
By Jane Roberts
Table of Contents
"No man is an island unto himself", but each person contains an inner civilization of the self which he learns to govern with the psychic politics that is the framework for the outer world of government and law. The ego rises from the civilization of the psyche just as the ruler, king, queen, president or dictator rises from the masses of people, appointed, chosen or taking control according to an inner politics first existing within the greater inner mind."
There are ever changing inner models for physical reality,
transforming themselves constantly in line with new equations, instantly set up with new
stabilization, eternally forming with a blazing rapidity of motion. Yet any one model,
whether for a molecule or an entire civilization, never vanishes once it is impressed in
the medium of probabilities. We tune into these models, and our interactions with them
alter them at any given point, causing new dimensions of actuality that then reach out
from the new focus.
Past plus present equals future. I plus I equals 2, so it seems but the
1, 1 & 2 exist at the same time and so do the past, present and future, though not
necessarily in that order.
1. If you learn to remember and interpret the unofficial messages of dreams, the decoded data would produce a history of mankind far more accurate and extensive than any you have, an open ended record that would not end at the present point of awareness but contain projections of future probabilities and provide excellent models for further creative actions.
2. The kings, queens, presidents, and dictators of the world rise to prominence and power just as the ego emerges from the psyche, vital, energetic, and responsive. So are the world's leaders as responsive to its people, even when this does not seem to be the case. A country's leaders ignore the unofficial messages of the psyche for the standardized picture of reality to the same extent as do its citizens.
3. The organized structure of civilization cannot be discounted from the inner organization of the psyche. If you do not know yourself, you do not know your world, exterior actions will seem incomprehensible, and your private acts seem to have no meaning.
4. Persons unacquainted with their own power will feel isolated and alone in the private and public world. They will turn the inner framework of the self upside-down if necessary, to shake out the elements of power locked up inside and free themselves from repressions that exist within the mind. In the exterior world, this often results in the overthrow of the leader who was the living figurehead for that inner private oppression.
5. The private psyche has within itself models that clearly state the unique potentials possible for its own achievement. It is, itself, a version of such a model, freely choosing from the infinite possibilities, variations of itself, and those probable actions best suited to its fulfillment. Its choices are spontaneously correct, freely made yet inevitable.
These classic models are everywhere mirrored
in all universal systems, and in each they are the ideals from which all varieties and
versions of themselves constantly emerge. They are, then, the source of all phenomena life
and represent the inner structure behind all forms. They do not produce copies of
themselves, however, but new creative eccentricities which, in turn, alter the models.
often
They also appear as the biological, working models of the genes and
chromosomes, and they can be affected and changed at any time through mental experience.
They are, in fact, instantly responsive to mental and psychic events, through the natural
interchange between the psychological model accepted by the focus personality and the
reflections of that model through the entire body structure. The molecules themselves
faithfully follow both there own inner model structures and, in their organizational
patterns, those psychic models accepted by the psychological entity.
THE IDEAL, MOTION AND EXCHANGE
In this vast interplay of creativity, the ideal is
constantly replenished and expanded through the auspices of eccentricity and eccentricity
is constantly provided with a model against which to assert its fresh versions. A
multidimensional thrust is therefore achieved, a give and take between each model and its
variations, which is the basis in our world for all change and all seeming permanence.
Within this elastic yet supportive framework there is, then, an order
in which all action occurs. Indeed, the nature of the framework itself causes all action,
for the models themselves and their eternal integrity, on the one hand, yet constantly
create their own variations. These tendencies are everywhere active, in biological
structures and psychological states, and are reflected outward into the behavior of
nations and governments. In this context, the term revelation and revolution are
pertinent. Each variation upon a model is a revelation which in turn brings about a
revolution of a kind, a change in a previous condition. The revolution only makes sense,
however, only in terms of the model it represents or is acting against. The violent
revolutions that often occur in the psyche within, or within the world without, are
basically unnecessary. They represent an ignorance of the connections between models and
their eccentricities and the give and take between them. Only when this natural motion of
model into eccentricity, and eccentricity into new model is tampered with, does violence
occur.
Only when the essence of permanency is understood as containing its
motive power out of which change itself springs - will violence cease. Then the motive
power within any given model can be released, automatically thrusting out into new
eccentricities that are characteristic of the model chosen. The generations provide us
biologically with an example of the interaction of models and their variations as these
occur within serial time.
The models transform themselves into biological versions, endowed with
the basic structure necessary to physical life, and with all the eccentricities possible
within a generalized earth model. Cave man
and industrial man are both versions of a model of man that is, itself, constantly changed
by its own eccentricities and their subjective experience of reality is so different that
the respective versions follow entirely divergent paths. Cave man did not turn into
Industrial man. Nor is Industrial man a better version of an earlier model. Each chose
eccentricities that involved specific orientations within the same time-space framework.
Each use the contents of a given earth differently. Cave man and Industrial man also
utilized models of time frequently, and therefore have their existences in divergent time
systems that meet only at one point in a jointly experienced focus point - the
historically accepted era of the cave man from which we think we emerged.
The eternal, ever changing model is the energy behind its
variations though through their existence these replenish and reinstate the model.
Aligning the known self with its model can be explained as a magic act or as a scientific
one, according to your orientation and framework of belief. This recognition of the model
by the known self is, at our level of existence, a further creative mutation. Instantly
fuller powers are brought into play for effective action, in which the model and its
creative version interact with new exuberance.
The known self or focus personality becomes aware of its own model or
source self becomes more responsive, more aware of its own creation and freshly delighted
by the recognition given by its offspring. A more flexible give and take results, in which
the joys of mortality are triply experienced by the focus personality because of its
comprehension of its own timelessness. The contrast brings a new dimension into
experienced time. To some extent, the focused personality is magl3etizerl, drawn to its
model, which is then drawn to earthly experience. Coincidences then occur that line up
inner and outer experience so that the focus personality can tune into the other versions
of itself, bringing further knowledge and experience into normal living.
The essence of man is not destroyed. Neither is it held in a
static form, preserved like a spiritual mummy in some museum of souls. Instead, after death, 'a man's or women's
essence continues its experiences, though a different model of existence is followed, a
different frame of reference chosen and another version of psychological being is pursued.
The present model for physical life precludes any easy mixing of the living and the dead,
any casual encounters between those in the flesh and out of it as a common experience.
This was not always the case for at one time the living and the dead mixed far more
openly.
Man's consciousness chose to focus upon ever-increasing specifics, in
terms of time, however and gradually closed out the reference points in which such
occurrences could occur.
In the previous wider reference there was enough leeway for corporal
and non-corporal experiences to intersect in space under certain conditions. The closer
time reference chosen closed this gap, requiring on the part of the dead a specific focus
they could not easily achieve in order to make their presence felt. The path of the living
and the dead became more divergent.
Earlier, however, the dead continued to instruct parents returning to
their children and dead travelers returning to their tribes, told of their travels. In
this way, for millennia, knowledge was passed on through the centuries. Man's
consciousness was more flexible and accommodating, yet while it operated in that manner,
the possibilities for more specific experience and more precise focus remained latent. Man
gradually altered the focus of his consciousness by perceiving as real only those
phenomena that fell within a particular range, bringing into actuality levels of physical
experience to which he had been blind to earlier and gradually becoming opaque to other
stimuli which he had once used. Encounters with the dead then become blurred, occurring in
dream states, which always represent other areas of consciousness dimly perceived but not
accepted as official reality. When this happened, the dead became colored with the
symbolism of the dreams also, for when symbols operate, they are always signs of reality
not directly, but opaquely perceived.
These ancient psychological pathways of consciousness still lie latent,
however, operating as alternate possibilities and ruling certain neurological pathways
that have been largely abandoned avenues of perception, and through the ages have used
them to increase their own knowledge and to view physical life from a different
perspective. Generally, however, these roads became by-paths, thickly cluttered with
overgrown, ancient memories and strewn with psychic statues, as it were, that once had
meaning and served as guideposts between the living and the dead. These pathways are
traveled in the dream states, but there again they are paved with symbols. These serve as
methods of communication and yet also serve as barriers, keeping various levels of reality
hidden. The living and the dead in your time speak opaquely then, through dreams and
symbols, for the model for reality that you have chosen precludes the dead's more
expansive view.
Even then, in dream states, you come alive to your native
consciousness, and in periods of revelation and inspiration you open those paths of the
mind when it is safe enough to turn momentarily from the specific focus of waking life.
That focus requires a finely tuned precision in time orientation, instant response that
requires your attention.
The inner portion of the self, the psyche, however, follows that other
model which serves as a supportive framework for the conscious life you know. The creative
mind functions basically in accordance with this freer perception, seeking its
associations outside the recognized time framework, ranging far wider in its travels and
drawing for its purposes from the knowledge and experiences from the race as a whole as it
exists in and out of time. This data is then used with new creativity, further altering
the physical model of existence.
The creative mind itself, then, rebels against to rigid a focus, and
searches through the centuries while the body is still clothed in time. Yet it searches
precisely because of the body's physical orientation, in order to illuminate the nature of
its existence. In the world of the creative mind there is little difference between the
living and the dead. Ideas are freely exchanged between them in a commerce that forms much
of the world that you know.
This commerce is continual, though in symbolic form that serves to veil
the original encounters so that the necessary separation in focuses can still be
maintained. Intent, emotional intensity and personal characteristics dictate this commerce
and open the lines of communication. that exist, connecting mind and mind.
There is a constant give and take not only between the living and the
dead, but with the living and those portions of the psyche that exist in corporal form,
between the living and the dead portions of the self, then. Yet symbolism remains as the
language of this commerce. It's rich and varied structure allows it to handle the weight
of greater theoretical structures that your focus necessarily precludes.
Attempts to make this commerce literal, to bring these encounters down
to earth, fail miserably because, denied the symbols, the range of that reality cannot be
contained in the usual dimensions of your lives as you understand them, and contradictions
instantly seem to occur. The realities don't mix smoothly. Rough edges show and the dead
then appear as characters of themselves, less dimensional than you, while stripped of the
multi-dimensionality of their own state.
If symbolism is understood to be a language, then it can be used by
both the living and the dead and seen as a structure in which these encounters can occur -
but these are encounters of the mind, as states of being move closer to each other with
symbolism being a bridge between.
Mankind views the physical as exteriorized and outside the context of
the mind. Yet the universe is the three dimensional projection of the minds activity. The
phenomenal world springs into being in accordance with inner models. Infinite versions of
these bridge the gap between the invisible and the visible, taking physical form and then
returning to the inner models in which their overall vitality resides. These models are
themselves conscious, not operating as dead ideals but as ever changing structures,
carrying within themselves as inviolate integrity which is not threatened but strengthened
through change and eccentricity. So all men and women living exist as completely in the
living world as in the outer, and each smallest feature within physical reality has its
inner counterpart from which it emerges. Within and without, there is a constant
fluctuation - yet always in response to the model which responds to its own
eccentricities.
Therefore this book, not yet completed in your time, exists in a
library that is a model for the libraries that you know, and yet in your terms this book
is also an eccentricity, for it is not a copy but a new edition, completed, recreated,
while holding within itself the kernel of its own integrity.
The creation of this book (Psychic Politics) is original in that it has
not existed in this form before in your world, yet it is also written in response to its
model, and the same applies to all creativity.
THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE AS A TRIUMPH OF ECCENTRICITIES
Model Universes:
These models can be considered as entities with a propensity
for pattern forming, aware-energy, eccentricitized out of itself as it emerges from
un-realization into realization, from un-differentiation into differentiation. The
structures within our universe are eccentricities, seen in that light; specific versions
of an inner model. Time, space, matter - all of these specific references are eccentric
variations that make our world uniquely itself, even though they rise out a universal
model that also makes all other versions and eccentricities possible.
Because we experience time, then, it follows that time exists in as
many versions as possible in other universes. The electron's spin here is eccentric
behavior, appearing here as model behavior only because it is the eccentricity that we
recognize as real. The private earthly sensate experience of each of us exists precisely
because of the eccentricities manifested in our particular model of the universe.
These models can be thought of as the intent that energy takes, the
creative inner potential for form, the pattern of fulfillment inherent in energy itself as
it sprawls out of itself constantly into differentiation. The eccentricities are the
model's physical shapes, at least in our universe. They are the particular individualized
waves or knots or disturbances appearing out of the undifferentiated congregation and
coming forth in a pattern or model that is merely a suggestion through which its
eccentricities can make themselves known.
Since everything actually happens at once, with an orderly abandon
almost impossible to describe, then the models and their eccentricities are manifested and
un-manifested at the same time, and time itself is simply one version that infinity takes.
The versions of the models affect and change the models themselves. The variations then
form their own new patterns which, again exist in the manifest and the
un-manifested alike.
We speak of matter and antimatter and of right and left handed universes, but all
variations and degrees occur between these extremes, yet all are connected through the
all-per model of the universe which is manifest in each version. In other words, our world
is one of reality's signatures, written indelibly-in our experience and environment. But
it is only one of many such signatures.
If we could see the features of our reality as eccentricities or
variations of a model, then we could at least be on the lookout for other versions, even
if we only considered the alternate patterns that sometimes show in our world - the
unofficial happenings, the latent bulges, psychological or physical, that ripple gently
beneath usual experience but don't appear as definite features of mind or matter. Such
psychological or psychic bulges or unrecognized features, such as telepathy or
clairvoyance or telekinesis, all suggest other ways of dealing with space and time. In
some other systems of reality these may represent normal psychological behavior. A
completely different kind of model of the universe would be used under such circumstances
and literally experienced.
MODELS AND ALTERNATE ECCENTRICITIES
Our linear time concepts lead us to our ideas of straight
ahead progression and to a certain mental singularity in which it seems that the self is a
single entity with no place to go but straight ahead, or it will fall behind, with no
direction but up or it will fall down; and with nothing to do but progress towards
perfection, or disintegrate. The adage Know Thyself presupposes a model of the self that
is stationary. For knowing the self at any given time actually changes the self into a new
knowing self, which must again be known and thus changed.
The world model unfortunately often suggests a perfection beyond which
change is unnecessary or even disastrous. Again, our time concepts blind our vision. For
the model of the psyche is endless in its variations, characterized by infinite
eccentricities each within the other in a kind of sprawling spontaneous order. Our usual
ideas of order, however, automatically suggest order in time, consecutive and almost
mechanical in progression. We can even find creativity messy or chaotic if it does not
follow our ideas of what order is.
Yet true order uses our time but is not bound by it. True order
straddles our reality and appears in it as the manifestation of phenomena in time, so we
suppose that order must follow time. We imagine that we must progress "a step at a
time" toward a given goal that exists ahead of us, and we plan our lives accordingly.
The psyche itself is so richly various that it presents us with endless
banks of potentials and alternate models, each geared however, in some indefinable way to
our most intimate being - ours and no other. We are the ones who insist on stripping down
the luxuriant model to what we apparently think of a more efficient time-version that fits
our limited ideas of personhood. Then we end up with such appalling concepts as "the
model parent" or "the model child". We use the model to enclose, not free,
our individuality, to trap and not to liberate our eccentricities, to regiment rather than
express our deepest abilities.
We seem to think that there is a contradiction between having a model
for reference, and deviating from it. We need to develop a loving recognition of our
eccentricities. The focus personality rises into prominence from the rich infinite reality
of the psyche or source self which constantly supports it. The focus personality cannot
drown in its own source, be annihilated or dissolved within it, because it Is the face of
the psyche turned toward the earth. Drawing from the psyche's greater knowledge reinforces
the focus personality's ability to deal with the world's content.
These are then understood to be the physical manifestation of the
contents of the mind. This knowledge alone gives the focus personality additional power,
as it learns that it can mix and match these merged contents, bringing into reality a
greater variety and deeper meanings which then enrich the mental and physical landscapes.
There can be for example, four counterparts alive in one
time period. There would form a psychic block, and any one of the four personalities could
pick up information from this joint pool (of identity). Each such person would be distinct
yet each would be an added dimension of the others so that on other levels the four (in
this case) form an alliance and become a four fronted self, forming a composite self
bridging the given century.
Each of the four is equal, yet the overall psychic construction formed
by their alliance is greater than the sum of the four parts. This alliance is a working
one and once it is constructed, it always exists though it doesn't exist necessarily in
our terms of continuity. It posses a different kind of life (the four fronted self), a
life that has meant whenever one of the counterparts tunes in to its greater framework.
But the four fronted self's sense of continuity is not broken up and it exists outside of
our space-time framework, while its counterparts exist in it. The conditions of existence
are entirely different for the four fronted self as a psychic construct.
The psyche is awareized energy, in a state of constant creativity, a
psychic pattern multi-dimensionally expressed, each point within it changing in
relationship to all other points, and then altering the entire pattern or model.
Each self is immersed in the psyche, yet immersed in its own
individuality simultaneously, experiencing reality in time and out of time at once. We
create events naturally, in the same ways that the earth produces trees, grain, mountains
and seas. In Earth experience, the Earth itself is given that is, it appears to be
self-producing and self-sufficient within the framework of the universe. So, in the same
way, the self is given. The alliance of psyche and body produces mental events and
experiences that also appear to be self-sufficient and self-producing within the framework
of the psychological world. Yet everything is interrelated.
There is an inner landscape of the mind that produces thoughts, dreams,
experiences and events and this correlates with the exterior landscape. It's extremely
difficult to map this interior land because we confuse the brain's activity for the power
behind the brain, and because we do not consider the interior landscape as real as the
exterior one.
We're also so immersed in the interior world that we take its natural
elements for granted. Dreams, thoughts and all mental activity compose the natural
phenomena of the inner reality. We travel through the psyche as we travel through time and
across the face of the earth. When we encounter events, they will appear differently
according to our position within our psyche.
Many dream events are versions of waking ones - not distorted at all,
just the dream version, as the physical event is the waking version. While we accept the
waking experience as the real one, it is no less or more real than the dream event.
Inner codes of reality appear within the molecules on the
one hand and within the mass psyche as well. These codes get distorted through the ages
and there is a need to return to their source. The material in these inner codes is always
translated outward into the world of science, religion, politics and law. But if these
outer manifestations become to rigid or petrify or if their inner source is forgotten,
then they no longer serve the needs of the individual or mass psyche.
These codes must constantly be restated, freshly experienced and
interpreted, so that they emerge again to give the race new impetus and to assure that
civilization follows spiritual and psychic needs. The inner codes are patterns, flexible
models, carrying within them hints of man's greatest potentials and achievements, which he
can then imaginatively project into the future as patterns for development. (These are to
be used in the same way that a city planner uses blueprints, in the same sense many cells
know ahead of time what form to take.)
The structure of the psyche of the world at any given time can be
ascertained by viewing its exterior condition, the various civilizations
all representing actualized characteristics inherent in the world mind. The different
governments act in response to inner politics, which are the result of multitudinous ones
used by individuals in dealing with private inner and outer reality.
Historically, the gods of one era may turn into the demons of another
era, the heroes turn into the despised, the law givers into the lawless and vice versa, as
each group of generations views reality through those aspects of the world psyche which
they have chosen to encounter. A nation will deal with another nation as it deals with
its and project outward upon enemies those aspects of itself that are unexpressed or
denied by the majority.
Subversive literature or art is feared precisely because it represents
inner, not exterior, culture. As with personal repressions, this kind of explosive
material grows the more it is denounced.
The world as we experience it is the result of neurological conclusions
reached by acknowledging certain sequences or series of stimuli and ignoring others, in
line with learned models given to us in childhood. A kind of learned prejudiced is
developed in which only a given series or sequence of neurological activity is accepted.
The other quite-as-legitimate series remain almost as ghost images.
We then organize our experience and shape events following the prime
series. There is a correlation here with infinite and infinitesimal number patterns or
what can be called unofficial series.
These, followed, would bring about a different kind of events into
experience or events that would be other versions of the ones we recognize. The accepted,
neurological accepted, series generally become habitual and form a kind of perception
path. This path is supported to some degree by hidden values or unofficial events or
series that hide within the prime sequence.
The brilliance and immediacy of the prime series washes out these other
hidden or minor sequences. In this way there is little difficulty in distinguishing the
biologically accepted series from those others that are biologically latent.
We accept verbal but not telepathic communication, for example, even
though telepathy is biologically built into the body mechanism. We simply ignore those
neurological stimulations and make no effort to stabilize or maintain such data. Often,
however, we do not use such information subconsciously, but it does not become a part of
our established sense picture. That sequence, once activated, would automatically trigger
other series with which it would be connected, all dealing with what we would call
unofficial information.
Usually these unofficial perceptions aren't hooked up to our sense
organs, that is, we ignore the data and the clues, we don't plug in, so that the
information doesn't become solid sense data. When it does, for one reason or another, our
lack of experience often causes us to run the two sequences together and bring in the
unofficial information on the official line. The hidden values arise momentarily into
prominence where they conflict for our attention with prime sense data. Actually there is
a clear distinction between the two. Besides this, there are many alternate series, though
many of these would make no sense in our accepted sequences. Events, for example, might be
to large in space and time or to small for our comprehension.
In my experience of yesterday I switched to another close neurological
series or sequence, (page 240-241, Psychic Politics), where telepathy is prime data and
directed thoughts are heard mentally. Through lack of experience I switched and mixed the
neurological series, turning the information over to the physical sense - the ears - which
then hallucinated the sound. Then I responded physically.
Sounds have to be physically heard to be considered real in our
accepted framework of reality, so I switched the information from its native sequence to
the official one. The episode was important, though, because I did pick up Rob's inner
world and intent so clearly. His attempt to get me up was implied in the word
"Hon" so that I not only picked up the word but the intention. That particular
sequence also includes precognitive information and a host of official unrelated events
that are connected with our accepted sequence.
My most inner hearing is acute. This simply means that I've activated
this other sequence and then directed it through a ghost version of sound. Yesterday my
reception was so clear that in my confusion I exteriorized the data and mixed the data. It
was Rob's love for me, as he awakened, that I first reacted to ft. This unofficial series
would build an entirely different view of reality and events and it would include some of
our accepted events and exclude others, just as our series is a specialized version built
up through discriminations.
In the unofficial series that I was involved with, telepathic
communication is the prime event and verbal communication is the ghost version, the so
called astral form is the perceived event and the physical body is the ghost version.
Obviously we can become aware of the unofficial series to some extent, since it is so
related to our own. In the same way, there are hidden structures in our cells, invisible
in our series. They will only appear in sequences that recognize them, while some
structures visible to us will be invisible in still other sequences. So called expansion
of consciousness involves awareness of these other sequences that escape our time-space
boundaries and the insertion of these into our regular series. When this is done, however,
the time-space relationships within our experience will change (in the same that added
numbers alter any sequence).
This addition opens up our reality, even though it is still possible
for others to follow the old accepted series in which such experiences will not show.
These official and unofficial, recognized and unrecognized sequences
and series are the basis for all systems of reality, each system being cued into its own
sequence, even while ultimately each one is related to every other. The thickness of
reality is actually composed of many unofficial realities, ghost sequences from our
standpoint. A different system of reality entirely results according to which sequences
are focused upon. That is, our prime sequence is an unofficial part of other systems. Each
of the sequences, while being a part of others, is also (somewhere) a prime series. Our
own physical reality of objects and time appears unofficially in other sequences, as a
hidden value.
These series maintain their own integrity but they are not closed:
time-space relationships are scaled, each system using its own sequences. If you imagine
the official numbers 'I' to '10' in a row, then there would be an infinite number of
unofficial 'It's hidden in the 'I' you saw and an infinite number of spaces between the
official 'I' and '2'. The position of the 'I ' on the paper would represent our sense data
world, while the invisible 'I's behind the official 'I' would represent the official
'I's'
hidden values and infinite probabilities.
'1' on the paper would represent the system adjacent to us in
space-time, and behind (or within it) would be its infinite hidden values. More than this,
of course, there would be a 'IL' on top of the 'IL' we see on the paper, that is, above
the paper, but we can't see it. We would be between the 'I* on the paper and the 'IL'
above it and to that ' I' (above the paper) we are a hidden value and a probable system, a
variation of its own. Moving sideways from 'IL' to '2'. again, there would be infinite
spaces on a three dimensional level separating us from the '2' on the horizontal plane,
representing whatever adjacent motion our universe might take in space and time as we
understand it.
Within any given system, there are all kinds of choices available. Out
of an infinite number of source sequences, we chose the key ones that compose our
experience by bringing these into prime position. These sequences act like dimensional
pointers, directing the manifestation of energy and the dimensional attitudes that it will
express. 'Me stance of space and time will change according to the sequential patterns and
the important point - there are infinite chances for new tie-ins of sequences, forming new
realities at both infinite and infinitesimal points.
These sequences or series form orders. Orders are fields formed by the
intersection points within sequences that, merging, give a particular dimensional picture
within which certain kinds of experience are possible. The word orders is used here
synonymously with systems, implying a quality of seeming permanents resting on infinite
variables.
Sumari as I use it is a code un-scrambler, breaking up data like a laser
beam, showing the fragments that make up our whole, releasing the psychological
components. Awareized energy
or consciousness is the source and the organizing element of these systems. I'm learning
to experience different sequences at a primitive level, almost in leapfrog level.
It's significant that we apply numbers to time, but as there are
unrecognized spaces between numbers, there are unrecognized spaces (psychologically
invisible) between or within moments and some of the events of our body are to small for
us to follow, focused as we are in our prime series. These body events actually are
"infinitesimal but infinite" following their own patterns that merge with ours.
Cellular comprehension reaches into what we think of as the distant past and distant
future, these form an ever-present now at that level, however, representing interactions
occurring in cellular stances to small for us to follow.
There, cells are built up on one level just as universes are at another
and that sequence also has its black holes, white dwarfs and so forth, only we perceive
them from our sequence as biological structures of minute incorporation. In a manner of
speaking, our kind of consciousness twinkles from that sequence, or rather rides it, aware
of certain peaks within it which we recognize as events because they are large enough to
fit into our series.
The Library is a special place (in this case, private) in which energy
of a directed consciousness alters space's availability in a certain fashion. As there are
an infinite number of moments within any given official one, so within any given point of
space there are an infinite number unofficial space relationships, or places.
These remain latent, invisible, nonexistent in practical terms as a
rule, yet they are amiable to impression (being impressed or stamped) once there
availability is understood. Because they are not apparent at the living area of usual
experience, the normal space-time relationships do not apply. That is, time is experienced
differently on a spatial place, though it will resume normally at the usual level.
When I'm in the library, my body is in a different relationship with
the physical environment, minutely altered, minutely out of gear at infinitesimal levels,
with some atomic effects that are beneath our notice. That is, the changes will not show
at our levels, although they are definite and quite consequential at other levels.
This different relationship is brought about because the directed
consciousness is in another environment at unofficial levels, while it still retains its
physical stance. In our terms my body still resides in this room while I write now, while
it is still affected by an energy exchange happening between the self in the library and
the self here.
This is a split such as an amoebae might make, only it is consciousness
- one part staying with the parent and the offspring stepping into different but special
space. In such special places, the usual spatial characteristics are present but much more
plastic, and time and space are used differently, consciousness playing in them in a way
not normally possible.
There, the assumed body can play unhampered by usual restraints because
it is projected into the special space by the consciousness and is composed of the same
characteristics. That is, consciousness stamps its own impression into that medium. (This
happens the same way that fractions fly out of a prime number, while the number remains
the same and itself the fraction within the prime number are not stationary, but always
going off in their own infinite directions without injuring the primacy of the integer.)
In our terms, and from our viewpoint, such places are not stable or
permanent, though they are at their own levels. I sense the library even when it seems
inaccessible to me. Its reality is partly determined by my perception of it. It has other
rooms, for example. On the one hand, they are there for me to find, but on the other hand,
they will be partly formed by my finding them.
Here, that seems like a contradiction. But its as if consciousness
somehow senses leniency in space, perceptive paths that are latent and if you gently press
your consciousness into the universe, then it gives in places and opens up. After a while
you get the knack of it and know where the special places are. You learn to nudge aside
the usual dimensional barriers and sneak through with the part of your consciousness that
fits the conditions best - or can best work in the conditions. I use my consciousness the
way a safe cracker uses his fingers and a different kind of intense listening is involved
until you get the right combination and hear the invisible tumblers to fall.
That safe cracking analogy is good here, with its numerical
connotations, because these orders or systems of reality are interconnected by virtue of
there relationships. New orders of special places can be set up by settling upon any
hypothetical boundaries, this automatically alters the inner relationships. It's as if you
used consciousness like the stake of a tent, providing stability - energy digging into a
particular space-time medium, or inserting itself into a different space-time as stakes
are driven into the ground and then forming a new relationship in which certain kinds of
experience are possible.
For that matter, each person stamps space with his or her private
symbols. This book deals with the motion of the psyche as it translates inner data and
symbols into experienced reality, with the source of such symbols and their forceful
activity. Symbols are not stationary ideas that are pushed about, but concentrations of
energy endowed with motion. The characteristics of symbols include force, intent,
identification, motion (transference) and change of form. While symbols are primarily
private, at any given time private images symbols and associations will form groupings
ever-changing, around which communities or civilizations will gravitate.
The symbols are images or representations of beliefs, charged with
energy, intensely emotional. Individuals are constantly in the process of bringing these
inner symbols in line with physical reality, or rather, they are in the process of turning
that reality into a counterpart of the inner symbolized environment, the individual sets
out to achieve a new balance. This happens privately or with any group or organization.
The symbols attract models and also help form them at our level of activity.
The models are self sustaining symbols in which motion is contained or
held. In that way a recognizable psychic structure is formed as a constant model against
which to judge the correlation between inner symbolizing and external experience. These
models, they are stabilized organizations of symbols held a while in the psyche. They
change, however, as the symbols that compose them do, according to our intent, of that one
model can change smoothly into the another one.
(An alternate hypothesis as a base for private and public experience.)
1. All of creation is sacred and alive, each part connected to each other part and each communicating in a creative, cooperative commerce in which the smallest and the largest are involved.
2. The physical senses present one unique version of reality, in which being is perceived in a particular dimensioned sequence, built up through neurological focus. There are alternate neurological routes, biologically acceptable and other sequences so far not chosen.
3. Our individual self-government and our political organizations are by products of sequential perception and our exterior methods of communication set up patterns that correlate with and duplicate our synaptic behavior. We lock ourselves into certain structures of reality in this way.
4. Our sequential prejudiced perceptions are inherently far more flexible than we recognize, however. There are half steps - other unperceived impulses - that leap the nerve ends, too fast and too slow for our usual focus. Recognition of these can be learned and encouraged, bring in perceptive data that will trigger changes in usual sense response, filling our potential sense spectrums with which we are normally not familiar.
5. Ibis greater possible sense spectrum includes increased perception of inner bodily reality in terms of cellular identity and behavior, our automatic conscious control of bodily processes and increased perception of exterior conditions as usual senses become more vigorous. (Our sight, for example, is not nearly as efficient as it could be. Nuances of color, texture and depth could be expanded and our entire visual area attain a brilliance presently considered exceptional or supernormal.
COMMENTS ON CODICIL 1
Acceptance of these first codicils would expand practical
knowledge of the self, break down barriers that are the result of our prejudiced
perception and restructure personal, social and political life.
Concepts of the self and practical experience of the self must be
broadened if the race is to develop its true potentials. Only an evolution of
consciousness can alter the world view that appears to our official line of consciousness.
COMMENT ON CODICIL 2
The next step is as important as the birth of Christianity was in the history of
mankind. It will present a new structure for civilization to follow. Christianity
represented the human psyche at a certain point, first forming inner patterns for
development that then become exteriorized as myth, drama, and history, with the Jewish
culture of the Talmud presenting the psyche's direction.
The difference between Jewish and Christian tradition represented
allied but different probabilities, one splitting off from the other, but united by common
roots and actualized in the world in varying degrees.
The traditional personified god concept represented the mass psyche's
own ego development, the ego ruling the self as god ruled man, man dominant over the
planet and other species, as god was dominant over man -as opposed to the concept of many
gods or the growth of a more multi-focused self with greater nature identification.
Neurological patterning of the kind we know began with the early
testament Jews (known, then as God's people), looking forward through time to a completely
one ego focused self. Before, neurological functioning was not as set and in our world
today some minority peoples and tribes still hold to those alternate neurological pulses.
These will not appear to our measuring devices because we literally are blind to them.
The Jewish prophets, however, utilized these alternate focuses of
perceptions themselves and were relatively unprejudiced neurologically. They were
therefore able to perceive alternate visions of reality. Yet their great work, while
focusing the energy of an entire race and leading to Christianity, also resulted in
limiting man's potential perceptive area in important ways.
The prophets were able to sense the potential of the mass psyche and
their prophecies charted courses in time, projecting the Jewish race into the future. The
prophecies gave the people great strength precisely because they gave the race a future in
time, providing a thread of continuity and a certain immortality in earthly terms.
The prophecies were psychic molds to be filled out in flesh. Some were
fulfilled and some were not, but the unfulfilled ones were forgotten and served their
purpose by alternate selections and directions. The prophecies ahead of time charted out a
peoples probable course, foreseeing the triumphs and disasters inherent in such an
adventure through time.
They provided psychic webworks, blueprints and dreams, with living
people stepping into the role already outlined, but also improvising as they went along.
These roles were valid, however, chosen in response to an inner reality that foresaw the
shape that the living psyche of the people would take in time.
But as a snake throws off old skin, the psyche throws off old patterns
that have become rigid and we need a new set of psychic blueprints to further extend the
species into the future, replete with great deeds, heroes and challenges, a new creative
drama projected from the psyche into the three dimensional arena. For now we no longer
view reality through original eyes, but through structures of beliefs that we have
outgrown. These structures are simply meant to frame and organize experience, but we
mistake the picture for the reality that it represents. We've become neurologically frozen
in that respect, forced to recognize the one sequential pattern of sense perceptions, so
that we think that the one we've chosen is the only one possible.
COMMENT ON CODICIL 3
Thus far we've projected the unrecognized portions of our
greater selfhood outward into God, religion, government and exteriorized concepts. In this
existence, selfhood is dependent upon sense perceptions, so that our neurological
prejudice and rigid focus have limited our concepts of identity. When we do become aware
of unofficial information, coming through other than recognized channels, then it seems to
come from not-self or outside.
A great deal of energy has been used to repress levels of selfhood and
to project these into religious and nationalistic heroes and cultural organizations.
Government and religion try to preserve the status quo, to preserve their own existence,
not for political or religious reasons but to preserve the official picture of the self
around which they are formed.
But structured reality in which that kind of self can exist is breaking
down. The official picture no longer fits or explains private experience which is growing
out of it. There is a momentary rift between the inner psyche and its creations
Besides this, the experienced self is not the Same through the ages.
The experienced self is a psychic creation, responsive to exterior conditions which it
creates as the psyche dives into the waters of experienced earthly selfhood. Only a
portion of the potential self is experienced, but different portions, intents and purposes
change. It is possible, though, to actualize more of our potentials.
The answers and solutions lie in using levels of consciousness now considered eccentric or secondary. This includes a far greater utilization of the dream states and altered conditions thus far thought to be exceptions of consciousness. These exceptions represent other kinds of focuses, greatly needed to broaden our concepts of the self, and our experience of personal selfhood by increasing conceptionalization, giving direct experience of alternate views and bringing other kinds of data to bear upon the world we know In the past, the attitudes surrounding such perceptions brought about their own difficulties. The perceptions are biologically acceptable, however, and will lead to a clearer relationship between mind and body.
THE FOCUS PERSONALITY AND ALTERNATE SENSING
The focus personality or experienced self is one focus
through which the self knows itself, one facet of the self's relationship with other
persons and the world, and represents its exteriorization. But different approaches could
increase the knowledge of the focus personality and extend its scope. By providing this
experienced self some conscious affiliation with the source of its own being, it could
receive a sense of continuity not bounded by known time and could literally see beyond
itself to the source which it is inviolately couched.
Identifying now with current life experience only, the focus
personality is limited by its chosen perceptive framework and such additional data is
unavailable in usual terms. Life after death, the existence of other validities and the
self's part in these, must be taken on faith, if taken at all and a faith cluttered by old
beliefs. This makes it extremely difficult for the focus personality to perceive any
unofficial information that could contradict the current picture of reality. The focus
personality is everywhere presented with the evidence of the senses which seem to deny any
such altered conditions. The senses themselves are kept restricted so that they seem to
present the only possible picture of reality upon which assumptions can be made. Their
view is valid, but other perceptive methods and modes can add to that picture, extending
to show other quite as valid kinds of existence. And we have a choice. We can open the
doors of perceptions, move out into a broader mental and psychic world, as, in historic
terms, at least we left the caves to explore the environment. We have yet to explore the
geography of the psyche.
Various altered states can provide the focus personality with direct
evidence it needs by giving it the benefit of extraordinary or eccentric sense data, data
complete in itself that does not, however, fit into the established picture and may
sometimes seem to contradict it. There is no such contradiction between the official and
the unofficial pictures of reality, however, as each is seen as a valid alternate or
parallel version. As a result of accepting such material, ordinary sense data will be
deepened, its qualities enhanced, sense experience becoming super-real by our current
standards as the fuller spectrums begin to emerge.
This emergence instantly triggers different body responses and corporal
surprise. The change is not just metaphysical but appears in quite practical garb, the
world looks different because it is different, more of its qualities are perceived and the
perceiver brings more to bear upon the given objective field.
Such experience, again hint of the true potentials of the human
perception, but greater portions of the self must be brought into play and made available
to the focus personality. Often such experience frightens the focus personality because it
is hampered by old beliefs about selfhood and feels in conflict with established culture.
It is the focus personality itself that must break out of the ancient patterns and offer
its concepts of selfhood. Ibis experienced self is not to be annihilated but fulfilled,
not to dissolve into oneness but to discover its true individuality in relationship to a
oneness that is always individualized.
Here the analogy of the model and its eccentricities can be of great
value. The constant tension and interplay between them hint of the mystery of
individuality existing as part of the oneness, the many-in-one in which the one constantly
translates itself into individualism but without destroying the original unity.
That unity seeks greater diversification, investing each part of itself
with its own creativity and thrust, hence changing itself, recreating itself constantly in
a creation that is never static and always new, for the infinite eccentricities of itself
are always added to its own model, multiplying probabilities of development that create
further eccentricities.
THE ASPECTS AND ALTERED STATES
The Aspects
are the representatives in the psyche of these alternate routes of consciousness to
self-expression and experience. The Aspects, then, experience reality differently and have
their own kind of subjective being. They are aware in a different context, in another kind
of medium - yet their reality forms a rich unconscious bed upon which our version of
consciousness rests.
Here, the Aspects are the latent, eccentric variations of our models of
personhood. In their reality the reverse is true. There, our kind of psychological
processes serve as supportive frameworks, that is, our consciousness may serve as a part
of their unconsciousness activity.
In dreams, visions and altered states we lean toward their kind of
organization and symbolism, which is valid in that inner order of events but not usually
perceivable here. In the ordinary state of awareness we force those perceptions to flow
into our symbolized structures, in which they sometimes seem to make no sense at all.
Culturally, in our society, we've neatly divided the intellectual and
intuitive abilities. To that degree, we've isolated portions of ourselves and limited the
practical benefits that could otherwise be provided by the intuitive parts of the self.
We've divorced ourselves from levels of awareness that have to do with
the health of our own bodies, for example, turning such problems over to specialists and
further separating ourselves from our own corporal competence, denying any responsibility
for the state of our health. There is a healer within us, the same force that keeps us
alive and functioning. It might be natural to personify that part of our consciousness,
since its difficult for us to imagine consciousness without our idea of personhood. There
is nothing unsophisticated in having an outside image, statue, or symbol to represent the
selfs healing aspects and to serve as an exterior reference point.
But religions project inner power into the images, further divorcing it
from its source. In that kind of structure it is easier to go to a doctor than to attempt
any self-healing.
The Aspects also serve as invisible models for self-hood, however. The
teacher, healer, parent, male and female, all residing within the psyche not as rigid
models but as living patterns uniquely fashioned in accord with the focus personality's
interests and purposes, representing the tension between the self s immortal existence and
its temporal life.
The Aspects also operate as psychic counterparts, banks of abilities
and strengths from which the focus personality can choose and in a way they represent an
inner family of potential selves upon which our own personhood. is firmly based. They
appear in our experience as emotional feelings, psychological tendencies, tints through
which we view ourselves and the world. But so sometimes they rise out of psychological
invisibility with their own characteristic strands of consciousness, carrying within them
views of reality uniquely theirs.
In such cases, we can view existence from a different center of the
psyche. In so doing, we need not become less well focused in this world, but we can
instead bring the world into a newer, fuller focus, we can become better centered, for we
then have more information about the greater context in which our world rests.
This can happen, however, only if we learn to take advantage of these
messages from other Aspects, only if we learn to interpret their dramatic content.
We are a multitude of selves and the sooner we learn that the better.
And in that rich alliance of psychological Aspects lies the very secret of our practical
operative stability. Only because we change our positions constantly in reference to the
psyche and the world are we able to manipulate physically and translate inner experience
in sense terms.
To attempt to protect the self in old terms or to keep the
self rigidly itself is like holding your breath for too long. Selves, like breaths, go
through us all the time. But from our standpoint we are the larger psychological
structures that translate these selves into ourselves, just as the body translates our
breaths into our living.
Even our bodies often seem not us or not ours because we have forgotten
how to identify with them, lost the strands of following the strands of consciousness that
should connect us, so that our full experience of creaturehood itself is further limited.
We seem instead to be victims of the flesh, at the mercy of illnesses, wars and natural
disasters, because we have lost track of our natural selves and lost sight of our place
within nature's framework.
It seems idiotic, for example, to think that we can cure ourselves
naturally of illnesses when we believe that disease is thrust upon us by the flesh and has
nothing to do at all with what we believe.
Until we realize that our consciousness, working through the body
creates its state of being, then any natural cures will be considered miraculous. Seth,
for example, states that so called miraculous cures are simply examples of unimpeded
nature.
In the same way, we are part of nature, physically as real as
mountains, air currents, trees or oceans, all of which have their effect upon the climate
and world conditions. Yet for some reasons we imagine that we effect the natural world
only through our technology. But our physical presence itself has an interaction with the
earth and with the physical elements that compose it. We are biologically connected and
this means the chemical makeup of our bodies is part of the earth's contents.
Our chemical balance
changes as our emotions do and we alter the composition of the earth. We are not at the
mercy of natural disasters. We have forgotten or ignored our native emotional
identification with the wind and with the storms and therefore lost our part in their
existence and whatever conscious control we may have once had over them. Therefore we need
technology to bring rain to parched areas, for example, and consider it the sheerest
nonsense to blame parched thoughts or beliefs instead.
We lost the larger dimensions of a natural selfhood that identifies as
itself and with its position in nature. We can, if we wish, command the wind, but only
when we realize that it is a part of us and we are a part of it. We can move mountains
without cranes - only when realize that our consciousness is itself and a part of the
earth at the same time, that our breath contributes to the atmosphere and our discarded
chemicals help form the mountains.
That natural consciousness is not afraid of death. It knows its
individuality is un-assailed even while its form and experiences change. Because it can
identify with the earth, it is not dependent upon corporal knowledge because earth itself
is not and nature has always known better.
ONE LINE CONSCIOUSNESS, GOVERNMENTS AND SOCIAL ORDERS
If we saw our governments and social orders as natural
elements of the psyche (as the continents and seas are the natural phenomena of the
earth), then we would also see their natural seasons, their rising and falling, as a part
of a cycle as natural as spring or winter.
In the past, all civilizations, Christians or otherwise, set up a
system of gods or goddesses or mythical j journeys and mystic cosmologies, that mirrored
the structure of the psyche, projecting its Aspects outward so that an individual
embarking upon such a religious pilgrimage actually traveled through the inner lands of
the psyche. The visit to the church or holy shrine was an objectification of an inner
state. The objectification served as a physical signpost. These myths and intuitive
constructs worked as long as they effectively mirrored the individual and mass life of the
psyche.
Unfortunately the mythical and magical elements became dramatized so
that they no longer served as guidelines but began to program the individual in his
journey, to such an extent that original visions and spontaneity were denied. The psyche
then seeks for new
To attempt to protect the self in old terms or to keep the self rigidly
itself is like holding your breath for too long. Selves, like breaths, go through us all
the time. But from our standpoint we are the larger psychological structures that
translate these selves into ourselves, just as the body translates our breaths into our
living.
Even our bodies often seem not us or not ours because we have forgotten
how to identify with them, lost the strands of following the strands of consciousness that
should connect us, so that our full experience of creaturehood itself is further limited.
We seem instead to be victims of the flesh, at the mercy of illnesses, wars and natural
disasters, because we have lost track of our natural selves and lost sight of our place
within nature's framework.
It seems idiotic, for example, to think that we can cure ourselves
naturally of illnesses when we believe that disease is thrust upon us by the flesh and has
nothing to do at all with what we believe.
Until we realize that our consciousness, working through the body
creates its state of being, then any natural cures will be considered miraculous. Seth,
for example, states that so called miraculous cures are simply examples of unimpeded
nature.
In the same way, we are part of nature, physically as real as
mountains, air currents, trees or oceans, all of which have their effect upon the climate
and world conditions. Yet for some reasons we imagine that we effect the natural world
only through our technology. But our physical presence itself has an interaction with the
earth and with the physical elements that compose it. We are biologically connected and
this means the chemical makeup of our bodies is part of the earth's contents.
Our chemical balance changes as our emotions do and we alter the
composition of the earth. We are not at the mercy of natural disasters. We have forgotten
or ignored our native emotional identification with the wind and with the storms and
therefore lost our part in their existence and whatever conscious control we may have once
had over them. Therefore we need technology to bring rain to parched areas, for example,
and consider it the sheerest nonsense to blame parched thoughts or beliefs instead.
We lost the larger dimensions of a natural selfhood that identifies, as
itself and with its position in nature. We can, if we wish, command the wind, but only
when we realize that it is a part of us and we are a part of it. We can move mountains
without cranes - only when realize that our consciousness is itself and a part of the
earth at the same time, that our breath contributes to the atmosphere and our discarded
chemicals help form the mountains.
That natural consciousness is not afraid of death. It knows its
individuality is un-assailed even while its form and experiences change. Because it can
identify with the earth, it is not dependent upon corporal knowledge because earth itself
is not and nature has always known better.
As a preliminary, we must alter our concepts of the self,
time, space and the psyche so that we can envision the self or focus personality as the
physically actualized version of the multidimensional psyche, equipped with freedom of
choice and with greater ability to mix and match our personal characteristics than we've
previously thought possible. We can bring more of the psyche's potentials to bear upon
ordinary life, opening sense spectrums that will show the true significance and beauty of
corporal life. We must understand that the intuitions and intellect are wedded. Only our
beliefs make them appear as opposites. 'Me high intellect is a perfect fusion of intuitive
and intellectual qualities, merged to form what would almost to seem to be a new faculty.
Left alone, the Aspects of the psyche will set up an operationally
stable, creative self, talents and characteristics flowing from the inner pool of being -
the source self into the focus personality, as needed in response to the focus
personality's beliefs, purposes, and assessments about exterior conditions.
The Aspects will also be automatically projected outward into the
creation of a social order (the Extended self) in the establishment of institutions,
rituals and groupings, where their distinctive and various tendencies can join with the
aspects of others, therefore magnifying the purposes and values of the focus personality.
Left alone, these Aspects will flow, change and evolve as the focus
personality chooses and disregards the characteristics from its own aspect bank. (Only
when this process is frozen and barriers set about it do individuals and organizations
become rigid, dogmatized or violent.)
When we believe that the self is inherently bad and undesirable then we
set up psychic antibodies against ourselves and impede this natural process of change. The
resulting self and its behavior then often does appear bad, our experience justifies our
beliefs and leads to further restraints, thus proving the previous hypothesis.
Our beliefs concerning heredity also drastically program our behavior
which then gives effective evidence for the theory, that then becomes the reality,
practically speaking, with the physical mechanisms faithfully mirroring the given
information or input.
Present cultures are based on the idea of a hostile
universe. Ibis concepts invades all fields of thought and brings about an exaggerated need
for self-protection. Trustful, bold, innocent action becomes suspect and it seems
dangerous to explore the inner reaches of the self when the whole society is constructed
to hide the self from itself, to put institutions between it and its experiences. Yet,
basically, growth cannot be impeded and consciousness will tend to blossom in its own way
regardless.
I suggest you make a copy of these codicils for yourself and use them
as effective new frameworks for action, that is, as a new hypothesis upon which to build
your self-civilization. On a private level the codicils set a new, more effective contract
between various portions of the self and with the focus personality as it sees its
position in exterior reality and understands its relationship with its own source.
Each person sets various contracts between aspects of inner and outer
experience. These contracts should be flexible, resulting in gradual change rather than,
say, psychic revolutions. But some hypothesis are closer to basic reality than others and
the codicils represent the closest practical guides for behavior that are based on an
underlying validity, that is, they come closest to expressing mans private relationship
with the psyche and with nature. Acting in accord with these precepts will bring about the
greatest opportunities for vitality, understanding and fulfillment. Used as cultural
precepts by an entire society, they would bring about superior experience on all levels.
Psychic structures coexist simultaneously, the points of
attention or focus changing constantly and forming concentrations of self-related
consciousness or identities.
Physically, the earth-tuned structure of consciousness alters its focus
points, thus revolving in time, which is the drag resulting from the nature of such a
structure and its position in relationship to other, larger, sometimes overlapping
structures. Hence, the earth identity (focus personality) escapes in death by altering its
attention which automatically changes its structure and then by reforming itself in as per
reincarnational existences.
The self as we know it is one such psychic structure, but from it,
probable actions also constantly occur. Like relativity, this psychological or psychic
motion is relative to the observed i.e. to the particular attention-point that each of us
accepts as our platform of action.
The earth tuned self with its reincarnational spin-offs is just one
such psychic structure, however, or one part of a larger multidimensional one - according
to definitions and where you want to draw the line. These structures are superimposed one
over the other, even one within the other, though at any given time, separate identities
are maintained. Actually, however, relationships and boundaries change constantly as new
hookups are formed and new connections made. These are also reflected in the earth-tuned
probable and reincarnational activities.
These psychic structures are structures, are structures
multi-dimensionally fitted one within the other like Chinese boxes, only eternally mobile.
They can turn themselves inside out. One can travel through another. Yet each connection
or identity made is eternal (While ever changing outside of time, yet manufacturing time
through which it moves), while it is, itself, timeless. Actually each such structure does
move through itself constantly. Each portion is a self with its own unique tone, or note,
or attention-point.
The individual person is the center of the universe from our
standpoint, responsible for his or her private physical and psychological experience.
Through the individual, the energy of the universe is focused into
physical expression, so that each person is immortal and mortal at once. In conventional
terms, each person is part human, part divine, except that this trans-dimensional blend is
seamless in heroic fact. That is, in life as we know it, human and divine elements are
blended so perfectly in nature that, looking for divinity, we ignore the divine blend
present even in the genes, atom, molecules and cells. We are born and we grow
spontaneously, our bodies and existence are given by our divine attributes, which in our
experience seem human.
The universe has many centers as it has points within it. 'Mat is, the
universe, is at every hypothetical point, a center. Each center, in our terms, is like a
seed, growing into dimensionality, bursting into probabilities. In heroic fact, each
center is not only its own focus, but the focus through which divinity flows into
probabilities. Each center is connected with each other probable other center, and each is
the center of the universe from its beginning or end, and divinity pervades all realities
equally - automatically translating itself into such dimensional activities and knowing
itself from all centers as ALL THAT IS
Psychological events exist on mental levels, as psychic environments,
in which action can happen. That is, we're given a definite supportive, invisible,
psychological environment upon which or with which we build events in the same way that we
build structures from physical elements. At our level, these two environments are
intertwined. In heroic terms, both are actually local, sharing certain characteristics
with all existence and all realities and possessing other attributes that are peculiarly
ours -in that we focus upon these predominately, while they may be only latent in other
realities.
While we are earth tuned, then, we may return as individuals into other
life spans. Though these lifetimes would actually exist physically and psychological
environments include the sensation of passing time. Other systems of reality without such
a time system. would have no reincarnational system.
Each point or center of the universe has an infinite number of equally
valid identities, each inviolate, each using its own unique focus to carve out experience
and being. In ways almost impossible to describe, these identities can meet, merge and
intersect, while still retaining their inviolate nature.
Memory seems necessary to us in any retention of identity because of
our practical time experience. Without such a scheme, however, direct perception of events
simultaneously would make memory unnecessary and endless. In heroic fact, all events exist
at once, so to some extent our experience of memory is the result of faulty perception.
We're only aware of a given event at one point in time and when we lose that direct
perception of it, we begin to say we remember it. Even then, we remember events one at a
time. If we try to recall as many events as we can at once, we can glimpse into the
complexity of heroic perception.
All of the events of our lives happen at once. While we are unconscious
of this, the divine elements in the body, at microscopic levels, do operate with that
recognition. Ibis operation is complicated by the existence of probabilities, however, as
the cells, for example, expertly position our bodies in highly specific stances of
psychological and physical activity and while taking all other probable motions into
consideration.
The normal events of the world happen globe-wise at once generally
speaking. On any given day, though, we're directly aware of events in our local sector
only. TV and other physical methods of communication also bring such events of our private
spheres. But the events of our private lives exist all at once in the same way though
we're only aware of what happens in our local time sphere concept and interior methods of
communication. These inner methods represent the inner senses.
The Gods of our religions are automatically psychological and psychic
organizations, psychic structures at other levels, just as our culture and political
organizations exist in a social field. That is, the gods represent psychic organizations
on higher levels, they represent psychological structures more complicated than ours, more
advanced in a way that a body is more advanced than a one celled animal.
We may be a part of these gods in the same fashion that a cell is a
part of our bodies, only in this case, the structures are psychological.
Physically in a lifetime - we grow from fetus into an adult, million
celled organism. During this process, we call ourselves, ourselves, though we go through
many changes in size, weight, capabilities and general expression as we grow into
adulthood that seemed almost godlike to the children we once were. At other levels, then,
we may grow into a multidimensional maturity that, from our present viewpoint, would seem
quite as godlike. As there is a pattern for our physical growth, so there must be a
psychological pattern for this more extended psychic maturity.
To this extent, we would each have a private God, as in life we have
adult parents who serve as models for development, are intimately connected with our
physical existence and act as providers. These gods or heroic aspects would act as
unconscious patterns for psychological development in the same way that inner patterns for
physical growth reside in our cellular structures. 'Me patterns for physical development
are part of the genes and the inner heroic patterns are part of our psychological reality,
one implies the other. The spiritual inwardness, then, is also a physical inwardness and
is present in the cells and tissues in the body.
Each hypothetical point of the universe is identified, that is, each
point in our conceivable space-time universe is awareized-energy, with properties of
consciousness and an identity or am-ness which becomes a center of focus for experience -
a threshold retaining certain characteristics of an inviolate nature through which, then,
other elements are sifted.
The overall energy of the universe is constantly coming into
identification, then, into known, experienced condition. The within-ness of the universe
constantly turn into exteriorization: the undifferentiated aspect is never used up. This
energy is self generating and therefore Is never completely expressed, since each
expression and identification brings about additional inner activity and new generation.
The universe is manifest and un-manifested at the same time. Again, in
ways perhaps impossible to understand at our level, the manifest and the
un-manifested are
not separate states - one flows through the other and the two blended. In the same way,
each center springing into identification is also, by virtue of its
un-manifested nature, a
part of all centers. Each identified portion of the universe knows through its own
un-manifested level what is happening to any other center. The existence of one such center
takes the existence of all other such centers for granted. Since all conditions spring out
of the un-manifested and since the un-manifested turns into the manifest, all centers or
identifications are properly placed following inner patterns that take the entire
(ever-changing) picture into consideration. As the identities fulfill their own patterns,
they therefore also act in a way that is beneficial to the whole.
The lives that we know are not less eternal because they are temporal.
Our lives express eternity in temporal terms. Temporality is one expression of eternity.
Our lives are temporal and eternal at once, then. Here eternity takes on a temporal
stance. God exists in eternal terms, and in temporal ones, through His manifestations. He
does and does not exist, for in Him the manifest and un-manifested would be equally
expressed. In that regard, there would be a source out of which God springs, as He emerges
into identification and however vast His dimensions.
We would tune into that portion of a godhead
that correlated with our own understanding. In our terms, one part of the psyche is
manifest in life as we know it and one part is un-manifested. The known, manifest portion
of our existence rides on the unknown, un-manifested portion - but the reverse is also
true, since the un-manifested actively seeks manifestation. It is also true that the two
states are complimentary and that each state is folded in the other, immersed in the
other, actuality without separation, though to even speak of these states as separate
causes us to artificially divide their unity.
Again our manifest and un-manifested states exist simultaneously, our
lives and death are now. We can't understand eternal being without thinking of duration
from our viewpoint, yet eternity exists outside of time, even while it expresses itself
through temporality. Eternity is also expressed through probabilities, some operating
within our understood time framework and some apart from it. At those levels, all events
are equally valid. We stamp some with the imprint of our identification and these become
actual in physical existence. The others are equally valid and operate in varying degrees
at other levels beneath the accepted framework of our experience. In the most valid
psychological, psychic, and physical terms, we live in a personal universe.
FROM "THE WORLD VIEW OF PAUL CÉZANNE"
Each person has an inbuilt impetus toward originality, the
urge to perform in some new manner, to excel in a completely new way, to do something no
one else can do or has done. This urge on the part of the species is biologically
pertinent in that it assures vitality and impetus, change and continuing stimuli and
challenge over a long term. It prevents over-specialization, assures that the species will
explore all the mental and physical avenues open to its kind of life, and adds to the
choices available, which automatically provides further impetus and stimulation.
A civilization or culture naturally dies or is overthrown so that the
species can organize its reality in different ways, so that the rise and fall of nations
also allows for a cultural and political search for originality. The same applies to
religions as well.
There is survival value in ideas themselves. That is, thoughts of the
kind peculiar to man enable him to organize reality in an endless variety of ways, not
just to manipulate his physical environment but even to regard it differently from one era
to another. They assure a fresh psychic creation in which, to each generation, the world
is new and different, in which the learning process provides continuity, while the
originating impetus stops that process from becoming too rigid or dead-ended.
The originating process and the learning process then provide a
self-regulating system, within which the species constantly organizes its conception of
reality and then acts within the currently accepted framework with its corresponding
political and cultural systems. Even while the members of the world at any given time
learn the values of their respective societies, however, the originating principle is
urging the individuals within them to search for something new, to try some venture-mental
or physical-never before tried or executed and in this way pulling against the learning
principle which is devoted to conserving and using already accomplished feats and
ventures.
In one way or another sports, arts, social arenas and governments echo
these twin processes. In sports, the learning principle is obvious with its emphasis upon
training and techniques already available. The originating principle is even more apparent
as each individual, say on a Olympic team, tries to better the current records of
achievement, to perform a physical feat before considered impossible, to act originally in
a way that will automatically alter the record and assumptions that have gone before.
To the arts, the same applies, though in a
different arena. Each artist, poet, musician or sculpture tries to take his art out of
previous dimensions, to add something original to his medium, to go beyond previous
accomplishments, to perceive reality in a completely unique fashion. On a world level,
governments do the same. The old learned patterns remain, providing a steadying influence,
while beneath them other patterns toward originality arise, are tried out in local
fashions or experimented with nationally.
Since one member of the species can only do so much, the species is
lavish in handing out individual variances. Original action on the part of one member
alerts the other members to the possibilities of action in that direction which might
otherwise go unknown. The learning process may then be used to bring that kind of action
into standardized behavior. But each individual acts as an explorer for the species as a
whole.
Without these principles - the learning principle and the originating
principle - the species would atrophy. The practical properties of the mind have been
expanding, and as naturally, say, as water expands under certain conditions. Physical
communication in the form of telephone, radio, television and so forth, is the result of
individual contributions of the originating principle, acting against previously known
knowledge, yet utilizing it at the same time. In this way, the individual in any given
country is aware of conditions in other parts of the world. The additional pressure and
stimulation is highly creative, so that the conscious mind has more to deal with, and its
capacities multiply. It is forced to activate other portions of the mind that have lain
latent. These portions will further trigger greater capacities for originality - again,
acting in seeming conflict with the conservative learning principle, while taking
advantage of it at the same time.
In a different fashion, the same applies to animals and to any species. Each is endowed with the urge toward
original action. Each, to its degree, attempts to rise above the conditions of its
existence. The physical changes in any species follow these inner impetuses.
Man organizes these changes in his own manner, expecting a progression
that follows the current ideas of what progress is. In so doing, he ignores other kinds of
progressions also happening but not fitting into his concepts of progress or organization.
There are many lines of progression occurring at any one time, for example, as the
originating process continues in all areas, but when the species is emphasizing one of
these, it seemingly ignores many others that are quite as pertinent.
To that degree, man is never doing what he seems to be doing at any
given historical period, since he is already caught in a new impetus that hasn't yet shown
in the exterior organizations as a main-line focus.
It is as natural for man to listen to the sounds coming out of a radio
as it is for him to listen to the ocean's roar, though it may seem that one is more
natural than the other. Technology is simply an alternate pattern of existence or
organization - religion is another such alternate method in which certain stylized symbols
are seen as practical and a prayer to God is as effective as a telephone call to a fond
relative. But in exploring such alternates, there are concealed variables. These are
hidden from man's conscious mind, while they remain latent and operative beneath.
Technology, for example, will take its place as one alternate method of dealing with
reality, but one that must stand alongside others so that, for example, the elements of
earth are respected.
Technology actually educates religion, in that many old concepts
concerning the dominance of man over the planet are seen to be erroneous. In that way,
technology returns man to a deeper knowledge of his relationship with the earth and other
species. Used in the past to subdue the planet, technology can be used, gently, to
preserve it.
The species wearies with new toys grown old, so man himself would
become bored in time with technology itself until it became modified with other alternate
methods of organization, and the originating principle will operate to alter the direction
of technology in unsuspected ways.
The conservative learning principle operates by organizing data in
established fashions, tamping them in the mind, tying associations to known knowledge and
mainly by answering clearly established questions in a ritualized, prescribed manner. In
setting up a system of right and wrong behavior that defines the current conceptions of
reality in the realm of ideas and actions alike.
Thus, past established ground is held and can be used as a basis for
further exploration and expansion. This exploration is rarely conducted under the banner
of the learning principle, however, which is basically conservative and by nature devoted
to retention. It is, instead, carried on by the originating principle, operating through
impulses. The learning principle regulates processes, training them to follow prescribed
ways, so that, for example, 1 + I - 2 automatically and problems in ordinary life are
settled at that level.
There, as the child learns arithmetic, there is no room for questions:
Why does 1 + 1 2 ? What does 1 stand for? So that when this kind of learning process is in
action, the wider realm of questions is focused into a narrow spectrum in which certain
answers then appear, or are made to appear, self-evident. The impulse to ask other
questions or to look outside of the framework itself is frowned upon, and indeed, every
indication seems to point to the fact that no other framework exists. The learning
principle is extremely important, however, in that it does provide a continuing sense of
identity from one generation to the next, preserving information that others, in their
time, originated.
The regenerating and creative originating principle operates through
impulses that often run counter to the established frameworks. Yet even here, in its
conservative approach to the new and untried, the species shows creative and biologically
wise behavior. The conservative reaction prevents too sudden changes in social orders or
religious and cultural areas that might otherwise result in the hasty overthrow of all
ideas as well as those that the race has outgrown. The conservatism also provides a
necessary impetus to the innovator, who is partially motivated to act against previous
standards. If these fall to quickly, the full power of the new originating concepts might
not have the chance to prove themselves by overriding the old structures.
This is not to imply the survival of the fittest or the prime necessity
of struggle but simply to state that certain alterations of energy take place, certain
balances change, that conservatism itself builds up energy which is then used by the
innovator for his own purposes. The originating principle always works towards change, and
is propelled to discover hereto unknown or unrecognized meaning in the universe, to
restate reality and its definitions and therefore to embark the species into newer
relationships with experience itself.
The conscious mind more or less docilely follows the learning processes
in which it is trained, for those processes will correctly give it guidelines that work in
ordinary reality. The young individual must quickly learn how to cope with the reality of
the parents world and hence must share the values and assumptions of its elders. In this
realm certain impulses are considered safe, and others, dangerous. This holds true in any
society, regardless of its primitive or technological conditioning.
The conscious mind, however, is only that portion (of the mind) the
species uses at any given time in its daily relationship with the world. Different
portions would, therefore, be considered conscious or normal in different societies
through the ages. In the terms which we are familiar, however, the psyche contains
knowledge of the potentials of the species under all conditions and so never lets it rest
with established knowledge only. Countering the conservative learning principle, the
originating impulses operate constantly, examining current patterns, asking questions that
are unorthodox - and seeking new ways to bridge the old patterns acceptably, by
introducing new concepts that will still seem to fit in with the old.
Here, the training to focus impulses in prescribed directions must be
broken. The originator must unlearn or rather unconditional himself, so that he recalls
what he has learned but no longer accepts as truth and no longer reacts to the knowledge
as he did earlier. He may, therefore, still use mathematical reasoning in its limited
fashion, figuring that 1 + 1 - 2 within its framework. But without a sense of duplicity,
he also realizes that the mathematical truth is true only within that system. He is, then,
fully free to explore other concepts, while still taking advantage of normal mathematics
in practical matters. On the exterior, nothing has changed. This small example is
applicable to every field of endeavor.
It is this reason that often the amateur rather than the specialist is
the inventor or the discoverer of new concepts. The specialist is unable to disassociate
himself from the power of accepted knowledge, while the amateur knows just enough about a
given subject to stimulate questions - for which he does not know the established replies,
or is not yet bound by them.
The originating principle deals with impulses, then and with the
disassociation of normally associated events that serve to present a given picture. First,
previously restricted impulses must surface, then established associations of ideas must
be lessened.
Following this, the creative process begins its work of sending out
feelers - psychic and mental -that will eventually and to whatever degree, put together a
picture of the world that is more extensive than the previous one.
Since the conservative learning principle sets up its own taboos, and
since it has been proven safe and dependable up to a point, the originator begins by
freeing impulses in small ways, testing, until finally the released condition brings him
enough experience. That is, he goes beyond the point where the established conditions make
sense and he experiences events that do not fit into the official picture. To maintain a
supportive view of reality in his own mind and to maintain his own stance in the world,
the initiator is then led to find a new system in which his own experiences do make sense.
Here, according to the conditions, he acts as an explorer for the rest of the species.
There are multitudinous alternate systems of reality that could be
adapted by the species, so that most of the personally explore systems fall by the
wayside, historically, while nevertheless adding to the experience of the species to some
degree and reinforcing the originating principle. This applies the same to overall
philosophical, religious or cultural systems and to smaller versions such as a new
scientific discovery or a new way to tie shoelaces. In those terms, the species has barely
begun to explore the mental or psychic environment, yet the development is more diverse
than presently apparent simply because our concepts cause us to look through history with
our ideas of progress as the yardstick. We close our eyes to other kinds of progress that
have nothing to do with progression in time.
The psyche itself does not basically exist in time but straddles it,
experiencing time through the focus personality. What is learned, then, is accepted
knowledge at one point may be completely disregarded at another. What is considered
progress in one era may be judged valueless in another.
Yet, overall, the species Is kept in touch with its own greater reality
through the dream state and through alterations of consciousness that are inherently free
of learning conditioning. These alterations are encouraged or discouraged at various times
but never really deactivated. They serve to give the species a continuing influx of new
data and unofficial experience and serve as windows into other levels of being. They
activate the originating principle and are responsive to the species' need. In other
words, they open up when the species needs additional insights in the same way that,
physically, necessary hormones are activated under certain conditions.
The experience of any one member of a species - any species - becomes
available to the other members, whether or not it becomes activated. The psychological
invisibility of such information is relative, that is, it becomes psychologically visible
or invisible according to the organizational systems of any given society. In our case,
even when such information remains lately, it serves as a supportive basis for normal
conscious behavior.
Because the psyche itself is not structured in time, further knowledge
is available. This is not the knowledge of concrete definite events so much as the form of
those events, that is, the species, like a giant plant, grows towards its sensed
potential, reacting to future models of itself that are themselves energetic patterns of
energy into which the species may or may not focus its attentions. (In structured known
reality as it is understood, one probability will be actualized.) The species spies out
its own future on psychic levels then, even as any physical organism anticipates its own
future development and grows toward it.
Various altered systems of consciousness let in information that has
been sifted out through selected learning processes. The unofficial data is accepted and,
to whatever degree,, the main line of consciousness is altered. Conservative processes
then again take hold, the new gains until the cycle changes once more. In each case,
different facets of reality are explored and brought into focus, each one developing the
various abilities and capacities of the individual and the species.
Scientists speak of short-term and long-term memory, but these are,
themselves, selective processes, of course - important because of what (data) they do not
recall. In codified fashion, the microscopic particles contain memo of all their possible
combinations, so do the cells. The brain has the keys to release memory that is not its
own, that is, keys to non-personal memory involving the species and the banks of knowledge
available to it. These keys, however, are at other states of consciousness, because the
currently accepted mode of consciousness automatically precludes such data: It doesn't fit
into the correct organizational slots.
The originating principle operates like an open door, always infusing
human consciousness with greater information and thus countering the conservative learning
processes. In states of high inspiration under the best conditions, alterations take place
so that a new faculty is activated.
Any art is high creative
play, in which, however, wisdom, experience and innocence each play a part. Art is
spontaneous play, ordered in the framework of artistic craft, containing elements of unpredictability and
surprise. As with the play of animals and children, artistic play is an end in itself,
even while it promotes a kind of growth and fulfillment that can be obtained in no other
way. Art as play involves intuitive agility and inventiveness most of all. As a child
tosses a ball into the air, so the artist tosses away conventionalized concepts to the
best of his ability and then allows the world or his perception of it to fall back - in
pieces, if necessary - into new forms that are then captured in his craft. Any artist
must, therefore, forsake learned patterns of perception and ordinary laws of deductions so
that his own vision can arise. This is not just a matter of creating a new version of the
world.
This version must be particularly the artist's because he and he alone
has found It, focused it, and brilliantly delineated its contours. Yet the artistic
version must also meet with the inner visions hidden in the hearts and minds, of other
persons, because to one extent or another, the artists
alternate picture of reality arises from dreams that belong to the species as a whole.
The artist will dip into these other versions, forming them into his
own original combinations out of his own individual needs, understanding and desires. The
stuff from which these visions come is as much a part of man's inner environment as oceans
are a of the exterior one.
Art (as in painting) is a method of exposing and revealing knowledge
that cannot be verbalized. By arranging and rearranging the natural objects into different
patterns, say, in a still life, the artist momentarily destroys the ordinary known
connections with which such objects are usually perceived, so that they can literally
appear in a new light. 'Me mind cannot think of them in the old fashion, but must follow
the new connections discovered by the artist.
Physical play comes naturally to children, even though adults then
direct its course to suit cultural patterns. This spontaneous physical play is in response
to the existence of inner models of an unconscious nature, so that the child spontaneously
wants to do what is best for its own development. The play also involves fantasies that
appear only partially in the play itself, so that the child's exterior actions can be
symbolized gestures for inner creativity and patterning. Cultural patterning often leaves
the child with physical play divorced from all those fantasies except those encouraged by
society. Games, then, become highly ritualized along cultural lines, serving purposes that
have conservative ends. The inner originality and exploration symbolizing become divorced
from physical play, so that any development into high play may be abandoned. National
games provide opportunity for originality and achievement but only in accepted areas and
they deal with mass accepted symbols. They are as ritualized as any dogma or religion, and
in fact often mimic religious goals in a different arena.
In religions, sport games and also in war, opposition is taken for
granted and a series of actions set with which to meet the challenge. In war, the
opposition is clearly known. The opposition in religion is the devil, natural self or sin.
In sports, the enemy is the other team. Both sports and religion involve moralistic
training and in sports, winning takes the place of salvation. In each of these areas,
however, ritualistic actions are followed as methods of achieving certain ends.
In high play and in art at its best, no opposition is supposed. The
artist and the child merge themselves with nature or with play in such a manner that they,
themselves, take on new aspects - or they become so much a part of the game or of the
landscape that alterations or insights take place in consciousness itself. In terms of
religion, the artist experiences salvation in the here-and-now with each painting, as does
the child each time it is engaged in high play. For in both cases the known self is merged
with its own being, innocently sensing the connections of that being with all other
existence, though most often in miniature capsulated form.
In each case also, new delightful combinations and patterns (Mental and
physical) make themselves known. The artist in maturity uses his craft as the framework to
contain high play. He uses, for example, the objects in his still life as symbolic
containers for his vision-containers that will be recognized by the paintings viewers. He
uses the canvas in the same way that football players use their fields or religions use
their Bibles. But his field of activity is still far different for he
presupposes no opposition. There is no winning or losing a painting. The painting is
itself, high creative play in which new symbols are released.
In this regard, art is opposed to the conservative principles of
cultural learning, and is instead more related to spontaneous biological activity-such as
play which happens because it happens. Once it happens, the artist will attach his own
meanings and interpretations to what he has done and may see himself as portraying the
times, or as exploring texture, or color, or whatever. But such considerations are largely
surface. The mature artist activates within himself the original playful symbolizing that
was structured out of his experience in childhood and gives it new form. The symbolization
contains within it the child's spontaneous wonder and creativity and holds elements of
childhood visions that existed before the cultural structuring was applied. The mature
artist is at least partially aware of the difference between adult perception and concepts
and those lost open young wonderings He is partially aware that he once put the world
together in different ways so that it changed, as light does, that he once piled the
contents of the world up into different forms, even as he did with his childhood blocks.
He might once have thought that trees grew downward instead of up, for
example, only to be told that this was preposterous. Yet a part of him might still
fantasize the world upside down and that vision is true, for them roots of trees grow
downward as surely as the trunk grows up, and there is nothing to say that man must limit
his mental vision to his physical posture upon the earth at any given time.
To imagine the planet in such a light brings out truths about it that
are not apparent, but invisible in the conventional view. So the artist might imagine that
the reflections of trees in water are indeed trees growing downward into another
dimension. Thus, the viewer's usual methods of perceiving reality are changed as he views
such a painting.
People's most conservative views are connected with the appearance and
behavior of objects in the physical world. The artist, dealing unconventionally with such
objects, automatically comments upon their nature. The most literal minded persons, for
example, find no use for paintings at all, since as objects they are not manipulatable,
they cannot be used, as wood can, say to make a house. Such people are so conservative
that the life of a painting scandalizes them, for what good are objects that cannot be
picked up, opened, closed or used for any purpose? What good is the picture of the jar
that will never hold a liquid or a solid?
Many artists, then, deal with the literal interpretation of objects ,
for all but the most j conservative will at least recognize such representations. Yet even
then, the artist transcends the usual framework by implying a mystery about objects and
about the physical world. No matter how he treats physical objects -painting them
literally or impressionistically or ignoring them entirely - the artist is still making
statements about their reality. 'Me reality of objects will sometimes appear strongly even
in a painting in which none are represented, for the viewer's mind will insist upon
looking for them, will try to find them or be scandalized by their absence.
But most of all, in painting, the free symbolizing of high play is
given release. Relationships between mind and matter change, perceptions are shaken up and
the artist's vision splashes out upon the world. The form and structure of all great art
exists in all of its probable varieties in an environment of ideas that must be activated
or triggered by the individual artist. The art exists, not apart from the usual world but
connected to it, in that art's actualization requires earthly form and without that form
the art remains latent or unfired.
All art forms are a part of greater ideal forms, then, but these are
the psychic raw materials from which each artist carves his or her own portion; and in
turn leaves his or her mark upon the ideal, which is itself changed. Each artist from the
Ideal forms a private ideal which is related to the original and through his or her
individuality the artist creates a new version which is also original.
The ideal models in the environment of ideas need to be activated and
seek out fulfillment by attracting the imaginations of men and women who for their own
reasons choose that area of creativity. There is a constant interplay between the artist's
individual thoughts and the inspirations emanating from these ideal forms, the activity
results in the artist's works.
The form seeks the artist as the artist seeks the form. Inspiration
seeks the artist as the artist seeks inspiration. The artist's individual world of
art is waiting for him, triggered by his personal view of focus and no other. The great
artists are those who bring to the idealized forms the most intensely personal vision.
"There are no duplicates in nature or art."
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INDEX
| after death | God | psychic blueprints |
| All of Creation | government | revelation and revolution |
| animals | impulses | Roman Catholic church |
| art | individual self-government | Seth |
| artistic craft | Inner Codes | sin |
| artists | inner landscape | Sounds |
| arts | inner model | sports |
| Aspects | intent that energy takes | status quo |
| Awareized Energy | Jewish prophets | subversive literature |
| Bibles | Jews | survival of the fittest |
| Cave man | Know Thyself. a mathematical truth | symbolism |
| chemical balance | memory | symbols |
| Christianity | memory | technology |
| civilizations | model and its eccentricities | telepathic communication |
| Codicils 1 | Model Universes | the Aspects and altered states |
| Codicils 2 | Models & Alternate Eccentricities | the Focus Personality and altered sensing |
| Codicils 3 | Models and Variations | the Ideal, Motion and Exchange |
| Codicils recommendation | Models and Creativity | the Library |
| Models for Inner Reality | the Personal Universe | |
| multitude of selves | the Physical Universe as a triumph of eccentricities | |
| Codicils 4 AND 5 | natural disasters | the Power Eccentricities |
| Comments On Codicils | natural self | trees |
| conscious mind | Nature and Consciousness | universe |
| conservative learning's principle | neurological patterning | unofficial information |
| creative originating principle | one line consciousness, governments and social orders | violence |
| devil | orders | within-ness |
| earth tuned self | originating principle | world model |
| focus personality, |