Contemplating the Moment of Transition

I've often thought of my coming death. It could be ten years, or less or more.  I can't be here in twenty years, and I'm not sure such great age is desirable. 

Even though it seems we pass from life to life, the thing you are part of is simply orders larger than you. 

So you don't die but you change into something else. Each and every life is just an imagined thing, and when it's over you just go on to something else.  Which may or may not be another life.  

I had a dream where I was a man much like me in Ancient Egypt. I had the same sense that I wanted to go somewhere else, even though as far as I knew at the time, civilization ended at the border.

I'm the same person. 

Once you pull your focus away from your life, you are in a place that seems to be missing the element of time.  This is widely reported in by people who experience near death.   

I had quite the number of dreams where I would experience someone's death, and about half a dozen times it was someone I knew.  Yes, they died.

Sometimes, I would be somebody who had just died. That actually happened twice, once with a woman who was a former boss, the other time was when my nephew died.

How can I connect with somebody's disembodied consciousness?

I don't think the interesting things in the world are amenable to scientific materialism.

 

 

 

Contemplating Thought Forms and Feeling

I've "seen" thought forms, if that's the right word.  It was a different kind of sight.  Black clouds of goop when someone disproves, a gray cloud refracted though the egg shaped layer of someone's aura.  I've seen bits of things I've sent into people's minds. 

And those small thought forms that indicate a future course of action.

I zapped a fiend's thought form once, and it reformed.

It would be easy to think of thought forms as having an emotional component.  But they're not mechanical things that we can take apart to examine the pieces.   Thought forms are part of us, they are an extension of us.  Of our minds, and they carry our markers and disposition.  

Thought forms derive from our consciousness, and are active.  The can act at a distance from us.  Like an emotional and psychic secretion, or more correctly, excretion, they move out into the world and do their job.

Basically what we want them to do.  Although most of us don't know that they exist.

When you think about someone, with emotion, a thought form goes to them.  If it's love, it might be protective, resentment and anger also have effects.  And if we don't say anything to someone we don't like, we feel no sense of guilt for what we've done.

We don't know we did anything.

We're oddly telepathic, in the sense that we pick up on other people's thoughts without knowing it. We digest thought forms.  Sometimes they give us indigestion.  

Especially when they come from someone who doesn't like us.

We engineer our circumstance with thought forms and cast them like a net, like a fisherman with a line with hook and bait, or like a champion casting a discus at a target.

We give them direction, and power them with our emotions.

We plan, we desire, we search for, we need. And all these things create though forms.  If you do it right, not thinking you can't, being persistent over a long time and not being needy about the object of your interest.

Do you remember what if felt like to be grateful?

Can you feel grateful about something before it's evident in your life?

Contemplate the emotion that would come from some broad circumstance you want to create, perhaps the sense that you have friends around you, or someone you love. 

The sense and the thing aren't as separable as they seem.  And meandering though the sense of something brings it closer.

Even it's not apparent. 

I Can't Imagine

In our culture, I think there is a tendency to ignore the imagination as a tool and as a sense.  As a tool when we can use our imagination and focus it to bring things to us.  As a sense when we imagine but are actually sensing something.  

I've found humorous whimsy to be predictive in so many instances.  It's amazing that we see things and don't see them at the same time, but crack that joke and reflect on it after it seems to come true.

The mind does not function according to linear logic, but people can make it appear that it does. 

We rarely try to bring something into our lives by thinking about it in a regular disciplined way.  Every night for a few minutes, pretend that what you want is real and in your life, forget about it, don't look for it.  

Just keep working at it.

There is a story of Milarepa who used magic that involved the use of visual imagination to control the weather to obtain revenge against some relatives of his.

I believe it was hail and rain, but don't quote me.

Unfortunately, in order to practice that particular form of magic, years of meditation were required to train the mind to focus so that when it came time to create mental images, the thought forms created would have enough energy to go off and change things.

I believe there are two kinds of meditation: active focus and passive reception.  Active focus imagines something such as a candle flame or some other image or sound, and passive reception is leaving the mind open while quietly paying attention to your breath.

I'm not quite sure how to categorize a quiet focus on feelings of joy and gratitude, but it's one of the most beneficial things you can do for your mental state.

In this culture, we literally don't know what we're doing with our minds.

But we do use an alternative imaginative process where we are able to imagine how we can achieve something by seemingly juxtaposing different ideas so we can see a path to where we want to be. 

But there is a school of thought that says that imaginative thought is the precursor of reality.  In which case all the angst and disgust you vent at the less positive aspects of your life are far more than wasted energy.

Increasing your focus on things that are irritants merely reinforces them in your life.  

Imagine that the part of your life you are living is merely an extension of  what you are imagining, so that if you turn your mind to a new grand vision, eventually, it will filter into the life you are living. 

In developing systems, I would think about the end goal, and things that I could do to achieve it simply appeared in my mind.   When I started, I had no idea what I could do to create a system, and then as if by magic, ideas would start to come, unexpected, unpredictable ideas. 

What could be more magical then that?

Think about what you desire, and don't throw it out because you believe it to be unreachable.  Change your mind and simply say, "I don't know how, but let me think about it."

I've always found that persistence, thinking about something every day, not looking for it to show up, but admitting to my self that I wanted it, focusing on it every day, eventually paid off.

 

What's Floating Around Your Head?

I don't quite know what to call my subject matter, since it's not really mysticism or the occult.  

Greater Reality?

The peculiar nature of the back of the mind, and things that happen in the world, maybe.

We've heard of thought forms, and for those of you who are Theosophists, you may have read about them.  Those funny things we create, we might call them ideas but they have a kind of reality to them that's almost physical.

At one time in my life I sensed them. 

Golf ball sized things floating in the ether. 

I think for most of us they float around our head, at least if they're about us. 

Example:  I'm going to leave the party in five minutes, I need to find my coat and overshoes. Then I'm out the door. 

That creates a little thought form.

A friend of mine, and some of our mutual friends had helped me move and we were relaxing a moment after getting everything into my new apartment.  

I knew he wanted to leave because I could "see" the thought form floating around his head.

I zapped it. 

The next time he created it, I let him leave.  I didn't want to be too much of a jerk, after all he was a friend.

So these are little packets of energy, there must be some other way that they serve our interest.  Can't be all about us.

What if they go out into the world and change things?

Considering the number of people in the world, there must be billions of these things zipping around.

Do little thought forms accrete into bigger thought forms?   Can these things combine?

You get the idea, a bunch of us want an event or thing, and the thought forms combine, go out and facilitate its creation.

So many times, I've noticed that I want something and my wife gets it. 

I suspect that thought forms and ideas are the same thing.  What magic is it, that allows me to read an ancient book and seem to understand what the author wrote?

There is a good deal that I don't understand about all the invisible communication that takes place between all of us.

It's a mystery like so many others. 

But I've sensed thought forms, and I know I can pop one open that I didn't create. But I don't know the implications of that. 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviewing my Options

A number of year ago, I had the pleasure of dying for a brief moment.  It showed me that death does not end life.

It was obvious that death does not end life, but I had strongly suspected that earlier when I had decided to die, and was presented with thumbnail sketches of lives that I could move into. 

Compassion got the better of me and I decided to live.

It turns out that death is as strange as life.  What disturbs me just a bit is that from time to time I am being given choices again.  It's as though my supervisor is dangling options in front of me:  

"Do you want this one?"

This is a little scary because I was planning to stay around for at least a few years because I don't want to let my wife have disturbing nights without me, and I think my brothers would not like my being the first to leave. 

What happens if an option comes along that I really like?

Today and Tomorrow

I was looking at my bookshelf and noticed how old some of my books were.   I think the information is good, but they might not be available for people to read unless they know which authors to look for.

Jane Roberts who channeled an entity called Seth, produced over half a dozen books of which I would recommend "The Seth Material", "Seth Speaks" and "The Nature of Personal Reality".   Others are worth reading as well, but we only have so much time.

Seth talks about ideas, and how beliefs and ideas hold the key to what kind of a world and world view we have as individuals.  He provides methods for changing beliefs and substituting new beliefs that are more helpful.  

Regardless of your position is society, you can improve yourself.  He gives directions for how to alter your personal reality so that it is better.  What you are in the world is influenced by your belief system, because you do not have just one belief about things, you have a number of beliefs that work together.  He tells you how to change them. 

Although I had a substantial amount of talent, I was not able to succeed until I learned how to imagine what I wanted and who I was.  I held myself back.

Our own minds keep us chained down and we are not free because we think we need to keep ideas that do not help us.

I would like to also point you to "Journeys Out of the Body" by Robert A Monroe, which is the story of somebody who awoke one day outside of his body.  Monroe experienced what could be called spontaneous astral projection.  It is without question that he saw interesting things.

When you first come upon the Earth while on the astral plane, it is covered in clouds, and this appears to be a byproduct of the souls here.  Getting into a body is helped along by a dispatcher, who can get you into a body.   

AA as the author calls himself when he first arrives,  has a series of trying lives.

My take away is that a person has to be specific about what he wants in a life.  

When you arrive at the Earth, your astral body vibrates at a specific frequency, and since the astral plane contains beings with different frequencies, who you can see depends on where you are on the spectrum.

Lower frequencies tend to promote more problematic adventures.

Next on the list of favorite books  is "Journey of Souls" by Michael Newton, PH D.

Dr Newton was a therapist, and one day when regressing a patient to an earlier age stumbled upon not only their past life, but the period  between lives.   He had a conservative nature, and didn't believe in either.   He did this with a handful of patients, and we see a bit more of a set of people who have guides who help them pick lives that will be positive for them. We see more of the activity that souls are engaged in between lives, and we might say that they have a life there and then have a life here.

A couple of things to note about "Journeys" and it's sequel, "Destiny of Souls", outside our own human existence, there is no time, and Dr Newton has a description of how souls of different frequencies look.  The spectrum of light and the frequencies of soul are the same, at the bottom is red and at the top is blue and violet.

Normally, our perspective is that the external world is real, and there's only one of them, and we are multiple individuals with our own thoughts, etcetera. Our brains create the illusion of consciousness.

Real life is external to us.

According to my understanding of Seth, that alter ego of Jane Roberts, each of us is real, and our experience of a particular place in the world is in our own universe.

But beyond our particular vision, there is no common concrete world; there is the illusion of one. 

We interpret a particular "feeling tone" as reality. 

According to Seth, one entity is coordinating all the communication that creates the world. 

Individually, each of us is an electrical field, which materializes the face of a reality below the microsecond level, and switches from one reality to another such that we experience each as a separate reality although multiple realities exist within us at any particular time.

All our many lives are occurring at the same time.

We multiplex, which means we multi process each life in sequence so that one second we are here, and in another second off on what seems a different world perhaps in the past or future.

I think I'll have a number of lives on Mars after it is Terra Formed.

I like to think that there is a "Grand Imagination" that comes up with things, but that is just a metaphor of the product the joint minds at work churning up a reality.

Constantly coming out with surprises. 

We like to think that there is a "God" outside of us, and there are Gods, but if this is the model that we use to describe our situation, then there is no place for any external power, because we are in reality the controlling entity.

But life is like a game of chess in that it has rules, players, and you may find yourself in opposition to some, while some are on your team.  Unless you are very old, someone else did the work in the creation of your world. 

Some of us are very old.  Our race isn't that old, but our souls are very old.  Some of us only came here recently, others have been here millennia.

Others of us have been here since way before the seas rose, when men were substantially different.         

Experience helps, and we all change over time, but the key thing beyond the individual body is that there is not time.  As a person you have today, and next week; but as a soul you can decide to be born in the previous century.  Once you leave your body, you exist in a timeless Sea, that extends in infinite directions future and past.  You can go and live where you want. 

But you have to know that it's possible.

                                   

 

Thinking of Things

Was it somewhere in Theosophy that I read that thoughts are things? 

It's part of that idea that we ourselves are creating the panorama that we greet everyday when we wake up.  It's as though a part of our mind is creating a dream in real time that we experience. 

This is diametrically opposed to anything a serious person, grounded in science would think, but you might start noticing that you know more about what's going on than some people believe possible. 

At some point in my life unbelievable things started happening to me.  Or at some point I noticed them. 

Highway One, in Marin County, around some small mountain or other I noticed that I was breaking for the pot holes before I noticed they were there.  I just felt the urge to break.  

At some point I started to pay attention to how I felt about things, and I started talking to myself about what I wanted as far as a project was concerned.  I started to conceptualize the particulars, describe them to my self.  

Things would begin to conform to my vision.  

When I was religious, I believed God was powerful,  but really, if you have a vision for what you want to show up in your life, and you have put it into words, then you have offered it up to that part of you that does the work of assembling your world.

I've been in religions that denigrate desire, but I think the idea is to work with it the way a sculptor works with clay.  Because desire leads to things, which is where desire needs to be refined into something that you might enjoy.  Or that you might consider aesthetically pleasing.  

At least to you.