communicate because that is not what we or you need. It's always a 2-way street, and you can't make anyone do what they don't want or need to do." (10/31/99 - I#32)

"Why do you think spirits are so spirited. They don't waste energy on physical realities." (2/22/2000 - I#33)

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