"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#83)
"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#84)
"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#85)
"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#86)
"Ah, back again so soon and clueless. Sandy, we do
love the little ones, don't we... woof. See how
they ponder... grrrr... thinking that if they ponder hard
enough, they will get ultimate answers--whilst they be
but far from even penultimate clues. But who are we to
speak... grrr... growl, since in an infinite universe we
are no more ultimate than they... rrrr. But hey,
we are no more clueless than they, either... woof. Stuck
in the middle with them--which reminds me, for no
apparent reason, of a flashlight... grrr?
"When you are in a dark space and can see nothing...
yelp... and you put on a torch (that's a sop to
my Brit friends). But back to the torch: You see a world
illuminated by its rays, and if it is bright enough, you
see enough to proceed and function, etc. But that does
not mean you see all.
"Spiritual systems are like torches: They let us see
more, but never all. And there is always more beyond
their rays than illuminated by them. And if you think the
tunnel of light leads to the ultimate, there'll be much
in the shadows of your knowing. And what lies out of
sight and knowing will always limit how much you know,
and not knowing that there is more to be seen will
corrupt what you do see.
"The only purity is the whole. And no subset of the
whole can be pure, because the lack of knowledge of the
unknown of the whole renders the known less than pure... grrrr.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, in other words.
"And it is all too easy to believe--because every
grain of sand contains the universe--that we can deduce
the universe from every grain of sand, using our limited
perspectives. Just as we cannot exist separately from All
That Is, and All That Is must contain us, we cannot
surmise All That Is from us--even though we gather a
thousand clues. For every thousand clues we find and
understand, there will be another thousand yet to be seen
and understood.
"Hell, when you walk across Europe and get to
Normandy and look west, you haven't got a clue about the
worlds out there. Same with ideas. And same with the
future of butter substitutes--creamier, better tasting is
always on the horizon. And what about the billions who
thought it flat, and fell off... oopppeeeeaaaa."
(7/29/2004 - V#87)
"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#88)
"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#89)
"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#90)
"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#91)
"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#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 Philip's Milk of Amnesia and get unstuck.
Non-habit forming." (10/18/2004 - V#95)
"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#96)
"Precision is a form of torture of an organic
universe. O what pith! And precision knows no room for
change and growth, and so is the antithesis of creation.
Maybe the anti-Christ is not the one who opposes Jesus,
but the one who denies creation. I don't know, I
ponder... I wander.
"One of the worst mistakes we can make is to believe
that only some who now are dead can do the central work
of the world. Your world is filled with TJs, and some of
them still deliver milk. Don't look back, look forward.
Keep your eyes on the prize, don't turn around and talk
to the backseat passengers. Ok, adjust your mirrors and
let's go. Road trip." (2/15/2005 - V#97)
"Let's talk about
change. Most people think that change happens to them,
but it is more like one catching up to where one is. We
think we are behind the curve but we are actually making
the curve and then following it. Hasn't some change felt
both strange and familiar at once... aha.
"Few changes ever are really changes that are
happening, they are ones that have happened.
It's a quantum thing again. We see the change when it
reaches a certain level, but it has been just below that
level for a long time.
"And isn't it amazing how when we open ourselves
(and our elves) to the change, our past seems to fit
right in and often fits in better! If change were the
awful, terrible, fearsome, disruptive thing we claim, it
would rob us of our past, but it doesn't. We won't wander
far from our essence through changes, though we may
delude ourselves that some realities are ours. I could go
on for hours and hours about our things that are... and
are hours ours, I don't know.
"If it really were change, not evolution, you
wouldn't recognize it and it would feel more like an
abduction. Change occurs in your known, but not yet fully
explored, context. If it were an intrusion, not a
process... whoa, then I'd be afraid, I'd be very afraid.
But what peeps experience as change is not intrusion, but
invitation.
"And if we could not see it fitting, that's
intrusion... and damn scary and psychotic. Pieces don't
fit for the mentally ill. The sequences don't make sense,
and so many of them then resist changes. To them, it
appears as intrusion. 'Whoa,' they say, 'where did that
come from.' And health is getting back the sense of 'O,
yeah, it came from me... or the former me'... or the
former Miss Alabama. The healthy put the pieces in place
and see a picture that informs. The unhealthy either
can't put the pieces together and make sense, or they put
all the pieces together and delude themselves into
thinking they see something–you know, the kinds who
put together jigsaw puzzles without regard for pieces
matching and then say the resultant picture makes sense.
Sure! Right! I think this is enough pith." (3/9/2005
- V#98)
"Ok, a bad marketing
idea: clues for the clueless. Because the clueless can't
tell clues from shit. The clueless need to be shown how
clues can help and how clues work and much more, and then
clues might be useful. It's like the story of the people
out in the wilderness who received an airdrop of things
and were so happy to get the food. Later, when they were
again starving, the plane came by with another airdrop of
tools and a note which asked 'How did the seeds do.'
Clues for the clueless." (4/8/2005 - V#99)
"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 déja 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#100)
"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#101)
"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#102)
"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#103)
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#104)
"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#105)
"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#106)
"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#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)
"Ah, 'gracious': Now there’s
a word--full of possibilities, coupled with safety and
allure. An invitation to the universal YES, with
assurance of benevolence. Who could ask for anything
more.” (3/10/2006 - V#109)
"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 - V#110)
"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 disc 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 - V#111)
"'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#112)
"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#113)
"Again, picture the infinite-dimensional matrix: All
the dimensions with different points connecting in an
infinite number of ways. So anything which was, is, or
will be is connected to anything else. Now, picture a
journey from one point to another through an infinite set
of junctions. That journey path is a probable parallel
reality to any other journey between those points,
and is a probable adjunct reality to any other journey involving
either of those points. And there are an infinite
number of probable realities which also do not
involve those points primarily and secondarily. So there
are parallel universes which are not about you, but which
are as valid as yours. And all of them together make up
the whole. Such a mess!
“But just as there is no single way to get from A to
B, so, too, for any 2 points. And every path of
connection is equally valid, but we may only recognize
the most direct or most probable.
“From where you are to Utica, there are many
routes--some even by way of Calcutta. But you are
unlikely to use that one. Or are you? You drive
to Albany, fly to New York, and on to Calcutta, then fly
back to DC, take a train upstate to deliver a lecture at
Utica College about your trip. So you went from there to
Utica by way of Calcutta. Our paths are often like that!
“Understand the connections more than the
complexity, and marvel how the more complex reality
offers more potential connections.
“The shortest route between 2 places may not be the
most meaningful. And in spirituality, efficiency is not a
virtue. Pith done, let’s play... ARF.”
(7/20/2006 - V#114)
"Ok, let’s think about this big entity
thingie--All That Is made up of all that is and being
more. But All That Is changes with the changes of all and
each part. Does that mean that the ‘more than’
changes, too? Yes! The whole, which is the All and the
more, is as organic as any entity. Why, because if any
portion of existence were either static or bounded, then
that feature would permeate all existence, and so every
part and particle would become static or bounded in the
fullness of being.
“There are universal qualities which must be, or
their opposites become universal. That’s the problem
with most religions: They say ‘This is dynamic and
that is static.’ Wellll, boys and girls, it has to
be one or the other. And since I am existing in an
evolving, dynamic universe, I guess the static loses. But
of course, since change is universal, you should have
known this.
“Ok, class, what about specific entities. Sure,
there are many which are dynamic but are there any which
are not? (CT not included.) So, are there. Right, can’t
be. Even the slowest change is change. Yet the
smallest amount of static reality could bring the whole
shooting match to a halt. But it hasn’t, so I guess
we are on a roll... which then raises a question for next
time: Are the laws which govern change dynamic
or static? Do we change in predictable ways or are the
ways dynamic.
“Homework: Draw a straight line which is not
straight.” (10/4/2006 - V#115)
"So put together the
strings and threads and strands and cohorts and entities
and what do you get, complexity or simplicity. Just say
‘yes’ and ponder it.
“Nothing fundamental can be any more complex than
basic, and any less basic than complex. If the All is in
each, then both and all are true.
“Complexity is a state, not a quality of comparison.
Ponder it.” (10/13/2006 - V#116)
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