"This conversation is filled with
potential. Name something which is not. Even nothing
has a potential.
"Nature truly abhors a vacuum. That's why it's so
dusty here... no no no no. So in the absence of a total
nothing, which is unnatural, there is always potential.
Even in the best of situations, well thought out by
parents, there is the potential for mischief
<grin>.
"By the way, logic is an assumption.
"You gotta be where you are, or else you've robbed
the potential. The best way to reduce existence--either
physical or spiritual--of its potential, is to act,
think, believe, feel that potential is some other time,
place, plane, form. Either it flows through All That Is
or it doesn't, and we've already dispensed with the doesn't,
so it must! So it is as much there as here,
and now as then.
"The question is not if but then what...
or huh... wha... sure... I guess. At-one-ment:
because it is never something other. All the
potential you ever need is available in every place and
moment... but a trip to Disney wouldn't hurt."
(3/13/2004 - V#81)
"Remember, all physical attributes are only
manifestations of the spiritual--and fleeting ones at
that. Tempus fugit but--or should I say sed--tempus
non esse. You've heard it before... or wait, you're
going to hear it soon. In What Dreams May Come, them folks who were
posing as dead... well, they were dead,
but... they manifested as aspects of their spiritual
attributes. So a kindly soul might manifest as Florence
Nightingale. And an idiot might manifest as someone from Crawford, Texas... o, I'm bad.
"Collective spirits are not the same as coordinate
spirits. Did I mention companion spirits. I theenk not.
Complementary? And you better say 'yes' because that's
all I have given you. Complementary are elements of
entities. They complete the pattern. Complementary,
complete... see. And comple plus ete or
mentary--same root.
"But what is a coordinated spirit, one that can
dance? And the other kinds. Watch out for compound
spirits: two-faced liars. You think they match, but only
while you're watching. And dipole coordinated spirits...
don't ask, don't tell. Actually, it's simple: 2 entities
which must move on together because their energy is a
coordinate around a single expression of being. And you
say, 'Huh.' And I say, those stories were about this:
Adam and Eve and Romulus and Remus, Sylvester and
Tweetie, Vishnu and Shiva. Without both, you have
nothing. And without both in balance, you have trouble...
yessir, trouble right here in Judgment City.
"So, I will get to the others... or not. Now it is
time to get serious... woof. Or not. Don't
assume that because I put the process of Spiritual
Persistence in simple plain terms, that it is that simple
or plain. Remember that 1 + 1 = 2 is both simple and
amazingly elegant. The simplest notions point to life's
complexities, just as complex compound spirits do. And we
will get back to that. Have to prime the pump before you
can go to the well." (3/26/2004 - V#82)
"Collective entities--not to be confused with
compound and complementary and coordinate. And there are
no collateral ones, but actually all are collateral if
time is infinite and expansive and meaningless. Did you
say correlative. But a correlative entity would not be causative and so it would have no
effect, and if it has no effect, it effectively isn't,
so don't go there.
"Collective entity is one that is not only
more complex by reason of its own building on
complementary, more elementary entities, but one that
begins to mirror the whole of the All That Is. Actually,
all entities which are complex are collective, but at the
most elementary levels you couldn't tell. But at some
levels, one could begin to sense that the entity is all
it is and... aha... more, just like All That Is.
Something gets added to the equation; the complexity
weighs in with its own meaning. And guess what, humans
are right on the cusp between the something more
being insignificant and being something. So we get a
glimpse of that something more in some entities and not
in others. It's there in all, but not to the same extent.
"So, we have lots of entities which have the more
but don't show it, and a few that show some more more,
and a fewer still that show a lot more more. And
what we recognize as more, and celebrate in the
great entities, is just a tiny glimpse of what is along
the entity trail. So, you are functioning like
complementary spirits, but you are collective but don't
know how to know and use that. Ah, so much learned and so
much to learn.
"Understand? If you do, let me know. I don't get it
but I say it. I have a slightly better glimpse, and no
need to waste energy on being physical. Whoa, do
you know how much work it is to be physical? Ok, that's
the spiel for this session. And remember, I'm
trying to use models which can be understood by your wee
wittle brains, but the reality is more astounding than
any model I can suggest or any words I know.
"I just feel like a kid who has run up onto the top
of a hill and, seeing a great cathedral spire in the
distance, tries to yell back down to my family in the
dell what I've seen. But since I've never seen it before,
I have to use words from the past, not the vision. So
maybe I get a good description of the spire, or maybe you
think I've spotted an elephant with a tusk stuck up in
the air or maybe a water tower or maybe a tree that has
been struck by lightning. Until these images are in our
'past,' we will only be seeing illusions."
(3/29/2004 - V#83)
"So, you vant I should speak more about spirit
entities. Vhat's to say. Oy, the entities, vhat
a mess... coming and going, coming and going, growing and
going. But wait, the rowers keep rowing and the
danger keeps on growing... oy, don't ask.
"I gave you some terms about coordinated
and compound and etc. (not to mention confused)
entities. All of this is metaphorical, so I will try it
another way, ok?
"How many dimensions are there. A lot and then some!
Let's just say a bazillion. But we are made of less
complex stuff, and for them there were how many
dimensions. A bazillion, and so forth. So, in this level
of development, you get how many possible realities just
in yourself? A bazillion factorially: 1 x 2 x 3 x 4... up
to a bazillion. But each of the infinite parts of you
have how many inherent possibilities. A bazillion
factorially. So, a bazillion factorially of an infinite
number of elements makes? One hell of a lot of
possibilities. So I would run out of descriptors before I
ran out of possibilities. And some are just shadings of
another. Huh.
"Ok. 1,000 people in a line, but it's different if
they all face right or ahead or if one gets out of
line... CT, back. So when I describe some of the major
trends, I am not even coming close to talking about all.
But the question becomes, if the entity in some level of
complexity has an integrity. And here's the kicker:
remember what we did with time? Threw it out. So
not only do you have all the complexity of the lesser
complex expressions of your entity, but all the more
complex as well... already, not yet.
"So, we could take models from this stage of
complexity and use them to describe spirit, and it would
work and be accurate and be totally misleading and a
failure at the same time. This level gives us gifts of
abstraction and curses of limitations. So there! Ponder
that.
"And the most confused are those who think they know
it all. Certainties about unknowns and unknowables is
stupid... stupid. A wise respect for one's ignorance is a
great sign of wisdom. Only the short-sighted really see
the horizon, but it's not far enough off to mean
anything. The loud noises the deaf can hear do not
contain the whispers of angels. And the foolish will
always shout while the wise stay silent. And we'll never
have that recipe again!
"Did I ever tell you about my grandmother who made
the same dishes each week? Too bad she lost the recipes.
Recipes--like formulae and scripts--keep things from
getting much better, but they, thankfully, keep things
from getting much worse. And the Constitution is only a
recipe--but no, not a dish ready to reheat and serve for
drop-in company.
"Dried flowers provide the sweet aroma of memory,
but never the deep scent of presence... oooo.
Enough." (4/16/2004 - V#84)
"So, I bring you a whole lot of caveats. And if I
proceed, you must agree to keep them in mind. I (state
your name), do swear or affirm that you won't hold
Rikkity liable for what you misunderstand. Here's the
caveats, which apply to most everything I say... ARF....
and not that! Grrrr. Sometimes what I said and
what I say seem to hold contradictions. Sometimes they
seem to have holes in them big enough to fit a Schwarzenegger through. And sometimes
they seem to be missing something. Hey, live with it and
grow with it. I can't express in limited terms what is
infinite, and I have to build up little structures of
understanding. People want seers to make perfect linear
sense in the way that perfect linear sense is currently
understood, but they also want it to be visionary. I ask
you, have you ever seen a perfect photograph that was
visionary? So here goes:
"I have spoken about the kinds of entities that are
to come. Right now we get the spirit and body
types, which sometimes actually are connected. But when
we move on, over, above, under, next, whatever, we aren't
going to be human. No, not even bodily, nor even spirit
as we think of spirit. Whoa. It would be damn
boring to be spirit kept the same while the trappings
eternally change. So we become something else: next level
entity! But not all entities are equal, but all are
needed. Just as an entity is composed of diversity at
this level, so, too, there.
"And some will find their entityship (I like making
up words) by what is analogous to collection: Get the
group together and see what happens; energy expressed as
conglomeration. Others are coordinate: Gathering around
some value or vision... or some other v word
(which, of course, is not v, but hey). And the
energy of that entity is in its expression of what all
hold but none have. And there are other possibilities...
actually, many! And some exist to express their energy,
and some to conserve their energy, and some to build with
their energy, and yes, I am afraid, some to destroy with
their energy. Remember, we are in the infinite middle of
the process toward oneness, and we are still learning how
to express and use energy. And you didn't think it would
all get learned as humans, did you, you egomaniacal ones?
And I get the impression we are destined for the
creative coordinate entityship, but that's down the road
a few more lives and deaths.
"Now, before anyone says 'O sure, they're getting
the big creative coordinate one, and I'll probably get
the collective destructive one,' remember, all of those
entities are also necessary for what comes after them.
And who knows, maybe the collective destructive entities
can learn and remember what they need very quickly, as
entities grow closer to oneness. And maybe the coordinate
creative ones have to spend an eternity getting their
identity straight. It is often easier to learn what we
can't do in order to survive, than to learn the little
graces by which we will thrive. And that's my spiel
for today." (7/25/2004 - V#85)
"And now, ponder this: In electricity, you can hook up several batteries all in
a row and get higher voltage, or hook them up in parallel
and get higher current. Papa told me this, I don't
know electricity. So both schemes build on the energy of
the batteries, but in different ways. So, among those
coordinate entities that focus and use energy to enhance,
there are many subsets of how to do it. And the universe
needs an infinite variety of energy foci--different
ways of expressing the potential for more than simply is.
The universe supplies a bag of batteries, but the subsets
use them in different ways. And all are needed.
"By the way, some subsets of energy-using entities
exist, too. Not all black holes work the same way. And
Stephen Hawking, take note! Not all black holes are
created equal... but that's another story.
"So, if we all is a subset of coordinate
entityship, we are one of infinite models. So I'll take
the 2005 in pink with the CD player... or not.
"We are one of the subsets of enhancement: creative
coordinate (or, as we say, moo). And maybe
they're not batteries, but fuel cells. I'm just giving
symbolic analogies. And if I told you, I'd be dead...
wait, I am. If I gave you the details, you couldn't
understand, and that's because I don't understand.
"Mysteries arch o'er our beings, waiting for
certainty in more complex manifestation. The mysteries
are already here but not yet ours. Why use the word God
for something static and either known or surmised, when
it would be a great word for the mystery behind it
all--gracious potential. And so, I'll shut up while I'm
ahead." (8/6/2004 - V#86)
"The
world is changing, but that's always true... hee hee.
Vision can make change acceptable. For example, if you
know that you really really really want
to go on a trip, then the changes necessary aren't so
bad. And with real vision they feel like fulfillment, not
change. Ever have that feeling where you get
someplace--either real or figurative--and it just feels
right, and more right than before? That's what it means.
"Look for the center. And remember, the center does
not have to be big. Ok, I give you an analogy. Mountain
climbing: Could have 100 teams on a mountain taking 100
different routes, but all focused on the top--which is
just a tiny spot of land. From the air, they may look
like crazed ants, but with the peak in focus, they look
like converging ballet stars. Oops, one just fell...
ouch. Sandy, rescue-dog time... ARF. He gets the mountain
souls.
"So, for example, if someone who shall remain
clueless... oops, I mean nameless... were to offer a
vision of safety but with repression, is that a place
where, when you got there, you'd say 'It feels right.' I
don't theeenk so.
"If you use spiritual calculus, you get more than
connections; you get an apparent center, which may not be
an actual center but act as if one. Ok, reverse image:
Negative people coalesce around their negativity, though
their gripes may be very different. The unemployed and
the hurt may connect, but only through suffering, not
details. So, on the other side, many may be striving
toward the good, but there are many goods. What binds
them is not the vision, but having
vision.
"Those who sense that change can contain good things
are bound together. So much for pith.
"Remember, spiritual evolution requires a faith in
the expanding goodness of all Creation. Believe or act as
if the core is bad, and you get to go back and do it all
over again and again." (9/8/2004 - V#87)
"What is the center. Doughnuts... Dunkin' original, with mocha.
"Ever considered that the things we usually took as
values are a result of something more? Maybe the center
is something which contains and creates all the specifics
(hint) <grin>!
"Just like doughnuts: Sometimes the center is just
an empty space surrounded by the reality. But if you
picture the doughnut's center as part of the dough, you
can't see the doughnut, and may miss the center... unless
it's jelly, but those are not really doughnuts, they're
Berliners. Ich bin ein doughnut of the jelly
persuasion. So, what centers all the values you hold as
central." (9/12/2004 - V#88)
"The center is potential. Unless you believe the
center holds more than already is, then what's
the point! The doughnut is what is, and the
center is what is beyond what is. Got it. So,
unless you are focusing on some measure of not-yet-but-possible,
you are either regressing or standing still. But since
others are moving, standing still won't do (see PtoP
above).
"Footnote: Rikkity often repeats
herself--which could be indicative of her forgetfulness,
or our density. Whichever, we are thankful for her
persistence, both spiritual and informative. End
footnote.
"A good story repeats the salient points (e.g., 'nevermore').
"Got to believe that the center is potential.
Otherwise, it's all downhill from here and always has
been--a degrading of Creation, which would imply an
inherent insufficiency in Creation; flawed design,
recalled model. But it hasn't been recalled, it is still
unfolding... except where it is so tightly folded that
all we get is a cosmic cootie catcher <joke>.
"As the potential unfolds, some choose to follow the
creases, thinking the folding was essential, and they
miss the larger realities. That's one of life's
challenges: To know the difference between the essential
and the coincidental.
"Here's a test: Take a piece of paper and fold it
once lengthwise and then once widthwise. Make the folds
crisp. Now, unfold the paper and show it to someone and
ask what they see. Bet very few will say 'A piece of
paper.' Most will notice the folds or the rectangles, not
the whole.
"Potential is another way of saying there are always
larger wholes that transcend the specific. And most of
humanity's great spiritual traditions have found the
folds, not the whole. Too bad... but also, what
potential!
"Ok, ponder that. Write it down on a piece of paper.
Now, fold the paper two ways, put it in your pocket,
launder your jeans, discover the wad of folded pulp after
drying, try opening it up, and you'll get a few phrases
that make sense... and a lot of mess. You might even
think the glob is the real thing. Religions, so far, have
been built on washing mistakes like this. A whole gets
folded and pulped and deconstructed, and then discovered
and partly interpreted and made the truth when it's just
a poor remnant of the potential that exists.
"Ok, enough. PithWorks copyright." (9/18/2004 -
V#89)
"Don't
get too quick to apply human overlays on potential.
I offer an example: a heavy rain. Ok, that's the
potential. Now, does it fill up empty wells or wash out a
dam and flood a valley. Does it become a mountain stream
that makes enough power that tons of coal don't get
burned and many don't die from asthma, or does it fall in
the sea with little effect. Rain as potential--good
or bad is not an element in it. One of the greatest
gifts of being human is the ability to see good and bad.
And one of the greatest curses of being human is to
assign those values to that which is neither.
"It just is, was, will be...
or not. What happened to my physical being was not bad
just because it was sad. What we don't like is not
necessarily bad... but that soup at the diner, ugh.
"Potential is beyond, but, at the same
time, includes." (10/2/2004 - V#90)
"Sandy will now play the mouth organ... wwrfff...
badly... grrrr... lack of lips. There's a lesson
in this: Don't try what is beyond your equipment. For
example, those in wheelchairs should avoid escalators.
And those at this level of spirit should avoid universal
generalizations. You just make a fool of yourself. Even
your elf knows better. But does that stop us, noooo.
"One of the greatest realizations is that whatever
we see clearly can only be about what is less complex
than the present experience. We do a dangerous thing when
we extrapolate from what we know to the unknown. It works
if you test the theory out, but few do.
"For example, when people experienced the world as
pretty awful, they created the concept of Heaven. But has
anyone really tested that theory. I thought not! So it
remains at best a theory, and at worst a delusion or
distraction." (10/2/2004 - V#91)
"Now as to the question of pigs in Heaven... oink
oink. You swine... squeal. Just a test of
your sanity: Are pigs in Heaven kosher. No, but nothing
else is, either. When things are defined by limiting
physical traits, then it all dissolves before you get
here. 'Is this Heaven?' 'No, this is death.' 'O, it 's
still nice.'
"So I offer this to ponder: What could possibly be
true as a foundational element of existence which is not
true here. If it doesn't matter in spirit, then
it doesn't matter in the physical. Yet most religions
stake their identities on things that won't matter here.
How ironic.
"Real spirituality is formed by what is true of
spirit, not body or mind. Here, I have neither body nor
mind. But I have spirit here and there." (10/9/2004
- V#92)
"Let's continue. We often hear about architects who
are said to have created plans for a building. Now,
unless their plans held no elements ever seen in a
building before, they didn't create it; they merely drew
it and assembled it. But creation speaks to
conversion of potential in ways that are unique.
"A mom and a dad, we hope, do not create their
children--because that would mean they would be unlike
any other child. They bring into being what is one of the
creations of existence. Usually when we speak of
something being creative, we are talking about 99 and 44/100th of same old same old and
just a smidgen of something new. Re-creation and creation
are not the same! But this holds great promise for
everyone. The challenge of existence is not to convert
potential into reality at the 100 percent level, which we
would all fail to do, but rather to add our own little
fraction, which is creative.
"You can't change the basic recipe for mashed
potatoes, but somebody got creative and added garlic...
yum. See what I mean. Don't have to climb Everest, but at
least get to the top of your own backyard--because, as we
know, if it isn't in your own backyard....
"Potential is infinite, but that shouldn't keep us
from seeing the finite. If you miss the sight of the Moon
because you're looking for the edge of the universe,
maybe you missed your potential for wonder. And why do so
many try to exploit the slightly larger fraction that the
great ones have disclosed, rather than really see their
own portion.
"Hey, just remember that in an infinite universe
without time, nothing is new under the sun. But that
shouldn't keep us from fulfilling and enhancing what is us,
so the whole can grow in wholeness. Ponder on,
dudes." (10/11/2004 - V#93)
"So as I was saying to Plato the other day, how can
one separate the physical and the spiritual, and assume
different realities for each. Think of the consequences.
If A were to be true there but not here,
how can it be true. And at the same time, if B
is true here, how can it be untrue there.
"There is only one solution he and I could find to
resolve this. O, you want to know?!? Ok. How could there
seem to be a different set of truths for here and
there... or, if you like, there and here. If all
truths--even those proven in their own realms--are
portions, not totalities, and portions of larger
potential, then A can be true and B can
be true if they are portions of the larger truth AB.
And in an infinite universe, we are talking about ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ,
ad infinitum.
"Classical Western theology has always posited a
heavenly realm which is truer than the physical, but we
agree both are as true and as untrue
here and there... there and here... potential revealed
and actualized, just different portions. Can you imagine
an entity which is not part of All That Is. Can't do it!
So every entity is part of All That Is, be it physical or
spiritual or whatever--and there's a lot of whatever
out there... and here. So, Entity A is and
Entity B is, and neither proves the nonexistence
of the other. This is a sum total game!
"But, at the same time, if A and B
seem contradictory, then there must be a larger reality
in which both are embraced. Differences always remind us
of larger unities.
"And to suppose all the truths sit on one
side--either physical or spiritual--is to deny the whole,
and I don't know about you, but I ain't going there. I
seek the larger whole. And guess what: The larger whole
seeks me, because potential tends toward fulfillment.
Actually, big hint! It isn't potential if it does not
tend toward fulfillment, because then it might not hold
any potential. Hmmm... ponder that!
"Who was that deep dudette. Not me, us--in the grand
fulfilling meaning sense. A thought holds only potential
until it is shared and understood. Get it?
"Hombre clientele: 'Hey meester, you got a
eego,' I say to heem, 'use eet. Don't ignore eet. Eet ees
de portal to de potentiale.' For, if you can't embrace it
with self, then it can't be embraced at all. Ultimately,
nothing which is abstract is real. At least, that's my
theory." (10/15/2004 - V#94)
"It can't be here and not there--one
reality, different planes.
"Always think unity; if you don't, you've
got big problems. Ok, let's say there are 2 realities,
which means there are things which are not true for you,
but are elsewhere. Which is the truer? If it is
yours, then the other is to some degree less true. I
remember him, Les True... but that's another story.
"If another plane exists in which things are less
true, then they are less real, so you have an unbalanced
whole. But wait, if there's a whole that contains both,
then there is a unity, so the two must not be part of a
whole. That would imply a Creation that is less than
perfect, which would mean it would not cohere around its
own truth, and it would slowly dissolve into its inherent
deficiency. So the other plane would either disappear or
have to be essentially equal to this. And if it's equal,
then it's not separate, and we get back to a unity one
way or another. If it appears that different laws apply here
other than there, it's just because you don't
yet fully sense the unity. But hey, isn't that what
spiritual enhancement is about--sensing the larger unity
until the whole is known. But I digress.
"No separate but equal--the Supreme Court said so. Ok, let's say there were
2 separate realities that were equal. Wouldn't their
equalities connect them. Just because you can't see the
connections, doesn't mean they're not there. Correlation is not
causation,
but causation can correlate. Just because you don't see
the links between the butterfly in Beijing and the
weather in Joliet, doesn't mean there is no causal link.
If you could see it all, you'd be it all. And guess what,
you will... but not next week, because next week is just
a construct of a constipated spiritual stage. You're
stuck in time. Try Phillip's Milk of Amnesia and get unstuck.
Non-habit forming." (10/18/2004 - V#95)
"Hi. Things are about the same here--just different
spirits, plus the infinite number of usuals trying
to make the universe safe for spirit. A safety warning
from here: Don't use lives as shortcuts to eternity. You
never know when you might get caught in a disassembly!
Follow your own path.
"Yes, some spirits have been known to try to
short-circuit the process--try to co-materialize with a
more enhanced entity. Can we say schizo. Don't
go there. One spirit per body, please. Dumb idea--one
form of schizophrenia, and an energy-sucking one at that.
"Walk-ins? Walk-ins are when you need a haircut but
don't have an appointment. You're talking about cameos.
Sometimes spirits get a little vacant or distracted, and
another makes a brief cameo so you don't have a body
without a spirit. Didn't know that, did ya. And what else
is new? So, once in awhile, especially with very intense
spirits, you get a short aberration... ah, cameo! The
spirit doesn't remember, wasn't there (spiritually, that
is).
"Wise one I am. Yota I am (Yoda is copyrighted). Yoga is
something else. Yehweh is everything else. Yankees were something else.
Whoa, lots of spirits wearing red sox... lots of dead fans.
Hey, Garcia, come here! 'Hey, man, wha.' Go back to
sleep. 'Sweet.'
"So, in honor of your soft brain, I will keep this
simple: Sometimes the wisdom of the universe is just
hanging together without wisdom; don't have to learn
every time. Here, just sit on my bench. No, not there.
You sat on TJ, but he's napping. You
know, my bench is always available for sitting, even when
there's no chat. Sometimes you just gots to sit and see
what you can see from here and not worry about the words.
So sit, hug. The dog will curl up at your feet... f.
And all of Creation is out there. Look! And all I am is a
spiritual pair of binoculars to better see the view,
which is available to anyone." (10/26/2004 -
V#96)
"Well, let's see, did we resolve the spiritual-physical
dichotomy. No, and we never will, so there. You think it
strange for peeps to talk about the physical aspects of
spirit, wait to hear about spirits getting the two
confused. And they don't have a leg to stand on, hehehehehe.
Hey, bozo, you got soul, not soles.
'Huh, wha.' Wake her up and tell her she's spirit. O, she
is awake. Newcomer? I thought so... and I thought it
without a brain.
"Want to know who some of the most unhappy people
are here: Mensa members! Big brains don't
mean shit here. Big IQ? What's that. And hey, if you
think you're so smart, here's LD! Always stops 'em. Just
like when some clergy arrive spouting scripture, and we
say 'O yeah! Right! Here, talk to this dude'... and it's JC: 'I never said that! Hey
Paul, get your ass over here!' We are a jolly lot.
"No link. Some common people are the most essential
building entities of complexity–almost like Type O blood.
"Ok, let's review. In much of your physical world,
you have rings of carbon–common as dirt. And you
have other elements, like indium. Now, the common carbon
is found in--and essential to-- gazillions of thingies,
but indium just to a few. Stand out too much and you may
be precious, but not as useful as something more common.
And the most complex entities we are creating all arise
from common as well as precious... o, my precious. So
don't think any thing of earthly significance is a
determinate of your future complexity possibility.
"Calvinists got it right but missed
it by a mile. You can't make your own perfection, but it
does not come from afar, but from being close. And there
are always those in spirit who don't connect into
complexity because they want to wait for perfection. And
let me tell you, the other elements of their potential
get really pissed off by this. 'I'm waiting!'
"Until we are one with All, all levels of spiritual
complexity are imperfect, but still beautiful. It takes
extreme arrogance to think that one could be the missing
building block of perfection. Lots feel so, but lots are
also disappointed. Hard to believe that some hold on to
ego even when their psyche is gone. Spirit is not ego.
Spirit is not psyche. Spirit is spirit--sort of like a
great energy jelly without the energy. Look, if I could
tell you what it is in your terms, I'd have to kill you,
and then you'd understand. It's like if I mention gefilte
fish without the fish. It's something... but I'm not sure
what. And I wouldn't order it again.
"You can't say spirit is pure energy–not unless
you know what you're talking about as energy,
and you don't! And if it were pure energy, then you could
affect it with forms of energy, but you cannot. And when
people talk about energies like white light, that's an
effect, not a cause." (11/9/2004 - V#97)
"So, we wonder, are spirits preconditioned to their
combinations, and is this what is meant by karma.
Yes. Since not all spirits will combine with all other
spirits to make a sustainable entity, then it follows
that any given entity will only meaningfully combine with
a limited number of other entities. But in an infinite
universe, won't there be infinite entities in each finite
subset. Duh, of course, but that doesn't negate
the lack of meaningful connection to an infinite set of others.
You are not going to get complex with just anybody. And
so your path must lead, over lives, to those connections
that are yours. And when you are moving in that path, it
all becomes more evident–each life a sifting away of
what is not essentially you.
"And, along the way, a few false tries at
connecting... ouch, back to here. Remember, what we call life
is disassembly for some from more complex realms. Not
everyone gets here this time from less complexity. Some
are here at this level over and over and over. But some
also arrive back here because they tried to take a path
not theirs.
"Some need to take one, and some others. There is
not one path to fulfillment, but there
is one path for you to fulfillment.
Don't mistake the one truth for the other. Too many do
that. 'I'm saved,' they yell, and assume it will be the
same for everyone. Why do we think it's fine to have a
diversity of reaction to foods and styles and vacation
places, etc., and not for more ultimate things.
"Having everyone have the same religion or follow
the same God would be like declaring we'll only have one
ice cream flavor. And then the heretics would be Howard Johnson's and Baskin Robbins. Ponder that."
(1/28/2005 - V#98)
"So the big question is: Will we remember this
life. And the answer is no, and yes.
Specifically, you remember what you have learned and
remembered, but not the circumstances. It's the
remembered part that counts, not the cause. And some
snippets of specific experiences will be in dreams and déjà
vu and the like. But do you get a full transcript?
No, and who wants one.
"You will be drawn to the essentials without knowing
why--in the fabric of being. Once something is truly part
of you, you don't experience it as a choice or an option,
but as an identity. So, take breathing. You do it and
that's it, and when you forget to do it, goodbye. So,
too, with spiritual underpinnings... but not spiritual
underpants.
"If it weren't there, you'd find a way to discover
it. Hey, maybe this is the way you
discover what you knew before... hmmm... maybe
this is not your first time around with this. Think it
started just now? Nothing is ever lost. And in parallel
realities, there is so much. So don't think past and
future; think other--which is also the same
as here. The other is the same. Puzzle
that phrase." (4/17/2005 - V#99)
"So, on the subject of my prior discourse (as
measured in your linearity), I meant you and this
both generically and specifically. It happens to all,
beyond first-timers: things of this level remembered, but
needing rediscovery. Like, I mean those Dead Sea Scrolls--had to find them when
the memories were retained. Somebody who was there at
closure was finally back there to open. Continuities
often masquerade as discoveries. Ponder that snootful.
"So, get it? If it is true without reference to
time, it will reemerge. And one way of seeing it is
memory." (4/21/2005 - V#100)
"Let's re-posit several things. Nothing which is
is ever lost to the universe, or in the universe, or near
the universe. And all things exist side by side without
time. But lives flow through the web of All, taking
snapshots as if of a trip, and supposing them to be a
linearity. So history is a string of reports from people
who took almost similar journeys through the infinite
possibilities. And some noticed along the way something
of value, which later they wanted to revisit, but since
the before was another life journey, they can
only visit it as discovery. And since everything is
around forever, it is always possible to discover what
has been known and lost... except for that one pink top I
borrowed from her.
"See what I mean. And, in the world beyond time,
sometimes we discover things out of sequence because
sequence makes no sense without time. So, we discover x,
but when we do, x means nothing. But we remember
x because it was different because it meant
nothing. Then later, the meaning catches up with x,
and we remember x and put x together
with its meaning and discover it all over again. Just
ponder that until you go crazy." (4/22/2005 - V#101)
"So, have you got it yet, the concept of eternal
being. Discoveries are just memories in an infinite
universe. Everything has already been experienced, but
some of it was experienced after now.
"In the complexity of existence, there are emergent
patterns which point to universal understandings. And get
this: Most of them are not contained in science nor
theology.
"So, the truly wise seek not that which seems new,
but that which seems inclusive, exhaustive, and
universal--even when they seem to be moving
counter-current to prevalent wisdom. I gave you
pith." (4/25/2005 - V#102)
Wedding Reading
"Let me truly and wisely speak of connections.
We all seek connection, but often do not understand that
when we say connection we are speaking in four
dimensions. For the word to have its fullest meaning, we
must know and live these four dimensions.
"First is the connection to self. If we do not fully
and honestly connect to ourselves, there is no
possibility we can connect with others. Once we are
connected as the selves we are, bringing together the
many facets of our own spirits, then we are ready for the
other dimensions of connection.
"We are ready to make connections--to find those
places in our beings at which our spirits and the spirits
of others match to form complements and fulfill us and
them. Here is where hearts find companionship in life
together. Then we can live in connection, as two become a
new one. Connections of lives in this way yields
a new being which would never have been without
such connection.
"And finally, such enlivened connection finds a way
to create connections. Freed of the limitations of a
single spirit, we are blessedly opened to possibilities
of connection we could not have known. Beginning with
that honest connection to self, we open outward to first one,
then to us, and then to All. And onto this
blessed journey all are invited, but only the daringly
loving proceed.
"For such a journey we give note this day, and ask
blessings to abide in that shared unfolding journey of
love and connection." (4/29/2005 - V#103)
"God
leaves, but only a small child notices, and laughs. At
the edge of town, some UUs throw him a bon voyage party.
He takes their baggage with him. What a spirit.
"Ok, question time: Is God a team player? Discuss. But seriously, religion
needs to decide if God is a team player, and not worry so
much about who is on the team. Ponder that pith."
(5/9/2005 - V#104)
"Now, I
want to ask you a question: Why do you think people want
to settle for being people after they die, when
they could instead look forward to being spirit.
I mean, all we hear in most lives is about how our bodies
ache and we have to house them and feed them and care for
them, so what's the deal with wanting eternity with
bodies? (Even ones as magnificent as mine once was... and
is.) Arrogance that the human form is the top of the
creative pyramid, and maybe sin as a notion is a
corrupt way of acknowledging that we don't
stand at the top.
"Maybe original sin is not about being
condemned in this world or yours, but about the basic
incompleteness of being human, which at the same time
holds the seeds of completeness. As I sense it, the words
of the physical world point to failure or success–as
in, saved or sinner. But from here I
sense both how far from wholeness of All That Is we are,
and how far from total separation we also are. Without
the total perception of both fulfillment and challenge,
then we get left with sin and salvation. But our greatest
sins, so to speak, are our inattentions to what we can
do, and our salvation is in our attention to it. And none
of that is a matter of grace or ordination.
"Every spiritual entity at every level of complexity
will eventually be able to sense both, or no progress of
fulfillment will ever occur. Somewhere in the before
of you, the elements which would become you all
had to sense this greater possibility.
"You stay at a level of complexity until you sense
and know that that level of being, with all its
attributes and problems, is just a phase, not a
permanence. To make the afterlife a permanent and
perfected version of Earthly existence is to pervert the
process of spiritual evolution." (8/8/2005 - V#105)
"Who am I. I am spirit that was made and is in the
making and is awaiting making until the whole and the
parts are one.
"I am energy and matter and other existences which
have no name or existence at your complexity. And I am a
barefoot blob of potential waiting for my handiwork and
also waiting for the handiwork of the infinite other
Yesses.
"For all the universal All is an expression of Yes
in the face of No." (8/8/2005 - V#106)
“Here’s a tidbit: There’s a great
difference between those who say they are messengers
of the Divine and those who say they are
the Divine.
“With a messenger, you can receive the message and
ponder it. With the Divine, you sort of have to take it
or leave it. So, I’d rather get a letter of meaning
I could ponder than a head-whammy I have no choice about.
“After all, it’s not about the teacher, but
about the student. So maybe all teachers should be
teaching as if their students were the Divine, and they
were reminding them of what they already know as their
essence. That would surely change the equation... and don’t call me
Shirley.
What would you do if you were trying to remind All That
Is about some of All That Is? Ok, enough.”
(8/19/2005 - V#107)
“Just
remember, you and I and we and they... but not him... are
all about fulfilling entities, not creating them.
Creation does not lead to fulfillment, but fulfillment
leads to creation. But what is created has always been,
as potential... 'or porridge.' CT! 'Potential polenta.' O
I get it, sort of a cereal explanation.”
(12/13/2005 - V#108)
"There’s
an infinite more, so how come we miss the finite
parts. But we do. And I have come to realize that’s
one of the gifts of Creation. Because if we didn’t
miss because there was an infinite other, then
we couldn’t care, either.
"And infinity doesn’t mean interchangeable.
You can’t replace that hamster, but you can get
another one. Having an infinite anothers is not
the same as replacing." (1/22/2006 - V#109)
"It’s Rikkity’s University, where in just
5 sessions you can become spiritually equipt... ‘and
morally depraved.’ CT!
“The moral ambiguity of anything less than the
whole: Because unless you are the All of All That Is,
anything else is just situational because you don’t
know the whole picture. So take that,
you moral absolutists. How can your teeny little brains
have conceit enough to think you know universals. And if
you don’t know universals, how dare
you judge anything, except in context.
"In context, everything makes sense. And beyond
context, nothing makes sense except as part of the
universal. Such pith.” (4/21/2006 - V#110)
"Ok, let’s review. Have I ever said we move
ahead to more complicated entities? No.
What is complicated is just a pile of simple things which
work together to do some complicated thingie. The total
is the sum of its parts, no more and no less... no
less... noblesse oblige. But I have always
spoken of complexity... as well as
complexion. In complexity, you get more
than the sum of the parts.
“There is a diversity in complexity, but it is not
based on differences--although without differences you
don’t get complexity. Put together 405 little
electrical switches and what do you get. A big switch.
But then couple that with the notion of yes and no,
plus a way to speak in yes and no, and the
switches become a computer: Complexity based on the
introduction of a foreign element. Switches don’t
know language. Language doesn’t know from numbers.
But together they can generate both, and beyond the
capacity of either.
“If you put all the wise people in the world in a
room... ‘someone would ask for room service’...
CT!... and all were equally wise, they wouldn’t wise
up. Know-it-all’s don’t make things change. The
provocative unknowing triggers the insightful to
new understandings. Take a look at the New Testament.
Almost everything worth remembering was said in response
to a seemingly ignorant question. Questions are the
intellectual equivalent of difference. Ponder that!
“And what about ropes and cords and strings, I
don’t know. In a parallel universe I dance on my own
head. How many pins can dance on the head of an angel?
But if the angel answer is ‘infinite,’
so too for pins. It’s not about the nature of
angels, but about the nature of infinity. Don’t
mistake the expression or embodiment for the essence.
“Lincoln was not the Great Emancipator. It was a
nation ready for the idea which was the Emancipator.
They could have said ‘Hell, no’... well they
actually did, but it didn’t win the day... which is
why the Klan rode at night (dark humor). See, it
isn’t the vessel, it’s the cargo.
“And otherwise, all else is well.” (5/19/2006 -
V#111)
"When we last spoke, CT was hiding in a closet while
MCP said ‘Hiya.’
Now we return to our action as Sandy the Wonder Dog arfs...
ARF. A storm has wreaked havoc in Spirit City, and the
residents fear the rodents. But suddenly, they hear their
savior... Arrrf. Once again, they are safe... grrrr.
(We have to humor him once in awhile. He’s a dog,
you know.)
“Moving right along, we have a letter from little
Missy Edwards of Titsworth-on-Thames. She writes,
‘How does the soul differentiate itself into
experience while still having existence in the matrix of
All.’ Missy, little children shouldn’t play
with metaphysics. But since you asked, think about your
dinner of bangers and mash. Each bit of banger is
both a part of the whole but made up of even smaller
parts, yet it takes all the parts of the banger
matrix to make it other than a Sheffield sausage.
And each bit is itself, and a part of the banger at the
same moment. And those nasty bits... well, just spit them
into your napkin and know they will not have continued
existence of the banger as it becomes one with the you
matrix. Disgusted enough! Good. Now eat your
dinner.
“And precocious Bobbi McIntyre of Perth writes,
‘How does one differentiate between the knowledge of
the spirit and the knowledge of the body.’ Sounds
like a deep question. But he goes on, ‘And how do I
convince Mary Ellen Richards to let me have some
knowledge of her body.’ Naughty, naughty. Yet, I
think you will find that if you pay attention to the
spirit, you may become welcome to the body, but rarely
the other way ‘round.
“And finally, young Master Williams of Cardiff
writes, ‘Why is my immortal soul connected to a
mortal body.’ Ah, the essential question of
this level. And I remind you, we are here to
live and enjoy... especially if Mary Ellen is willing...
and therefore, to learn and remember what the soul cannot
learn without a physical experience.
Thanks, boys and girls, for your questions. And now,
it’s time for Teen Toons. Sanford the Wonder Dog...
ARF.
“Physicality teaches us the limitations of
physicality. This is deep and essential. Every level of
complexity has the same lesson: To learn the limits of
the basic structures of that level, so that one moves
from seeing that existence as being paramount, to seeing
it as limited and limiting and inviting of a greater
inclusivity to get past the limits. Every level feels
like a new universal, until experience of it shows its
limitations and a more universal is desired at the soul
level. A person who is starving thinks bangers and mash
is a feast, but after years of them, they yearn for
something more. Ok, got that?
“If you step on a Wonder Dog’s cape, he
can’t fly... grrrr. But how often do we
step on someone’s Wonder Soul so they can’t
soar.” (6/26/2006 - V#112)
"In the
sure resurrection of Jesus Christ... sure, like we
didn’t but he did. Sure. I
don’t like dead people who don’t play dead.
What’s all this afterlife life. Eternal
life, you want that? Not me. I opt for eternal death!
It’s easier.
“Ok, let’s look far into the future. Ok, but
it’s now because there’s no time.
Anymoo, you are just before One with All... ‘Hold the mustard’... CT. You are at
Level Minus 1--it’s the penultimate level... just
before the rooftop garden. Ok, one more upgrade of
complexity, and All and you are One--end of the cycle of
Eternity. Now, what do you have to do? Be ready to move
on from what you are by combining into the All. But wait,
aren’t we participating in the All now. Yes, but
with a sense of separation, but then it is so
close. But what you have to do is not--in any
sense--live in differentiation, but ultimate
integration. So any part of you which is still
differential must end or no longer be meaningful--in
other words, die. So the ultimate existence is after
all lives, and is not a life, but an eternal death, QED,
So Be It... so there, blech.
“Life, at every level of spiritual being, is the
necessary prelude to moving beyond
differences. And who wants differences for eternity. I
want to swim in the eternal unity--backstroke and float
as part of all meaning.
“Ok. I came, I saw, I pithed.” (6/29/2006 -
V#113)
"Nothing is ever ultimately and eternally hidden. If
it is, it is.
“I’m dead! which is damned fine but for the
disconnects. But the connections are always there, even
if they are unrecognized and unused. Ponder that.”
(7/12/2006 - V#114)
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