2021-12-14
I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Ra quote comes from 70.11-.12:
“Questioner: Would an analogy for this situation be that the individual’s higher self is manipulating to some extent, shall I say, the mind/body/spirit complex that is its analog, you might say, to move it through the lower densities for purposes of gaining experience, and then finally transferring that experience or amalgamating it, you might say, in mid-sixth density with the higher self?
Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. The higher self does not manipulate its past selves. It protects when possible and guides when asked, but the force of free will is paramount. The seeming contradictions of determinism and free will melt when it is accepted that there is such a thing as true simultaneity. The higher self is the end result of all the development experienced by the mind/body/spirit complex to that point.
Questioner: Then what we are looking at is a long path of experience through the densities up to mid-sixth density which is a function totally of free will and results in the awareness of the higher self in mid-sixth density. But since time is illusory and there is a, shall I say, unification of time and space, or an eradication of what we think of as time, then all of this experience that results in the higher self—the cause of evolvement through the densities—is existing while the evolvement takes place, since it’s all simultaneous. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. We refrain from speaking of correctness due to our understanding of the immense difficulty of absorbing the concepts of metaphysical existence. In time/space, which is precisely as much of your self as is space/time, all times are simultaneous just as in your geography your cities and villages are all functioning, bustling, and alive with entities going about their business at once. So it is in time/space with the self.”
In these questions Don is trying to figure out a previous statement by Ra which suggested that the reason a positive entity’s path back from being misplaced in negative time/space is so long is that the entity’s higher self is reluctant to allow the entity to gain experience and evolve along the spiritual path, because for a positive entity who has been lured to negative time/space it would be like going to prison to enter negative space/time. The higher self’s reluctance to allow the entity to be incarnated in negative space/time is a function of the higher self’s role to protect and guide the mind/body/spirit complex under its care. In 68.7, Ra described the difficult conditions a positive entity would encounter in negative space/time:
Questioner: Then you are saying that if this fifth-density negative entity is successful in its attempts to transfer the mind/body/spirit complex, when that complex is in what we call the trance state, to negatively polarized time/space, then the higher self has no choice but to allow incarnation in negatively polarized space/time? Is that correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. The higher self could allow the mind/body/spirit complex to remain in time/space. However, it is unlikely that the higher self would do so indefinitely due to its distortion towards the belief that the function of the mind/body/spirit complex is to experience and learn from other-selves, thus experiencing the Creator. A highly polarized positive mind/body/spirit complex surrounded by negative portions of space/time will experience only darkness, for, like the magnet, there is no, shall we say, likeness. Thus a barrier is automatically formed.
Ra made an interesting statement that the higher self is the total accumulation of experience of the mind/body/spirit complex under its care. This fact resolves the contradiction between free will and determinism when it is seen that all experience occurs in the metaphysical realms simultaneously. We, as mind/body/spirit complexes, partake as much in the time/space realms of the metaphysical worlds as we do in the space/time realm of this third density. All of this activity happens simultaneously in the time/space portion of our existence. Only in the third density is there a past, present, and future. And probably only here in third density is there this “immense difficulty of absorbing all of these concepts of metaphysical existence.” In 36.4, Ra gave more details about the concept of true simultaneity:
Questioner: Do I understand from this then that the higher self, or oversoul, may break down into numerous units if the experience is required to, what we would call, simultaneously experience different types of catalyst and then oversee these experiences?
Ra: I am Ra. This is a statement we cannot say to be correct or incorrect due to the confusions of what you call time. True simultaneity is available only when all things are seen to be occurring at once. This overshadows the concept of which you speak. The concept of various parts of the being living experiences of varying natures simultaneously is not precisely accurate due to your understanding that this would indicate that this was occurring with true simultaneity. This is not the case.
The case is from universe to universe, and parallel existences can then be programmed by the higher self, given the information available from the mind/body/spirit complex totality regarding the probability/possibility vortices at any crux.
So our perception of time in the third density allows us to focus on our stream of consciousness and the lessons that we have chosen before our incarnations. It is easier to focus on one thing at a time rather than everything at once. To use another image of Ra’s, we are using the small candle of our consciousness in third density to make corrections in our overall being. So the reluctance of the higher self to allow the mind/body/spirit complex under its care to incarnate in negative space/time is a large part of the length of time it would take such an entity to recover its positive polarity and become a positive entity once again. It is being held in a kind of suspended animation by the higher self which must eventually give the mind/body/spirit complex the chance to learn and let that chance to learn and grow take precedence over the protection aspect of keeping the mind/body/spirit complex in negative time/space. In 70.23, Ra described how this process would take a good deal of time for a positive entity finding itself in negative space/time:
The entity which incarnates into negative space/time will not find it possible to maintain any significant positive polarity as negativity, when pure, is a type of gravity well, shall we say, pulling all into it. Thus the entity, while remembering its learned and preferred polarity, must needs make use of the catalyst given and recapitulate the lessons of service to self in order to build up enough polarity in order to cause the potential to occur for reversal.
Today has been a this and that kind of day. I was supposed to have a podcast with a fellow who wants to do a series of podcasts on the life and work of Don Elkins, but he failed to show up for the beginning podcast. So I ate early, spent some extra time in meditation and wrote a few emails to friends answering and asking a variety of questions. In the afternoon I took my speed walk early and got a bath in so that I could make a Zoom contact with another friend, and that was my day in a nutshell.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
December 14
The Inner Snow
I am of the principle of divine love. I greet you in the full consciousness of Jesus the Christ.
We gaze upon your first snow of the winter and the emotional response from each to such a wonderful spectacle of nature. Within you, too, in many, many layers, are the light snows, the slight drifting, or even the avalanche.
This is especially true at a time when that light which generates prana is at its least effective within your culture. And so you must be light, power and comfort to those who seek out your information, not weighing your own merits in any way but merely asking that you may do the work which was created for you before the world was and certainly, specifically, before the incarnation that you now enjoy.
Look out the window and enjoy the snow. It is a spontaneous, gentle gift from one whose peace passeth all understanding, now and ever. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of Love and open our hearts, our minds, and our souls to send love, light, and healing energies to Mother Earth as she brings forth a New Earth in fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light, and healing energies of the One Infinite Creator heal the heart of each soul in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energies in their hearts, in their minds, and in their souls. Amen.