Dimensions2

"About going and leaving in a non-physical realm. Obviously, we don't go somewhere else, we just don't focus our connectional energy in that way. If we couldn't focus our thoughts both in and out, we'd be surrounded with spiritual din–undifferentiated noise or spiritual chatter. We have spiritual squelch controls, so to speak... over.

"So, we can differentiate as a way of not being present to all. Otherwise, we'd go bonkers.

"So there's a tidbit more for those who want all the details of spirit communications." (12/28/2005 - I#88)

“The previous complexity level was not 2-dimensional, it was other-dimensional, because what you call dimensions are simply aspects of this complexity. See, where I am, there are no dimensions. Hard to have dimensions without time, since distance is a function of time, of perception. Without time, the farthest star is right here... no, it’s over there?... no it’s here... no it’s not. Ponder that.” (2/1/2006 - I#89)

"So, we haven’t been working on pith. Want sand? Ok, a few choice grains... grist for the mill... nitty gritty for the mind.

“I want to remind you about one of the PtoPs: Every level of complexity contains all the secrets of the universe, but not necessarily all the tools to understand (you should see what passes for Ouija boards next level!). And of course, you all know this, because at your level the basics for nuclear physics were there when the elements were only four.

“Everything for your most advanced understanding was waiting all the time, just outside the view of your previously inadequate tools. And to cheer you up, in 213 years they will be rolling on the ceiling about some of your hard facts. And yet, what they know is already here, but you can’t see or sense it. But we mathematicians in Cambridge will point the way... or not.

“Was it just a bit irritating. Ah, sand.” (3/22/2006 - I#90)

“Over here, we have spirits who don’t believe in bodies. Our skeptics are spiritualists. And some try to debunk the notion of a physical world, if they don’t remember. First-timers can be adamant: ‘There is no death after death. You just are and then you aren’t. Why dress it all up with stories of bodies and sex and animals and pleasures and food. That’s just to placate those who cannot cope with the idea that after spirit there might only be spirit. If it is so true, then show me some matter.’

“So there’s some sand, and the whole universe in each grain. Grains of sand... like the Days of Our Deaths: ‘Today Sandy will go into the spirit world and meet Jessica, who is a great tycoon but has amnesia.’ (Sand Operas.)” (3/22/2006 - I#91)

"Now, have you got it all straight? Strands of strings, woven in a matrix beyond time, connecting all points of reality. ‘Huh?’ CT! And without time, there is also no up or down, right or left, because the matrix has no edges. Mobius reality: self-contained but organic. So it sustains itself, and also is energized, but who knows how?

“Maybe God is the big independent variable which, in the end, turns out to be interdependent. Like a star without any system to receive the energy is not much of a star. Unless the energy goes somewhere else, the system explodes and poof is gone. Black holes: Former unused sources of energy... or not... or knot.

“And how can you tell a weave from a rat’s nest? You can’t. The universe does not depend on beauticians... even student beauticians. In other words, by our simple definitions of order, the universe is a mess if we could really see it. Such a mess! We see it as orderly because our sense of order only allows us to see the parts which fit our sense of order. I have pithed enough.” (5/4/2006 - I#92)

"As we think we move from spiritual level to spiritual level, we are fooling ourselves... and doing a damned good job on our elves, too. And finally, youse guys have an appropriate metaphor: it’s computer software.

“You get a disk and install it and go ‘wow’ or ‘shit!’ But in time, you get to know all the features and quirks. But then you are sent an email that says ‘Unlock the assets of the program,’ and you go ‘huh’ and ignore it, because the program is doing what you want. And then later, you get another email with the same offer, but with more experience you don’t go ‘huh’ but rather ‘no, don’t need it.’ And later, another email, and now it’s time for ‘hmmm’ but still ‘no.’ And later still--which feels like several lifetimes in computerese--you get another and say ‘ok,’ and they send you a weird code and voilà, there it is. It was there all the time, but at first you couldn’t understand; then you wouldn’t see; then you caught a glimpse, but it did not seem worth it or applicable to you; and then finally you could see it and how to use it, and it was there, but it was there all the time. Your next level is not waiting for you; you are already with it, but can’t or won’t see it... like Heaven on Earth.

“So the path of complexity doesn’t take you into new realms; it takes you into realms in new understandings--like visiting a great restaurant you first visited with a cold, but now you can smell... ‘and o boy, do you smell’... CT! Get it. Not separate realities, just more complex inclusions and perceptions.

“If this were not so, we would not be communicating--has to be a continuation of All. And the other levels are here, because they are not levels of existence, but of awareness. Take a person out in a field and ask what they see. Then take 5 others out separately and compile what they see. Then take them out together and see what they see. And then let them get organized and see how much more the new entity can see. But the field stayed the same! The group is the more complex being--another level of being--but the field is the same.

“A more aware entity sees and understands more of what there is. Picture a matrix of several layers of dimensions--like the old three-dimension checkers. Where you look and how you see changes the matrix. But remember, no bunnies... matrix are for kids. ‘Rikkity!’ Mine aren’t that bad! Ponder this all... or not.

“If there were any disconnect from level to level, we wouldn’t communicate. So how do I know this shit if I haven’t connected. You reach from life to death, and I reach from life in the past to something more in the future. I get the glimpse of the more complex awareness, while you hold deeper awarenesses of the past, so to speak. Micro-levels, an infinite gradient, not a set of steps.

"Well, here’s a step in the right direction... ARF. Just doing my pith.” (6/16/2006 - I#93)

"So now the test: The universe in its connected form, live or dead? Dead, but lively.

“It is not dead, but it is after life. We call it dead, but it’s not. Dualism is misleading when the subordinate state gets naming rights. You see, the living have posed life as the positive state, and the other state--which is viewed negatively--is called death. But if we had done it, it might be something like connected and away, with here as connected and you there as away. Or we might have called it ARF and grrrr.

“See, descriptions are rarely factual nor value free. It’s all perspective! So don’t you live ones start up with that death shit. I don’t want to have to speak to you again! Finger wagging extra... blech. That’s a big terse nugget of truth.” (7/2/2006 - I#94)

"See, nothing is uni-dimensional, or even bi-dimensional. And if you don’t know all the dimensions, you can’t see whatever it is totally.

“So always, ask not what your object is, ask what dimensions of it you can’t see... or can tsetse (it’s a joke on the fly).

“So much of life is understood--or, I should say, misunderstood--because a dimension is missing, or we don’t know it’s missing.

“Thinking outside the box means thinking without regard to a box shape or notion.

“So, when you have anything pinned down, take another look, so to speak, from another vantage. Think you have the perfect liberal answer, try looking at it with conservative eyes. Keep honing it. Test it from many perspectives. Test what you propose by doing what you propose.” (10/8/2006 - I#95)

"He wants to know what a cow was doing in a car on the interstate. You see, sometimes our spirits project an image which is very physical, and usually based on the pre-perceptions of the viewer. So he saw me as a Jersey cow, and I said ‘No way, man, I’m a Holstein.’ Just a little tidbit, passed off as banter.

“Pre-perceptions are what certain spiritual vibes were true in the physical world. So I guess when he was near Jersey cows, he experienced some energy that I then reminded him of. I am a cow. I identify myself as a homobovine. There are some spiritual vibes that I share with cudsuckers. Totems are not invented. But beware the dwarf and the albino.

“And each of us also shares some spiritual vibes with each and all classes of physical things. But you knew this, since each person shares spiritual vibes with a planet! If it’s true for planets, it’s also true for flora and fauna, and even elements. We feel most at home when we reside with those physical things we share spiritual vibes with. And this is true of everything--like grains. Some folks are wheat people, and others rye.

“We live in webs of spiritual energy that is expressed in many forms. Enough. Seek, ponder, find. You already know. And some are more universally connected (hi, LD).

“Let go of dimensions. See the amorphous web of all patterns.” (10/20/2006 - I#96)

"Now, let me explicate. I said vibes because if I used any other term, you would hear it in physical terms. It is not physical, so don’t talk energy or substance or vibrational frequencies or polarities. Just think of connections without connections. Can’t see ‘em, can’t prove ‘em with science, but they be there and here and there... but not here. There. Is that clear?

“Ponder nonphysical connection. There will be a quiz on Tuesday. Ponder deeper, not just hide deep... moo.” (10/27/2006 - I#97)

"So, about this vibe connection: Can’t measure it by the tools of the physical world. But the physical can sense it. Soulmates allude to this.

“Those connections of spirit are an untapped resource. And if and when you get glimpses of this, poof: next level... and a free meal at KFC (Kentucky Fried Carma). It’s all transliteration.

“Love indicates, but does not contain... hmmm. In this level, we get indicators, but sense not the essence. We are pointed in the direction of experience and understanding, but not possession and comprehension. Already but not yet.” (11/3/2006 - I#98)

"So, we were walking along the strand, stringing some tourists. And yes, we get tourists here. Spirits of other entities are curious. ‘You’re curious, aren’t you, Daniel. I like that in you.’

"And I go check out other spiritual realities, too. Can’t say, because it’s beyond language. I would have to use something like a metaphor or a glowing simile. But I can’t, or won’t, or you’re not ready for it... or you can’t handle the truth. Just let it simmer.” (11/20/2006 - I#99)

"In the movie The DaVinci Code, I liked the last scene with the multiple matrixes... or is it matrixi... ‘or is it mattress’... CT.

“Now, picture an infinite number of such layers, and the layers running in all dimensions, and you’ve got a metaphor for existence. That’s all the pith. You can’t handle the pith, because it’s not physical, and you can’t even think it. It is beyond thought and touch, it is non-sensical. It’s essential, at the heart of being.” (2/28/2007 - I#100)

"Bodies are not all they’re cracked up to be. In fact, all physical entities are not what they’re cracked up to be. I keep talking... yeah yeah, I know I have no lips... about things in physical terms: levels of complexity and grids and matrixes, etc., but those are metaphors, not descriptions. Long ago, I talked about how a person from Place A would describe Place B but it would be in terms of Place A. I give you another example... no, I don’t, he does.

MCP: “Hi-a. You-a go-a to Burano and you come-a home and tell people about her. You say-a ‘She’s got-a these pretty-a doors, and all is color.’ But someone from Burano tells you about the man down the street and the fish market and the little garden. To them, the houses are the houses. See-a?"

“So every time you understand a model I share, go ‘aha’ but also go ‘Yes, but that’s not really it.’ Like the many dimensional matrixes of being, which allowed you to see intersections and paths, but if I told you it was more like consommé, it would baffle you. ‘Huh... wha.’ But it is! Take a microscope to consommé, and you see intricate patterns, but look away and see a broth that is itself in every delicious sip. ‘And now with 20% less salt’... C.T.!

“At your level, you see your level in very detailed physical terms, but step back and it’s all consommé. And which is it, details or consommé. It’s both! And a damn fine breathmint, too!

“Structures only support more structures, but the whole is! Get it. Probably not and probably so. The trick is to accept that the reality is beyond your models of it, but your models embrace it.

“But be wary of those who put spirit in boxes and make everything physical. They aren’t wrong, but they aren’t right, either. I have decided that either will now be pronounced urther. Either way it’s true. Ok, I rescind my spiritual order and I’ll have a shake and fries. Just trying to bring some chaos to an ordered world. Bringing chaos to the world of presumption. Dr. Doubletalk, I presume. Why, yes. I am Stanley, Mr. Stanley Steemer. Pulled the rug out from under him. Chaos is not disorder; disorder implies order. Chaos does not presume. Chaos makes a good houseguest for the adventuresome... ARF... and Sandy.

“So there’s the pith and the dog... ARF. He’s a pith bull... grrrrr. He’s part pith bull and part retriever and mostly setter... woof... hooowwwlll... and a little coyote.” (3/20/2007 - I#101)

"Well, here we were, considering 3: past, present, or future... and height, length, depth; father, son, and you-know-who. Don’t you see, you are trapped in a physical world and you are just a physical girl (Madonna, Material Girl). But what happens when perceptions are set by prior limitations of perception and understanding. Just like compound interest, give it a hundred years and you have big errors.

“The trick is to measure or describe things without using existing limiting things. MIT knew this when it measured the bridge in smoots. But if Smoot had a growth spurt, what is reality. Just remember, all measurements and metaphors are equally flawed. Just the pith of the day.” (3/25/2007 - I#102)

"The trick is to hear any metaphor or image in its universals, rather than its particulars. Get caught up in systems and you miss so much.

“And peeps like to think that being open-minded is to question the details of any system, but being open-minded is to see where every system connects with every other system. One is deconstructive and the other constructive. Postmodernism is a total waste because it is about taking apart, not building up. And I will deconstruct postmodernism later.

“Good grief, why waste energy on taking apart, when you could be creating. But that’s enough. Lack of vision. The world needs Sandy the Super Seeing-Eye Dog... ARF.” (4/5/2007 - I#103)

"Let’s put it all together: Strings and strands and noodles... o, haven’t I mentioned noodles. Noodles are dried strands which, when enriched with meaning, swell. So they can look quite insignificant, but then, in other conditions, they are humongous--Amazons of flowing reality.

“Some strands are bound and some are noodles, and together they create arrays and fabrics and quilts of possibility. And it’s like one big mishmash, with a pattern. And meaning is in there, but it’s not anywhere but only everywhere. And the pattern is projected on it because it can’t have a pattern because patterns rely on points, and I made a point about that. So it’s a mishmash of strands and strings and noodles, which appears to have a pattern but is really a continuum of meaning--flowing in the ever-changing intersections. And that’s the whole of it and I’m done and I retire! ARF. He does, too.

“Noodles swell, just like the LIE gets bigger about 2am without changing size. It is functionally bigger, while a back country lane always seems the same--even on Sunday afternoons with the tourists. So, ponder that!” (6/8/2007 - I#104)

"Pondering for Points. If one proceeds along the trajectory of the known, and never pauses for some reflection; if someone keeps on the move constantly, the great intersections which might have been may never happen.

“Right now there is a nexus which might include you in a deeply meaningful way, but if you proceed toward goals and connections already perceived, the string which might pass through your strand may just forever remain a parallel possibility, but not a reality. Yes, yes, yes, I know, in the fullness of being, all the nexuses... or is it nexi... will be real, but maybe what you need now is right there if you weren’t striving to get somewhere else. The name of the game is connections, not motion.

“Sometimes the rushing river must become the tranquil pool, or else it will only be an erosive entity.

“That’s worth 27 points.” (6/26/2007 - I#105)

"People need to realize that what you want to be true must be intrinsic to a situation, and not just imposed. True, there are an infinite number of probable connections across strands, but the only ones that will become realized are those whose qualities are inherent in the strands.

“Now, a road in Ireland could conceivably take you to Des Moines, but not with the strands we are living out. To drive between the two, requires strands in which the continents are connected, or the sea is dry or frozen, or one can drive very fast and jump over the ocean. But our strands don’t offer those options. So while the Dublin-Des Moines car trip is possible, it is not probable in our strands of reality.

“Wishful thinking is thinking outside one’s strands--creative, but not grounded. Genius is not a matter of thinking outside the strands, but thinking deeply within them.

“Crusoe is stranded on an island. He sees only his stranded strand, until he is walking down the sandy strand of beach and finds another footprint strand. He could work with those footprints and enlarge his world, or he could dream of the signal flags put up at Greenwich, which would be outside his world of strands, and do him no good.

“It’s not in the cards, nor in the stars, but in the strands. Ponder that.” (7/11/2007 - I#106)

"All meaning flows in levels of harmonic vibrations of electromagnetic waves generated by the core of the spirit of each soul... or such gibberish. Here’s a clue: If a theory about spirit uses metaphors, ok. If it uses precise descriptions which are physical, whoa. It can be like a magnetic resonance or spirit is the coming together of past and future in a Now which blossoms. But it can’t be the gibberish I said before, because hey, dudes, it’s not physical.

“Remember, I said it was like the atoms forming molecules, I did not say it was. Big difference. One is used to help people understand, and the other is used to quantify. And you know what really pisses us off is being free of the bounds of the physical and then being called to act in physical ways. It would be like (notice I say like, not that it is) like going to Jones Beach, getting ready for a day on the sand, spreading out the towel, slathering on the lotion, putting on the shades, and then being told to put on formal business attire. Can ruin a great beach day!” (1/18/2008 - I#107)

"I have two... count ‘em, two... important things to say, and believe it or not, they’re about vibrations... oooOOOooo.

“First up, people often speak of higher vibrational frequencies, etc., etc., etc., and they are both right and horribly wrong. I give you an example: You develop heartburn. It feels like your stomach is burning and hot, but it’s not. It’s just the acid interacting with the stomach lining... gross. But you could argue that, since you experienced a burning sensation, then the temperature of your stomach is higher, but it’s not. The burn you experience is not really a burn, but that’s the way it feels. So, too, with many spiritual experiences. It feels like you are living at a different speed, and lights and such seem to burn at a different color. So the assumption is made that since you experience it as a higher frequency, it must be. But just because you experience it vibrationally does not mean it is inherently vibrational--which brings me to point due, which I have made before. The human predilection is to reduce all experience to the physical--even what is not physical.

“People have dreams, and then are asked to share them, as if they could be expressed in physical terms. And listen to what they say: ‘Did I dream in color, no... well, maybe. As I think about your question, I remember a vivid blue.’ Ok, let’s unpack this. The blue is a result of the question, not the dream. When asked to speak in physical terms, the mind will grab some way to express experience, but expression is not experience.

“So all the talk about frequencies and vibrations are metaphors--which explains why equipment set to measure it comes up empty. Machines can’t measure metaphors. And nearly everything you take as physical and certain is actually metaphorical. More on that on a later call. So ponder.” (1/25/2008 - I#108)

"Just one word: Sympathy, as in sympathetic vibrations. Did I say vibrations? O dear! Do you know what sympathetic vibrations are? Ok, Device or Entity or Situation A vibrates, and Entity or Thingie or Situation B is caused to vibrate. A clarinet and a piano are in the same room. The clarinet sounds a note, and a string on the piano vibrates. And it is not because the clarinet vibration is higher or whiter or of a more majestic frequency, but because the two have a sympathetic relationship.

“So, too, with feelings and sensations, and even intuitions. You know that when you are listening to a radio, you hear only one station on one frequency... WABC 770... but at the same moment, stations on many frequencies are passing right by and through you. All a radio does is put itself... and its elf... in sympathy with one frequency. So, too, with everything else. And being physically human means learning to progressively screen out many frequencies. Kids are sympathetic to a wider range; we narrow them, to be able to cope. And what is known as spiritual opening is just recovering and exploring some other openings of sympathy.

“And here’s the kicker... no, I don’t want you to punt! People keep talking about expanding the range of their perceptions, with the belief that the important stuff happens at a higher frequency. The important stuff happens at every frequency, and I am not talking about just physical waves. I am talking sympathy--in which we each feel attuned to something other and larger, and are always trying to make it larger yet, so it is less other. See that twist. We can only see as other what is outside us, and as we widen and deepen us, we make more us, rather than other. All That Is experiences nothing as other. The least complex entity experiences everything--even itself, at first--as other.

“Sympathetic vibrations of spirit, and sympathetic vibrations of physical, and sympathetic vibrations of stuff which is beyond spiritual and physical, are all ways for us to be invited to move from otherness to inclusion. And if it is at middle C or in the infrared or the ultraviolent... no no no no... ultraviolet, or whatever, doesn’t matter since every piece contains the knowledge of the whole, but just from a different perspective. Ponder.” (1/29/2008 - I#109)

"So, about happiness. Happiness is always the result of harmony of a sympathetic vibration between self and transcendent reality.

“Have you ever watched a spider in a web, sitting there, vigilant. Touch any place in the web, and the spider feels it and is alert. But that same web singing in the wind will not bring the spider to alertness, but rather tranquility. A happy spider is one in the midst of a harmonically humming web. So, too, with all physical, and even spiritual, beings. When you are so attuned, that the matrix of being hums around you, that is happiness. And physical beings feel it as an emotion, and they physically smile. But spiritually we don’t feel it, we know it. We sense we are at one with the At One--a sense of the ultimate unity, humming in the winds of eternity and the universe. And how do you know? Because you can do no other than to hum along. My poetic pith.

“I go with the vibes. And since they are not physical waves, and are not about frequencies--although you experience them that way, as the physical metaphor of what is happening--it is like a great attunement. Some look for atonement; that is looking backwards. I want attunement, which is ever seeking to be harmonious with more and more in an ever-changing existence in which what is hums. And I hum along, so that what will be can find its pitch and come into full song, to which I can add my hum line... and so forth forth forth so so. And so forth and so forth and so forth, but that’s only three forths. I take the fifth.” (2/8/2008 - I#110)

“Reality is not the same as experience. Experience is the projection of reality into the realm of dimensions of your complexity. Just because we didn’t have color movie film did not mean that life wasn’t in color. Projections are always limited, but by the dimensions of the media.

“So a one-eyed person experiences differently than a two-eyed one. Which experience is reality? Yes! So when you can’t remember things as vividly, that’s because they were already abstracts of something greater. So you get the gist, but not the totality–which is why, as you experience more and understand more, some memories can grow in detail and others, in which you remember minor points, fade.

“And some just aren’t worth remembering, which is why photos and films and videotapes of the past often contain lots of things which make you ask, ‘Why did I take that?’ Seemed important at the time, but not in relation to larger dimensions... and Leon’s getting larger! But more complex projections require an annual pass, available at the front counter. Much of complexity is experienced by the same reality being projected on a different plane. So a Jerry Lewis movie is different on Air France than on American. But the same is true of all those films which seemed so deep when viewed on college cinema programs, and now make you go, ‘Huh.’

“And one’s complexity and subcomplexity change. Think a life is at all the same complexity? Pretty assumptive to think the dividing points are life and death. Hey, it’s not all about you, your precious little life. If there is continual change and enhancement on this side, why not on that side. It isn’t like lifetimes are school terms, with death the final. But I regress. And I ingress... a snowy ingress... in Wisconsin.” (5/27/2008 - I#111)

“We’re fed up with all this dead-alive dualism. Without time, then who cares. Dead, live, it’s all at once. So look behind you and I’m there... or not. You’re right over there by Sandy... ARF. You’re a flea on Sandy... snap... not anymore.

“And paradigm shifts happen when enough people change the prevailing motif. Historians always look for an event which signals a transition from one era to the next, but the event is a product, not a symbol. By the time it is there, the change has happened. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have the event be visible. Lots of diverse projections go by all the time; you just see the ones that match the familiar script. You think there was no relativity before 1905. Always there, just not recognized--like Boo in the corner behind the door.

“So the changes that seem positive are... ‘more spicy, with a dill overtone’... CT... more inclusive. The ones that seem negative are about forgetting, fear, loathing, and a failure of vision. You can’t see what you’re not looking for. Nessie is out there, but is something other than a giant dinosaur.

“‘People want a spin-free zone’... no no no no, CT. They don’t mind spin, but they hate blinders. All perception is spin. And that’s it for now.” (5/31/2008 I#112)

“Ok, hold onto your heads. Remember the matrix of all existence. ‘We call it Fred.’ CT. ‘Ok, Erwin.’

“Now, we have already pondered connecting an infinite number of nexi in the web to create a plane of existence. What you call reality is one of those planes... ‘or is it a brooch’... CT... ‘and where did you get those shoes...’ CT, go! ‘Ok, we’re all counting on you.’ (CT leaves.)

“So, you have this plane, and then through the matrix you could posit another parallel plane, right? Sure! It would connect through other points in the same strands. People imagine this when they speak of parallel universes, but they are not accurate. Such planes would intersect the same strands, but not our plane. So somewhere along each of the infinite strands, a new plane would appear possible, but it would not intersect our plane. However, if one connected nearly all the same nexi, but changed a few, then you would have another plane--which would not be parallel, because not all the same strands would be intersected, yet most would. That plane would pass through the plane we call reality, but looking across it there would be at least some new dimension that is not contained in ours. This is a better description of a real parallel universe as it is conceived--but not actually parallel.

“When peeps speak of parallel universes and realities, they are actually speaking of intersecting universes and realities. So we have parallel, which mirror ours, but at different points on the strands. And we have intersecting, which share many points and strands, but not all. And we have unknowns, which intersect other strands than the ones of our plane. And with each inclusion of complexity, the number of strands included goes up, and the number not included goes down, until that complexity which is One contains all points and all strands and therefore all possible planes. Ponder that! Let go of your heads. Just a thought. It’s so plane.

“Eventually there is no node that is not on the plane, and time drops out of the strands... ‘falls on his head and screams ouch!’ (He’s back.)” (9/24/2008 I#113)

“So, here’s the dilemma... which is more than the dilemmon. Those other planes which are really parallel and not intersecting, do not necessarily appear as planes to us. But our plane of existence doesn’t look like a plane to the others.

“When you are in a plane of existence--and I hasten to add, it’s not a plane but a complex solid of multiple dimensions... ‘and dementia.’ CT. But this plane thingie only appears to be a plane because all of the reality we know fits on or in it.

“To a creature who has always lived in a cage, there is no cage reality, just reality. So the plane seems natural and normal and plane old plain and plain old plane. And if you say ‘Hey, wait a minute, we are not caged animals. We know there’s always something outside the confines of our existence,’ I ask, how do you know? Or is the something more just part of a larger cage? So there!

“Until you are one with everything... hold the mustard... thanks. Ok, hand it back. Until then, your plane is as good as a cage. So, ponder that.” (9/27/2008 - I#114)

“Let’s drip spirit splatter. It’s a spirit Pollock. You see, here comes the pith. Warning: Pith Ahead.

“If we could drip spirit on a canvass, it would be as meaningful as if we used a brush or did a photo. Every presentation and representation of spirit is as good as any other. And some will detect the meaning in one, but not another. That doesn’t mean that one has more spirit or is more correct.

“Everything which is at least one degree separated from essence is only a representation, and so it can’t be the whole. Don’t miss-take the parts for the whole. That’s what a mistake is–taking something wrongly. A miss-taking, not an evil taking or a bad taking, just a miss-taking. I missed out on what it was because I took it a wrong way. It’s a wrong way to Tipperary, it’s a wrong way to go. See, the Irish knew!

“There will never be a perfect representation of spirit because they will all be reductions. Can’t put into finite dimensions what is infinite. Ok, End Pith Zone. Resume Normal Ignorance.” (10/18/2008 - I#115)

“Strings, strands, planes, parallel and intersecting dimensions–none of that exists. It and they and we are just representations of existence. Models, not essence. Just as you are not your body, those various ways of understanding are vessels, not content.

“Hey, a wine store is not defined by the wine bottles in it, but by the wine in the bottles. But try to stock the shelves without the bottles. So we use symbols and metaphors and models and other modes of understanding, but don’t mistake the bottles for the wine. And ok, put a bottle and about a bushel of grapes and some yeast in a room, go away, come back, and in two years you will have a dirty bottle and some dried up moldy raisins and some dead yeast. Great wine! So, even when you talk about spirit, remember the concept is only a bottle. Ponder that. And I mean by ponder to use the process which is understood within that word, and not just the word ponder. A person who knows what it means to ponder doesn’t necessarily ponder, and someone who doesn’t know the concept of ponder just might do it.

“See, it’s not the bottle, nor the concept, nor the word or label. Those just point in the direction of what is universal and can’t be pointed to or not pointed to.

“Let me pose that one again. The that the which the is the... CT, get the the out of here. 'Ok.' That which is universal can’t be pointed to, and cannot avoid being pointed to. Points and pointers are specific, but universals rise above specifics but contain all specifics. Ok, enough pith. And when I say pith, I am just using a language symbol and not actually saying pith. The word pith is not pith, it’s just a word! It’s a word, a bottle, a hat, a brooch...” (10/22/2008 - I#116)

“So, we have these parallel planes which are parallel to each other, never intersecting. So how do you get from one to the other? Jump? No... and yes. Sometimes a spirit is catapulted from one reality into another... ayeeee. These are often called transformative moments because reality seems different after them. But that is not the usual course... or cours, for my French amis.

“Usually, one is on a plane, and there comes a point in which an intersecting plane is there. Choice: Stay the plane plane or take the diverging intersecting plane. Most don’t even see the option, but some do. But few will deviate from the plane plane because it seems so linear and right. The intersecting plane looks a bit askew, off balance, out of kilter, not right. To be on that intersecting plane means to be a bit out of control--dizzying. But if one takes the intersecting plane, in time it will feel level and right and true, and the old plane plane will seem wrong and old and past. So a few dare take the intersecting plane, and make it home.

“Ok, now, of course, there are going to be some intersecting planes which meet at too steep an angle, and no one will try them. The smaller the angle of difference, or intersection, the greater the probability of being taken. ‘Probable potbellies.’ CT.

“So the lesser angles of intersecting are taken, if any at all. But what does this do. Ok, let’s follow the intersecting plane. Look, it will sooner or later intersect with other planes, and some of those will be tempting because they are parallel to the plane plane. So while some aspects are different, they are different in a familiar way. But here’s the problem: The intersecting plane at a small angle of intersection will either intersect with a parallel plane not that different from the plane plane, or one must live on the intersecting plane for an extensive experience before the parallel plane intersects. And such parallel planes will be much different from the plane plane--many levels removed. And by then, the intersecting plane may feel too familiar. So, at the intersection of the intersecting plane and the parallel plane, few may choose the parallel one.

“So we start with only a few who will deviate from the plane plane, and then only a few of those who will stick it out until a vastly different parallel plane, and then actually choose that parallel plane. I hope this is plain. Ponder that.” (11/1/2008 - I#117)

“The nation is headed for one of those choice points of planes. How steep can they handle... or can they handle any change at all. But you don’t get anywhere different staying the course. And every change of plane is scary. Which will win, boredom or scariness. Are we ready for a collective adventure. You know, when the oceans are rising and the waves are high, you can either stay on the low-lying island or take to the sea on the rickety raft. Sail on!

“And even if the raft comes apart, it’s better than the drowned island because on the drowned island there are no sandy beaches.... grrrrrrrr.” (11/1/2008 - I#118)

“A warning: Just because you choose the intersecting plane, doesn’t mean you get to a parallel plane. If every time you choose, you take the diverging path, it is all too possible that--for all your choice to be different--you end up back on the plane plane. Just shifting your weight from one foot to the other and then to the other and then to the other, doesn’t mean you are walking. It just means you’re shuffling your feet.

“Bob... remember Bob?... Bob goes out in a canoe and he starts paddling on the right, but then he paddles on the left, and then right and then left, and he gets the illusion of going in all kinds of directions, but actually he’s just moving in the same old straight-ahead way. It’s not enough to choose to change direction, without having a vision of where you want to go.

“Contrarians can’t make a better world than sycophants, but visionaries can. But visionaries can’t make a better world, but activists can. To act without vision is on the same plane as being visionary without action, but together watch out. Have a private vision and be an individualist and be irrelevant; share a vision and help create community, and double watch out.

“The people awakened to their potential and their possibility can work wonders. We reach the parallel plane by having a vision of its attributes, and making and taking the actions to get there. Enough.” (11/5/2008 - I#119)

“Now, about these planes. Remember that planes as defined are planes only in their own perspective. So other planes may appear to be curved, and so you don’t see them as planes. But once on them, they are planes, but then the plane you left might look curved... ‘or it might look El Al or United.’ CT, lame!

“For example, you take a flight and they say you will travel at 34,000 feet... ‘but whose feet.’ CT. But while you are on the 34,000 plane, the surface below you curves and so your plane curves, but it is also flat. It’s all in the perception.

“From space, the top of Everest looks way down there, see. O my. But from the base camp, it looks way up there. O my. But it just is there. It is not the highest point, it is just the highest point on Earth. Take that Southernmost city: Have to add ‘the continental U.S.,’ or else you are with the penguins. They are so cute... grrrr snap. Sandy, you don’t like to eat them... grrrr.

“Have I made it plane enough for you? Well, let’s ask a spirit on the street.”

Tea lady: “Hi, lovey.”

“Your counter top, is it flat and level.”

Tea lady: “Well now, it was flat and level, but then the Blitz and the 200-pounder that went off over on the High Street, and that counter weren’t level no more. And she sure buckled here and there, but when those folks came up from the shelters, they paid it no never mind and sipped their tea right and proper. They was sitting at the counter like nothing happened to it, and years later they would remember the old counter and miss its tilt and warp. Had it that way for 20 years. And they still say the new Formica just isn’t the same. I liked how the tea ran down the side and I could clean it all with one wipe. Lemon? Sorry, got to run. Ta-ta.”

“So there you have it. Planes are defined by use and perception, not by intrinsic qualities, no matter what the Math 10 teacher says! In this world of existence, there are many kinds of sandwiches, but the only real ones are the ones that taste good and are filling. Ponder that.” (11/8/2008 - I#120)

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